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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
MAKING SWIMMING IMPORTANT.

One of the best things that Kenosha young
sters are getting in their daily program at the
Kenosha Boy Scout camp at Central Lake is
the instruction in swimming. Every Scout a
Swimmer" is the slogan that the local council
is endeavoring to put across this summer. And
every afternoon there can be seen a group of
the older fellows with some little water-shy
youngster trying to overcome the biggest OBJ
stacle in the way of outdoor fun for the boy
his inability to swim. The Scouts have done
wonders already and each week as the new
boys arrive there is more timber for develop
ment.
Man is not by nature water animal, but it
certainly isn't bad habit to develop The
late Percy Haughton at Columbia used to tell
the men that came out for football practice
that everyone of them would have to be good
swimmers before they could make" the foot
bail team Swimming brings into play almost
every muscle in the body, and it is probably
the most useful exercise in meeting an emer-
gency. Golf, tennis and baseball are all right
IN their place, but not one of these goes as far
IN bodily development as swimming does And
a good swimmer can not only take good care of
himself in the water, but he also has something
that is most valuable in case of an emergency
the ability to save someone else if the time
should arise. Particularly in a state where
there is so much inland water and LONG
stretch of beaches on Lake Michigan is swim
ming necessary to the full enjoyment of the
nature of the outdoors.
The newspaper headlines tell almost daily of
another drowning: Went Out Too Far Couldn't
Swim Back; browns While Pals Look On; Dives
On Dare and Drowns-those are just one days
list Drowning should be a forgotten fatality
instead of an ever-increasing one. There ought
to be more facilities for learning swimming.
At the Kenosha beach full-time instructor
and supervisor is employed, but the number of
people who apply for lessons in swimming is
almost negligible. Kenosha has no municipal
swimming pool where all may 60 Swimming
is not taught in the schools because of lack of
facilities And all this in the face of condi
lions in Kenosha and in Wisconsin that make
such circumstances almost disgraceful. .,
body of water can be blessing and it can
be tragedy. The Boy Scouts are trying to
make it blessing. There ought to be q unani-
nous following under that banner. s.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
FACE THE ISSUE.

Wisconsin is on the threshold of one of the
most important elections in its history. Much
is at stake in the choosing of new senator TO
represent this commonwealth in the United
States Senate There is bigger question to
be decided than merely the identity OF the
person who is next to wear the senatorial togs
from this state, great though that question
may be. The entire system of representative
government is at stake. It is most opportune
time for the voters of the state to show that
they are awake and ready to defend their rights
by the franchise.
A coterie of politicians has met at Madison
and decided as to whom they will back for the
Republican nomination for senator as the can
didate of the so-called Progressive faction
There has been no call for gathering of the
voters of that faction All has been practical
w decided at a conference at Madison, attended
by those who believe that they can tell the
voters of the state what they are to do in this
question The election" appears to have fall
len on little Bob" LaFollette son of the late
Senator LaFoette, and they are mastering
their undivided strength to back this candi-
date.
They pirate much about machine politics
but fail to mention that they are operating
one of the most enthralling POLITICAL machines
that never held any state of the Union in it's
grasp.
Contrast with that method the plan suggest
ed by the regular Republicans of the state, who
propose that convention of delegates from
every county of the state be held at Oshkosh
in the near future to name candidate. There
are no private conferences here. All Repub-
licans will have an opportunity to have part
in the selection of this candidate.
The Oshkosh convention is an attempt to
bring back to this state government Of the
people, for the people and by the people," If
you, as a regular Republican, are interested
in having that kind of government, it is your
duty to aid in this movement A
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
COOLEST LIFE OF ALL.

On hot summer day the luckiest individual
in the world is the salmon trout. He always
lives in water at temperature of 40 degrees
only 8 above freezing.
The salmon trout-called Namaycush by the
Indians-is found in deep lakes all the way
from New England to northermost Alaska.
Usually he inhabits lakes that are the craters
of extinct volcanoes, from $50 to 1000 or more
feet deep
In the spring, after the ice goes out, the sur
face water is cold and the salmon trout is found
riding the top near shore. AS the days and
water get warmer, he gradually goes deeper.
In August the Indians troll for him at depth
of 200 feet using as much as six pounds of
lead for sinkers.
Namaycush, progressively going deeper, fol-
lows the "40-degree line" His body is SO con-
structed that he can live 1000 feet deep with
out being crushed by the pressure.
A city man, tioling in hot factory, store or
Office, has reason to sigh with envy as he pond
ers the lot of the salmon trout. Physical COM
fort is not the only important thing in life.
But it's tremendous item. People couldn't
stand civilization if it weren't for artificial
"conveniences."
Envy, too, the freedom of the salmon trout.
Nothing to do but swim lazily in the cool wa
tiers, picking up ninnows for food as needed.
No working hour. No alarm clocks. No tax
collectors. No propaganda No boresome po-
litical campaign No tight shoes, No dirt and
dust. No 49,. Oh, what life!
While we're on the subject, how about the
lucky lot of the Indian who trolls for the sal
mon trout? Up yonder in the north, nothing
to worry about except how to spend his pen
sion. Game laws do not apply to him. The
water is cool, the signing breeze pure and fresh
with the scent Of growing things on shore.
The nights are cold even after the warmest
day. A campfire, his meal sizzling in the fry
ing pan, northern lights, the bark of fox, the
call of wild birds.
Freedom-that's what the salmon trout and
the Indian have. And it's what we have lost
the supreme penalty of civilization.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
Daily Health Hint
OVERCOMING cH1LDREN's FEARS.

Children quickly adopt the attitude
of their parents, be it one of bravery
or fear. Many mothers wonder where
their children get their fear of light
ming or animals, forgetting that they
themselves have shown fear when they
thought the children were not MOTTO
ing.
Such was the case with little Ellen.
Her mother thought the child inherit
ed from her fear of the dark and
everything strange. Ellen would a.
wake screaming at night, saying some
one was climbing in at the window.
Her mother compared this in the
child's hearing to her own fear of be-
ing left alone of an evening when she
thought every sound meant a lurking
marauder. The mother had heard
many ghost stories in childhood, and
though she denied that she had ever
told them to Ellen, she talked quite
freely about them in her presence. 1t
is not hard to see where this child's
inherited" fears originated.
If the child develops a fear of loud
noises and flashes of light, such as
thunder and lightning and firing of
guns, he can overcome it only with
the help of intelligent suggestions
from the parents. He must see from
their attitude that there is no occa-
sion for fear. The mother who is ter
rified by these situations and whose
fear is openly demonstrated before
the child can be of no assistance to
him. Imitation clearly plays an i'm
portant part in the development and
control of fear. This may be seen,
for instance, if things go wrong at
sea and ship is in danger. One pan
ic-stricken person may start STAN
pede for the lifeboats, whereas one
calm and fearless officer can quell the
impending panic and control the stu
alton.
Vague and poorly formulated ideas
about death are the basis of more men
tai anxiety in children than is gener-
ally supposed To one child death
meant being buried in hole, another
child had fear of being buried a
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
SORRY, YOU'RE TOO OLD"

A 18 years boy in England has outgrown
his Industrial usefulness, according to +. Man
der, British educator. He says the old cry of
"too old at 40'' is being replaced by an employ
ers' attitude of too old at 49, because boys
and girls at 18 are being discharged to make
room for younger and cheaper labor.
This is a. logical development of child labor.
The London Chronicle comments: I'm recent
years the question Chat of maintenance grants
to keep children in schooD has too often been
debated as if it were purely question of f.
nance. We, for our part, have no doubt that
the continuance of education beyond the age
of IA has become national necessity. Even
the working man has perceived that the labor
market is cogged with the proffered services
of children whose minds are underdeveloped
and whose futures are cramped from the out
set" ~
We have a tendency toward the same situa-
ton here in America About 80 years ago,
a man was never too old to find job. Then
came the era of fast production in industry
More work could be squeezed out of young
men. So old men went from door to door seek
ing job only to be told: Sorry, but we want
younger men,"
'"Too old at 6o' became common express
sion
Then it became '"Too old at So"
Now 40 is getting to be the age line in many
businesses. This is especially noticeable around
newspaper Offices, where men with gray hair
are vanishing, displaced by youth which can
work fast and burn out it's energy and enthu-
siasm quickly. :
ITS young mans game is the word in
scores of basic activities.
The pressure of modern competitive bust
ness is so intense that nervous breakdowns
are becoming common.
You have noticed the increasing number of
men in their thirties or early forties who sud-
denly go to pieces-fall out of good jobs, are
unable to make new connections, pack up and
vanish-no one knows where.
This is an age of youth.
The sun shines only few years for most of
us, and if we don't make our hay early in the
game we lose out. Recommended especially
to youths who are idling away their time,
dreaming about what they'll do later
There is no later"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06

live, and many children are disturbed
by the line in the evening prayer which
is familiar to most children, eff
should die before wake" 1t would
be impossible to state all the vague
fantasies of childhood about this ever
present problem Of death, but it should
not be difficult to give the average
child a conception of death and the
hereafter which will do much to allay
mystery.
Things said in jest may cause great
anxiety to a little child. A man, now
a college professor, relates how he
suffered for weeks in boyhood because
some one told him that if he ate
bread and molasses horns would grow
on his head. He at once gave up eat
ing that delicacy without explaining
to anyone through fear that he would
be laughed at Then he imagined that
he had Jumps on his forehead. In a
frenzy of anxiety he asked his mother
if she could feel the horns, and she,
thinking it was part of some game,
said, eyes, believe / do" The grown
man still feels the pain Of that ex-
perience.
Fear is a driving force in human
conduct. 1t makes US do things; it
keeps US from doing them. 1t protects
from danger, and without reasonable
amount of fear mankind could not live.
It is useless to talk about eradicating
fear, but in training the child every
effort should be made to see that fear
does not, become curse instead Of a
means of protection
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
TOM SIMS
Says

Falling in love is about like loahng.
If done properly neither leave very
much time for business.
When you slap a man on the back
and he kicks you in the eye, you can
see he is all sunburned.
Atlanta (Ga.) man reports man
drank some new cider and when he
got home the keyhole was absent.
It's hard to hope a man with ex-
pensive fishing tackle catches any fish.
The etiquette book says you may eat
chicken with your fingers. We say
you may need Ratchet.
You never see bootlegger having
a rummage sale on old stuff
IS 1t takes dollars to convince the world
you have any sense.
There are tribes in South Africa so
remote from civilization they can't
even run fivvers.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06

Breakfast bacon is goods But it al
ways looks as if it needed ironing.
If you packed a million trunks for
trip your wife would cram some
thing else in your pockets.
They have made the Atlantic Ocean
so dry even rum ship burned.
Worry is great thing. 1t is about
the only thing that can make most of
US think.
In Milwaukee, woman hit man
with bottle, but maybe she will say
he looked like an umpire.
The worlds population is estimated
at almost two billion, none of which
is exactly satisfied.
While lightning only strikes once in
the same place bathing beach CEN
sor is thunderstruck all the time.
August is about the month in which
many a newlywed finds he is assistant
head of the house.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
Plumbing Is Americas Standard of
CuIturH


The new Matson liner Malolos will
have more private bathrooms than any
other vessel in the world, even those
much larger, like the Majestic and
Leviathan.
Thus, once more, America judges
civilization by plumbing.
Other ships may have more size,
more speed, or more of other COM
forts or luxuries. We will have more
bathrooms.
On shore, European houses may
have more beauty, more art, more
dignity, and be structurally built for
the ages, instead of for one genera
ton.
What care we? Ours have more
bathrooms.
Our hotels may not have some of
the graces of the best abroad. But
they have bath in every room.
We may ourselves sometimes lack
certain of the graces and fnenesses
of an older life. But we have a bath
every day.
1t is plumbing-made civilization.
The plumber is our apostle of culture.
No More Amendments Are Desired
Now.
The National Educational Associa-
ton proposes to continue the fight
for the child labor amendment. Doubt
less, except for educational purposes,
that is now futile.
We are in a period of reaction
against reform, against federal en-
croachments on the states, and against
constitutional amendments of any sort,
good or bad.
That is a temporary state. It is
a symptom of tired nerves and fab.
by consciences, such as always fol-
lows the emotional exaltation of war.
Time and rest will cure it.
Then the child labor amendment
will or will otebecome practical is
sue according as it is or is not then
practically needed. 1t is up to the
states.
If they, or any important number
of them, try to get advantage of each
other by lax child labor laws, Con-
gress will inevitably be given the
right to pass uniform laws for all.
Let the states act, now, or the ma
ton will, later.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06

The federal paddock injunction promises to
be a real power in law enforcement in Keno
sha if the courts will support the District At
torney as Judge Belden did in the Orlowski
case. While there is no justification for rail
reading the case, there should be no need for
pussy-footing. With this encouraging assur-
ance of the courts that prosecution will be
thorough and lasting there is found much hope
for the enforcement official, and not as much
for the violator.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
A BIBLE THOUGHT A
DAY WILL DRIVE
CARES AWAY

EVERLASTING LIGHT - Thy sun
shall no more go down, neither shall
thy moon withdraw itself, for the Lord
shall be thine everlasting light and the
days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Isaiah 5000.
PRAYER-The Lord is my light and
my salvation, whom shall fear? The
Lord is the strength of my life, of
whom shall I be afraid?
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
COAL FOR EI.EcrRIC1rY.

To produce all the electricity needed
during 1924 from the steam driven
electric generating plants of Ohio re-
quired 1922 cars OF coal; also for
every pound of coal burned by these
electric generating plants 700 pounds
of water had to be used for condensa-
ton purposes.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06

These limbs; whence had we them
this stormy force, this life blood with
its burning force? They are dust and
shadow shadow system gathered
around our me; wherein, through
some moments or years, the divine
essence is to be revealed in the flesh.
Carlyle.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06

Death" said William Jennings Bryan just
before he died, 'is the starlit strip between
the companionship of yesterday and the re-
union of tomorrow" And, it may be added,
that starlight itself may be no less beautiful
and wholesome than sunshine
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06

The following delegates were select
ed as the Kenosha county delegates
to the state Republican caucus:
First ward-H. H. Timme, j. II.
Vietch, F. E. Andre.
Second ward-Horace Cole, Norman
Baker, J. X. Balloon.
Third ward-D. J. Harff, H, F. Jor-
dan, Fred Head
Fourth ward-C. E. Dewey, Charles
H. Blood, Fred Petersdorf.
Fifth ward-George Villnow, Will
lam F. Wellman, William F. Crew.
enow.
Sixth ward--John ]. Abel, Frank
Becker, Johnson A. Jackson.
Seventh ward-0tto Kohls, Mat
Buchanan, Chris Stoebig.
Eighth ward-Willia mLentz, Fred
Joerndt, Carl Linderman.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
TROLLEY WIRES.

The overhead wire of the average
street car line does not have "life"
of over ten years and the replacement
of these copper wires is one of the
biggest items of expense of every cleo
trio street railway system.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
RoweH Says
By CHESTER H. RoWELL


japan announces desire to see ex-
tra-territorial rights abolished in
China at the earliest possible moment,
but considers the effort now prema-
ture.
So say we all of US. No nation wish
es to maintain its own courts in a
foreign country, and to assert for its
citizens there rights which natives do
not enjoy.
America abolished extra-territorial-
ity in Japan as soon as it was assured
that Japan had established courts and
a judicial system to which free men
used to institutions of justice could
properly resort.
The world will do the same for
China, and in it America, with or
without japan, should lead. ,is IS
But only on the same conditions.
So long as the Chinese have courts
to which they will not themselves will
ingly resort; so long as the honesty
of Chinese business rests on the dis
honesty of Chinese courts; so that no
one will do business with, a man whom
he might conceivably have toasue, so
long will America take Chinese courts
at the Chinese valuation. X
The Chinese have to live with them,
or reform them, and they have, by
keeping out of court, learned to live
with them. We do not have to make
that choice.
When the Chinese establish honest
courts, on a judicial system based on
justice, we will submit ourselves to
them. It is up to China.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06

There are some compensations for being
deaf. At least deaf person doesn't have to
listen to the prattle of the loquacious person in
movie who persists in reading the captions
aloud.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
A THOUGHT.

What? Know We not that your body
is the temple of the Holy Ghost which
is in you, which ye have of God, and
We are not your own?-I Coronthians
6, IS.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06

Mrs. C. P. Barnes is enjoying 8
weeks vacation from the new Gilbert
M. Simmons library.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06

The funeral of Mrs. Thomas Irving
will be held tomorrow afternoon from
the St. Matthews church at two o.
clock.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06

Many of US can't give our old clothes
to the poor because then we would get
sunburned all over.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06

All some of us golf dubs need to play the
game passibly fair is a bigger ball, larger
mallet and then play croquet.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06

The contractor expect to get the
roof on the new Y. M. c. A. building
before the month of September.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06

Another way to have to say Good Morning
Judge: Leave your car parked without lights
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-06
Happenings
rs Years Ago
August 8, 1900.

John Alexander Dowie paid the first
installment on the Benton land that
is to be the city of Zion. Through H.
w. Judd, Dowie paid about $4,000 to
the various owners of the land.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-01-22
ALBERTHA

We are having some very unsettled
weather at this Writing.
o II. Rapert, who has been down
with pneumonia, is able to be up most
of the time now.
Harold L. Johnston, Aubry Harper
and Louie Carroll attended the enter
tainment at the Academy at Maynard
Saturday night.
There are number of bad colds
and some cases of the flu in this vicin-
ity
X. l.. Baker and J. II. Carroll finish
ed gathering corn last week.
Dee Johnston and family of Maynard
visited at o. X. Rapert's Sunday.
Uncle Henry Turner of Stokes was
reported to be in a serious condition
with heart trouble Saturday.
Pocahontas star herald., 1925-01-22
BIGGERS

Harry IIite left Monday for Mem
phis where he went on special busl-
ness.
Atty. Joe H. Johnson and Deputy
Sheriff John Ferguson had business IN
circuit court at Pocahontas Monday.
Mrs. T.. T.. Tyler had business IN
Pocahontas Monday.
John Polk of Imboden came up Sat
urday looking after his matrimonial
fences here.
Mrs. Josie johnson is reported on
the indisposed list this week.
AIurry Armstrong left Sunday for
Poplar Bluff in quest of work.
Rev. w. T.. Cooper filed his regular
appointment at Success Sunday and
Sunday night.
j. NJ. Cavenar, whose store was burg
larized few weeks ago. is in busi-
ness again in the Hepner building.
Il. II. Tyler, travelling salesman for
Burrow Grocery Co., was here Mon
day visiting homefolks and Interview
ing the merchants