Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-04-30


Zimmerman at Madison has trans
mitted to the two houses, in re-
Spouse to a resolution, a list Of
motor cars owned by the various
departments, and the record shows
Just Sal. Nine are operated by
prohibition officials and 10 are
needed at the University while
eight see service at the state pris-
on. More are used by the conser-
walton commission, SO, and the
dairy and food department runs %
Fords. Some 365, (most of alb are
kept busy by the highway commits
sion. Many trucks are in the cate
CORY, one, a so-called Diamond I,
costing SASS. A Kissel freighter
is catalogued at $3,585.S5, while
there is a Paige sedan at $2,584, a
Marmon, for the adjutant general
at 1921. SO, including a driver for
three months, a Pierce-ArroW truck
at $4,000, an Apperson at $4,000.
Secretary Zimmerman himself
drives his own little car, oscillat-
ing freely between capital and me-
tropolis, while State Treasurer
Levitan gets about in the same sim
pie method in vogue by him in
boyhood. The attorney general
has not invoked state aid in motor
ing, but the governor has a car by
special act of the legislature and
he needs it. Fifty-nine other 0ffic
es and departments have no state
cars charged to them. The reso-
luton revealed data of genuine in
terest, and never before elected.
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Speaking of cigarettes, here's an
instance where their narcotic at
traction operated in a somewhat
unusual manner. | stepped into
the salesroom of a local company
handling a good car for the purpose
of making purchase.
wait while / get match" re
marked the pallid salesman, and
away he hurried, coffin-nail in
hand. Ere long he returned, leisure
ly struck light, took a satisfied
draught, but had lostinterest. A
different car was ordered in alf
other garage where customers are
not left standing on one foot while
callow tends weakly yield to the
stupefactive urge.
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''If all railways are notnlade ar
terial," observed Henry Johnson,
former state treasurer, then au-
tomato bars should guard every
crossing. There's no need of
watchmen. / cannot believe that
bars operated electrically are not
entirely feasible" Close by his
home across Lake Monona in South
Madison two young men were kill
ed recently while taking chance
to beat a passenger train. Certain
ly practical device to make
crossings safe must be possible, and
without undue expense to rail-
roads. Senator Teasdale of Spar
ia, also residing near a dangerous
crossing, would require all autCists
to pause, but the notion has not
yet won large favor.
Still, after all, how really great
is the danger when probably mil
lions of transits over tracks a.e
made daily in this country with ac-
cidents so few as actually to be in
significant. in number. Let's not
get painicky. The curse % our
multifarious boards, bureaus and
commissions in that they extend
their operations to absurd lengths.
Safeguards are ordered paternal-
istically in factories where NO ac-
cident ever occurred, where none
is ever likely to occur. Common
sense gives place to zeal almost
fanatic. The worthy senator w
A. Titus, who all but pressed thru
the senate a bill consolidating q
multitude of activities, might vel!
assail the evil next time by taxi
ing each board, bureau, commission
and department singly, lop off lot
of the needless duties of each, re
duce annual appropriations cores
pondingly, and thus enforce the
abatement galore of superfiuous
clerks and inspectors. There will
be rye visages and hapless vine
ing of course, but a pyraluiding
wrong will be halted. So let's go
slow in encouraging extravagancjes
even respecting precautions at risii-
way crossings.
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Motor boat fishing is taboo in
Wisconsin, but bill before the sen.
ate faovring that form of sport is
being vigorously urged, especially
from the Eagle River lake region
1t is highly doubtful, however, it
that door is opened. The whole