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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
COOLIDGE MAKES
PLEA FOR FARNER
Put Farms on Business Basis
and Prosperity Will Fol-
low, President Says.

Chicago.-Two plain and practical
business messages were delivered by
President Coolidge on his visit to Chi
cago.
In the first address before the Chi
cago Commercial club at the Drake
hotel he pointed TO the necessity of
elevating agriculture to the standard
of other business that it might enjoy
relatively the same prosperity. He
also called attention to the necessity
of cooperating with other nations that
they might enjoy the same economic
standards that America has been able
to preserve in the interest of secured
prosperity and peace.
Pays Tribute to Farmer.
Before gathering at the Stock
Yards inn, where he was the guest of
officers and directors of the Interna-
tional Live Stock exposition, the Presi-
dent paid high tribute to the farmer,
declaring that his experience with
them was that they represented class
that sought only a fair deal; did not
want or demand special treatment and
class favoritism The business of
farming, he said, had become a pro-
foundry skillful profession.
In regard to the farmers ideas as
to legislation, the President said:
There is altogether too much dis
position in some quarters to assume
that the farmer is peculiarly given to
wild ideas and unsound notions about
business, finance and economics. On
the other hand, every distinct test in
these respects has resulted in an over
whelming verdict for the farmers in
favor of sanity, soundness, modera-
ton, sense and reason in dealing with
all their problems.
Nobody is going to advance his
own interests by playing upon the pre-
sumption OF the farmers ignorance, or
seltiShness, or his incapacity to think
accurately. The visionary and the
demagogue invariably discover that
the farmer does not want their un-
sound proposals or panaceas. He does
not want special treatment and class
favoritism. He wants fair show,
and when he gets it he can be relied
upon to take good care of himself
and to contribute substantially toward
taking care of the rest of u.s."
Economy, cooperation, fairer taxes
and proper government aid were i'm
portant subjects discussed by the Pres
ident and declared by him to be the
means of AGRICULTURAL nroSDeritv 1ttFha
principle of cooperation in producing,
financing, buying and marketing must
be encouraged to the utmost practi-
cable development" he said.
I'VE must help the farmer to reduce
his taxes, broaden his foreign market
and keep freight rates as low as pos
sible while keeping the railroads eff
Gent. This should be supplemented
by the development of navigation in
the Mississippi valley and in the ST.
Lawrence river"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
Gene Porter, Novelist,
Dies When Car Hits Auto

Los Angeles, Cal.-Mrs. Gene Strait
ton Porter, novelist, lecturer and
expert on American natural history,
died from injuries suffered when her
automobile collided with street car
Mrs. Stratton Porter came to Cali
fornia four years ago. She had super
vision of the screen adaptation of her
popular novel, "a Girl of the Timber
lost" and on the completion of that
work became interested in the films as
literary field, and gradually divided
her efforts between the films and mag
azines and other writings
The novelist was fifty-six years old.
She was born on an Indiana farm and
married Charles Darwin Porter in Wa
bash county, Indiana, in 1886. She
lived for many years at Rome City,
Ind.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
Bandits Kill 2, Wound S
in Raid on South Bend

South Bend, Ind.-Two men were
killed, and five others were shot and
wounded in and near South Bend, Ind.
when two young gunner, foiled in an
attempt to hold up saloon, shot their
way out of that city.
In their flight the bandits seized an
automobile and headed for Chicago.
After thrilling chase by Chief
of Police Lawrence Lane and a posse.
one of the bandits was captured at a
roadhouse on the Division street high
way, eight miles from South Bend.
The dead are Frank Rathfon, sixty
five years old, South Bend, shot
through stomach; Elmer j. Kaufman,
fifty-nine years old, Lydick, Ind. farm
er, killed when he resisted bandits at
Grapeville creek.
The captured youth said he is Ray
mond L. Moseley.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
Farm Bodies Plan
for Export Legislation

Chicago.-Delegates from fifty farm
organizations and representatives
from fifteen states after conferences
held under the auspices of the Amer
lean Council of Agriculture, have or
ganized 10 obtain without delay legis-
lation regarding the exporting of sur
plus farm products and the equaliza-
ton of export prices with those of
other commodities. Steps were taken
to carry out the plans outlined After
the conferences, it was indicated that
the delegates viii work according TO
the plan of the President and his
newly formed agricultural commission.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
Slayer of FiDe GiDen
Death Penalty by Jury

Chicago.-Twelve DuPage county
jurors found John Kammerer, SLAYER
of Otto Elder, Mrs. Elder and their
three children, guilty of murder and
decreed that he be hanged
Needing the admonitions of the
prosecutors that DuPage county look
on Chicago killings and the Loeb-Leo-
pold case as object lessons and SUBJ
due crime with extreme punishments,
and ignoring the claim that Kammerer
was insane, the jury took two and a
half hours to bring in the death YER
dict.
Immediately afterward Kammerer
made his first public confession of the
five-fold murder, saying, "Sure, |
killed them. and meant to kill three
more"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
SWAMP ROOT FOR |
KIDNEY AILAED'

There is only one medicine that
stands out pre-eminent as a medicine
durable ailments of the kidneys Na
bladder.
DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Reot stand
highest for the reason that it has as p. p1
to be Just the remedy needed in thoasI
upon thousands Of distressing !
Swamp-Root makes friends quickly peg
its mild and immediate effect IS soon
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Start treatment at once e0la !
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and large.
However, if YOU wish first 70 :. ,a !,
great preparation, send ten 6 GEM, Y =
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, n l.
sample bottle. When writing G
and mention this paper.-Ad'el'"-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
GoU. Small, Son, Daughter
Hurt in Automobile Crash

Pontiac, Ill.-Gov. Len Small was
cut about the head and bruised; his
son. Leslie, suffered broken collar
bone. and his daughter. Mrs. A. D..
Inglesh and AL Bothfuhr of the state
highway department were slightly in
jured when their automobile over
turned after q collision.
Leslie Small was driving the gov
ernor's automobile, sedan, when
another automobile. occupied by a
young farmer named Fosdick and his
sister, came out of a side road and
skidded into the governors car.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
Six Bandits Get $294,OOO
From Bank in Milwoukee

Milwaukee. Wis.-Six armed and I'M
masked bandits effected the first bank
robbery in the history of this city when
they entered the Northwestern Nation
al bank few minutes after the doors
opened, held off employees and Gus
toners for % minutes, and escaped
with $4,000 in cash and 1924, 200 in
negotiable securities. A seventh man
at the wheel of large touring car
drove the band south toward Chicago,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
Bandits in China Take
48 From American Shin

CantOn.-FOrty-eigh Chinese teach
ers and students of Canton Christian
college were kidnapped on Saturday on
board launch flying an American flag
while going from Canton to the col
lege.
Six bandits among the passengers
of the launch overpowered the crew
and, after landing the captives. sent
the launch back to Canton with for
eign woman and several Chinese girls
on board.
The bandits then hurried inland
with the kidnapped teachers and stu
dents.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
Widow Weeps at Scene
of T. RS Cuban Exploits

Havana.-The Roosevelt Memorial
association delegation which will take
part next Sunday in the unwilling of
a memorial at Santiago to Theodore
Roosevelt, colonel of the Rough Riders.
arrived here aboard the steamer ORR
zaba. The delegates are the guests
of the Cuban government. Mrs. Roose-
welt, widow of the late President, who
came attired in simple mourning, was
moved to tears as she landed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
Three Officers Executed
for Egyptian Mufiny

Cairo.-After summary court-mar-
tial at Khartum. following the recent
mutiny of the Sudanese battalion,
four officers were sentenced to death
and three of them were executed by
shooting at dawn. The sentence of
the fourth was committed to Is years
imprisonment.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
MILLIONS GIVEN
CHURCH, COLLEGES
James B. Duke Donates
$46, 100000 and George
Eastman $12,5OO,OOO.

Charlotte, N. establishment of
a trust for charitable and educa-
tional purposes in North and South
Carolina embracing properties valued
at at least SAG 100000 was announced
by James b. Duke, tobacco and power
millionaire. Eventually the fund will
reach a total of SS6OO0,000.
Among the securities thus set aside
are about three-fourths of Mr. Dukes
holdings in the Southern Power sys-
TEN, the income of which will aggre-
gate approximately $2,0O0,O00 a year.
The trust will be administered by
hfteen trustees, who will constitute a
self-perpetuating body.
First Duty of Trustees.
The trustees are directed and en-
powered to expend not exceeding
S6,OOO,OO0 in acquiring lands and erect
ing and equipping buildings I'm the
state of North Carolina to be known
and operated as Duke university" but
with the provision that if Trinity col
lege at Durham, N. G., sees fit TO
change its name to Duke university
this sum may be spent in expanding
and extending Trinity college.
The trust then provides that 20 per
cent of the income shall be retained
each year and added to the principal
until sucn funds have aggregated a
total of approximately $S6,00O,OO0.
Balance Is Divided.
After this percentage has been set
ASIDE the other 80 per cent of the in
come Is to be divided as follows:
Thirty-two per cent for maintaining
hospitals in North Carolina and South
Carolina, on the plan of paying to the
hospitals sum not exceeding 81 q
day for each free bed occupied and in
assisting in building and equipping
hospitals.
Ten per cent for the benefit of
white and colored orphans in the Car
Olinas.
Six per cent for assisting in building
Methodist Episcopal churches in the
sparsely settled rural districts of
North Carolina.
-Four per cent for assisting in main
tanning Methodist Episcopal churches
in the sparsely settled rural districts
in South Carolina.
Pension for Old Preachers.
Two per cent for pensioning super
animated preachers and widows and
orphans of deceased preachers who
have served in North Carolina confer
enceS.
Five per cent to Furman university,
Greenville, S. c., Baptist institution.
-Four per cent to Johnson G. Smith
university, Charlotte, formerly known
as Biddle university. a negro school.
Eastman Gives $12,5oo,ooo.
Rochester, N. Y.-Bringlng his total
known benefactions to $58,6O2 900,
George Eastman, head of the Eastman
Kodak company, announced new gifts
of $12,500,000 10 institutions of higher
education, after recently announcing
a gift of $2,500000 in the Greater Uni
versity of Rochester campaign. Those
TO benefit under the latest gifts of Mr..
Eastman are:
Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy, S4,500,000, which is added to a pre-
vious gift Of $11,0OOO0O; University of
Rochester, $6,000,000; Hampton insti-
tute, $l,000,000, and Tuskegee institute,
$1,000,000.
OF Mr.. Eastman's total of $751;
6O2,900, the sum of $23,57S,5O0 has
been given to the University of Roches-
ter
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
The cyticura Toilet Trio

Having cleared your skin KEEP a1srTd|
by making Cuticura your ;. S load
toilet preparations. The Soap , - S,I /
and purify, the Ointment 70 o. sVo snd \
heal, the Toloam to powder l. s ann h
fume. No toilet table Is ). '''
without observation-disclosures,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
Rides to School Costly

About 81, 00O,0OO Of school IuI1,
spent by Al states in 1872? 70 p w
taking children to ana lFO n,oo an !,
That was s. out of every s." !
to pay the running EXPENSE
schools in those states.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
Cipriano Castro, Exiled
Venezuelan Chief. Dies

San Jose, Porto Rico.-Gen. Cipri-
ano Castro, the man who for almost
ten years as dictator held the des-
TIMES of Venezuela in his hand, was
buried here in alien but not unfriend-
ly soil, shrouded in the flag of his
native land, from which he was an
exile.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
Mem Hampshire Bees

New Hampshire's apiarles "a a A
six and a half colonies Oh DsS ,b r,th(
cent of them raised for ,C ConO ,rsrsI
than extracted honey Inc sonsr \
Weld is 40 pounds Of colllD Inv. nOr bsns
hive, and IS pounds of eztracItu -.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
Former Supreme Court
Justice Pitney Is Dead

Washington, D. C.-Supreme Court
Justice Mahlon Pitney. retired, died
at his home here after a long illness.
When Justice Pitney was forced by
two strokes of paralysis to go on the
retired list Is months ago his physi-
clans held out no hope of recovery.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
Not a Bargain

Mrs. Dash-Henry, dear, I'm 4
to the beauty specialists this a
noon. Could you let me have SOl
Dash-Hm! $50! Do you 4
that will be enough2-LOndon
Bits.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-12-17
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
HOW "TRADE-IN EVIL"
 KEEPS SINISTER ALIVE

The ''shyster' type of merchant exists in the business. But his methods are camouflaged because the average man is not buying an. automobile, from con- sideration of built-in value of the mer- ehandise itself plus the quality of the service of the merchant who sells it. The average man is selling his old car. And so intent has he been on mak- ing this sale. that he has lost all track of the consideration which influence him when he buys his other necessities furniture, etr.
 Let us suppose you have decided to what? Do you say to- yourself: 1T am going to get new car" Or do you say: II am going to trade my old car iir on new car?p From the start. of the affair, you think in terms of what
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

which wersllaid out more than six ears or automotive equipment realize the full meaning of this ; statement, knowing asthey do that the Chrysler plant has been specially eqsipped throughout to develop unusual quality of workmanship rather than quantity of product. For that reason the speed with which the present rate of produc- tion has been reached, becomes all the more remarkable. . s
 Sales reports from all sections of the country and from every automobile show which has been held in the United States indicates that even the present high schedules attained in the building the Chrysler Six will not satisfy buying demand, and Mr. Murphy believes he is making a conservative statement when he says that the car is certain to be over-sold throughout 1924. He adds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

you will get for the old car, rather than what the new car will cost.
 Suppose you ask salesman the price of his automobile and he tells you $2,- GOO. Does that mean anything to you, particularly? Chances are it does not. Because your next question-or perhaps you asked it first-is:: How much will you allow for my old car?"
 Suppose the offer is $500. You have made up your mind to get $700.g You move on.-Another salesman for another automobile tells you his new car is priced at $2,O00 also. But this sales man offers you $700 for your old car. So you '''buy" his new car, What in- fluenced you to buy it? Was it built in value and service of the second, as against the first car? You lost sight of that entirely. Yet there must be a difference in values of automobiles, the same as there is in everything else.
 Suppose that you are. buying clothes instead of an automobile. Suppose a suit is priced to you at. $75.. Then, when you hesitate, the price is cut s"just for you" The clothing merchant who would do that loses your conf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
PARKING P0INTERS

When parking the ear head first up- hill smost drivers cut the front wheels 70 that if the car should start coaSting backwards the right front one would sttike the curb. This, they believe, is lmp1e precaution. But. suppose that bump against the curb was sufficient to- knock the wheel straight again? TRis is a possibility which more expe- sienced drivers get around by. parking Inc ear with the wheels cut in the op- 20site direction. In this way, should he car go free, the right rear wheel Win. strike the curb. And as this would not yield to 'the curb the car would be checked no matter what position the sleeking wheels should take after the iaf.s
 Watch the party who stands beside khe car when you park it. He may a0kIee the packages scattered about the xhF,s an overcOat or any other article of vaiae e-and have designs on it. But in any event return to the car, after hay ing left it a moment or two, and pre- tend to be making sure that you locked tue ear itself. The package most side usaik thieves prefer is the car. .- .-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
|CHRYSLER RATE | HUNDRED A DAY
Automobile Introduced In Jan uary From Plant Only Six
 Months Old

DETROIT, March 15.--One of the most amazing pieces of information that has come from any Detroit automobile factory in number of weeks was made public yesterday with the announce ment by W. E. Murphy, manager of the Dominick-Murphy Motor company, Bir- niingham dealers, that production on the Chrysler Six had reached more than one hundred cars a day.
 The figures are startling because the Chrysler was s4not introduced to the pub lie until early in January with the opening of the New York automobile show. Production then went steadily ahead and was well under way by the latter part oftthAt month. Since then the Chrysler plant has each week met the schedules for Chrysler manufacture, months ago. Manufacturers of motor denee and patronage because the price cutter stands in your mind as a "shysters merchant.
 The automobile dealer (of acertain type) may cut his price, but he covers it up through the used car trade. The public does not see him for what he is.
 For this reason the entire industry IS often judged by the methods of the shyster. -E Just as soon as the time comes when the used car trade is eliminated from the new car sale,- the high grade auto mobile merchant will be separated from the, ''shyster' type in the public mind, as he is in, all other lines of business. When that day comes the "off make" of automobile and the stoff color" dealer will pass from the picture.
 As long as the used car problem re mains the "off make" car, can be '''sold" by the "off color" dealer because he does not need to compete with quality of merchandise and service.
 He competes on the allowance for the old car--nothing else.
 And this is another angle of the used car problem which costs the public much money.
 Price of. merchandise is affected by various differentials entering into its production and sale. The worth of used merchandise does not enter into the list price of the new goods you buy to replace that which is worn out.
 If you bought your clothes on that basis, your patronage would so to the man whose signs read "Old Clothes Bought and Sold for Cash Money"
 (Continued Next Week.
 Copyright, 1923, by Percy Chamber
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
By PERCY CHAMBERLAIN

Few buyers Of oUtom0bIIes knoW au- tomobile values. -..
 This is because few automobiles are bought, compared to the great; number which are purchased every year, from the standpoint of the combination of quality and price. Most of them are bought from the used car angle-"how much will you give me. for my present car?"
 For this reason standards of value in automobiles have not been firmly established in the public mind.
 For this reason, further, the s'shys- ter" is kept alive. Those things which put the stamp of the shyster upon the non n-ethical merchant in other lines, are not apparent to buyers. of automobiles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
KEEPING F0OT ON CLUTCM

The clutch transmits or disconnects the bower from the engine to the trans mission. It permits the engine to pick up It's load gradually.
 Keep the foot off the clutch unless shifting gears. Hiding" or slipping the clutch should be discouraged. Un- necessary pressure on the clutch wears the clutch mechanism, makes clutch surfacex smooth; and may cause the clutch to overheat. The clutch seldom needs adjustments except with refer ence to floor boards. The pedal should have half-inch clearance in every direc- ton. Noisy cldfch shifting is gener- ally due to the clutch not being thrown out far enough.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

emphatically to this by saying that Chrysler will make no attempt to gain a higher production rate than the sched- ,iles call for, believing that it is better to safeguard quality than to jeopardize the already high position which the Chrysler Six has won in motor car mar kets in order to satisfy the buying damard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16
SIx-CENT GAS IN 1898 Dufant O6ieiaI Recalls Days Of Lowest

'.Gasoline, in its recent western slump, again for the first time in years, approached the price of the commodity in 1898, 6 cents a gallon" says J. H. Newmark, manager of sales promotion, Durant Motors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

] The average of 2SO loaves of bread
 may be made from 2 barrel of flour.