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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
BEET HARVEST
ON In COUNTY
Kenosha County Sugar
Beet Growers Having
a Big Harvest.
HOW IT is DONE

Farmers in the districts Surround
ing Pleasant Prairie, Somers, Trevor
and Truesde1 in Kenosha county are
busily engaged in lifting. topping and
hauling their sugar beets to the vari-
Gus shipping points for shipment to
the factories. All of the beets in
Wisconsin grown south of the Fond
du Lac county line will be. delivered
to the plant at Menominee Falls, while
those north of that line will be d.
vided between the plant at Green Bay
and one at Menomirfee, Mich.
Beet harvesting presents very in
teresting process for the uninitiated.
A lifting machine is first driven down
the rows. BY this method the roots
are loosened in the soil and are
placed in position where the top
pers can separate the tops and crowns
from the bulk of the beet.
The topping is done with a large
knife shaped somewhat like a Cuban
machette or sugar cane knife. The
beet is held in the left hand and with
quick downward stroke the top is cut
clean and true with but little waste.
Then Shipped to Factory.
The beets are then loaded for trans
portation to the railroad siding and
the tops are retained by the grocer
as food for his stock. Dairy authori-
ties, place the value of beet tops for
dairy food purposes as worth approxi-
mately $500 to the acre of beets.
The three factories in the eastern
Wisconsin and northern Michigan dis
trict, have invested several hundred
thousand dollars in loading equipment
of various types, all of them arranged
to take the beets from the farm
trucks and place them in cars.
Start Operation October 10.
All three of the sugar plants started
to operate i'll small way on October
10th and as the volume of incoming
beets permit, will increase their
operations. With crop running APP
proximately rs per cent higher than in
1925, the plants will run considerably
longer than they did during the
1925 season.
The process of manufacture entails
chemical and mechanical processes
which are intensely interesting, start
ing with the washing of the beet to
the time when the granulated sugar
is sacked and stored.
It involves the use from three to
four hundred mechanical pumps in
each plant. Some of these handle the
millions of gallons of water used in
the processed, while others pump beet
juice, lime water and other purify
ing agents.
Wisconsin annually consumes about
275,000,00O pounds of sugar of all
kinds. The state produces 34,OO0,O00
pounds of beet sugar. To produce
the difference in the production and
the consumption it would take an
additional tonnage of beets worth
$10,000,000 annually, to the farmers
of the state.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Civil Service
Exams Announced

Madison, Wis. - - - The state
civil service commission has scheduled
one of the most important examina-
tions in its history for November IA,
A. E. Carey, secretary, announced to-
day. The examination will be held in
nearly every county seat of the state,
he said.
Foremos. among the places to be
filled is that of chief of the cheese
division of the state dairy and food
commission. The job pays $4,000 to
$4,000 { year. A university graduate,
40 years old, with wide experience, Is
being sought for the position.
Other of the more important posi-
tions for which a large number of ap-
plicants are expected, include:
Building inspector for the state IN
duStrial commission.
Assistant actuary and deputy fire
marshals for the insurance commits
sioners department.
Tariff and railroad rate clerk for
the railroad commission. A man with
ten years experience is sought for the
place, the salary of which is $4,000 to
$4,000 year.
Assistant veterinarians for cattle
tuberculosis eradication work.
Superintendent of free employment
office.
Chief engineer for one of the state
power plants.
Dealers of weights and measures.
Examinations also will be held and
a number of other classes OF workers,
including stenographers and typists.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Paralytic Stroke 3
Cause of Death
Mrs. Sophia JankuIa Died Thursday
Afternoon After an Illness of /.
Several Weeks.

Mrs, Sophia Jankula, aged so years,
wife Of Cyril Jankula, died Thursday
afternoon at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Anna Pohizek, 81 Middle
street, after an illness of several
weeks duration. Several days ago she
suffered a stroke of paralysis and
since that time little hope had been
held out for her recovery.
She was born in Czecho-Slovakia on
May Is, 1865, and lived her early life
in her native land. She came to Amer
lea number Of years ago and had
lived several years in Kenosha.
Surviving her are her husband, Cyril
Jankula, and three daughters, Mrs
Anna Pohizek, Mrs. Mary Hulk and
Mrs. Josephine Chahoy, all of Keno
sha. Also surviving are seven grand
children.
The remains were taken to the
Mischler mortuary to be prepared for
burial and will be returned to the
daughters home late this afternoon
Funeral services will be held Saturday
morning at the St. Anthony church at
300 o'clock with interment following
in the family plot in the St. George
cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
London Welcomes
Wales Back Home

London, Eng ~ London gave
the Prince of Wales the most affec-
tionate welcome of all his home
comings this afternoon when he re-
turned from his $4,000 mile voyage
to South Africa and South America.
He was greeted at the Victoria sta
ton by the king and queen, bther
members of the royal family, and
thousands of spectators.
The Prince stepped from the train
which brought him from Portsmouth,
wearing the uniform of the Welsh
guards.
After shaking hands with the king
the young heir apparent bent low over
the queens hand. Then dropping all
formal salutations, he placed an arm
about his mother and kissed her af-
fectionately on both cheeks.
His sister, Princess Mary and his
new sister-in-law, the Duchess of
York, were the next to greet the home
coming ambassador of the empire"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
VATICAN PRESS
STIRS FASCISTS
Speculation Rife if Musso-
lini Can Suppress
Publication.
RELATIONS STRAINED

Rome * ENTRY of the Osser-
vatore Romano, official newspaper of
the Vatican, into critical polemic with
various Fascist newspapers on the use
by Fascists of personal violence as a
political weapon, has brought up the
interesting question: "Has the Italian
government the right to control or to
suppress the newspaper of the Holy
See for political reasons 2"
This unusual development, creating
a new aspect of relations between the
government and Vatican and tending
to imperil the already considerable
work of Premier Mussolini in remov-
ing causes of friction with the Holy
See, has been brought up by the en-
barkment of the SOsservatore Romano
upon campaign of frank criticism of
the use of violence as political wea-
pom at any time or for any purpose.
Daily Criticism.
Abandoning its customary dignified
aloofness, the Papal newspaper almost
has daily printed articles in which
Fascist tactics have been critized free
ly and Fascist apologists have been
answered in some detail. The news
paper has gone so far as to engage
in spirited polemic with Roberto Far
inacci, secretary general of the Fas-
cist Party, and has not hesitated to
tell him boldly, in answer to his re-
peated demands that it cease interior
ence with purely political affairs, that
it intends to stop it's comm ents when
it no longer has anything to say and
only then.
Yet, while the official press censor
has suppressed neutral and opposition
newspapers for the slightest breath of
criticism of governmental tactics, the
Vatican, newspaper has never been in
terfered with. Consequently the ques-
ton of possible interference has been
brought up by Fascists because of
their irritation over unforeseen criti-
cism and by opposition leaders be-
cause of, their desire to prove the I'M
fairness of press censorship in gen.
eral.
One faction maintains that the
Osservatore Romano is.subject to con-
troll. These persons assert that since
the Papal, newspaper is avowedly q
politico-religious publication, it can
be regarded as an ordinary newspaper
and hence is subject to all regula-
tions and restrictions governing other
daily publications. They declare the
governments timidity in> suppressing
this newspaper is unwarranted and
that a start should be made quickly.
Another faction, however, is equally
certain that the Osservatore Romano
is absolutely immune from govern
mental control, arguing that it par
takes of the immunity from Italian le-
gal process given to all Instrumental
ties of the Holy See. Thus, they de-
clare, the Vatican newspaper is, le-
gally and morally, as safe from inter-
ference as though it were printed
abroad because of the extra-territor-
iality which the Holy See enjoys.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
RECREATION Is
GROWING SCIENCE
Kenosha Delegates to Rec
reatiOn Congress In
spired by Talks.
TEACH CHILDREN LIFE

Kenosha's delegates to the conven-
ton of the Playground and Recreation
Association of America have returned
with broader visions of recreation and
its application 10 this community. The
three men, G. E. Bickford, city recrea-
tion superintendent; Fred Clitheroel
director of recreation at the Simmons
company; and Maurice G. Wilson, rec
reational leader at the Nash Motors
company, were inspired by the words
of men who are very prominent in the
life of America, and who have great
foresight in the matter of recreation's
destiny.
Professor George E. Johnson of Har-
ward university, in a stirring address,
made the statement that science-aided
education can seize upon fighting as
a conscious, definite i'm and guide it
consistently toward progress and the
peace, if the pugnacious peace, of the
world.
children should therefore be taught
to fight, he declared, "but in such ways
as to conserve the heroic qualities of
man to develop the noblest social
traits and thus to make for the peace
of the world. The fighting ideal can
best be included in the youth of the
race through play" he pointed out,
''for nearly all active play of children
has an element of contention il, it. 1t
is by fighting that they gain the con-
quest over their own bodi and the
objects and forces of nature until
these are subdued and become serv-
ants of their will"
Music Important in Recreation.
Whitehead K1utz of Salisbury, N. c.,
a classmate of Mr.. Bickford at the
University of Michigan, was prin-
cipaI speaker. He dwelt on the place
of music in recreation. american
cities are buying nearly 100000
worth of music every year, and civic
music has become recognized and ap-
proved subject for the expenditure of
municipal funds" he declared.
Extent of this modern recreation
development is indicated by the fact
that 762 cities are listed with the
Bureau For the Advancement of
Music as sponsoring community music
activities. u
One of the interesting features of
the convention were the exhibits of
playground work which were arrayed
for the inspection of the delegates. 1t
proved to be miniature educational
exposition of every branch of COM
mercial and community activity.
The congress program included sec
tional meetings for recreational labora-
tory work led by prominent men of
America. j. C. Walsh of New York
City gavera interesting talk on Chow
To Get Newspaper Publicity" A round
table discussion of an adequate ply
steal education program for state
was led by J. H. McCurdy, M. D., di-
rector Of the physical course, Inter
natioial Y. M. G. A. college, Spring
field, Mass.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Old Mariners Fear
Derelict On Ocean
British Lumber Schooner Governor
Parr Roams Seas For
Two Years.

Washington.->a-. Men who go
down to the sea in ships are specu-
lating about the early appearance in
West Indian waters of one of the
most noted derelicts of modern times.
While the Navy Departments hy-
geographic Office considers it unusual
in these days of rapid radio commune
cation and special coast guard patrol
for a derelict to remain afioat longer
than a week, the four-masted British
undertaken schooner Governor Parr
has been rowing the high seas for
nearly two years.
The last definite report received of
the Governor PARIS wereabouts was
in October of last year, when she
foated crewless down along the coast
of Africa, but the British steamer
Tortugero late in July sighted dere-
lict 800 miles northeast of the Virgin
Islands.
If this proves to be the Governor
Parr, which seems likely, it will be the
first derelict on record in the HYDRO
graphic Office to practically cover the
circulatory drift of the North At
lantic.
The Governor Parr set sail from In
gramport, N. S., for Buenos Aires on
Sept. 81, 1923. She encountered rough
seas, lost two of her masts and the
American steamer Schodacx on Oct. 8,
1923, took off his crew.
Floating in the transatlantic ship
ping lanes, with cargo of million
and a half feet of lumber, the derelict
was picked up by the coast guard cut
ter Tampa early in January, 1924. and
was headed for Halifax. Due to rough
weather and the weight of the water
logged vessel, the derelict was cast
adrift.
In August of last year, seamen from
the British steamer Zaria sighted the
Governor Parr and boarded her, set
ting her afre. She apparently survived
this experience, for later she was re-
ported off the coast of Portugal and
in October last off the coast of Africa,
near the Canary Islands.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
FRANKLIN'S KITE
TALE Is VERIFIED
New Found Letter Tells of
Experiment and How
1t Resulted.
JUNK YIELDS PAPERS

Cincinnati.-,49.A Lately American
historians have been bombing the
story Of the flight of Benjamin Frank
Inns electricity detecting kite. They
have attempted to relegate the legend
to the junk heap of historical fallacies.
Their claim has been that, had
Franklin tried the experiment, he
would have been electrocuted and
burned to crisp brown crust.
But a book has been discovered,
piled with 10000 other volumes in a
garage store room owned by the Gin
cinnati public library, containing a
letter written by Franklin himself
on the experiment and it's results. The
volume is compendium of many
letters written by Franklin and mem
bers of the Royal Scientific Society of
London.
Tested for Electricity.
While the story handed down placed
the scene Of the trial in the tower of
old Christ Church in Philadelphia,
Franklin fails to mention the locality.
1t is also evident that he had no i'm
tention Of attracting lightning to his
kite, but that he merely waned to
prove the presence of electrical energy
in the atmosphere during a thunder
storm.
The letter was written probably in
1852. His observations and instruc-
tions follow:
MAKE cross of two light strips
of cedar, the arms so long as to
reach the four corners Of a large
the corners of the handkerchief to
the extremities Of the cross, so you
have the body of a kite, which be-
ing properly accommodated with tail,
loops, and string, will rise in the air,
like those made of paper, but this, be-
ing silk, is fitted to bear the wet and
wind of thunder gust without tear
ing. To the top of the upright stick Of
the cross is to be fixed very sharp
pointed wire, rising foot or more
above the wood. To the end of the
Irvine next to the hand, is to be tied a
silk ribbon, and where the silk and
Irvine join key may be fastened.
Made During a Storm.
This kite to be raised when a
thunder gust appears to be coming
on, and the person who holds the
string must stand within door or
window or under some other covering,
so that the silk ribbon may not be
wet, and care must be taken that the
Irvine does not touch the frame of the
door or window.
GAS soon as any of the thunder
clouds come over the kite, the pointed
wire will draw the electric fire from
them, and the kite, with all the Irvine,
will be electrified, and the loose fila
ments Of the Irvine will stand out
every way and be attracted by an APP
preaching finger, And when the rain
has, wet the kite and Irvine SO that it
can conduct the electric fire freely,
you will find it stream out plentifully
from the key on. the approach of your
knuckle,
"At this key, a phial may be at
tached and from electric fire thus
obtained, spirits may be ignited and
all the other electric experiments be
performed which are usually done by
rubbed glass globe or tube, and
thereby the sameness of the electric
matter with that Of lightning COM
pletely demonstrated"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
SMOKEY" IS-NOT
WITH THE BUNCH
Police Call on ''Smokey's"
Place and Arrest Men
and Women.
BLACK AND WHITE

"Put your finger in the crows nest;
the crow isn't home"
4 That's what the police did on Satur-
day night. Lieutenant Charles T. Rock
and Detective John Breidt 'put their
fingers" in the place which they know
as "Smokey's nest" at 351 North West
Main street around 20 o'clock in the
evening, and sure enough Smokey was
not there.
The place has been raided several
times by the police; it bears an I'M
savory reputation as a congregating
place of blacks and whites-women and
men, But on Saturday night the
police drove by at 9 o'clock and
Smokey's head was seen on the look
out from the south window. After
making the rounds of the city, the
police made sudden call at 351 North
West Main street again, and this time
stopped. Nobody answered the knock.
There was a. card on the door. 1t
read, Smokey isn't home; will be back
tomorrow"
CIHu q AueeT OuCHI.
This last Saturday night, when the
detective chief and his aide arrived,
Smokey wasn't there, but there were
plenty of others. The negroes were
George Gibson, who gave the '351 adj
dress as his own; George Dabney,
Evanston; John Richardson, 351 North
West Main street; Walter Greenbrooks
and two colored women, Florence Gind-
raft and Cora Moore.
The white people were John Kramer,
% North Fremont avenue and Mrs.
Walter Greenbrooks, wife of one OF
the negroes. The police questioned
this woman at length, and were con-
WINGED that she is mentally i'll.
An examination into the woman's
state of mental health will be made
today. She had a quick retort for
jests, but seemed unable to reckon
time. She could give no clear account
Of her past, and place and time seemed
10 merge in one dim picture when she
was questioned.
Good Reason to Marry.
"Why did you marry a colored man%
ahe was asked.
Because like him." she answered.
All were arrested on the charge of
d;sorderly conduct. Wh-n John Kra-
ner, the white man of the group, was
searched by the police, counterfeit
29-dollar bill was found on his person.
Kramer was too intoxicated to give in
telligent answers to questions at the
time of the arrest, but the police will
go further into the matter of the bad
greenback today.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
Public Health Nurses
Will Hold Convention

The annual meeting of the state or
ganization of public health nurses
will be held at Eau Claire, Tuesday
morning, October Goth. There will be
two speakers, DR.. T. L. Harrington,
Milwaukee, clinic physician of the
Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis associa-
tion, and DR.. P. B. Jaeger, president
of the Northwestern District Dental
Society of American dentists. DR..
Harrington will discuss "Tuberculosis
and the Public Health Nurse" and DR..
Jaeger preventive Dentistry
This meeting is being held in con-
nection with the annual meeting of
the Wisconsin State Organization for
Nurses of which Miss Cornelia Van
Kooy, field worker for the Wiscon-
sin Anti-Tuberculosis association, is
president.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
SCHOOL CHILDREN
HELP SAVE SHIP
Ken0shans to Take Active
Part in "Old IrOnsides"
Week.
CAMPAIGN

School children of Kenosha are
bringing their nickels and dimes to-
day to save "Old Ironsides" from sure
destruction to be preserved as a me-
mento of early American history.
This is the first day of "Old Iron,
sides" week, sponsored by the Elks'
lodge, for the purpose of creating a
popular interest in the old U. S. S.
Constitution, which is perhaps the
most famous boat in the history of
the nation. Kenosha school children
are being told the story of the ship
today all over the city, and are urged
to relay to their parents the need of
donating to the cause Of keeping the
old boat from being sunk.
In connection with the cold Iron
sides" week, an essay contest is being
sponsored by the Elks' lodge. Sub
jects for the competition were sug-
gested by President Calvin Coolidge
as follows: For elementary schools,
"Why Will the Preservation of the
U. s. S. Constitution Promote Patri-
otism?''; for high schools, "Why Did
the Victories of the u. S. S.. Constitu-
ton Contribute SO Largely to Our
Success in the War of %; for coll
leges, "The Contribution of the u. S.
S. Constitution to Human Liberty and
to National Progress"
The rules and information regarding
prizes for these contests may be OBJ
tanned at the Elks' club. Harry kim
is chairman of the committee in
charge of "Old Ironsides Week." and
he is assisted by a number of
others, Kenosha's quota of the sum
to be raised is $780,
Is Preserved In Poetry.
The active service of "Old IRON
sides" Extending as it did over the
eighty-four years from 1898 to 1882,
covers the greater part of our history.
1t was immortalized by Oliver Wen
dell Holmes in his poem "Old Iron
Sides" which was instrumental in
persauding congress not to sell the
frigate for salvage, nor to sink her,
and to appropriate sufficient money
to recondition her. Her last important
duty was at the Naval Academy in
1860 when she was used as practice
ship for the embryo naval Offices be-
ing trained for the navy.
Later she was again reconditioned
and sent to the place of her birth,
the Boston navy yard, to be kept as
relic and an inspiration to the
youth of America.
The Constitution has again been
condemned, and unless a large sum
of money is raised for her preser-
walton, she will be destroyed after
one hundred and twenty-five years
of service.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-10-22
DRIVER EMBRACES.
TELEPHONE POST.
Lester Rabbit, Racine, Ar
rested on Charge of
Reckless Driving.
OTHER ACCIDENTS

Lester Rabbit, twenty-one, 1926
Packard avenue, Racine, was arrested
late Sunday night after his car, IN
which were riding two other Racine
youths, had been ditched on the Lake
Shore road. Rabbit is charged with
reckless driving. The two youths rid
ING with him were H. De Oracle,
eighteen, 1926 Packard avenue, Racine,
and Roy Danville, eighteen, 1902 Lin
den, avenue, Racine. Sheriff Frank
Willems and Undersheriff Joseph Knip-
fer answered the call to find that
traffic for a mile on either side of the
road was blocked through the accident.
Rabbit, officials said, attempted to
turn corner into the highway at too
great a speed and crashed into tele-
phoue post, smashing the car. None
of the occupants was hurt. The sheriff
was given quick aid in clearing the
---~d hv the police department.
I9hn Swadek, S410 Wall street,
Chicago, was driving south on the
Lake Shore road at eleven o'clock
Sunday night when his rear wheel
locked and his car veered over to the
other side of the street in time to hit
a car driven by j. Wendt, 92e Beck
avenue, Racine. Both cars were dam
aged, but no one was hurt. Deputies
Milton LaViolette and Leo Schend re-
ported the accident to headquarters.
Otto Gomoll, 1o5 S. Congress street,
was taken to the hospital from his
home Sunday night after he had an
accident at Thompson's Corners on
the Wood road. He was driving
toward Kenosha when he claims he
was pushed off the road by another
car. He suffered several bruises and
cuts about the hands and face and
he was returned to his, home this
morning after these injuries were
treated. His car was wrecked.