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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

use to the cause When we fly, we are damned
fools, they say. When we are dead, we
weren't half bad fellows. But everyone in
this wonderful aviation service is doing the
world far more good than the public can ap-
preciate We risk our necks; we give our lives
we perfect service for the benefit of the
world at large They, mind you, are the ones
who call us fools. But stick to it, boys. I'm
still very much with you all. See you all
again"
This brave flying captain was as surely a
pioneer and explorer as the courageous Amerl-
cans who, only few generations ago, went
into the unknown west on horseback or in
covered wagons.
The men who fly are developing great new
transportation service. They have the pro-
phetic vision to realize the future OF aviation.
Willingly they gamble their lives. A thought
less public may imagine the fiers risk their
necks for the sheer adventure and thrill of
flight Truth is, they are as serious about
their work as the mounted scouts who invaded
our western plains at the head of millions of
settlers to follow.
Flying is a serious business, not a circus
performance. This much we learn from the life
and last message of Captain Hyde-Pearson.
The captain quite evidently had Fremont
ton of death. It is not the custom of men, I'M
less they have such premonition, to leave en-
velopes marked: ITO be opened only after my
death"
Many will wonder what he meant by his
closing lines: "Stick to it, boys. I'm still very
much with you all. See you all again"
In those lines is the firm belief that death
is only change farewell flight into UNI
known but better regions. Hail and farewell,
brave Captain Hyde-Pearson, as you fly west
ward into the sunset
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
Views of Others
McGOYERN's FLIMsY EXCUSE.


1t would appear that Ex-Governor
F. E. McGovern is hard put to find an
excuse for remaining in the field as
candidate for the Republican nomina-
tion for United States senator.
Following the Republican state con-
vention held at Oshkosh this week,
which unanimously agreed to unite m
support of Roy P. Wilcox as the
candidate best qualified to represent
the new Republican movement and to
carry it to a successful conclusion,
Mr.. McGovern rushes into an attack
on the Oshkosh meeting, charging it
present primary law and the return
of the old-time caucus and convention
system for the selection of nominees
for public office, and declaring that he
will go ahead as an independent
candidate for senator, making this the
chief issue of his campaign. ..,e
AS a matter of fact, and the records
will prove this, neither in any of the
speeches at the Oshkosh convention,
or in the platform adopted by the con-
vention, was there a single expression
that Mr.. McGovern could twist into
"a demand for the repeal of the Wis
consin primary law" There was some
allusion to certain well-known evils
that have grown up under the present
system, which VIGOROUSLY has dis
organized all parties and permitted a
new kind of "ring" and machine"
control, whereby the voters have little
to say in the actual selection of their
official representatives, but merely act
as rubber stamps to carry out the
program prepared by a few selfish
politicians. They rectify this, by Civ
ing the voters chance to select their
own candidates and thereby restore
the principle of representative gov
eminent, would be reform in
harmony with the original purpose of
the primary law, and it is reform
which the people of Wisconsin are
ready to demand And Mr.. McGovern
simply sets up false issue when he
tries to, make it appear that anyone
is demanding" the repeal of the
primary law.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
s.HAppYn

The people demand "happy end
ing" say the movie manufacturers.
No doubt. But does "hsppy" end
ing necessarily mean stupid one.
If kingdoms must be overthrow,
cities destroyed, whole peoples mar
tyred and multitudes tortured and
slaughtered, all that the final close
up may show the right man embrac-
ing the right girl, that is happy
only on the assumption that audiences
have no sense of proportion.
Yet this is. an exact description
of more than one famous film. 1t is
a strange sense of perspective.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
AIR LAWS NEEDED.

A New Jersey aviator flew low over the
home of citizen of the New York Bronx, and
was arrested. Whereupon it developed that
he couldn't be held, even though he had
frightened the occupants of the house, because
there is no law in New York against low flying.
Is there such law anywhere in this coun-
try ? An army regulation on the subject ap-
plies only to army aviators Civilians, gen
orally speaking, may fly where they will and
as they will.
Here is matter that needs attending to-,
with the rapid development of aviation. Air
laws, which of course should be uniform, are
badly needed. 1t looks like job for Congress.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
COVERED WAGONS OF THE AIR.

On the outside of the envelope was written:
To be opened only after death" This had
been penned and sealed by Captain Hyde-Pear-
ION, World War fiier and air mail pilot. Death
ame to him when his plane crashed among
he Pennsylvania hills while carrying mail
srom New York westward
This was the message he left inside the en-
Felope
ITO my beloved brother pilots and pals
70 west, but with a cheerful heart. I hope
ghat small sacrifice I have made may be Of
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
TOM SIMS


A man was arrested for sleeping
in Chicago theatre and we think we
have seen the same show.
Nine men were unable to land a
fish off the coast Of New Jersey
where booze is thrown overheard.
Latest report from the movies
claims a movie actor and his wife
are close friends. Press agent stuff.
We never read a news item from
Hong Kong that we don't think it
sounds like an auto horn blowing.
Human nature is what makes your
dog seem to have more sense than
any other known dog.
Just as the boys are planning for
college a New York professor re-
signs to become carp enter.
Everybody's an antique hunter
when it comes to looking for real old
prices.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
THE AMERICAN PUZZLE.

Now, what can you make of country that
commits more brutal crimes, and is gentler
with criminals, and is harder in business deals,
and gives more to charity, than any other
country in the world? Not to mention it's COM
bination of Jungle music and dancing with re-
ligious horror at the suggestion of jungle
origin. Other nations simply can't under
stand u.s. Sometimes we find it little hard
to understand ourselves
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
Says

Loafng and loving sound alike.
And neither of them leave you much
time for stacking up money.
One of these blankets of snow the
movies talk about would make swell
cover for the next few weeks.
Be careful about the bee in your
bonnet. 1t is so liable to be con-
sidered humbug.
Better start carrying out last win
ter's ashes before long.
When school starts 10 million necks
get washed clean.
Nice thing about winter is tho
screens are down so you can throw
things out the windows.
A man who married in June has
borrowed one of our shirts to show
his wife what buttons are.
Throw yourself away and you
won't like the place you land.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
SIANG.


Sometimes slang improverishes
rather than enriches the language.
Take the word "dumb, for instance,
which is rapidly coming to mean
stupid"
Obviously it is the German word
"dumm" 1t is more vivid and pic
turesque than stupid" and would be
an improvement except that it leaves
US without any colloquial word mean
ing mute"
If we are going to import DUNN"
then we should import "stumm" also.
Let one who can not think be dumb"
and one who can not speak be
"stumb"
Otherwise we may soon find our
colloquiaI speech incapable of ex-
pressing the state of inability to vo-
caliZe. 1s
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
Happenings
rs Years Ago

Yesterday Chester c. Allen led all
competitors in the race for the Ravin-
oaks Golf Cup, which is considered
one of the most desired golf trophies
to possess. Mr.. Allen played very
good game the nearest competitor
being three strokes behind The fol-
lowing are the scores for the Kenosha
golfers in the tournament: C. c..
Allen, s5; F. R. Petit, 90; R. H.
Aiken, SO.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

"The next radio station build will be 50,-
OO0-watt affair." says Wilbur Glenn Voliva.
What he would do with that much more power
is more than the average radio fan in Keno
sha can see. AS it is all one needs to do is
put his ear to the clothesline in his back yard
and he can nearly here Station W-C-B-D,
Zion. Ill.,"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

It's the right step to warn the prospective
drunken driver that he will lose the right to
drive his car if convicted on a driving while
intoxicated charge. The only trouble is that
when they get drunk enough to climb behind
the wheel while intoxicated, they're also prob
ably too drunk to remember the warning.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
"A A BIBLE THOUGHT. A
%sS4 DAY WILL DRIVE
IA CARES AWAY

IT SURELY WILDE sure your sin
will find you out.--Numbers 1928.
PRAYER - Plenteous grace with
Thee is found, grace to cover all my
sin; let the healing streams abound,
make and keep me pure within.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

A bin introduced in the Ontario,
Canada, legislature, empowers the au-
thorities to call on every able-bodied
man between the ages of Is and 60
to aid in extinguishing forest fires.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

These octogenarans and monagenerians
who ascribe their longevity to the habitual
use of liquors don't know what their health
might be had they refrained from their use.
Moreover, they may be the exceptions that
prove the rule.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

If you don't believe that the hay fever seas
on is here, just listen attentively next time
you're in theater in Kenosha The chorus
is being augmented daily until in very short
time there will be over thousand Strong.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

The utmost that conference could
concede would be to the experiment
of Chinese jurisdiction for certain
cases in a few cities. The rest must
grow.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

After you've been riding with one of these
speed maniacs who slows down to fifty miles
an hour to pass highway crossing, it's real
comfort to get back to the wheel yourself and
travel your own gait.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

If Wisconsin adopted the plan in vogue in
Ohio to mark each place where an auto fatality
occurred with a cross, there would be some rail
way crossings in Kenosha which would look
like cemeteries.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
Government Was Not Always Geo.
graphic.

Government Was Not Always Geo.
graphic.
It was not always so. Government
was not always geographic. For ages,
sovereignty was personal rather than
territorial; it extended to certain in
dividuals, rather than over certain
space Each man, wherever found,
was subject to the rule and Judged by
the law/of his own sovereign.
The principle still survives in our
claim of extra-territoriality, in back
ward countries. An American citi-
zen, in China, is still tried there by
American judges, under American
laws. 1t is doubtless too late to re-
vive this principle for the unmap-
pable populations of the scrambled
corners of the earth; but unless we
can discover something more intelli-
gent than the brutality of deporta-
ton or the absurdity of majority
rule for these regions, they will con-
tinue to hatch wars for the rest of
the world.
1t is not beyond the wit of man
to invent institutions that would fit
SlLudIlOH. IL may NC OOJOAQ MS
character to accept them.
Conference Would Be Only an Ex-
pertinent.
If we finally do hold that confer
ence on Chinese extra-territoriality,
as promised by the four-power treaty,
it Is only just to remember that the
delay is due largely to the reluctance
of China itself to have the issue
raised before it was prepared to meet
it.
We have agreed that our nation
ais shall be subject to Chinese law,
administered by Chinese courts,
whenever China provides modern laws
and courts to do it. Such courts, it
is claimed, have now been established
in the principal cities. No one pre-
tends that they yet exist elsewhere.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

The truth of the matter is-and the
voters will not be fooled on this point
Mr.. McGovern is so eager to carry
out his political ambition that he has
a distorted view of all who differ with
him and refuse to join his following.
He refused to "take a chance" as q
candidate before the Oshkosh convefl-
ton, intimating it was Stacked"
against him, and thereby displayed
his unwi1lingness to abide by the ma
jority decision of this statewide rep
resentative convention. He will get
nowhere as an independent candidate,
and the most he can do will be to, SO
divide the votes of real Republicans
that the present machine control of
state government and state affairs
will be continued. If he wants to take
this responsibility he will have to
shoulder the blame, but his fiimsy ex-
cuse for trying it will fool nobody.
Oshkosh Northwestern.
Mr.. Wilcox's candidacy is not the
candidacy merely of Roy P. Wilcox Of
Eau Claire To be successful it must
be regarded as the candidacy of unit
ed -Bleaneism.
The principles at stake are larger
than mere personalities or the ambi-
tions and political successes of in
dividuals.
-Beloit Daily News.
Stubborness is not consistency; it
it mulishness.
Racine Journal News.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
A THOUGHT.

He is in the way of life that keep
eth instruction: but he that refuseth
reproof erreth.-Provf 1918.
There are few, very few, that will
own themselves in a mistake.-Swift.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

Mrs. Barbara Williams, wife Of
John Williams and one of the early
pioneers of this city, died at the home
of her son in Chicago early this morn
ing The remains will be brought to
this city August 10, for interment in
the City cemetery.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

Burr Whitbeck met with a serious
accident this morning when he fell
under an ice wagon and it passed over
his body. Although n ,tTciHStyarl'a
broken it is believed that the young
man is seriously injured internally.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

President is Shown More Honors Than a
King - says headline. Another reason why
every youngster wants to be president when
he grows up.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

What has become of the Sunday dance-hall
agitation? Certainly in fairness to all it should
be settled one way or the other.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
Men Must Be Adjusted to Institutions.

Men Must Be Adjusted to Institutions.
What Greece and Turkey did to
each other, Poland and Germany are
now initiating. Because guns and
vehicles are commoner than ideas, and
violence Is easier than thinking, we
are more ready to deport racial or
national minorities than to devise
some way of living with them.
Men must be adjusted to institu-
tions rather than institutions to men.
Like Procrustes of old, if our guest
does not fit our bed we cut off or
stretch his legs until he does, or else,
as in these recent instances, throw
him out altogether.
Changing the bed itself does not
occur to us. If our minds can not
contain the idea that institutions
might be other than geographic, then
we may have to make our populations
geographic.
1t has even been suggested that
the negro question in America might
be solved by setting aside certain
states for black and others for white
rule, individuals of either race to be
admitted to the states of the other
only on condition of accepting what
ever government and treatment they
found there. That is simpler than
thinking out a form of government
in which both races might inhabit
the same territory without either
ruling the other.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

Louis Yoeman Of this city, rescued
two men from drowning at Fourth
lake, in Lake county, Illinois, few
days ago.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

Mr.. and Mrs. McHie of Chicago
have gone to Paris for an extended
European tour. Mrs. McHie was form
erly Miss Minnie Conley of Kenosha.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

The funeral of Mrs. Rachel Parker
was held this afternoon from the
residence of her son, Fred Parker, on
South Main street. The remains were
taken to the City cemetery where i'm
terment was made.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

Well, the SCOTS succeeded in getting even
with each other. anyway.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20
RoweH Says
Bv CHESTER H. ROWELL

We have just celebrated the hun
dreth anniversary of three instru-
mentalities of lieration-the rail
roads, the Unitarian church and
Thomas H. Huxley. The first set loose
the bodies and goods of men of their
spirits, and the third was the great
apostle of scientific freedom of
thought.
Now we have added to the railroad
the telegraph, telephone, automobile,
airplane, moving picture and radio;
to the first liberal church the liber-
alizing movements in all the others,
and to Huxley the schools, the Scopes
trial, the Associated Press and the
yellow journals. Except for poverty,
which we have not really tackled, the
only shackles left are those of volun-
tary ignorance. - $50
1t has been a dizzy century-so
swift that we have not yet adjusted
our institutions to the new machinery
nor our minds and characters to the
responsibilities of the new task of the
future.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

No doubt Eve had tiny little fig leaf that
she called her bathing s.s:t.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

Little Mary Spas is not the first twenty
one-year-old who posed as sweet sixteen.
Nor will she be the last ons
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

Stubborness is not consistency; il
it mulishness.
Racine Journal News.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-08-20

Throw yourself away and you
won't like the place you land.
Smyrna times., 1925-07-01
Much Care and Taste
Put Into Panama Hat

Counting the number of rings Of
strands In the crown reveals the quail
ity of panama hats. The more OF
these there are the better the grade.
Color, texture and shape are lmpOr-
tant factors, too, and II any broken
straws are revealed the value Is de-
creased, says the New Haven Regis
ter. Furthermore, a good panama
hat is never bleached after being
woven. Those Of superior grade are
the original color OF the little strips
of leaves from a dwarf palm-tree
plant that grows in Ecuador and other
South and Central American coun-
tries where the natives weave the best
hats. II takes three months or mora
to finish those Of the highest quality.
All the work Is done by hand and only
the best and longest fiber is used.
Reports that the most expensive
hats are woven only by candle light
or under water are said TO be erro-
neous. However, the straw Is kept
damp and at night the unfinished hats
are hung where they will be exposed
to the dew so that they can be worked
on without danger Of breaking the
strands the following day.
Smyrna times., 1925-07-01
FetU Realize Great
Pressure Under Sea

When you drop something into two
or three miles of ocean, you immedi-
ately invite hard usage. First, there Is
the pressure of the water. The weight
OF the sea at 1000 fathoms (approd-
mately one mile) is one ton to the
square inch, or $50 times as great as
the air which we breathe. Go down
$500 fathOms and there is a pressure
many times more powerful than that
Of the steam in locomotive boiler.
Captain De Carteret told me of
test that was made on the cable ship
COlonia in mldocean, writes George w.
Gray in the American Magazine. An
empty soda water bOttle-One OF the
kind that has a conical bOttOm-was
fitted with long stopper Of hard wood
trimmed to fit the neck Of the bottle
snugly, and cut so as to make 1t bare
ly touch the bottom Of the bottle. The
bottle was weighted and let down to
depth of 1000 fathOms. When 1t was
brought up, the point Of the wooden
stopper was protruding through the
thick glass bottom. The pressure Of
the water had converted the stopper
into a hydraulic ram, and had driven
1t so neatly through the bottom Of the
bottle that there wasn't even a star
fracture In the glass.
Another cable seaman told of lower
ing a piece of meat, properly weighted
to make it sink, in the mid-Atlantic.
After being exposed to the near-freez-
ing temperature and the squeezing
weight Of a thousand fathoms Of ocean,
that tough roast beef came up as ten
/ der as veal.
Smyrna times., 1925-07-01

The old Hossinger home property
on Main street, Newark, next to the
Presbyterian Church, was sold at pub
lie sale last week. 1t was bought by
Miss Anne HOssinger, one of the heirs.
Former State Treasurer Daniel
Thompson, whose late wife was a sis
ter of Miss Hossinger, now lives
there.
Smyrna times., 1925-07-01

Col. Haslet Chapter, D. A. R., Of
Dover, has announced that during the
coming fall, it will place memorial
bronze tablet on the State House with
proper inscription, showing it to be
the second oldest original State Cap
itol in the United States, Maryland
being the first.
Smyrna times., 1925-07-01
STATE AND PENINSULA NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF SPICY ITEMS
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Brief News Items of People We Know
In and Around the Larger PENN
sula Towns and Communities

Announcement has been made of
the marriage recently of Mrs. Susan
F. Robinson, of Schenectady, N. Y,
and Richard D. Short, former mayor
of Harrington. Mr. Short is a vet
eran of the Civil War and Mrs. Rob-
insOn, who served in the First Mary
land Cavalry during the Civil War.
Smyrna times., 1925-07-01

Charles Matthews, who recently
sold his bakery business in Dover,
started early Wednesday morning
with his wife and child for California,
making the trip by automobile. He
expects to visit Niagara Falls and
from there will take the western route
to California. He expects to return
to Delaware in September.
Smyrna times., 1925-07-01

Lucy Parker, colored, was arrested
in Dover on a charge of unlawful
possession of liquor. When her broth
er, Thomas Holland, visited her in the
Jail, he was also arrested on a similar
charge, the woman having stated
liquor found in her house was the
property of her brother. Officers ar
rested Claude Vernon Caples, near
Harrington, on a liquor charge.
Smyrna times., 1925-07-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Granville B. Kinder
who were recently married at Denton
were serenaded Wednesday night
when they returned from a motor
trip. A large number of their friends
were at the house and captured"
them just as they were putting their
machine in the garage. The bride
and groom were put in a truck and
were given a ride through the prin-
cipal streets Of Seaford and neighbor-
ing towns.