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The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
SAYS TRIBUNAL
VIOLATED LAW
MITCHELL CASE
Army Legal Experts Give
Opinions Resolutions
Are Introduced.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-Unoffi.
cial opinion among Army legal ex-
perts regarding the five year sus-
pension sentence of Col. William
Mitchell, as was the verdict of the
Army Court Martial, is that no mill
tary tribunal has the right to de-
prlve an officer or enlisted man of
all pay and allowances for five years
and keep him during the time under
army control, unable to accept out
side employment without permis-
sion.
The prevailing opinion is that
President Coolidge will allow the
suspension as a retirement credit
as Col. Mitchell is eligible to re-
tire in two and one half years.
To Restore Rank
Representative Blanton Of Texas,
has introduced in the House a reso-
luton to restore Mitchell to the
proper rank in the Army" and sus-
pend the five year sentence OF the
Army Court Martial.
Charges Made.
Representative John N. Tillman.
Democrat of Arkansas, charged in
the House today that the Mitchell
Court Martial as organized was ito
get the Colonel"
Tillman further stated that the
verdict insults free America" and
added: "It seems that unusual mill
tary procedure is not allowed to
take an ordinary course"
The five years forfeiture of pay
and allowances, said Tillman,
amounts to $4,000 fine. Tillman
called upon the granite faced and
granite souled President to mitigate
or quash the harsh sentence"
Another Resolution.
Representative Loring M. Black,
of New York, has introduced a reso-
luton favoring the retention Of
the rank for Mitchell. The reso-
luton said the verdict, IL allowed
to stand, will prevent Army officers
telling Congress anything.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Two More Denver Banks
Forced to Close Doors

DENVER, Colo, Dec. 1.-two
more State banks have been closed
making total of five. Heavy with
drawals Of depositors caused the Of
ficials of the Capitol Hill and Metro
politan State Bank to put the insti-
tutions into the hands of the Bank
Examiner.
The First National Bank of Rifle,
with capital stock of $4,000 and
resources of 100000 closed this at,
ternoon. This is the sixth Colorado
bank failing in the past three days.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19

They reduce things that smack most
OF mystery to formulas and chart.
But had the planets sought to pun
ish Prof. Frost for peering into
their secrets, they could not have
chosen a more drastic vengeance.
Revelation Of sight lost among
the stars is made. almost casually,
in the second volume Of the annals
.of Dearborn Observatory Of North
western University. In June. 1898,
those closest to Prof Frost came to
know Of his approaching blindness.
He consulted two eminent special
lists. pledging them to secrecy. Now,
! it is said, his sight Is virtually
gone. ~
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
WORLD COURT
FIGHT BEGINS

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. - The
battle over the World Court opened
Late, yesterday afternoon in the
Senate when Chairman Borah re-
plying to Swanson, Of Virginia, Len
root of Wisconsin and Walsh Of
Montana, said the World Court as
to be organized or created was the
organ, the legal part of the League
Of Nations" Borah further said that
IL the Court is not a party to the
League "it is because efforts failed"
Senator Lenroot insisted the World
Court was independent of the Lea
que.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Gross Word Puzzle
Causes Fatal
Tragedy in N. Y.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10
Angered because his bride of
II months would not help him
solve crossword puzzle, Theo-
dore Koerner, ardent devotee of
the pastime, seriously wounded
her and then killed himself last
night. She had excused herself
from assisting him because of a
headache when he asked her to
help. A moment later he ap-
peared in the bedroom and fired
without speaking a word and
then killed himself.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
ALASKAN PLAYS
SANTA TO OLD
CHUMS, BOSTON
|Quit Stevedoring II Years
Ago and Came North
Has Struck it Rich.

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 19.-Patr,ck
Quirk who quit stevedoring here II
! years ago and went to Alaska, has
returned, reporting he has struck it
| rich. Quirk is wearing a chain of
nuggets valued at $1,000 across his
vest, wearing Nuggets as rings and
for link pins, has plenty of gold
in his pockets and is playing Santa
Claus to his old friends in the West
End. Quirk Is going to Ireland
after the holidays to visit his
mother.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
TAX REDUCTION
BILL NOW Goes
TO u. S. SENATE
Passes House by Ovcrwhelm-
ing Vote-Nearly All
Members Present.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-Fifty
amendments to the tax reduction
bill were defeated late yesterday
afternoon in succession by an over
whelming majority. The bill has
been approved by President Coolidge
and now goes to the Senate where
1t is expected to meet many diff
culties.
The House passed the bill, which
reduces Federal taxes 1925, 600, 900
by a vote of $50 to 25. Almost
every member of the House was
present when the measure came up
for final passage.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 19.-Here
in Denmark they say Nina Bang, the
first woman member Of a Danish
Cabinet, is the "best man In the
whole Statsraadet," or Ministry.
Whenever conversation turns upon
prominent women of the land. her
name springs spontaneously to the
lips of every Dane.
The widow of we'll known writer
on economics and herself learned
writer on the same subject, Nine.
Bang sprang into prominence as
forceful administrator upon her ap-
pointment as Minister of Education
in the present Labor government.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Student Raids on
Sorority Houses
Cancels High links

MISSOULA. Mont. Dec. 10
The Deans Council has can
celled show here as the re-
suit of midnight raids on soror-
ity houses in an effort to get
womens wearing apparel suit
able for ballet scenes at the
annual high jinks to be given
by the male students of the
University of Montana. The
sororities retaliated by mid
night raids on the fraternity
houses, then the Deans acted.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Denver News Vendors
Are to Be Licensed

DENVER, Colo, Dec. 10. A
city ordinance prohibiting the
hawking of newspapers on the
streets" has been placed in effect.
The police have been instructed to
enforce the ordinance which re-
quires the licensing of all news
vendors and limiting the age Of
newsboys above IL years and girls
above 21 years.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Nina Bang to Denmark
Is Best Cabinet Member

AS the author Of a standard work,
"The History of Sound Dues" TAX
atom, published with the financial
support of several foreign govern.
ments, she already had established
her reputation as a scholar.
Today she is more debated than
any other Danish woman. She is
praised and caricatured to such an
extent that she has become almost
a myth.
Her first ministerial act was the
reorganization of the Danish State
Theatre, which enjoys an annual sub
sidy of about $25O,0O0. Too many
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Italian Military Force
Destroys Town, Reprisal

ROME, Dec. 19.-It is officially
announced that Italian military
forces have occupied and destroyed
Bergal, the Capital of Sultanatc
Miljertine, as reprisal for the kill
ing of two Italian non-commissioned
officers and one artilleryman.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Deposed Mayor Is Now
Facing Serious Charge

KELSO, Wash, Dec. 10. - The
County Attorney has filed charges
of malicious prosecution against A.
Ruric Todd, deposed Mayor, on ac-
count of the murder charge filed by
Todd against George Norris, City
Engineer, i'm connection with the
unsolved Staying of Thomas Dovery,
Kelso editor. Norris was exonerated
after an investigation.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Funeral Of Battling
Sikh Held in New York

NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-Chanting
Moslem prayers, six pallbearers
wearing turbans and fezes, carried
the body OF Battling" Sikh to his
grave late yesterday afternoon. Rev
Clayton Powell, OF the Abyssinian
Baptist Church held services. Earl
ier in the afternoon hundreds of
Harlem negroes gathered for the
funeral.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Says Federal Judge Is
Guilty Of High Crimes

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. A
special House committee has adopted
a report declaring Federal Judge
George English, of the Eastern IL
linois District is guilty of high
crimes and misdemeanors requiring
inter- position constitutional powers
iof the House.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Mrs. Bartlett and
Husband" Causes Talk

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19.-The
register of San Francisco hotel
today contained Mrs. George Bart
lett and husband" This proved to
be District Judge Bartlett, from Re-
no, Nevada, and his wife. She ex-
planned "it is merely one wifely privi-
lege of a $3.50 marriage"
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Mayor Brown Wins
Change of Venue Case

OLYMPIA, Wash, Dec. 19.-The
Supreme Court has granted Mayor
Browns petition for a change Of
venue in his action attempting to
force sections of the Seattle Grand
Jury report to be expunged from
the records.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
STILL
ExPL0DES; One
Man IS KILLED

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 10
Fumes from an exploded liquor still
are blamed for the death of Phillip
Stanhope and the serious condition
of his companion, Oscar Ellithrop,
who was found motioness on his
bed. The bursted still was boiling
furiously on a gas stove. Twenty
gallons of lias-G were found.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Mine Sweeper Believed
Wrecked; Runs on Reef

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-Fears
are expressed today that the mine
sweeper Curlew, which ran on
reef in the Atlantic off Panama dur
ing the night Is wreck
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Seattle Built Plane
Makes Speed on Trial

SEATTLE, Dec. 10. = Assembled
in 2n hour, a Navy pursuit plane
attained a speed of more than 16O
miles an hour in a trial flight late
yesterday afternoon. The plane was
built here by the Boeing Company
and is equipped with 500 horse
power motor. The plane has wing
spread of 32 feet.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Baker and Sowash to
Hang on January IA

SEATTLE, Dec. 19.-Ottawa dis
patches report the Supreme Court
has refused to intervene in the death
sentence against Owen B. Baker, of
Tacoma, and Harry Sowash, OF Sc
attic, for the murder of William e.
Gillis and his son in hijacking raid
September Is, 1924. The date of
hanging is set for January A.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Price of Vodka Goes
Up Fifty Per Cent

MOSCOW, Dec. 19.-The Soviet
government has increased the price
of Vodka so per cent and 1t is now
81 a quart to decrease the drunken
ess and also increase revenue. The
police are to report "drunks" to
the Labor Unions
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Four Men Meet Violent
Deaths in Portland

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 19.-Four
men met violent deaths here yes
terday. Two were accidental and
two were suicides. A fifth man was
critically injured exercising on a
horizontal bar.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19
Charge Railroad with
Violating Dry Laws

CHICAGO, Dec. 10. The Erie
Railroad and 10 persons have been
indicted by the Federal Grand Jury
on a charge of conspiracy to vio-
late the Prohibition law.
The Alaska daily empire., 1925-12-19

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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27

The people are regulated to death.
The responsibility of the home is
pushed over on the government, the
work of the church is shifted to the
government. The duty of the schools
takes the same road. The result is
private interference and official con-
troll of individual action to a point
that would make the fathers of the
nation froth at the mouth.
For every difficulty that rises as a
result of our complex civilization we
look for a remedy in the creation of
some new board of control. Every
phase of business and private activity
is put in charge of some bureau or
commission. These bureaus are given
powers far beyond anything ever
contemplated by the founders of the
constitution. They embrace the legis-
lative, the judicial and the executive
functions of the government and rise
superior in power to the government
istelf
We are in rather bad way when
we admit the law has broken down
and that our courts are failure, but
we are in a worse way when the peo-
pie supinely permit Czarlike powers
to be handed over to bodies of petty
dictators, without even so much as
a word of observation-disclosures
County News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
Professionalism.

Professionalism.
Professionalism? What is it? Revolt
against established religious ideas and
| forms? No. What once was exists no
more.
Professionalism of today is the effort
of the human soul to attune itself
with the Infinite according to the light
given the individual. Hence it contin-
ually divides itself into new sects and
schools. It's strength, that of the hui
man mind cropping for better con-
ception of God, is its weakness.
But modern and honest Protestant
ism finds no clash or cause for quar-
rel with those it does not agree with.
1t declares its right for freedom OF
religious expression and in so doing
upholds the banner of freedom for all
beliefs and faiths.
Let us think of this when the flame
of intolerance gets into the world.
The creed, at it's best, is one of fair
ness and freedom. The creed is lost
when the follower is untrue to his
ideal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
A Story of One Realist, 800
Idealists and 700 PhilistineS.

Once upon certain island dwelt
community of one thousand people.
In this community were 700 Philis-
tines, 299 idealists and one realist.
The Philistines went their contented
way without a soul-compleX or a
problem. They ate, drank, slept, loved
married, worked, begot children and
died. Life was no more of a problem
to them than it is to the coral insect.
They accepted it as something ap-
pointed and to be. In their common
sense and patience they established
the conventions of their island large
ly because they were great major
ity.
The idealists revolted in their souls
at this stall-fed conception of life.
| They hated their surroundings and
the Philistine-made conventions. They
felt the surge of destiny but had not
the hardihood to break their chains
or the strength and courage to open
the eyes of the Philistines. Hating
that which they must endure they sur
rounded themselves with illusion to
make life more bearable. They can
nonized the things which in their
souls they hated with bitterness and
called them Virtues" Their inner
lives was a strange combination of
greed, inhibited desires, illusion and
impulses toward generosity and nobil-
ity-common to all.
The Realist walked alone. He had
the strange gift of seeing things ex-
actIy as they are and the dangerous
fault of telling what he saw. He
scorned the Philistines but loved
them. He tore the masks from the souls
of the Idealists and rudely tumbled
down their idols and shattered their
sacred altar fires.
The Idealists pursued the realist,
stoned him and finally crucified him.
He died smiling. In their fury the
Idealists, throwing stone after stone,
hailed the Realist in their hearts as
their Saviour from their miserable,
troubled, fearing selves.
And while the doing to death went
on the Philistines went contentedly
about their tasks not knowing or I'M
derstanding the shrieking tumult
among the Idealists. The day dawned
and grew to noon. Blades of grass shot
up and grain ripened. Cattle munched
contentedly in the fields. At night the
smoke rose from the thousand hearth
stones on that island. The stars
swung out in a vault of blue and the
moon rose over the sea like disc of
molten gold The cool, sweet breeze
blew in from the water sweeping the
lonely summit where the Realist lay
The cruel soft-hearted Idealists, now
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
Missionary at Eighty
Tires of Taking Rest

SASKATOON, Sask.-Finding life
of leisure irksome, the Rev. Henry
Husson, S0-year-old Oblate missionary
set out for Meadow Lake, in the far
north, to organize wilderness par
ish. FIR. Husson, who spent so years of
his life among the Indians and white
settlers near the Arctic circle, last
year came here for rest, and re-
turned to his old home in France, pre-
sumably to retire. He returned recent
ly, homesick for the land he loved.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
Original Thinkers
Are Not Popular.

AS human beings we are prone to
dislike new ideas or new facts. In
deed, one must conclude, we hate facts
of any kind.
The realities of life Cypress. Some
men used to get drunk to escape real
ity. Some do yet. They prefer illus
ion to reality and hope to find it in the
embrace of John Barleycorn.
Yet new ideas and the knowledge OF
new facts, the facing of realism, are
all essential to progress.
Scientists and philosophers who have
come forward with new ideas and
theories have always been assailed
Sometimes, frequently, they were per-
secuted. And sometimes, knowing
they were right, they were forced to
recant. They faced burning other
wise. Conservatism was not always
as lenient as it is today.
Nearly every innovation in mechan-
les has been opposed. The steam rail-
road was solemnly interdicted from
the pulpits of England. People said
it was dangerous; there was no need
of going so fast; it would pollute the
air and ruin the morals of the people; ;
it was an invention of the devil, any
how! Sounds funny, doesn't it? Yet
the same intolerance toward innova-
ton prevails today.
Ability to blaze new trails is won
derful thing but it does not make for
happiness There is no gainsaying but
what the conventional type of mind
which accepts things as it is instruc-
ted, that has no controversies, that has
no intrOspection over the why and the
wherefore of things as they are or
should be, is the happiest. Such a
type gets along well with people and
disagrees with nobody. It's fine flower
develops into what is called 'the
board of managers" type of mind
Then there is the outlaw type of
mind, always in rebellion against
standard thinking, always seeking new
paths and blazing new trails. This
type is rarely invited on the BOARD
of managers and invariably gets
thrown off when it does get on.
But this forward type, though in the
minority, is the living ferment in the
mass of stagnant human ideas. It's
receptive change toward new prob
lens, it's curiosity, it's ponderings,
provides the inspiration with which to
fit Truth to new conditions and to
solve new problems as they continual
ly arise.
Original thinking is not popular.
But with it comes the hope of the race
for advancement along human lines
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
Wisdom.

wisdom.
"Out of the mouths of fools and
babes proceedeth wisdom"
No man knoweth whence knowledge
will come.
For instance, there is a principle of
a boys organization
1t calls for a good turn to some one
daily.
The boys have a good deal of fun
over it, saying there aren't enough old
ladies to be helped across the street
to pass around, but they take it SER
iously also.
1t is a principle us older ones might
well adopt.
The principle is simple. Each day
do a kind, unselfish act.
1t may happen that days will come
in which no opportunity presents it
self. And other days will come heap
ing over with chances to help people
or even birds and animals.
An old man, heavy with years and
wise with the doing of good deeds,
tells us that with doing comes the
only real happiness in life-the know
ledge that you have picked a thorn
and planted rose.
Snug philosophy? Some will say
so. Others believe and follow.
Through the path of generosity
comes the purest wisdom. The simple
wisdom of being helpful as we tread
the pathway of life. The road no man
Tetraces.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
Card of Thanks

We desire to express our sincere
thanks to all those who so kindly ex-
tended sympathy to us during the i'll
ness and death of our beloved. We
also thank you for the beautiful floral
offerings.
The Chas. Jeidy family and Mrs.
Melvin Jeidy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
Where is Our Liberty Going?

Senator Borah'S warning 10 tne
people of America, whose coward1ce
he SAYS permitting changes in our
government that are destructive or
liberty and happiness, deserves more
than passing consideration. He does
not openly charge the existence of an
organized movement to strip the peo-
ule of their liberty, but he does say
reports of such plot have been
broadcast in the press for several
years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
Too Much Law:

Speaking of the tendency toward
heaping legislation Pres. Bailie of the
South Dakota Bar Association says:
'The prevailing disregard for law
is not the creature solely of the much
discussed Volstead Oct 1t arises from
the insistence by the public Tor by a
noisy minority of the public) upon the
enactment of laws which cannot be
enforced and never will be enforced.
1t is bad enough to have on the statute
books laws which are openly disre-
garded by the public at large, but the
situation is not nearly so bad as it
would be if any real attempt were
made to enforce such laws. In disre-
garding the multitude of laws which
are annually enacted, the people of
the country are simply following the
easiest way The reformers have
their, laws are never enforced, and
nobody is satisfied"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
Grant County Herald Lancaster Wisconsin, May 81 1925

shocked at the thing they had done,
assembled and patched their broken
idols and lit their altar fres-dream-
ing of a day when a Realist might
return. The world went on-ruled by
the Philistines
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
1--WE Aim to Please"

ave Aim to Please"
The Baton Rouge 0a,) News re-
Gently announced list of editorial
subjects which they would deal with
in the near future, which they posi-
lively guarantee will offend no one in
Baton Rouge" Here they are: I'M
morality Among the Eskimos, 1t Amt
Gonna Rain No Mo, Have You Noticed
That Baton Rougeans Are Leaving on
Their Vacations?, Dandruff in Russia,
The Shortage of Sardines in Ethiopia,
Why We Are in Favor of Bigger
Baton Rouge, General Standpatsky's
Strategy, The Boil Weevil Should Be
Wiped Out, Cheese Making in Shin
onoseki, Baton Rouge Deserves the
Best, We Are Glad the War is Over,
Why the Natives of the Belgian Congo
Will Not Wear Brooches, These Are
Hot Days, Fighting Mosquitoes in
Panama, The Chinese and PersimmOns,
Disease a Menace to the World, Gull
tivating Cucumbers in the Carpathi-
an Mountains.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27

There will be a dsNce at the Flora
school house, Fr1oay evening, May 20.
Music by Smiths orchestra of Lam
caster. Good floor, good order and a
good time assured. All welcome. 15p1
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27

G. L. Ralph, who for the past four
years was instructor of agriculture in
the Belmont school, has been engaged
as principal of the Rewey high school.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-05-27
Everywhere this New Delco-Light
has won an Instant Welcome

ments have been made whereby the
Delco~Light Dealer in your community
will install your plant and wire your
house for five lights to be located wher>
ever you specify. You will receive with
the plant five beautiful spun>brass light
ing fixtures complete with bulbs.
And all of this-plant, installation,
wiring, fixtures, everything ready to turn
on the lights-will cost you only $50, in
addition to the price of the plant itself.