Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-04-16
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i Beware. This may be propagan
da, and editors may blue pencil i
/ or play it up. just as they please
I've no axe to grind, no cause to ad
vance, no reprisal to seek. It's al
I about baking powder, respectin.
which / only know that I'm for tn,
| brand that will produce bread ''likt
mother used to make" - which. O
course, is am utter impossibility
simply because mother, alas. car
( no longer have her magic hands il
the modern dough. But, there's /;
nice contest in the legislature, anC
its all over three or four littlt
words. In all states of the uniol
! except Wisconsin, certain bak
| ing powder company is permitted
to use the identical label which in
cludes the words sodium aluminium
sulphate" In Wisconsin these
words are displaced by alum. The
company declares that what it uses
actually is not alum and that il
falsifies the fact when it is Obliged
| to label its product as including
| alum. Sodium aluminium sulphate
| is not the substance which one buys
at the drugstore under the name Of
alum. In fact, we are told, enc
cannot buy it at the drug store al
/ all! 1t is contrary to the fedora
food and drugs act to sell sodium
aluminium sulphate as alum, il
seems, and the strife in the legisla
ture is to So amend the Wisconsin
statute as to Glide "alum" and in
sert sodium aluminium sulphate.'
Can Wisconsin be right in this mat
ter and all the other states wrong
To be sure we realize that our
blessed state has a habit of "going
it alone" and may not this be in
another illustration? So, if this is
propaganda, make the most of it.
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A bill which if passed, may pro
duce considerable extra revenue for
Michigan weekly newspapers, is a
measure introduced in the lower
house. 1t adds a section to the
present act relating to the incorpor-
alton of villages to provide that
proceedings of the village council
be published in the local newspaper.
The Ohio senate has defeated a
bill which would compel every new
spaper writer covering the legisla-
ture to commit to memory the ten
commandments. The proposal was
tackled on to a bill providing for
Bible reading in public schools.
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Yes, there will be no branch
capitol in Milwaukee, the Clarence
C. Krause bill establishing an "ad-
ministration building" at the me-
tropolis failing in the senate. The
capitol at Madison is abundantly
big for the state government judi
iciously trimmed.
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Elevation of Judge e. Ray Stew
ems to the supreme bench starts
gossip respecting his possible sue
cessor in the circuit court Michael
B. Olbrich, executive counsel may
be favored by Governor Blaine. AS
has been predicted before in this
column Mr.. Olbrich is certain to
land on the bench some day. He's
young yet, but of large intellectu-
atty. Judge Stevens will continue
to serve as judge of the circuit
court until the first Monday in jan
uary, 1926, when he succeeds JUS
tice Burr w. jones on the supreme
bench.
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The Izaak Walton Upper Missis-
sippi fish and game refuge bill
which cedes 200 miles of bottom
lands along the western boundary
of the state to the federal govern
ment for conservation purposes
was laid over in the senate pend
ing action en- the substitute meas
ure by Gov. Blaine to be introduced.
A bill empowering counties to
create county health departments
was rejected by the senate. Ex
pansion of government is becoming
a mighty sore spot with solcns.
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OF course wife beaters deserve
corporal lashing at the very least,
but Wisconsin is quite too progress
sive to sanction a return to the
primitive but effective methods of
CID Delaware is the only state
in the uniCn where this species of
homely punishment is yet in vogue
and last week a bill to abolish the
whipping post was defeated in the
Delaware legislature, 81 to 1. In
that small hut seIf-satisfied state