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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
July Trade Review.

The July trade summary shows that
steel production still remains low, be-
ing 40 percent below March and &c
percent under June.
Freight car lOadings are 10 percent
below a year ago but percent above
June, 1922 Sales of mail order houses
and chain stores are ahead of last
year. Department store sales are be-
low.
Bradstreet's wholesale price index
shows slight loss in the June price
level. Advances have occurred in
grains, cotton and wool; losses in
livestock, hides and leather, textiles
and coal.
Money shows a more seasonal de-
cline in rates. Bank deposits are in
creasing. Borrowing at reserve banks
is small Investment holdings by banks
are being increased.
There is an upward trend in stocks
with a larger volume of trading.
Bonds, utility and railroad, show a
marked rise in price. New issues have
been absorbed with ease.
A favorable trend is shown in the
pronounced ease of the money mar
ket and the sharp rise in grain prices.
Statisticians say that the upturn in
grains will go long way toward
bringing to pass a more balanced re-
lation between agriculture and manu-
featuring.
The forecast on grains indicates a
not large crop. Corn, our most valu-
able and principle crop, is forecasted
at 2,515 million bushels compared to
over three billion bushels last year
and a five-year average of 1889 mil
lion bushels. Favorable weather may
enhance the corn yield materially.
Wheat is forecasted at 740,000000
bushels. This is 46,000,000 less than
last year and 141 100000 less than the
fve-year average. The cotton yield is
placed at 900 bales which is
just about enough to care for estimat-
ed consumption.
In general farm prices show an up
ward trend while manufactured ar
ticles are declining or remain station
airy. General manufactures are slow
and not much new business is open
ing up. Building remains active in
large centers but is dull in the small
towns and rural communities.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
Unfair Competition
Between Bus Lines
and Railroad Trains.

The other day the Herald reporter
"mosied" up to the morning train to
pick up a few items. He didn't get any.
There wasn't a soul on the train. That
is, excepting the crew. Two cars, an
engine and tender, comprise the tarin.
To run it requires an engineer and
fireman, conductor and brakeman and
bagga geman. 1t pulled out of Lancas-
ter empty.
And then the other day a man in
formed us that a certain bus line OPP
Grating out of Madison cleared $1,000
in a single month, after paying all eX-
penses. He also informed us that Mad
ison, the state capital, has dozens of
buses operating in the vicinity. The
bus lines are full. The trains are
empty.
| The competition is unfair. The rail-
roads maintain an expensive system.
This system is necessary. 1t is the
! backbone of the country's distributing
system. The roads pay taxes for all
equipment. They bought their right
of-way and installed their road bed
and and track. They keep the track UP
at their own expense.
The bus lines operate at the peoples
| expense. We installed the road bed
We keep tn road up at our expense
The bus line is furnished a splendid
right-of-way absolutely without cost
By such unfair privileges is it able tc
undersell the roalroad on fares.
The railroads make money on over
land traffic and they will keep on max
ing money in that branch of the bus
mess. Those who have tried motoring
great distances say: Never again
They go again-but by rail.
The railroads make no money or
local business Motor competition on
road beds built by the peopel has cut
/ local train travel to the vanishing
point Already the roads are reducing
local trains. Unless they are able tc
devise some cheaper means of oper-
ating than steam local trains will
vanish altogether.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
Dance Halls and Cabarets

In Place of Ill Repute Houses.
Vice is like prairie tre-Stamp II
out in one place and it appears IN
another.
The Rev. N. H. Pringle, law enforce
ment officer for the international Re
form association, just returned to
Washington from tour of the eastern
states says there is an Improvement
of prohibition enforcement where all
public officials cooperate with the
support of the public. OtherWlSe the
law is not enforced
In speaking of vice, Rev Prlngle
saws the old-time red light district has
been wiped out in all but few cities.
In the place of the old row of bawdy
houses has come the cabaret, dance
hall and the automobile. Gambling IS
on the increase. Drinking, among
young people, has increased.
In the "old days" the houses OF Ill
repute were patronized by men. There
never was any intelligent defense OF
them. Nevertheless, they served to
centralize vice and afforded protec-
ton of a sort for respectable woman
hood, even though it might have been
at the expense of the fallen ones.
There was considerable restraint be-
tween the sexes.
Today tn dance hall, the cabaret
and the automobile have served to
scatter vice. Restraint between sexes
has apparently 1essened. What trans
pired in the house of i'll fame now
transpires in other places.
This is not a homily on vice or an
effort at reform. 1t is simply state
ment of conditions.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
DEATH RAY is
ELECTRIC BEAM

New YOrk-Zealously guarding the
secret of his invention known inter-
nationally as the death ray" H. Girl
nell Matthews, the English inventor,
arrived here He denied that he had
come to the u. S. to interest the gov
eminent or anyone else in his inven-
ton.
He said the term death ray" was
a misnomer. He said it was in reality
an electric beam" and that he had
never called it anything else. The in
ventor declared that the ray could, if
properly developed, destroy city like
New York. He also said it could
"paralyze" whole armies.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
Jap Timber Pirates
Busy in Philippines

Manilla-Two further incursions by
Japanese timber pirates on the Babuy-
anes islands, north of the Philippines,
were reported by officers of the coast
al geodetic vessel, Pathfinder, which
arrived here Wednesday. According to
their statements, a japanese vessel
arrived July 8, cut timber and approp-
rated other products despite the pro-
hibition. They reappeared July II, but
were frightened away by the Path
finder. "a "A
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
MY AMERICA

More famed than Rome, as splendid
as old Greece,
And saintlier than Hebrew prophets
dream;
A shrine of beauty, Italy-inspired
A noble France, by truth and free
dom fired;
AS hale as England, treasuring the
CLEAN
Of knightly Arthur; though land of
peace,
AS brave as Sparta-till all hellish
wars shall cease.
In thought, as wide as is her prairie
sea;
In deeds, as splendid as her mountain
piles;
AS noble as her mighty river tides.
Let her be true, land where right
abides;
Let her be clean, as sweet as sum-
mer isles;
And let her sound the note of liberty
For all the earth, till every man and
child be free!
Thomas Curtis Clark.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
Who VIII Be
Our Governor!

One cannot help but draw certain
conclusions and if honest must eX-
press himself
1t seems to the Herald that in the
controversy between Blaine and Hirst
the pot is calling the kettle black and
vice versa.
Blaine has been governor nearly
four years. He finds very suddenly
Gust before the campaign opens) that
the state is cursed with extravaganza.
Others could have told him this four
years ago. Blaine attacks the high
way department as the source of eX-
travagance. We must conclude he is
seeking a campaign issue. If eXtrav-
agance exists now it has existed for
years. Why the belated clamor?
The charge against Hirst is that
he has been a beneficiary of Progress
sive policies in regard to highway
construction and an exponent of same.
That he runs against Blaine in spir-
it of pique after a falling out with the
governor, That he has carefully dis
claimed an effort to align the state
highway forces but it is a significant
fact that the highway forces are for
Hirst whether for liking him or an
tagonism toward Blaine. Blaine's
friends in any event accuse Hirst of
exactly what he, Hirst, accused Blaine
of doing-dragging the state workers
into politics.
Geo. Comings, the third candidate,
strikes the Herald as the best of the
three. He is a fine type of man, intel
ligent, moderate, clean. But Mr.. Com
ings, with all his fine qualities, is too
old. 1t is too much to ask men above
seventy to assume such a heavy bur-
den. And we doubt if the people want
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
Sugar Enters by the Ton
Into Southern MOOnshine

Columbia, S. C.-The ups and downs
of the sugar market have a real
meaning for the makers of moonshine,
according to Robert Kirksey, U. S.
marshal for the western district of
South Carolina. His jurisdiction in
cludes that portion of the mountain
Gus regions of the state known COM
monty as the Ozark Corner" which
had a reputation for producing good
corn" in blockade stills long before
the Volstead edict.
Sugar and molasses, Kirksey said,
play an important part in the manu-
facture of moonshine liquor and the
lower the price of those staples the
higher the profits of the manufacture
ers, who often buy sugar by the ton.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
"THE OLD SWIMMIN' HOLE
James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley
"Oh the old swimmin' hole, in the
long, lazy days,
When the humdrum of school, made
so many runaways,
How pleasant was the journey,
down the old dusty lane,
Where the tracks of our bare feet
were all printed SO plain
You could tell by the dent of the
heel and the sole
They wus lots of run in hands at
the old swimmin' hole.
But the lost joy is past; let your
tears in sorrow roll
Like the rain that ust to dapple up
the old swimmin' hole.
Thar the bull rushes growed, and
the cat tails so tall,
And the sunshine and shadders fell
over it ali"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
Repeal of Prohibition
Is Defeated in Norway

Christiana-The government bill for
repeal of the prohibition act which
was rejected by the Odelsting July Is,
was defeated Wednesday in the Lag
ting, % to 16. Prime Minister Berg, as
a result, rendered the resignation of
the government and has advised the
king to send for Mowinckel, leader of
the left wing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
Pittsburg Plus.


The ruling of the trade commission
in abolishing "Pittsburg Plus" will
mean the moving of the steel capital
of the country from Pittsburg to some
point west, probably Gary, Ind. And
this will mean lower priced steel pro-
ducts for the midwest farms and
greater prosperity for the farmers.
"Pittsburg Plus" meant that the
steel industry added the cost of the
freight to Pittsburg from whatever
point the steel was made to the ar
ticle. That is, an article made in Gary
bore the added freight from Pittsburg
although it never saw Pittsburg. The
policy had the effect of giving Pitts
burg an even break with all other
points manufacturing steel. 1t made
the west pay toll from Pittsburg to
Gary on all steel products.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30

1t may be that the steam train will
vanish before the motor age as the
stage coach gave away to steam. In
any event the bus lines and others
using the public highways should be
made to pay the full cost of installing
and maintaining the road bed just as
the rail line pays for its road bed.
That means considerably higher Ii
cense and it is just.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30

an old man for governor.
If capable, honest and big-vision-
ed Conservative could be located he
would be elected The Herald cannot
honestly incline toward any of the
three Progressives in the field
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30

People do not lack strength-they
lack will.-Hugo.
Conscience doth make towards of
us shakespeare.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
The Optimist's View

The world is so full of a number Of
things
I'm sure we should all be as happy as
kings;
We've ice cream and pickles and APP
pies and cake,
And herring and goulash and ham,
burger steak;
We've matZos and crullers and omelet
Souffle-
So what if we have no bananas to-
day?
A. S. in ST. Louis Post Dispatch.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30
Farmers Pay for
Forest Destruction.

The report comes to the county seat
that farmers along the northern wa
tershed of the county, living on Crook
ed Creek, Green river, Millville creek,
and so on, are absolutely disheartened
over the destruction of their crops
wrought by storms the past week.
1t seems that corn and tobacco
fields are deluged with rock, sand and
mud that washed onto the fields from
the hills during the storm. Crops in
many fields are total loss.
Cutting the timber away from the
hillsides along the runs causes the
soil to wash Once the wash starts
it gets worse with each heavy rain.
Eventually the whole hillside moves.
Left is the rocky shale. That cannot
wash. But it will take nature a thous-
! and years to replace the retaining
covering again. Ruthlessiy, the hand
of man destroyed it in a few years.
What is gained by it, A little fire
wood and few fence posts. Maybe
some poor pasture on hillside so
steep that a COW will lose weight run
ming up and down after a few nibbles
of grass. That is all. Then the wash
starts. The bottoms fill with mud. The
/
plowland is washed away. The even
tual result was noted in the storms
of last week.
China cut all her timber away CEN
turtles ago. Today she moves from
drought to food, from pestilence to
famine. America is rapidly following
the same route.
And apparently nobody cares.
-000-
The joys that are bought with mon
ey are worth nothing compared with
the joys that. though sweet and gentle
and unassuming, are yet deep. endur-
ing and quieting; the joys that en-
large the heart instead of diminish
/ ing it, and which we too often pass by
somewhat in the manner of those
peasants whom one sees in an ecstacy
over the fireworks at some fete, and
who pay not the smallest attention to
the splendor of summer night
| Sabatier.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30

When a mother says horrid men
are ogling her 14-year-old daughter,
she may be either worrying or brag-
ging.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-07-30

COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, May II, l924
The Washington times., 1924-11-28

nois Is out OF the mud. Until 70
Gently notorious for its impossible
roads, the State now. has the most
extensive system OF concrete high
ways in the world, figures df high
way authorities show And at the
recent general election Illinois citi.
zens voted overwhelmingly for $780,
100000 bond issue with which to
build more roads.
! During the past construction
season Approximately 1900 miles
off eighteen.foot concrete roadway
were laid in Illinois, bringing the
States mileage Of pavement up to
1900 miles. California, long famed
for its paved, roads, falls short OF
this total, while New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Wisconsin. other leading
paved road States. trail California
Ii concrete mileage.
An army of more than 10000
men, equipped with several thou
sand teams and trucks and more
than 100 huge mixing machines,
Iabored all summer and fall on
The Washington times., 1924-11-28
N. Y. Phone Directory
VIII Be in Two
Volumes Y

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.-+The
New York Telephone Company
announced that because Of the
steadily increasing size Of the
New York city telephone direc-
tory it was not practicable to
publish the directory in one
volume, and. that therefore the
Forthcoming issue would be in
two books, one covering Man
haitian and the Bronx and the
other Brooklyn, Queens and
Staten Island.
The present book, containing
$4,000 listings on 1920 pages,
weighs five pounds.
The Washington times., 1924-11-28

900 bond issue was used to pay
for this years construction. The
sixty millions, with Federal aid
money and current funds, built
about 3.400 miles Of pavement
The average coast of road build.
ing has been 100000 a mile. This
figure includes grading, building
Of bridges and pouring Of the
concerto, slab Roads built in 1913
cost $4,000 a mile.
Illinois Is buying it's roads on.
the pay as you ride" plan. 1--WE
want the roads while we are here
to ride them." is the sentiment
OF It's citizens and they are will
ing to go into debt for them. The
two bonds issues repres ant a
$3.50. 100000 mortgage on the State
This vast sum Is to be paid, inter-
est and principal, out OF auto
license fees, which are now rolling
into the State Treasury at the rate
OF $1O,000.000 year.
The Washington times., 1924-11-28

the Illinois highways. An average
Of fifty miles OF road was completed
each week. and single crews. work
ing with one mixer, laid as much as
one-half mile OF the eighteen-foot
concrete ribbon in one day
Practically all Illinois cities Of
consequence. are now linked by
hard roads," as they call them
here, in contrast to the roads Of
soft. black earth which formerly
made Illinois the horror Of tourists.
.cAH main tourist routes are con-
crete. IT Is possible to motor from
the Great Lakes on the north Of
the Ohio on the south, and from
the Wabash on the east to the
Mississippi on the west, without
touching tire to dirt or gravel.
The additional 5000 miles Of
road provided for under the
500, 900 900 bond issue just voted
viii touch every county seat and
give almost every community a
paved outlet.
The last money from q $60,000,-
The Washington times., 1924-11-28
Mems Underwear

Medium and Heavy Weight Winsted Mills
Wool and Cotton Underwear, natural gray color;
sizes up to so in shirts; regular and CT Ok
stout sizes in drawers up to so. At.... ~A'OO
GOIdenbergs-First Floor.
The Washington times., 1924-11-28
FOR WOMEN

Like precious jewels, there is a rich
ness Of color, originality of style crea-
ton, and fneness of cut and finish
that is decidedly noticeable in TRAY
ELER Shoes. No matter what style
you have in mind, color or leather, you
will find in our brilliant array of nov
elites number of models delightfully."-
pleasing.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-09
Canadian Wireless

Str Canadian Rover. Ocean Pals Tor
Asiorla. 90 miles from Astoria
Str washingiaH Msru. Kobe f0r Por,
Townsend, geo miles from Estrvan
ST. pufasid, Vancouver for san Fran.
eisro. 10 miles from EHteyHu.
SIR Ayaba Maru. ~ Vancouver. 3iss
p. N
~ wuya Maru. bound for Seattle.
1880 miles from Estsvan ~
Str Canadian Observer aan Francisco
Tor Victoria. lis miles from Victoria.
Str uHliah Meuafch. Vancouver Tor
Shanghai tss miles from Victoria.
Str Achilles. Yokohama for Ylct1riE.
10 miles from Nietnria.
SIR u1ssEe. arrived Taku Hathor. 81
isfp p. m
SIR city % oran. los Angels FOR
Yokohama, 1870 miles from Los An.
Eelss. noon.
s,r city OF Vancouver. 1903 mile, from
Victoria.
SIR canadian winner. 1900 miis, Rom
TatooHh
SIR Yomsl Naru bound for Seattle.
1900 miles from Eusysn
s,r England Aaru lat soes y. long.
1855 r..
SIR starr. Tu,Kak bay for Kodiak. 10
miles from Kodiak
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-09
HIGHER PRICES
DUE ON EGGS
Wool Up; Fruit and VeOe-
tables FIuCtuate

Rises iu valley wool prices aud
fluctuations on salt hides. with fur
Their unHteadlussa ou sEEs featured
over "wednesday and when ThurH-
DAYS market opened there were In
dlrutioHH that eggs might jump
again and wholesalers might be- bHA-
ing Sec FOR extra whites.
sheep petite ave up o. a top quota
ton al 81. by Wednesday, changer
with clean. fine medium valley wool
topping az abr. Muhhir made ita fret
change in many weeks "wednesday
when it fcil from ttc 90 SOC here.
salt hides Fuhr again aud are nuw AZ
ir pound. tho bulls are down half
a cent.
There were fluctuations on fruits
and vegetables and pumrErhnHien
siumprd again. this time 4" 1915 for
hair an orange boK. WholeHalr.
Strawberries are away up. being
quoted Go the retailer az 81 90 'a25,
jump ~ a quarter az d dollar
Melted Gem potatoes. No, J grade.
are $40 o. faEap ton, h drop from
the $40 ton top price recently
quoted. Green beans Jumped again
Wednesday 60 Zoe and isc a pound.
with the pole and string varieties
az Zoe. u g. increase.
Prices generally Ia effect Thurs
DAY MrFrr
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-09
Vessels in Port at Seattle

SMITH Cove TsrminAi-risr ti-air Yoke.
hAma Naru. President Madison
Pier th-HtF Melville ueiihr
Hell street Termiuai-u \, o. uaiga
str Santa Ana
Pier it-atrs pr0tssiiaus, curHeao.
Pier iq-u. "a n Kashomlrh
Pier gIatr Arizona Mhrg.
Pier G=Hrhr AkAisa
Pier n-Bir Admiral psusr.
4 s shipplnE Board MooFinEn-ar Cup.
rum. Wsst Kadcr
cUnnrctlcut street TsrminAi--Htfs wheat.
land Montana. Thiha Maru. q, \. r.
pircnrsfrf. Pioneer, uif Tanann
Atlantic street Tsrmlnai--Hlr CONNER.
Standard OF co.'s rsrmlns, str Rich.
mond
stacy street TsruiHai-Htr Tsrzn
Lander Street rsrmiuai=-Hhip ~ Paul
itsnford Street rsrminhi-Hir Vancouver
Mara
East waterway Dock ard warehous, Co
-Bira kurshu Hafu. Habstt Lurkena
bach
Todd Dry Docks -sus Patterson. wsti
Notes Border King
Amas Terminal Co =Hir Robin Heed
SsttistaH's Niii-Wr Hanis Ines
colman Crepsola WnTAt-BiT A. " uas-
ter.
wssi Hsatiis rfaininr station Eagle 81.
Hsffsrnau's urF DacE--Ms Nurisl.
Wiusigw Marine Railway l-aEi. Hafhorl
str Hsa klhE. sehrs Vancouver. Ella
A. AiumHa, bktn CanaurroT.. harEsa
cosuitiam CITY. Hsury Willard. 0rifftoa
Grsnco aud Elusii.