Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-04-02

very day this letter is published, the
bill will be on the calendar of the
lower house for concurrence, then
to the governor for signature if the
plans of the narrow majority do
not niscarry
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The Nebraska senate has defeat
ed a bill providing that the ten
commandments should be pIacard-
ed in every public school of the
state 1t was objected to as an
entering wedge for sectarian edu-
cation. Still a not greatly dissim-
liar proposal is somewhere in the
mass of Wisconsin literature that
encumbers members desks.
It's a bit different in Delaware
where the legislature has passed a
bill imposing a $25 fine for a first
offense and revocation of license
for a second offense upon any
school teacher who fails to read five
verses Of the Bible and have the
children recite the Lords prayer
at the opening of school each day
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The senate, % to 9, rejected a
resolution by ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Brooks memorializing congress for
the outlaWry of war, and it concur
red in the Weber bill declining to
accept war trophies which have
been allotted to Wisconsin by the
government.
A measure requesting the reduc-
ton of the national army to the
strength of the national guard, and
the navy to a strength compatible
with national defense. has been
negatived by the senate.
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General William M. Mitchell,
while in Madison, paid visit to
the Chi Psi lodge to see a great
oil painting that his mother had
given in memory of her youngest
son, John, killed while flying in
France. "His death almost killed
her., he observed. She died in his
| Washington home two years age,
surviving her husband, United
States Senator John L. Mitchell.
by y years. On the walls of the
! Chi Psi lodge are two portraits Of
this younger son, loved and lost.
In my home we knew we'll and
fondly this fine boy, often caller
/ there, nc. less than a sister Rather
/ inc. Chi Psis came tumbling
downstairs to greet their disting-
uished guest whose name had for
many weeks been a first page fea
/ ture in nearly every American
newspaper because of his presum-
| ing to advocate unified air service
| and his frank, repeated declarations
that battle fleet may be utterly
worthless when assailed by air.
craft. Then over and through the
university grounds Gen. Mitchell
was driven, eager, enthusiastic, in
quisitive, informal as boy, and so
on to the cemetery where, he said,
! he was meeting many of his faith
er's old friends-Col w. F. Villas,
Col J. H. knight, Gen. Lucius
Fairchild, Col. E. w. Keyes, George
Raymer, Gen. Edwin E. Bryant,
Horace RubIee, Chief Justices Dix
on, Cassidy, orion and Winslow
Col. John G. Spooner, L. M. Fay
Judge Romance Bum and the rest
/ General Mitchell shook his head
over the suggestion from Detroit
that Henry Ford purposed to make
! flying as popular as motoring. 1t
takes about three years" he said,
! ito make a safe pilot and that's too
/
long to render practicable anything
like general flying, It's not mere
| ~ the mechanical features of air
! planning that is important" he add
ed, 'but the understanding of at
mospheric pockets and other emer-
gencies."
General Mitchell is just 40, of a
normal, natural type, free and easy
yet with comfortable reserve. While
his distinguished father and grand
father were democrats, both liz
congress at various times, he is a
republican. If perchance he should
elect to retire from active service
at the end of another three years
80 years in aH-he will return to
his boyhood home, Milwaukee, per-
haps to restore the family inherit
ance for public office.
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The senate made the bill for the
fogging of wife heaters the special
order for a recent evening. 1t
provided that a man who beats his
wife might, at the discretion of The
court, be sentenced to receive not
more than thirty nor less than five
lashes. New this was altogether
serious matter when from the