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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
THOMAS w. LAWSON
DIES IN HOSPITAL

Boston.-Thomas w. Lawson, noted
financier and author of Friday the
Thirteenth" "Frenzied Finance" THE
Leak" and other books, died In hos
pital here after sudden relapse fol-
lowing a recent operation. His two
sons, Douglas and Arnold Lawson,
were with him when the end came.
TON" Lawson, son of a Nova
Scotia carpenter, began his spectacu-
lar career by running away from
school at twelve and finding employ
ment in the old State street firm of
Stevens, Amory & Co. BY the time
he was sixteen he was counting his
gains and losses in four figures.
From then on his life was d series
of ups and downs with fortune alter
nately frowning and smiling upon
him. Huge fortunes were made and
lost overnight. 1t is said that in
20 years he made and lost $40,000,000.
Mr. Lawson was said to have spent
$2,OO0,O00 on Dreamwold, his magnifi-
cent estate at Egypt, Mass.
With the passage of years, however,
Mr.. Lawsons luck seemed to desert
him, his golden-touch lost its Midas
like power. And so in 1922 Dream
void and everything connected with 1t
went under the auctioneer's hammer
To meet liabilities of about $225,000.
After the sale, Mr. Lawson disap-
peared from public view and there
were rumors that he was dying.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
u. S. to Control Drainage OF
Sewage Into Lakes, RiUers

Washington. - Chicago's sanitation
problem is rapidly approaching set
Element.
Secretary of War Weeks announced
that he is considering a recommended
ton by the chief of engineers under
the terms of which Chicago would be
permitted to divert $500 cubic feet of
water second from Lake Michigan
for the next FIVE years on the condition
that the sanitary district begin the
construction of sewage-treatment
system, that compromising works to
control lake levels be constructed, and
that the metering of he city water be
established.
The attitude the War department
contemplates assuming in regard to
Chicago's sanitation problem is of far
reaching significance. 1t is to signal
ize the Inauguration of a policy of
strict control Of the drainage of sew
age into navigable inland waters,
which fall within the jurisdiction of
the federal government.
"The time will come" said General
Taylor, chief of army engineers, when
every city in the United States will
have to treat all Of its sewage and no
municipality will be allowed to con-
taminate the waters Of rivers or inland
lakes.
The dumping Of sewage in lakes
and rivers, the army engineers say, is
slowly killing off fish.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
Indiana Votes $4,000
to Fight Chicken Plague

Indianapolis, Ind.-Legislative and
executive authority of Indiana was
invoked to prevent the spread of tba
deadly European poultry plague found
in nine counties of the eastern part
of the state. Under suspension of
the rule an emergency appropriation
Of $4,000 was voted by both houses
of the general assembly, the monav
to be used in combating and prevent
ing the spread Of the disease. The
appropriation is to become effective
as soor as Governor Jackson signs
the measure.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
Sister of HARVARD Head
Falls to Her Death

Boston, Mass.-Mrs. Katherine Ro.
wil1er, sister of President A. Law
renee Lowell of Harvard and of AMY
Lowell, the poet, fell from the win
dow of her apartment on the fourth
floor of the Hotel Vendome and was
instantly killed. She had been sit.
ting on window seat, just after aris-
ing, watching some workmen in the
rear of the hotel, and, 1t is believed
leaned too far out, losing her balance
Mrs. Bowiker was related to former
President Theodore Rooveselt and was
one of his warmest admirers.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
WHEAT DROPS To
$3.50; MANY HIT
Board of Trade Pit at Chi
cago in Turmoil as
Prices Fall.

Chicago.-May wheat threw the pit
into pandemonium on Friday with an
other break in price. 1t dropped to
S1.85 a busIel, which was a fall of
about q cents from the high mark
eight days ago. 1t staggered up
point or so, and when the bell rang it
was some 10 cents below the high
mark.
With it went the paper profits of
many a clerk. and stenographer and
dabbler who merrily tipped aboard the
market when prices were racing
towards the 81 mark, but who did not
leap off in time. Many a hopeful who
went in on shoestring in recent
weeks went out on shutter, and many
contemplated trip to Florida will
probably be supplanted with period
Of two a day at the one-arm restau-
rants.
Recall Letter Corner.
Other markets Winnipeg, Kansas
city, Minneapolis and the rest-took
the parachute drop as did Chicago.
TO all appearances exporters were the
chief benefclaries of the tumble From
100000 to 100000 bushels were sold
for overseas consumption, the foreign
buyers hopping in and buying just as
they have whenever a break has come
in recent months.
Veteran traders said the bedam In
the pit had not been duplicated since
the days of Joe Letters wheat corner.
Trades came so fast that at times the
price at one side of the pit was half
cent higher than at the other side.
Half cent drop between quotations
was the order. In one short period of
about an hour a fluctuation of nearly
ten cents occurred in the price of
grain.
Fleischmann Death a Factor.
In analytical mood after the close,
the professional talent held that the
slump was started by the selling Of
100000 to 100000 bushels of long
May, credited to julius Fleischmann,
the yeast man, who died suddenly at
Miami. This started the price down,
and then the stop-loss orders did the
rest
All told, more than 100000 bush
els of May wheat were dealt in on the
Chicago exchange, almost a record for
the last four years.
Effect on Farmer.
How the farmer is affected is a
question which the experts are pom
dering. From some quarters comes the
plant that agriculture itself is not
much of a beneficiary of the recent net
advance. Some figure that so per
cent Of the wheat crop of 1924 has
already been sold at an average price
Of between $1.30 and S1.40 a bushel.
But other crops, it is pointed out, have
gone up in price with wheat. Corn,
for instance, has registered a neat adj
vance, and so per cent of the corn is
fed on the farm. The stuff held in the
feed bins has increased in value.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
Sycamore (W.) Lawyer
Kills Self in Chicago

Chicago.-John Faissler, one of the
leading lawyers Of Sycamore, H., killed
himself in his room in the Lorraine
hotel, AT South Wabash avenue, by
taking rat poison.
Mr.. Faissler is believed to have
killed himself because of worry over
his debts. A suit to foreclose a mort
gage on his $150,000 estate in Syca-
more was recently withdrawn. but II
is known that the matter still wor-
ridd him greatly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
Retail Food Prices
Continue to Advance

Neutrality-suspicious. increase In
retail food prices during the month
ending January Is was shown In 20
out of % cities for which figures were
announced by the bureau of labor sta
tistics of the Department of Labor.
The maximum increase of 4 per cent
was reported at Cincinnati, Kansas
City and Savannah. A per cent in
crease was shown at Butte, Mont,
Little kock, Ark, Louisville, KY,
Omaha and Peoria, H., and per cent
at Atlanta, Baltimore. Buffalo, Detroit,
Indianapolis. Norfolk, Portland, Maine,
and Springfield. III.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
KELLY POSTAL BILL
PROVED BY HOUSE
Provides sos, 100000 for
Salary Increases and
Higher Mail Rates.

Washington.-Th Kelly bill, provid.
ing for increases of $6S,000,000 in sal
aries for postal employees and for in
creased mail rates, which are expected
to add SCI, 3D., 76S annually to post
office revenues, was passed by the
house under suspension of the rules.
The bill, which was introduced by
M. Clyde Kelly (Rep., PAD, is a sub
stitute for the Sterling Paige bill,
passed by the senate but sent back
to that body by the house on grounds
that it invaded the prerogatives OF the
lower branch in the matter of Initial
ing revenue bills.
1t provides for about S21 100000
more in revenue than did the Sterling
Paige bill, as amended, and makes the
salary increases retroactive to January
l, 1925, instead of to July /, 1924, as
specified in the senate measure.
New Rates Effective on May /.
Under the Kelly bill there is no
time limit fixed for the expiration of
the new rates. They become effective
May 1, instead of on April Is, as pro-
vided by the Sterling bill, which made
them effective only until February Is,
1925.
The increases in rates proposed by
the bill, together with the estimated
revenue increases, follow:
First class-Private mailing and pic
ture post cards increased from l to 2
cents; expected revenue increase, $780,
100000.
Second class-Transient, from cent
for each A ounces to cents for each
ounces up to ounces; over ounces
parcel-post rates; revenue, $1,000,000.
Publishers: Scientific agricultural and
religious publications increased from
IA to L " cents per pound. Newspapers
and periodicals-Zone rates advertis-
ing, rates for zones / and increased
from to cents per pound; zone 3,
3 cents per pound, unchanged; zone 4,
| increased from 5 to cents per pound
zone 5, 6 cents, Unchanged zone 6,
| reduced from Z to 6 cents; zone z,
9 cents, unchanged; zone s, reduced
| from 10 cents to cents per pound.
! Estimated increase in revenue from
changes in publishers rates, $2,998, 252.
Service Charges.
Third class - Printed matter, in
creased from 1 cent for each ounces
up to pounds to 1 u cents for each 2
ounces up to s ounces; over ounces,
parcel-post rates. Increased revenue,
$4,000.
Fourth class - Books, catalogues,
! seeds, bulbs cuttings, roots, scions and
| plants. present rate l cent for each 2
ounces under 8 ounces zone rates over
ounces; proposed rates, third-class
rates up to ounces; over s ounces,
zone rates. Same rate proposed for
merchandise now costing l cent for
each ounce Up to 4 ounces Service
charge of 2 cents for each parcel ex-
| cept those originating on rural routes
| Expected revenue increase S13,600,000.
Other Revenue Increases
Other revenue increases tabulated
are: Special service charge of % cents
on parcel post (optional), 100000;
| insured service (third and fourth
| class), $3,05S,147; C. o. D. service
! (third and fourth class), $1,103, S79 !;
I Increase in money order rates, So. $780,
400; increase in registry rates, $780,
| 900; special delivery service, 100000.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
Mir Producers Coop to
Liouiddfe Their Property

Chicago.-At a meeting here Off
Gals of the Milk Products Co-opera-
tive Marketing company decided to
liQuidate the half million dollars
worth of property owned by the or
ganization. The company was formed
by milk producers In an effort to sell
farm products directly from the pro-
ducers to the consumers and few
years ago the company had a mem
bership of 1900 In Illinois, Indiana
and Wisconsin. 1t is expected that
the company will liquidate within four
years to avoid sacrificing any property
at less than cost
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
House Passes Measure
to Dust Alien CONFLICTS

Washington,-By a vote Of 213 to
80, the house passed and sent to the
senate bill making sweeping changes
in the deportation laws. The bill,
sponsored by Representative Holiday
(Rep., ILL.,, provides for deportation
of aliens convicted of offenses for
which they are sentenced to imprison-
ment for one year or more, or with
especial reference to prohibition law
violations, to brtefer terms.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
Orders Probe of General
Electric, American Tobacco

Washington.-By vote of So to %,
the senate adopted the Norris resolu.
ton for an investigation of the Cen
eral Electric company, accused of
constituting the so-calIed power trust.
The resolution was approved as an
amendment to the Ernst resolution.
which provides for an investigation of
the American Tobacco company and
the Imperial Tobacco company of
Great Britain and their alleged efforts
to hamper tobacco co-operatives.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
EleUen Jap Sailors
Perish in Collision

Vancouver, B. eleven Japanese
sailors, including one officer and two
petty officers, were drowned in the
harbor here when the pinnace in
which they were returning to the
cruiser Idzuma. after shore leave, col
lided with the Canadian Pacific tug
Nanoose.
The Idzuma is one of three vessels
of the Japanese navy training squad
ron here on the last leg of a 10000
mile tour.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
u. S. Men Seize Great
Quantities of Rum in Raids

Chicago.-After years of unsuccess-
.ul attempts to raid roadhouses and
saloons in and about Aurora, prohibit
ion officials succeeded. Nineteen
places were raided, great quantities Of
liquor were confscated and a tele-
gram telling about it was dispatched
% Prohibition Commissioner Roy
Haynes in Washington, who had sent
wo men and appropriated some
5000 for the purpose.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
u. S. to Fight Trusts
Who Hit Housewives

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. action by the
Department of Justice TO prevent
monopolistic control of prices of a
number of household utilities was fore
cast by Attorney General Stone.
Although the governments case was
not fully disclosed, several investiga-
tfons are under way or are contem-
plated, and the attorney general indi-
Gated definite steps soon will be taken
In some of them.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
President to Speak at
Minnesota Festival June s

Washington. President Coolidge
will speak June s at the celebration
in st. Paul and Minneapolis of the
Norse-American centennial.
The celebration, which marks the
Tooth anniversary of the landing of
the first Norwegian settlers in Amer
lea in 1926 will be held June 6 to
at the Minnesota state fair grounds
between st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
Locomotive HurlS Truck
Against Auto: s Killed

Chester Pa.-Four men and two
women were killed when locomotive
on the Pennsylvania railroad struck
a motor truck and motor car at a
grade crossing in heavy fog at Mar
Gus Hook, near here. The locomotive
struck the motor truck and hurled II. a
splinrered mass of wreckage, against
the motor car, which was also
crushed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
2 Army Officers Killed,
Bodies Burned in Plane

San Antonio, Texas.-Maj. Lee o.
Wright of Lyons, Ind, and Lieut.. Ar
thur L. Foster of Weir, Texas, were
killed and their bodies burned in an
airplane crash near Brooks field. The
ship went into a spin at 500 feet and
crashed within two miles of the field.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
$4,000, 900 Cleaned Up
by w. &. Duronf in Market

New Y0rk.-W. G. Durant, motor
manufacturer and stock operator,
now has a paper profit of more than
S10,0O0,000 from his trading in United
States Cast Iron Pipe stock. He is
credited in Wall street with having
added S2.500,O00 TO his bank roll last
week. while he was in California but
in close touch with the market.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
Dry LdIu VioIotors
Pay S24.OOO.OO Fines

Washington = Imposition of stiff
penalties has given dry law violaters
Il stiff setback in the last year. Fines
assessed in the enforcement of the
acl in five years total $4,000 900.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18
Has Mnnv Menn;;.,

The phrase "in limbo mo, y
to mean an indefinite border ~
the intermediate state, nearer \
heaven according TO the claad,
there detained; a place q n
ment; a prison; a place, real d,
mary, to which things waals
foolish may be RELOCATED.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-02-18

After a While one stops argpr
waits for events to show bis si,s
the truth.
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28

years with real majority. Then the
housing, unemployment, nationalist
ton, colonial, disarmament program
could have been put thru. Russia did
exactly that, and has held the key
positions for the workers.
kNACDONALDISM still runs its
IVI course. When his crowd on the
front benches of labor hypocritically
question the tory government on
Egypt, the zinoviev forgery, Singa-
pore, India, ETC., the tories simply
point to the labor governments rec
ord as a precedent and that ends the
discussion. However, there are signs
Of an awakening. The labor party
executives committee has seen the
writing on the wall, and reversed the
decision forced on the last labor
party conference by Macdonald and
his crew during the excitement of
new elections to parliament. The
vote at the conference of 100000 to
100000 to expel Communists is now
changed to a. decision to refer the
matter to the next conference.
Meanwhile the local labor parties
have disregarded the last conference
decisions and put up Communists as
candidates for parliament. Expulsion
has failed, and the c.. among 9th
ers, is now demanding an all-in-all-
conference of all labor and socialist
and Communist organizations to make
the labor movement a class move
ment Of labor, and not of petit bour-
geois careerism and liberalism.
MEANWHILE the Communist Party
lVl moves ahead. The Workers
Weekly sells nearly $4,000 copies
weekly; national minority move
ment is being started, and shows
signs Of great support; the united
front campaign in the unions and la
Dor parties progresses rapidly; and
with an intensive campaign on for
the shop nucleus reorganization, the
c. P. is becoming the kind of section
Of the International Communist Party
that is needed in Britain.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28

up by political parties whose sole in
terest is to clap salve and a poul
tice on them, and like quack doc
tor, pocket a fee and quiet the pa
tient with an expectation" (192O)
The labor party rank and file meant
sincerely what they pledged, but Mac
Donald and his crew of professional
politicians, imperialistic pacfsts, and
opponents of socialism and strikes be-
trayed the workers. Court peacock
ism, laudation and defense of colonial
brutality and exploitation, and pla-
eating of big business corrupted la
boris present leaders. If the labor
party is not to degenerate as did the
German social-democrats, it must
find new leadership. Let Stresse-
mann tell what the German MacDon.
aids did: 1.-THE chief successes of the
social-democratic participation in my
cabinet were that =. it was
possible for me. TO inflict a mill
tary defeat on the Communists in
Saxony and Thuringia, and this de-
feat, in it's turn, has cleared the way
for the abolition, without any resis-
lance, of the S-hour day and the So
called 'conquests of the revolution"
Regarding the same clique, MacDon-
aid said in 1919 of Lenin's condemna-
ton Of them, Condemnation which
was fully deserved and to which 1
fully subscribe" And then he tried
to sell out the British workers to fl
nancial Imperialism in the same way
NNTHAT Macdonald should have
wv done was to present labor's de-
mands to parliament, gone outside
parliament to the unions and mobil
lied them, brought their pressure to
bear on parliament as did the young
bourgeoisie in 1882, dissolved parlia-
ment if defeated and appealed to the
workers again, this time with a pro-
gram that would bring them enthuti
astically together under labor's ban.
ner. They might not have won this
year. but they would have avoided be-
trayal, and won in another couple of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28

Protests availed nothing, Poplarism,
Glasgow evictiOns, Gin two months
labor evicted more workers than the
tories did in year; the government
refused to support Wheatley's claims
and tried to keep the law the same)
etc. show the same insincerity and
bungling, even discounting the lack
Of a majority.
/ UNEMPLOYMENT, according to
~ Baldwin, was endemic. 1t had
broken the backs of previous govern
ments. 1t increased under MacDon-
AIDS rule. Far more than a million
out of work, and about 100000 on gov
eminent relief work., at starvation
wages. Radical Wheatley reducing
the dole at Sheffield, against the
wishes Of the capitalist members Of
the board of guardians. The same
Wheatly telling unemployed to go to
the .work-house. Pledges on. degrad-
ing domestic work cracked wide open
Snowden telling the country he didn't
mean to keep his election pledges
on unemployment, with an increase
Of 100000 unemployed from July to
August. Shaw telling labor to "wait
and see" if he had any plan, And
they waited, gand saw not. His rem.
edy was the restoration of our for
eign trade" for which the unemploy
ed were duly thankful Baldwin had
said, IF you have a particular rem
edy, you will have the support of the
house and the country" but they
didn't even dare him, simply propOs-
ing what he had failed in trade re-
vival.
THE unemployed workers charter
l wasn't even looked at by Mac
Donald, and their demands of suit
able housing, reduced hours of work,
government relief, occupational train
ing centers, weren't even advocated
for their propaganda value in a fu-
ture election. Why? Let MacDon-
al exposes himself: Society is al
ways badly treated when these
grievances Unemployment are taken
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-28
FAMOUS MOVIES AT
GERMAN AMERICAN HOME
KEAOSHA, WIS.,, TODAY

The famous movies, "PoIikushka,"
a six-reel story made by the Moscow
Art Theater, ain Memoriam-Lenin,"
showing the life and funeral of
Lenin, and Russian comedy, "Sol-
dier VANS Miracle" will be shown
SATURDAY, FEB. 20, from 4 to II
p. m. at the German-American
Home, 665 Grand Ave-, kenosha,
Wis.
These pictures have been drawing
the biggest crowds in Chicago, New
York and other big cities. They will
be shown in Kenosha ONLY ONE
EVENING, FEB. %. There will be
three showings on that evening. The
first will start at p. m. sharp.
Make sure to attend. Tell your
friends about It. Don't miss the
greatest treat In your life.
Rassvet = Dawn., 1925-06-19
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