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fIONPfIRTISAN
OFFICIALS HULE
IN UMEt
Graft and Inefficiency of the Party
System ls*Lifted From the
Town’c Citizens.
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BOSSES ARE WIPED OUT
Some Successful Moves Made
Since Redemption of Munici
pality From Old Parties.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 20.—One of
the features of the redemption of
Wisconsin that has not attracted great
attention is the rescue of Milwaukee
from partisan politics. Long before
the Socialists broke in here as ad
ministrators of the dty, by the elec
'ion of 1910. party lines really had
ceased to exist.
Party tickets appeared in the*vari
ous municipal election! but they were
put up by the men who had no poli
tics other than desire to control the
j ity for special purposes and who
worked the political parties as man
ikins.
It was the same old game and the
same old rule by th^special interests,
disreputable elements and politicians
who gave the city inefficient, as well
as dishonest, administration. Here
things got so bad*that city officials
were indicted and bundled off to pris
on and the administration of Mayor
Rose became notorious. Here the/
say the real supporters of Rose were
always the “tory” Republicans, in
stead <>f the Democrats. It was a
great illustration of the fact that par
tisan lines are worked in munieipil
affairs purely as a fetish.
'things went along this way until
three years ago Milwaukee was forced
over to the Socialist narty to escape
the old partisan control.
The next was taken last year when
the people who* deefated the old
Republican and .Democratic partisan
n.wd by using the Socialist party
shoved aside the old-time bosses and ’
brought out of the wreckage a ticker
omposed of good men. running on a
pledge to scrape off the political bar*
n oles and put the city administra
tion on as nearly as possible the basis
of a large, well-managed ‘corpora
tion.
The candidates on this icket were
pledged not to be partisan if elected
to office and not to take any part ir„
partisan polities while holding ofljee
further than to cast their votes.
Speaking broadly, the Socialists ha.l
given the city an honest admlnistra
tio.n though thereto is always the ques
tion of whether It was an able on*.
The same honesty of administration
las been continued, but the partisan
- which held the Socialists have
been lopped off. and efficiency hai
been introduced.
Meat Club Solves
Problem of Farmers
Rural Housekeepers Band Together
To Keep All Supplied With
• Fresh Beef.
ALEXANDRIA, MINN., Sept. 20.—j
A novel farmers’ club has been dis- I
covered in the town of Moe, in this
county. This organization is known ,
as a “meat club.” and while it
no formal constitution and by-laws,
there is a tacit agreement among its
members which is complied with im
plicit l\.
The purpose of the club is to sup
ply its members with fresh meat, es
pecially in the summer months, when
securing good meat is one of the se
rious problems of rural life. The club
has only ten members, though it has
been in operation over twenty years.
The club has a fixed price for the
front and hind quarter cuts, that of
the former at present being 9
while the hind quarter cuts are fig
ured at 10 cents. The member at
whose house the cutting takes place
keeps most of the soup bones.
DENTIST IS CHARGED
WITH ROBBING TEETH
SOUTH BEND. IND., Sept. 20.
Charged with extracting and steal
ing the gold fillings from scores of
dental patients, .lames D. Jones was
arrested in Chicago and turned over I
to the police of South Bend.
Jones’ arrest followed a hunt of
four pionths. J. D. Watts swore out
the warrant. Jones is alleged to have
extracted all the gold he could find
in his customers’ molars on the
ground that the work was faulty.
After exhausting his mines, he ran
away.
FAMILY DECIDES TO LET
WOMEN DICTATE AFFAIRS
CHICAGO, Sept. 20. --Tradit ions of
he Ton family, the largest incorpo
rated family in the were upset
at the annual reunidn, when suffra
gists ejected women to all important
offices. When Mrs. Thomas Brad
shaw had been elected president, aft
er a spirited contest, one of the in
fluential male members of the family
said:
“It seems to be the spirit of the
drfy to let the women run things, and
we might as well let them have the
remainder of tlv 4 offices without oppo
sition.
LONDON SOAPMAKER~
GIVES PEOPLE ART WORK
Special Cante to The American.
LONDON. Sept. 20.—0il paintings
forthe people is the latest form of art
development. A prominent London
soap man has made a start by erect
ing at Oxford street and Tottenham
road, a great London thoroughfare,
an oij painting of a steamer plowing
her way to harbor on a misty, cloud
shadowed day.
He intends to distribute 100 of these
canvases over London, painted by
well-known artists.
Women Declared the Bravest
♦•4* 4**4* • 4**4* 4**4* 4**4* 4**4*
Men’s Courage Held Lacking
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Life-Saver Dodges the Issue
Commissioner of Navigation, Mi
nority Leader Mann and Champ
Clark Discuss Question.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.
women braver than men? •
E. T. Chamberlain, Commissioner
of Navigation, says they are.
Martin B. Madden, member of Con
gress from Illinois, says they are.
Minority Leader Mann skys they
are, in some respects.
Speaker Champ Clark, coming from
the “Show Me’’ State, says it Is a
“stand-off” between men and women.
S. I. Kimball, gefferal superintend
ent of the Live-Saving Service,
doesn’t want to show favoritism, 'an 1
says “both men and women are gen
erally brave."
Chamberlains declaration Is very
emphatic. It is contained in a report
which he has just made to the Secre
tary of Commerce on charges relat
ing 40 conditions on vessels on the
Great Lakes, and it has awakened
widespread discussion.
The charges were filed by tho Amer
ican Vigilance Association. They al
leged It was a hlbit of masters of
small vessels op the lakes to have
women on board, ostensibly as cooks,
but really for Immoral purposes. The
association wanted the practice
stopped. One of its arguments was
that women were in the way in ma
rine disasters, that men were ham
pered in their efforts to escape by
the need of looking after the women,
and that women should not be al
lowed on board the small trading ves
sels. where the life-saving facilities
were necessarily limited.
Finds Charges Unfounded.
•Commissioner Chamberlain was di
rected to make an investigation. He
did so. He found the charges against
the masters of the vessels were un
founded. and he said as much. The
thing that really aroused his indig
nation, however, was the allegation
that women were in the way in dis
asters and the intimation that they
were lacking in physical bravery.
“Women, as a rule, in marine dis
asters,” said Mr. Chamberlain, “have
shown courage, self-possession, se’f
rellance and obedience, and almost
without exception any display of
cowardice or unrestrained manifesta
tion of the instinct of self-preserva
tion has come from men. The rule on
shipboard, ’women and children first,
Jis based on the fundamental re»pe
j for womanhood and on self-sacrifice,
common qualities of mer in this
country, in which, however, those
making charges In this case seem
wholly deficient, and to the existence
of which they seem blind."
Unofficial anproval of Commission
er < ’hamberlain’s views has been giv
en by the Department of Commerce,
inasmuch as it made special effort to
give them publicity.
Madden Is Enthusiastic.
Representative Madden, of those
who paid particular note to Mr.
Chamberlain’s report, was the mwi
enthuslastje in his Indorsement of the
Commissioner's views.
“I have never seen a woman who ir
time of danger wasn’t braver than a
man while the danger lasted," said
Mr. Madden, “when it comes to being
erfiial to an emergency, a woman is
the superior of any man I ever saw
Sh<» may. collapse when it is over, hut
while the peril lasts she lis as calm
and collected as if nothing at all was
the matter.
“I have never seen women in a
marine disaster, but I have seen them
in automobile and railroad wrecks,
and one thing is about exciting as
another. I have seen my wifg in a
I Farmer Pays $75
For U.S. Lighthouse
Rural Visitor to Chicago Strikes
Bargain With Stranger Who
Needed Money Badly.
CHICAGO, Sept. 20. —Franklyn «P.
Foster, a farmer of Kankakee, learned
that he Is not alive to all the tricks
of the bunko man. Foster came to
Chicago to see the sights. He met
an engaging fellow.
Foster’s new friend confided that
he owned the lighthouse in Chicago
Harbor, oft Randolph street, and that
he received 50 cents for every vessel
that passed there. He said his wife
was sick in California and that he
needed money to reach her bedside.
Foster bargained for a short time
and gave J 75. Then he rented a mo
torboat and went "but to take posses
sion.
I “I’ve bought this thing," he told the
keeper, "and I guess I’ll take charge
now.”
"You may have bought this place
and from the way you talk I suspect ’
you did.” returned the keeper, “but 1
Uncle Sam still owns it and 1 guess .
I’ll remain in charge.”
■Dog in Yellowstone
By Order
President Listens to Girl’s Appeal to
Take Pet Into National
Park.
PARSONS. KANS., Sept. 20.—A
Kansas girl and her pet dog, with the
assistance of President Wilson, have
broken down the strict rule against
dogs being permitted in Yellowstone
National Park. Miss Ethe! Provost,
of Parsons, received an announce
ment from the Department of the In
terior that her request to take her
dog, Fanny, into the park had been
granted.
The girl recently wrote to Presi
dent Wilson: "My father is soon to
take the management of a hotel in
Yellowstone National Park. We have
been informed that no dogs are al
lowed in tlfe park confines. Mr. Pres- ;
ident, you don’t know how sorry I
am to hear this. 1 am 18 years old
and our old dog Fanny Is the same ,
age. We have never been separated
and I can not bear the thought ofi
leaving her behind. She is very old j
for a dog and would not be able to ■
harm any of the park animals.”
HOW AUTHORITIES VIEW
WOMEN FOR COURAGE
“I have never seen a woman who,
in time qf danger, wasn’t braver
than a man while the danger last
| ed.”—REPRESENTATIVE MAR
TIN B. MADDEN, OF ILLINOIS.
“When it comes to physical suf
fering, a woman is much braver
than a man. She will endure pain
that will make a man whimper like
a baby.”—MINORITY LEADER
> | MANN. '
“Some are brave—like men; and
some are not —like men.” —SPEAK-
ER CHAMP CLARK.
“I find, as a rule, men and wom
en both arts generally brave.”—
SUPERINTENDENT KIMBALL,
OF THE LIFE-SAVING SERV
ICE.
I railroad wreck, perfectly quiet, cool
and seemingly disinterested until the
thing was over, and then helpful and
considerate.
“A woman is constituted to be sym
pathetic and useful In case of need,
while a man. as a rule, really doesn’t
have that finer sensibility. He would
! be able to direct and command, but
when it comes to the real test of the
finer things necessary, he hasn’t had
the training that gives a woman her
power. tHis life is worked out in a
different environment. His dealing
with the coarser things of life, with
business matters, dulls his sympa
thies and unfits him for the things
which a woman approaches with a so
much finer sentiment.”
Woman Capable of Suffering.
Minority Leader Mann said:
“When It comes to physical
ing. a woman is much Ifraver than a
man. She will endure pain that will
make a man whimper like a baby.
But when It comes to actual physical
danger, such as a disaster on water
or on land, I am inclined to think
that a man is the braver of the two.
“And yet it Is something about
which I might change my mind if I
> had given it more thought. It seems
to me now that because a man is
more accustomed to physical danger,
because he takes more risks with his
body from boyhood up. and because
of necessity he goes to the front in
everything where physical courage is
required, that the effect would be to
give him better command when fac
ing death anywhere but on the sick
bed.”
Speaker Champ Clark disposed of
fhp subject in his usual epigrammatic
manner.
“Some are brave —like men; and
some are not —like men,” he said.
Life Saver Noncommittal.
, And Superintendent Kimball, of the
Life Saving Service, a man who has
worked his way to the top by indus
try and judgment went the Speaker
even one better in declining to be
pinned down to the subject.
"Really, you know.” he said—and
apparentlv through his Ini nd went
visions of the predicament he would
be in if he said the wrong thing on
such a delicate matter—"l can’t give
an opinion without looking up the rec
ords.”
“But surely.” it was argued, “your
long experience must have given you
an impression, at least, of the phys
ical courage oi women.”
Mr. Kijnball had a happy thought.
“Say for me,” he observed, happily,
“that I find, as a rule, men and wom
en both are generally brave.”
8 Years’ Salary To
Be Given to Charity
Official of California Town Will
Take No Pay, Turning Wages
Over to Poor.
SAN BERNARDINO. CAL., Sept.
20. —Fred T. Perris, a pioneer, for
eight years a member of the San Ber
nardino Water Commission, will’turn
over his salary for all that time to
charity. He has never cashed a war
rant as a member of the commission.
Mr. Perris, in a letter to H. M. Bar
ton; M. D. Katz and J. F. Parker,
asks this committee that 1100 of the
total fund of $1,14,3.75 be given to the
Y. M. C. A. and the balance divided
equally among the Catholic, Jewish
and Protestant organizations.
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11EAKN1 S SUNDAY AMKKHJAN, A 1 DAN lA, UA„ SI .XDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1913
MIT BUILDER
OF MIWS HAS
PROVED WISDOM
With Pair of Mules, Kansas Man
Graded Four Miles, Then In
tetested the Santa Fe.
JETMORE, KANS., Sept. 20. —After
four years of ha¥d work on a railroad
projected bv himself and for which
he obtained the right-of-way by pur
chase from farmers. Rudolph Myers
the Qther day led a gang of Santa Fe
railway laborers to the roadbed and
set them to work on a 54-mile cut-off
from this city to Garden City.
With no assistance Except that of a
pair of mules* Myers had graded fou>
miles of the road during the* time he
has been here. When he first dis
closed to residents that he planned a
line to Garden City, and admitted that
he had no backing, he was looked
upon as -unsound mentally, but de
spite the unfavorable criticism he
doggedly’ pursued his work and now
the town realizes the wisdom of his
plans. •
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“ T T rE recently visited Lynchburg, ‘The Hill City’ of the southland, and came away
yy impressed with what we saw of its wonderful trade and development, population
considered. Our investigations pertained largely to its shoe business, which bids
fair to outstrip many much larger shoe centres.
“Our investigation showed that Lynchburg’s principal industry’ is shoes.
“The growth of the shoe industry during the last ten years in this bustling Virginia
city has been so phenomenal as to mark an era of development unparalleled in our trade.
Its wholesale shoe business began in 1878 with one concern and a restricted local terri
tory; in 1888 it amounted to $500,000. Ten years later it amounted to over
$2,500,000. During eight years its shoe manufacturing • grew from nothing to over
$6,000,000 annually, and in 23 years the total shoe business has grown from $500,000
in 1 888 to $11,000,000 in 1911; over 1700%. The above describes the growth of Lynch
burg’s shoe business. Can it be equalled by any city of its size anywhere in the world ?”
When You Buy LYNCHBURG Shoes
You Are Patronizing Southern Industry
From Which Every Southerner Must Eventually Benefit
Uncle Sam Hunts
For Two Good Cooks
Government Chefs Mutt Be Also
Able to Cook Beans in a Way to
Please Minnesota Indians.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 20—Uncle
Sam wants, a cook—two cooks, in
fact. He has put his ad in the paper
1 for two competent cooks to proceed
i immediately to White Earth, which is
ir. Minnesota, and they must be able
to cook beans for the Minnesota In
dian*.
Civil service examinations for these
important poata will be held October
ti. The advance bulletins issued by
the Government do not specify
whether or not a complete knowledge
of proteids. carbohydrates and other
strange articles said to inhabit our
nourishment is necersary. Neither d«;
they require an intimate knowledge
of dietetics.
FRENCH CARICATURISTS
TO HOLD BIG EXHIBITION
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS. Sept. 20.---The first exhi
*•. bit lon of the Society of French Carica
; turists -please do not confound them
] with the humorists—will open in No
vember. The witty draughtsman
as “Sem” doubtless will be one
of the of the show. His
latest album, dealing with “Real and
unreal chic.” has made almost as big
’ a hit as his earlier one. which bur-
I lesqued “Tangoville,” otherwise Deau
i ville and Trouville.
NOT WHAT WE SAY
BUT WHAT OTHERS SAY!
7/7'7/7/ ////K U\
'A'f '• \ Yi 0 X 1
I iK 1 nliTHin Ml i
The National Shoe Wholesalers'
Association Monthly
Bulletin Says:
EASTER ISLAND
15 MYSTERY DF
PACIFIC OCEAN
Believed To Be Remnant of Sub
merged Continent—People
Developed Writing.
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 20.
Easter Island, the riddle of the Pa
cific’ Situated 2.000 miles from the
nearest continent, rock-bound ami
stormswept. this small desolate island,
the farthest outpost of the Polynesian
group, has earned the title of “The
Mystery of the Pacific.”
This sphinx of the means and
its nearly extinc| inhabitants have
proven a baffling problem to scientists
ani explorers of modern times. It is
said by some to be the remains of
a submerged continent and
by others only to have been inhab
ited by an advanced race of natives.
The Easter Islanders were the only
natives of the Pacific islands who bad
developed the art of writing. Their
inscriptions are on wooden tablets
and bear a remarkable resemblance to
ancient Babylonian. These hiero
glyphics have never been decipher
ed.
This mysterious people was a race
of idol worshipers and had mastered
to some degree the art of sculpture
and masonry.
On the island, which is about 50
square miles jn extent, are immense
platforms facing the sea. formed of
Large stones fitted together, some of
which weigh five tons, and in places
the sea side of the walls aw 30 feet
highland over 200 feet long. On these
platforms stand colossal figures carv
ed out of lava from an extirict crater
eight miles away.
ATLANTA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY
Twenty-two years of remarkably successful work Greater demand for our
graduates than we can supply. Beat attendance south of Philadelnhia.
Begins October 6th. Address
GEORGE F. PAYNE. PH. G„ President. 255 Courtland St., Atlanta, Georgia.
ATLANTA INSTITUTE OF MUSIC AND ORATORY <
A MODERN CONSERVATORY
20 East Baker St. Phone Ivy 6986 ’ r
Complete courses in Piano, Voice. Violin, Crgan, Harmony, Counterpoint and L
Oratory, by teachers of International reputation.
Incorporated and empowered by the State to confer Degrees.
AWK roa CSTWLOGUE.
Court Holds Wife
Can Keep Store Teeth
Husband’s Plea That He Paid for
Them Does Not Give Him
Possession.
I NEW WASHINGTON. OHIO. Sept.
- 20.—Separation from one wife, in
the eyes of the law. furnishes no ex
i cuse for attempting to separate that
wife from her store teeth, even though
‘ the husband did buy them and con
: sidered them his property. This ir
' the ruling of Police Judge Auka-..
. and as a result Henry Hardesty went
to the workhouse under a thirty-day
sentence.
» “But, judge. I bought and paid for
them,” Hardesty expostulated. “She
wears ’em. but they're min*.’’
Judge Aukam declined to accept
the husband’s viewpoint.
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