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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15
Wood Is Favored Diet
of Tropical Insects

Logs, eight feet long, form the menu
of family of grubs which recently
reached the Geological gardens, Lon
don, from Trinidad.
Tbav ere the larvae of the Harle-
quln beetle, a gayly-hued insect four
inches long.
The colony brought their first issue
Of rations with them, and the log was
30 heavy that it needed two keepers
to shift 1t. A pail full OF sawdust in
the crate provided ample evidence
that the CRIBS had been busy during
the voyage.
A large number Of logs will prob
ably be required for their diet, for 1t
Re estimated that it will be fully three
years before the caterpillars become
pupa prior to taking part in the final
'Harlequinade" as adult beetles
The grubs are being kept In a green
house having a temperature of about
100 degrees F. in the shade, and one
can hear the tap of their horny heads
as they strip away the tissues of the
timber.
Trinidad may well be pleased to b,
rid of them!
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15
When Sabbath Was Day
of Rigid observance

In Connecticut perhaps more than
sEywhere else, Sunday was sort OF
popula- ieol, nor did the rigor of its
observance abate perceptibly until long
after the Revolution.
This extreme scrupuloslty about
Sabbath keeping was doubtless the
moving cause of the building OF the
sabbath day houses; these were lit
tie shanties standing on the meeting
house green, each intended 10 accom-
nodste a family during the interval
between the two services.
Some Sabbath-day houses were built
with a stall at one end TO shelter the
horse. while the family took refuge in
the other, where there was a chimney
and a mesger furniture of rude seats
and a table.
Here IN arrival before the first serv-
ice the owners lighted a FIRE and de-
posted their luncheon, and to this
esmpllke place they came back 10 eat
their doughnuts and thaw themselves
out after their first long sitting in the
Arctic climate or the meeting mouse.
Sometimes two families had Sab
hath-day house together.
BIT Some parishes in Massachusetts,
and perhaps elsewhere, had common
moon house" for all corners to rest in.
Fireslde assemblages on Sunday,
whether in the parsonage or the noon
house, were In danger of proving de-
1ighttul to those who were prone to
enjoy the society of other human be-
ings and hence the pastors were put,
upon their best cpntriRances" to have
most Of the interval between the serv-
Ices llled up with the reading aloud
OF edifying books and other exercises
calculated to keep the mind in a be-
eomingly irksome frame.-PhiIadel
phia Inquirer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15
Growth of LatD Library

A law library which would have
been complete, with all of the volumes
Of American decisions and all Of the
volumes of American statutes, has re-
Gently been calculated to have con-
tanned one hundred years ago about
$50 volumes of decisions and 90 vol
umes Of statutes, says the Nations
Business magazine. Today, II is said,
a library which would be complete in
the same sense would contain 1880
volumes of decisions and $500 volumes
Of statutes. One hundred years in the
future, II the increase during the last
century is maintained, such a library
would have TO contain $4,000 vol
umes of decisions and $4,000 volumes
of statutes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15
The Vanishing Trick

A man entered a hat store in COM
psny with a little boy and asked to
see some hats. He tried on several
and finally selected one, the price OF
which was So.
He turned to the little boy beside
him and asked:
How do | look In this hat?"
Like a thief" came the astounding
reply.
Immediately the man turned and
would have administered a correction,
but the boy, seeing his intent, rushed
from the store, holly pursued by the
man in the new hat.
The assistant, convulsed with
laughter, picked up the purse which,
in his haste, the gentleman had left
behind him.
He opened 1t and was horrife6 to
see that it contained FIVE metal
washers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15
Roses in Southwest

Most curious are the wild roses Of
the dry Southwest. They are lew
stunted bushes os brown branches and
many straight brown or white prtc-
kles, more like a low gooseberry bush.
The fruit is all prickles, like the
prickly gooseberry OF our swamps.
The flowers are purple, rose or white,
solitary, more like a strawberry bloom,
than rose. AS the bushes are
built for heat rather than for frost,
they are not easy to grow in Northern
gardens, though they win live ana
bloom. Mature Magazine
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15
Indion Disdains Cold

The Indians body is "all face" as
he explains. That's why he can keep
comfortable in a breeeh cloth and
really enjoy the cool breeze that blows
off the glaciers. In the midsummer
season, groups of Blackfeet mountain
mixers often climb to the cliffs in the
Rocky mountains of Glacier National
park, thus thinly clad, paying no at
tentiOn to the cold air from off the
snow-capped peaks. And they are not
training to get in a peak" condition
for q Sing;e event, either.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15

Returned goldseekers report the dis
covery of steam-heated valley in
northern British Columbia where lush
vegetation initiates the tropics. Their
story must be credited, for the gold
scouts were travelling by air. Warm
springs that drive away the cold of
upper Canada are. no more incredible
than an airplane. And the story Is
very suggestive. The obvious step is
10 pipe the hot contents Of Vesuvius
Pepocatepetl, Krakatao and other nat
ural furnaces TO the Arctic, where they
will do good instead Of harm.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15
LIBRARY NOTES

1875 Reading Circle Books are avail
able for children inthe Rural Schools
as we'll as the City schools. More
books are to be purchased at once.
The following outstanding maya
zine articles are available at the
Public Library now:
New Page Letters, by Burton J..
Hendrick in Worlds work.
What $4,000 Did to Me, by Anzie
Yezierska in Cosmopolitan.
The American Task in Persia, by
"A. c. Millspaugh in Century.
Personalities in Partisan Solon,
by Walter Title IN Century.
Is College Worth While, by Bruce
Barton in Good Housekeeping.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15
River Falls, Wis.

FOR SALE.-Pure bred milking
Shorthorn bulls from a Federal ac-
credical herd sire; Chief Lad Num-
Der 1141804. Also few pure bred
Chester White boars for sale. Will
liam Stern, Prescott, Wisconsin,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15
Plenty of Time

Are you going away?'
yes, to Europe"
by which shipY'
"By aIrship."
But there is no sirship service"
There viii be by the time my wife
is ready"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15

If in need of anything in the print
ed line, call The Journal, the home of
Quality Job Printing. The best work
at reasonable prices.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15

FOR RENT.-Five room modern
bungalow with garage. House newly
decorated, immediate possession,
phone II.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15
Route 2, phone No. A 2-7.

FOR SALE.-Prize Winning Hol-
stein Bulls, Heifels and cows from
the herds of Johnston and Bliss.
Cali or write Edgar Bliss, Roberts.
Wis, or Frank Bliss, FLYER Falls,
Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15

FOR RENT.-Fine modern home,
hot water heat. garage. $4,000 per
month. Jay I'll. Grimm.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15
HOUSES FOR SALE

FOR SALE.-"Oakland," our 160
acre farm home located on South
Main ST., River Falls. See Putnam,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15
MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

For Sale-Good secondhand piano.
Call at O. w. Newcomb's Furniture
Store, River Falls, Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-10-15
CLASSIFIED ADS,
WANTED

WANTED.-More sewing. Phone
1913. Oil No. Fremont st.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-04

hicle license, drivers permit. and
Identification card for the driver,
according to a ruling of Traffic Di.
rector M. o. Eldridge, following his
discovery that Virginia is not rec
ognizing District licenses for the
busses in that State.
Inquiry revealed that sightseeing
buses running from Washington
into the neighboring State were re-
uuired to pay a heavy tax. Vir-
ginia buses entered the District
without paying any license fees.
Bus lines affected are those run
ming to Alexandria, Fairfax, Middle
burg, Cherrydale, Ballston' Claren'
don and Luray.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-04
NAVY DENTISTS
ARE DUE FOR
SHIFTS
Many Officers of Corps Are
to Be Assigned to New
Stations

Lieutenant Commander Lucian e.
williams, of the naval dental corps,
who has been in charge of the den
tai section of the Bureau OF Medi-
cine and Surgery, is about to be
assigned to other duties. Several
other changes in the dental corps
of the navy are expected.
Lieutenant Commander Alexander
G. Lyle will be assigned to the U.
S. s. California.
Doctor Daniel w. Ryan, of Iowa.
has been commissioned as an as
sistant dental surgeon with the
rank of lieutenant, Junior grade,
and has been assigned to the naval
training station at Hampton Roads.
The following changes in lieuten-
ants of the corps have been an
nounced:
Lieutenants Walter. Rehrauer
from the u. S. S. Texas to marine
barracks. Paris Island, S. c.;
Charles L. Tompkins from the u.
S. S. California to the Mare Island
Navy Lard; Hugh r. Alexander
from the Newport naval training
station to the hospital shin Mercy:
George H. Rice from the naval
medical school in this city to the
Naval Academy. and Virgil j. Trax.
Ter from the naval hospital at New
York to the New York navy yard.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-04
Mt. Rainier Baby Show

A contest for the prettiest baby
in Mount Rainier will be held to-
night at $3.50 o'clock at the lawn
fete of the st. James Catholic
Church. Thirty-sixth street and
Bunker Hill road northeast. The
winner will be awarded a baby
blanket. Babies three years old and
under are eligible.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-04
WARNING TO
FAT PEOPLE
TAKE BRAN-O.LAX

People who are heavier than
thew should be are almost always
troubled more or less with consti
nation and it constantly tends to
still further increase their weight.
The constant taking OF harsh
purgatives is bad, and eating lot
of bran with cream and sugar on 1t
each morning increases weight also.
Dieticians declare and doctors
are now prescribing for fat people
a nice-tasting, spearmint flavorei
wheat bran wafer-a sort of dinner.
rnint-you eat one each meal ana
presto. all need for other laxatives
in gone. The system becomes as
regular as clock-work and regu-
larity tends to reduced weight in a
surprising way. Ask your druggist
for a 25-cent carton OF Gilbert's
Bran-O-Lax Waters. Everybody
likes to eat them and you'll never
need pills and purgatives in your
house any more.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-04

DON'T forget the Baseball Game betDeen the Police and
Fire Departments Labor Day. It's for orthy cause ana
deserving your uvoeeoted support Get your tickets ana
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20
PRISON LABOR FOE PRIYATE PROFIT

Robs the free worker of his job
Robs the taxpayer by forcing him pay the overhead for
the prison labor contractor.
Robs the because the contractor less than onexh
the going than the of the maintenance
of the prisoner.
Robs the prisoner the fruits his labor and training that
will fit him for civil life
Robs the prisoners family of support
Robs the legitimate manufacturer of his trade.
Fills the market with filthy and diseaseIaden goods
Provides an incentive for prison brutality.
Makes penal institutions a disgrace to civilization
The work prisoners do in prison shops does not them the
training for awabiding life outside When prisoner
has pulled the task for five he has acquired training
that will be of the slightest to him. for do not make
shirts house dresses underwear overas cdrens play suits
factoesths The months of savsh labor
that fit for life and reform the criminal have
The savish task which has
driven by the most brutal punsments have given him skill
with which to honest living
Driven and unpaid work did and will make any
respect himself the law labor Slavery made an
Industrious brutal exploitation efficient worker
Weakened by slow starvation Slapped by confinement and bad
air. bent by driven labor broken by the lash and solitary
tamnaed by veneea diseases and tuberculosis dressed in prison
soddy and pennes consumed by hate and social gudg the
prisoner steps outside the prison gates to face the struggle for
existence Usually he is not strong enough to stand the test
He down the struggle society and back
prison be perpetual the decent awabidng
taxpaying citizens and constant to free labor
The union label guarantee against these conditions By
refusing hand union dollars the convict labor trust prison
labor is dealt fatal blow
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20

work is seasonal and there are long
stretches when no work is at hand.
''The kind of houses families live
in is sign of their poverty both in
Cuba and in Porto Rico. They are
crowded and jammed together in in
side courtyard rooms in the cities of
both countries. In Porto Rice many
live in the poorest Of one and two
room shacks both in the country and
in the marshy lands in and near the
sea coast cities and towns. Their
poverty is vile.
''The Dominican Republic and Haiti
had been republics for many years
before the American Intervention.
Both peoples are the descendants of
slaves, Haiti entirely and the DOM
inican Republic almost entirely.
When they freed themselves from
slavery, they abandoned plantation
agriculture, but they had not the
training to build up a good system
of farming in its stead.
"In the Dominican Republic Amer
leans are slowly creating plantations
and turning the people into day la
borers, continuing it though the ma
rines have left. Because of the sparse
population, there will be land left,
however, for independent farming
for some years to come.
Same Fate In Store For Haiti
"Haiti is densely populated. Much
of the land is mountainous or arid.
Farming is primitive. Marketing is
badly organized. But the people own
the land themselves and if trained in
good methods of farming and mar
keting and if the arid plains were ir-
rigated and owned then by small
farmers, Haiti could become prosper
Gus, and the people retain their eco
nomic and social independence.
"Haitians long had law against
foreigners owning land. They had re-
membered their former slavery.
Americans occupied Haiti in 1915 and
changed this law. Americna-owned
plantations were soon started but
blights came in cotton and fruit, and
the sugar was badly managed, and
local judges, who were not controlled
by the American marines, refused to
recognize the new law of foreign
ownership.
"The blight in cotton is now being |
overcome, sugar is better managed,
and the owners of the pineapple plan
tations are hopeful. There is belief
current, too, that the local judges
will be circumvented. Still another
law will be passed which will allow
easy foreclosure of farm mortgages
when the prevailing high interest
money is unpaid. AS result, Haiti
will go the road of the other coun-
tries. Since illiteracy is higher, the
people simpler, the population dem
ser, and good land scarcer, the result |
will be greater poverty and grosser
wrongs than in the other countries"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20

likely be an attack on State chile
labor laws.
As Mr.. Lovejoy said:
1.-THE next step is to capitalize.
ton of the defeat of the amendment
in the adverse States by bringing
about either a lowering Of their nom,
inal standards or a laxness Of en-.
forcement.
1.-THE trend of child protection,
which was upward while Congress
had power to enact child labor laws,
may be expected to be lowered wfer-
ever the amendment is defeated, and
once several States lower their nomi-
nal and actual standards, other States
will be forced to follow"
Organized labor has saved the
State of California more than $780,
900 in the construction of pier on
the San Francisco waterfront. Here
is the story:
Within the year the State Building
Trades Council of California nipped
in the bud the scheme of the Amer
lean Cement Trust to have 4 pro-
hibitive tariff placed on foreign ce-
ment.
In desperation, the California firms
that are a part of the American Ce-
ment Trust cut the price of their
products to a figure below the min
imum price asked for foreign cement,
Recently the California Board of
State Harbor Commissioners called
for bids for cement for pier con-
struction on the San Francisco water
front.
When the bids were opened it was
found that a California cement man.
ufacturer, member of the American
Cement Trust, had underbid import
ers of European cement to such ar
extent that by awarding the contract
to the California cement manufact-
urer the State of California made {
saving of more than $4,000.
If the State Building Trades C0un
Gil of California had not successfully
fought the American Cement Trust il
its endeavors to get a prohibitiv,
tariff placed on foreign cement, tn.
American Cement Trust would hav.
had a monopoly of the cement bust
ness in this country, and would hav,
been in a position where it could hav,
held up the State of California ans
all other consumers of cement.
That is why and how it is figures
that organized labor saved the Stat
of California more than $4,000 il
the construction Of a pier on the Sal
Francisco waterfront.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20
A Mark to Shoot At
All First Class Hotels and
Restaurants Manned by
Union Workers

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5.
All first class hotels and
restaurants in San Francisco
are now 100 per cent union
lied, the culinary unions hav-
ing a signed wage scale and
working agreement with the
managers.
More than that: All wait
ers in all the first class hotels
and restaurants of this city,
with the consent of the man
ayers, are compelled to wear
union-made uniforms bearing
the union label.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20

Textile mill workers at Utica, N.
Y. and New England cities strike
against wage cut.
West Virginia coal companies plan
ming $1O0,0OO,OO0 merger.
Fatality rate of coal miners grows,
Bureau of Mines reports.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20
JUDGING MANY BY THE FEW

OLYMPIA, Wash, Feb. 1.-THE
average weekly wage of adult women
workers employed in the industries of
this state was 1881 for the eight
month period ending December 81
last, according to Mrs. Delphine
Johnson of the state department Of
labor.
Mrs. Johnson reaches this conclu-
sion because that is the average of
2,464 women employed by PAL con-
Germs.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20
BY The Way

From Texas comes a story indicat-
ing that there is plenty Of opporttn-
ity for reform in the conduct of the
States prisons.
The story was told by DR.. E. H.
Boaz, of Memphis, Tex, a former
prisoner, who unfolded before a leg
islative committee a tale of barbaric
brutality, accounting for the deaths
of four prisoners. The death of a
prisoner trampled under the feet Of a
guard formed the peak of DR.. Boaz's
story of cruelty. Others who met
death, according to the witness, were
a man who bled to death as a result
of a mistaken operation" a second
who was poisoned and third whose
neck was broken when guard struck
him with an iron singletree. DR..
Boaz's testimony was verified in part
by officials.
DR.. Boaz's testimony was an as
tonishing story, coming from a State
that prides itself on being a shining
light in a supposedly Christian civ
ilized nation. Evidently there is a
lot of cleanup" work ahead of Gov
ernor "Ma" Ferguson, who announced
she was going to "clean house" when
she became Governor of Texas. If
she acts promptly and decisively to
remedy the evils that have just been
exposed, she will win the appreciation
of all who believe in fair play for
convicts and in an enlightened and
humane prison system.
The Minnesota State Federation of
Labor, in conjunction with the Label
Trades Department of the American
Federation of Labor, is engaging in
an educational campaign that merits
the attention of organized labor ir
every State.
For months the Minnesota State
Federation has been holding meetings
all over Minnesota. Free moving pic
lures are shown and between tn.
reels Commute talks on the trade
union movement and it's aims anC
achievements are given. The names
of those attending are secured anC
the names are turned over to centra
bodies to help in organization work
The meetings have been succesfu
and have resulted in a quickening o,
interest in trade unionism and il
union label products.
The work done in Minnesota can no
help but be productive of good. It il
carrying the message of unionism h
the people and is helping to dispe
prejudice and promote intelligent in
terest in economic organization.
Owen R., Lovejoy, general secretar,
of the National Child Labor Commit
tee, sounded a timely note Of warn
ing when he declared in a recent ad
dress at Chicago that defeat Of ns
tional control Of child labor mean
discrediting of State control. Al
ready the exploiters of children ar
taking heart from the defeat in sev
eral States Of the Child Labor Amend
ment and their next step win yer
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-20

British railroads counter demand
for wage raise with reduction prOpo-
sal.