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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Hero Worship.


Ray Snod6erly, 16-year-old youth of
Council Bluffs, wants to get out of
Anamosa penitentiary. Ray lied his
way into prison for IS years. Author
tiles, investigating, find he had moth
ing to do with a particular robbery he
was convicted for In fact on the
night in question he was hundreds of
miles away.
Ray told lurid story and gloried in
it. He said he was star member of
a band of 125 Chicago gunner. They
had cavern on the lake front with
an underground entrance to elude the
police with. The youth described his
wicked companions in careful detail.
The chief was named Diamond Dick, y
a bad egg. There was kansas City
Hutch 'fPick En- Up Red" 1.-TWO
Trigger Slim" Shorty Carlson, and
others. The boy himself was known
among his confreres as "Scarfnger
Ted"
Details of exploits were not lacking
in Rays confession "Pick EN- Up
Red" was a particularly bad actor
When he didn't have a gun he threw
knives. "He can throw right through
man, too" Ray said admiringly.
Bootlegging, safe cracking, murders,
train robberies and SO on through the
category of crime were Confessed to"
in detail
Every bit Of it was pure fiction. The
boy had been reading dime novels and
thought he doing something smart to
startle the police. Now, in prison, he
wants to so home to his ma. Ray is
only sixteen. Governor Hammill has
been appealed to and will probably
pardon him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11

Honors to Wilson come tardily. Like
all strong men he was venerated and
despised in one breath. Without a
doubt, until stricken by illness, he
ran things. A tribute to Wilson's mem
DRY was recently uttered by P. w.
Wilson, Washington correspondent
for the London Daily News. At New
York on FeD. 8, Mr.. Wilson delivered
the euiogy to members of the associa-
ton of foreign correspondents. We
think it sympathetic, truthful and
touching:
Woodrow Wilson," he said, started
life as a student, though he ended
it as statesman. However fierce
may be the furnace of pitiless criti-
cism, his growing prestige is becom-
ing more purified every day.
1.-THE wonder is not that Woodrow
Wilson failed sometimes as presi-
dent; the wonder is that he was ever
president at all He was blessed or
cursed with what we call an 'artis-
tic temperament There was no
man less fit for politics. He was
sensitive to a fault; he was infinitely
particular; he was exacting in every
thing he did or said.
"To him a mistake was a mistake,
especially if he did not make it him
self, and he was incapable of comprO-
mise. He was shy; he was a bundle
of nerves, he dreaded seeing new
faces. He was no more suited for
the rough work of politics in the
United States than a razor is suited
for hewing down forest primeval.
much that is called his ingrati-
tude to friends was due to his thin
skin; mental, not physical. No man
ever did the right thing so often in
the wrong way At the same time
there were few men who ever did so
many right things and such essentially
right things in the right way"
The record is now being written on
Harding. 1t allows him credit for fine
qualities and a real desire to serve.
We think his friends and cOnfidants
betrayed him but the truth of the ser
les of unsavory episodes has not been
told yet
Coolidges measure remains to be
taken He shows strength. If he has
the quality of leadership, it will be
demonstrated in the next four years.
We think he lacks the gifts of some
of his illustrious predecessors but he
has other commendable and strongly
marked traits.
And today, Congress has no strong
men. Senator Borah is probably the
leading figure in the national legisla-
ture. He is a great student, tireless
worker and incorruptible. Time will
measure him among the great or the
near-great.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
See u. S. Market for
33,0O0,00O Automobiles

Vast as the auto industry is today
and it is the second largest if not
the largest industry in America-and
great as the number of autos being
operated now is, these cars constitute
not more than half the potential mar
ket for motor cars in the u. S.
This is the opinion of Charles D.
Hastings.
Approximately 100000 motor
cars are now owned in this country"
Mr.. Hastings points out. "But this is
only half what competent automotive
economists says is the potential mar
ket In other words, their conclusions
are that there is a market for
100000 motor cars in the U. S.
According to the 1920 census, there
were more than 100000 persons
gainfully employed in this country.
These economists say that the satura-
ton point of the industry is at least
80 per cent of that figure-that
SO, O00,0 900 motor cars will be owned
here befo the manufacture of cars
for replacement purposes becomes
practically the entire domestic BUSH
ness. Even when that stage is reached
there will still be 100000 cars man
ufactured per year for the replace
ment market in this country alone
a total production figure that the in
dustry has not yet approached"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Mid-Winter Trade Review.

A trade review for conditions up to
January LIST show increased stability
in business. Heavy stock buying oc-
Cured on a rising market which shows
that few have the imagination to in
vest when levels are low. The major
ity wait until optimism becomes uni
versal.
Recent buying in retail lines has
been more liberal than for several
years past but lacks considerable of
being what dealers call good bus
mess" Consumption is steady and re-
tail conditions are improving.
Auto sales last year were below ex-
pectations and in consequence prices
begin at a lower level this year. Auto
prices rise as rule as the season
advances and a raise in general price
levels may be looked for as the seas
on advances.
Textiles show activity with the wool
market at high point. Raw wool sold
in December for 259 percent of the
July 1914 average. Wool cloth is 226
percent above the same base. AS long
as this situation holds, those who buy
wool and wool goods will observe
caution in their purchases.
The cost of living in November as
based on competent figures was 1852
above July 1914. The present figure
is slightly above July 1924 In view of
improving conditions living costs will
be slightly upwards but no undue adj
VanceS are looked for.
The dairy market has been SLOW
due to immense storage of butter last
year. This was due to a cold season
and a failure of the ice cream indus
try to absorb milk and cream. Until
the stored butter is marketed the price
of all butter will be affected by the
storage price.
Money is considerable easier than
year ago, and responsible parties
find no difficulty in borrowing for
their legitimate needs at reasonable
rates.
Imports have increased lately due
to European stability. Nearly billion
dollars was loaned abroad last year
and these advances have aided in the
sterilization of currency and the re-
vival of production abroad.
General employment. conditions are
not brisk but improvement will be
noted when conditions permit general
building and other outdoor work. Re
ports from fifty factories show an in
crease in workers of 23.7 percent over
August.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Governor to Oppose
Salary List Publicity

MADISON-Gov Blaine will send a
special message to the legislature
relative to the Titus resolution de-
handing publication of a list of state
commissions, with salaries and ex-
penditures, in the Blue book, it be-
came known Monday. The Titus res
olution passed the senate and comes
before the assembly Wednesday on
motion for reconsideration.
The resolution has disturbed ad-
ministration men considerably. They
have urged that it was too late to in
clude in the 1925 Blue book the fig
ures demanded.
1t was claimed by Senator Titus
that eseveral years ago the Blue book
contained the information he asks,
but that recently a new arrangement
has been adopted and the salary list
has been omitted.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
INVENTS TURBINE TO
RUN FOR 96 HOURS ON
PINT OF GASOLINE

RACINE of a gasoline
turbine, which will operate SO hours
on pint of gasoline and which can
be used in propelling automobiles,
airplanes, or even battleships, was re-
vealed to the United Press here in an
exclusive interview with Charles Luhn,
"a, the inventor. Luhn a machinist,
formerly of Fond du Lac, has spent
several years on the invention, he
said He is negotiating with concerns
anxious to buy it. He admitted having
been offered 100000 for the patent
rights by the United Oil corporation,
but declared he was not going to sell
until he had conferred with repre-
sentatives of the General Motors COR
poration, who are being sent here to
interview him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Saw Abe LincOln's Body
81 Years After Death
Illinois Man Tells Startling Story of
Great Emancipation.

GALESBURG, HIN. o. William
son, IS, former state treasurer of IL
linois, Sunday broke a silence of more
than % years and told how he, with
Is others, opened the coffin of Abra-
ham Lincoln, Sept. 20, 1902. gazed at
the body of the great emancipation and
then closed and sealed the coffin,
which was embedded in solid concrete,
never again to be exposed to mortal
eyes.
Mr.. Williamson was a member OF
the board of trustees of the Lincoln
monument, and as the time drew near
for placing the body of Lincoln under
the monument the board decided with
the consent of Robert Lincoln, the
son, to open the coffin before it was
sealed forever. Robert Lincoln agreed
to the proposal, to set at rest rumors
that ghouls had carried away his
fathers body. But the son swore all
members of the board to secrecy He
declined to be present.
Just Like Pictures
1--WE had to certify that the body
was actually in the coffin" Mr.. Will
hanson said $50, on the night in
question we secretly assembled at
the Springfield cemetery within the
new monument and the sarcophagus
was carried into the room. Workmen
opened the casket with chisels. It
was a red cedar box lined with copper
which had been sealed with solder.
when the copper covering the
bust was bent back, we reverently
bent forward.
''There was Lincoln, looking just
like his pictures, seemingly asleep
His face was darker than yours or
mine now But that was to be eX-
pected now But that was to be ex-
ly change. His features stood out
as they had been engraved in my
memory from pictures of him.
Sealed Anew i'm Rock
cit seemed as though we might
have spoken to him and awakened
him. He wore a black bow tie, and
one bow was slightly widowed. That
was the only sign of decomposition
we could observe.
"Then the caSket was again sealed.
Robert Lincoln furnished a steel cage
in which to place the coffin before
it was set in concrete and placed I'M
der the monument. Outside was the
block of concrete eight feet square.
The entire mass was placed 10 feet
below the base of the Springfield mon
ument and l have no fear the casket
will ever be seen again.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Nome Winning Fight
Against Diphtheria

NOME, Alaska-Nome is winning its
fight to control the diphtheria epiedm-
ic.
Antitoxin, frozen while being rushed
here over icy trails by weary men and
dogs, has been found to be unchanged
and work of administering it to the
threatened people of the city is going
forward rapidly.
Dr. Curtis WEIGH, who has grown
gray in the service of the people of
Nome, and Miss Emily Morgan, for
merly of Wichita, Kans., of the May
nard Columbus hospital here, are go
ing from house to house day and
night attending virulent cases of the
disease, innoculating those who have
been exposed and by their example
allaying any incipient hysteria that
might result from the situation.
Gunnar Kasson, Leonard Seppala,
and other drivers who fought the biz
gard, to bring help to the helpless
here, are being acclaimed as heroes
worthy of decorations. Kasson and
his dogs have completely recovered
from the grueling dash from Colo
vim bay, through the teeth of the Oliz-
gard.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
VOICE OF THE SCHOOLS

The officers of the Platteville Ly-
ceum District met at the Normal
school building at Platteville Saturday
and formulated plans for the contest
work. The district includes eight
leagues, with a total of forty-five high
schools.
The officers of the district are: Asa
M. Royce, President; Prof. w. H. Will
liams, Secretary; and a committee con-
sisting of Supt. f. V. Powell of Platte
vile, chairman; Principals McNelly of
Lancaster, Fischer of Dodgeville,
Cuba City.
The date of the Platteville contest
was fixed and will be May s.
In addition to the usual declamatory
and oratorical contests, there will be
a contest in eXtemporaneous speak
ing. if enough schools are interested
in such a contest.
Mrs. Alma Borah, who was in charge
of the contest work for Lancaster last
year, has been secured to take charge
of the training Of the contestants again
this year. First place was won last
year in both the boys and girls con-
tests by the representatives from
League seven, including Fennimore,
Mt Hope Bloomington, Potosi and
Lancaster. Paul Weber won first at
Platteville and second at the state
contest at Madison.
Lancaster has had contestants in
the district contest at Platteville ev-
cry year since the revival of the work
seven years ago. The boys have been
trained, until last year, by Mr.. Nc
Nelly in the furnace room as there is
no vacant room available at the high
school for this work Last year the
municipal building was used for this
purpose.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Indian Says More Snow
But Little Cold Ahead

IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich, Feb. e.
Charley Headfyer, an Indian, 80 years
old, predicts there will be much snow
before the winter is over, but not
much cold weather. He has a reputa-
ton in the north as a weather pro-
phet He says he predicted the ex-
tremely cold wave that hit this dis
trict in December Friends of the aged
Indian say he has seldom been wrong
in his weather predictions. The Indian
declares he can tell the weather sew
eral months in advance by certain
signs, but he won't reveal them. He
claims to be a descendant of Solomon
Juneau, the founder of Milwaukee.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Steals $50 Chickens;
Given Three Years

LA CROSSE-Ray Randall, chicken
thief de luxe, who carried $50 stolen
chickens to his room and dressed
them and had three small boys sell
them to homes about the city was
sentenced to three years in Waupun
by Judge r. S. Cowie in circuit court
Two of the boys were sentenced 10
the Green Bay reformatory for year
and then paroled. The other lad VINO
aided in disposing of the chickens IS
sick in a hospital.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Vocational Guidance

The chief aims may be summarized
as follows:
l. To help adapt the schools to the
needs of the pupils and the communi-
ty and to make sure that each child
obtain the equality of opportunity
which it is the duty of the public
schools to provide.
2. To assist individuals in choosing,
preparing for, entering upon and max
ing progress in occupations.
g. To spread knowledge of the
problems of the occupational world
and the characteristics of the COM
mon occupations.
a. To encourage the establishment
of courses of study in institutions OF
learning that will tremendously COM
bine the cultural and practical studies.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Norway Raises POsies
While Persia Freezes

BERGEN, Norway - Blossoms in
Sweden and Norway, and snow in the
Mesopotamian desert have turned the
winter topsy turvy There has not been
a winter like it in 100 years.
In Norway, the land of skis and
sledges, the winter temperature has
averaged between "a and 35 degrees
Fahrenheit. There is very little snow
Only in the extreme north is there a
good coverage.
Aside from annoying skiers, the lack
of snow is damaging the timber trade.
During the summer, woodsmen fell
trees on the Norwegian mountain
slopes, and in the winter they must
move thees huge logs to the rivers.
This year log sledges are useless, and
thousands of feet of lumber lie far
from the saws.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Prohibition.

You read statement by a Canadian
official that unless a grip is taken on
the international bootleggers they will
be so strongly entrenched in another
year that suppression OF the traffic
will be forever out Of the question.
Forever is a long time.
The phases of prohibition are inter-
esting and many. We do not see the
crop of old-time drunkards one saw
thirty years ago Little towns in those
DAYS were full of men with their phys
ical and moral stamina burned out by
booze They were not bad men as
r1le-iust cOnvivial and weak. Many
of them were brilliant and would have
had fine careers but booze got them.
The crop of young drunkardS Is not
as large as it used to be but the Ell
fects are worse. A drunkard used TO
start on beer and wine and ended up
on whiskey. Today, the youngster who
wants drink starts at the tail enc on
hootch The result is devastating.
We believe the departmental pr1n-
ciple of not interfering with nome
manufacture of beer or wine is a wise
one. People have made drinks OF var
iOus kinds for centuries and will prob
ably continue 10 do so. And When IL
quor making begins and ends in the
home it becomes problem well set
tied.
The worst phase at present is the
persistent and sinister violation OF the
liquor law, not to satisfy an appetite
for liquor but to make easy money.
And the lax enforcement on the part
of officials is equally bad. America
NAV break on this rock.
And this last phase of prohibition
has reached a point where it tran
scends any hair-splitting over the
morality of being dry or wet. The
urgent question is one of law enforce
ment and law obedience or anarchy,
not whether one drinks or doesn't
drink.
This issue of general defiance and
disobedience of law is the biggest
thing the United States has raced
since the slavery issue preceding the
Civil war and perhaps greater than
the slavery issue because it affected
a class whereas the present situation
inyades every home in the land.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Husband RecOnciIed;
Furnishes Wife's Bail

RACINE-Emil Kupetzke, 40, ar
raigned Saturday upon complaint of
Michael Putzer, SO, on a charge of a
statutory offense with Mrs. Putzer,
"a, was arraigned before Court Com
missioner Guy Benson Monday and
the case continued for one week.
Kupetzke and Mrs Putzer were or
dered held under $3.50 bail.
The husband and wife have effected
a reconciliation and he furnished the
bail for his wife's release. Kupetzke,
in lieu of bail, was placed in Jail
pending trial.
The wife is being held under bail
as a state witness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
MAY BOOST TARIFF
ON FARM IMPORTS

WASHINGTON higher tariff on
agricultural products lies among the
possibilities of the near future as
help to the far ers of the country on
their way back to prosperity. Presi-
lent Coolidge's agricultural confer
ence, in its report submitted this
week to the White House, advocates
tariff increases and the president him
self, under the flexible provisions OF
The tariff act, has the power to put
-hem into effect
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Hairpin Is Removed
From Baby's Intestine

FOND DU LAC-Jewel, 14-month-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. klllan
Butz. st. Cloud is at hospital mere
apparently recovering from an oper-
alton performed there for the removal
of hairpin which she had swallowed
three weeks ago and which had pierced
the wall of the small intestine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
"NOthing New
Under the SUM-"

H. G. Wells, English historian,
teacher and biologist, sets forth a
new conception of creeds. Wells be-
lieves that God is real but man-cre-
ated. He claims that God is Mans
mass morality, his will to do good,
his will to advance in civilization and
brotherhood. As Man advances. God
advances. AS Man falls back, God re-
cedes. AS Man gains glory through
generous impulses and deeds, God
grows great AS Man drops back ten
thousand years as he did during the
World war, God perishes from the face
of the earth.
And Johann Boyar, Danish writer,
advances the same thought in stu
penduous, gripping conclusion OF The
Great Hunger" novel devoted to
real symbols. A man once high is
brought low He humbly tills the soil.
The dog of brutal neighbor kills his
child. The neighbor meets with brok-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Three Holdup Youths
Get 15-Year Terms

EVANSVILLE prison SEN
fences of Is years each were imposed
here Monday upon three Oregon, Wis,
youths by Judge H. L. Maxfield in mu-
nicipal court. The men, Ben Bethel,
26; Paul Newton, 20, and Arthur Dick,
20, pleaded guilty to holding up and
robbing w. G. Ford at his general
store at Legion, eight miles from
GAINESVILLE, on Jan. 10. They obtained
$780,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
HereSy.


1t reminds one of the Middle Ages
to read of the trial and excommuni-
cation of Bishop William M. Brown OF
Gallon, Ohio. The bishop is to finally
be unfrocked but the indignity appar-
emily does not worry him.
"The church is WORKOUT 1nstltu-
ton" the bishop says. 1T still cl1ngs
to the heresy principle of the middle
ages along with other equally impos-
sible theological theories. But change
is coming"
Brown was convicted on evidence
obtained from his book Communism
and Christianism" He was sentenced
to be deposed from the ministry.
Two views obtain on this. No longer
is a man imprisoned or put to death
for what he thinks but must not say
The orthodox idea is that minister
must present the views of the church
he is identified with or leave the
church. If he has other views he must
keep silent about them. If he does
keep silent, having opposite views, ne
is a hypocrite and should leave the
organization.
AS we understand it, the orthodox
view is that all is written correctly
and made plain. That religion has
been defined and thoroughly defined
There is, therefore, no need OF cog
itation or discussion of that which is
right and final.
The modernist view is that as man
grows in knowledge, brotherhood
sympathy and understanding he finds
new ways to define Cod This being
so, the modernist contends that nc
restriction should be placed on re-
ligious thought or discussion. The
modernist holds that the greatest sin
is in keeping silent when new inspIr-
alton comes.
In this trial we think the board de-
posing Brown was right according &c
its lights, and we think Brown is right
in saying what he thinks is true But
neither side should expect the world
to take wholly what they say for the
world too is forming new concepts OF
the Infinite.
An old adage says: Live and Let
Live" Another equally to the point is
this: Think and Let Think"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Aims Hammer at Cow;
Strikes Little Sister, 5

WISCONSIN RAPIDS Struck down
by a hammer hurled by her brother
when he aimed it at herd of COWS
and missed, Sylvia Danno, 5-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Danno,
Miner, IA miles south of Nekoosa, is in
the local hospital with a fractured
skull. The children were attempting to
keep the cows in an enclosure where
they had been driven for the night. 1t
is believed the girl will recover.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-02-11
Teeth i'm the Huber Law,

We understand that under the new
arrangement with Milwaukee county
men sentenced here for law violation
will not be sentenced to hard labor
in Jail and then allowed to go home
under the Huber law.
Sentence to the work house will lie
in the discretion of the court From
the experience with the jail hard la
Dor" sentences the Herald has a guess
that future sentences will be to actual
labor unless the circumstances are of
an extenuating nature.