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NONPARTISAN
OFFICIALS ROLE
IN MILWAUKEE
Graft and Inefficiency of the Party
System Is Lifted From the
Town’c Citizens.
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 city, by the elec
ion of 1910, party lines really had
eased to exist.
Party tickets appeared in the vari
ous municipal elections, but they were
put up by the men who had no poli
tics other than desire to control the
city for special purposes and who
worked the political parties a> man
ikins.
It was the same old game and the
same old rule by the special interests,
disreputable elements and politicians
who gave the city inefficient, as well
as dishonest, administration. Here
things got so baX that city officials
were indicted and bundled off to pris
on and the administration of Mayor
Rose became notorious. Here they
say the real supporters of Rose were
always the “tory" Republicans, in
stead of the Democrats. It was a
great illustration of the fact that par
tisan lines are worked in munlcipil
affairs purely as a fetish.
Things went along this way until
three years ago Milwaukee was force.,
over to the Socialist party to escape
the old partisan control.
Tlie next was taken last year when
the people who had deefated the old
Republican and Democratic partisan
< rowd by using the Socialist party I
-noved aside the old-time bosses and '
brought out of the wreckage a ticket j
composed of good men. running on a
pledge to scrape off the political bar
nacles 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
• leeged not to be partisan if elected
to office and not to take any part It.
partisan politics while holding office
further than to cast their votes.
Speaking broadly, the Socialists had
given the city an honest administra
tio.n though there is always the qu»s.
lion of whether it was an able on*.'
The same honesty of administration
has been continued, but the partisan
ties which held the Socialists have
been lopped off, and efficiency hat
been introduced.
Meat Club Solves
Problem of Farmers
Rural Housekeepers Band Together
To Keep All Supplied With
Fresh Beef.
ALEXANDRIA, MINN., Sept. 20.
A novel farmers’ club has been dis
covered in the town of Moe, in this
county. This organization is known
as a “meat club.” and while it has
no formal constitution and by-laws,
there is a tacit agreement among its
members which is complied with im
plicitly.
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 hind quarter cuts, that of
the former at present being 9 cents,
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. James D. Jones was
arrested in Chicago and turned over I
to the police of South Bend.
Jones’ arrest followed a hunt of
four months. J. D. Watts swore out
the warrant. Jones is alleged to have
, xtracted all the gold he could find
in his customers’ molars on the
round that the work was faulty. |
After exhausting his mines, he ran
away.
FAMILY DECIDES TO LET
* WOMEN DICTATE AFFAIRS
CHICAGO. Sept. 20. —Traditions of
•_..e Ton family, the largest incorpo
rated family in the world, w’ere upset
ai the annual reunion, when suffra
cists elected women to all important
offices. When Mrs. Thomas Brad
haw had been elected president, aft
a spirited contest, one of the in
uentlal male members of t*.e family
-aid:
“It seems to be the spirit of the
<l .y to let the women run things, and
we might as well let them have the
i < mainder of the offices without oppo
sition.
LONDON SOAPMAKER
GIVES PEOPLE ART WORK
Special Cable to The American,
LONDON. Sept. 20.—0il paintings
to rthe people is the latest form of artj
development. A prominent London |
soap man has made a start by erect
ing at Oxford street and Tottenham
road, a great London thoroughfare,
an oil painting of a steamer plowing
tier way to harbor on a misty, cloud
shadowed day.
He Intends to distribute If ’ of ’hes»
canvases' ovc ■ ’ ondun, painted 0,.
v - 11-knoi' n art’ is.
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Women Declared the Bravest
Men’s Courage Held Lacking
Life-Saver Dodges the Issuej
Commissioner of Navigation, Mi
nority Leader Mann and Champ
Clark Discuss Question.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 20.—Ate
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 says 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, geiTbral superintend
ent of the Live-Saving Service,
doesn’t want to show favoritism, an i
says “both men and women are gen
erally brave.”
Chamberlain’s 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 to conditions on vessels on the
Great Lakes, and it has awakened
widespread discussion.
The charges were filed by the Amer
ican Vigilance Association. They al
leged it was a habit of masters of
small vessels on 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 w’ere 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. T'le
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. sel‘-
rellance and obedience, and almost
without exception any display of
cow’ardice or unrestrained manifesta
tion of the instinct of self-preserv.t
tion has come from men. The rule on
■ shipboard, ‘women and chilcfren first.
' is based on the fundamental resne »t
I for womanhood and on self-sacrifice,
common qualities- of rner in tn’.s
country, in which, however, those
making charges in this case seem
wholly deficient, and to the existence
of which they seem blind.”
Unofficial approval of Commission
er Chamberlain’s views has been giv
en by the Department of Commerc.*,
inasmuch as it made special effort tv
give them publicity.
Madden Js Enthusiastic.
Representative Madden, of those
who paid particular ffote to Mr.
i Chamberlain’s report, was the most
enthusiastic in his Indorsement of the
Commissioner’s views.
“I have never seen a woman who in
time of danger wasn’t braver than i
man while the danger lasted,” said
Mr. Madden. “When it comes to being
equal to an emergency, a woman is
the superior of any man T ever saw
She may collapse when it is over, but
while the peril lasts she is 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 as exciting as
another. I have seen my wife in a
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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, off Randolph street, and that
he received 50 cents for every vessel j
that passed there. He said his wife I
was sick in California and that he I
needed money to reach her bedside.
Foster bargained for a short time |
and gave $75. Then he rented a mo- I
torboat and went out to take posses
sion.
I “I’ve bought this thing,” he told the i
keeper, “and 1 guess I'll take charge •
now.”
“You may have bought this place
and from the way you talk I suspect I
you did,” returned the keeper, “but i
Uncle Sam still owns it and I guess I
11’11 remain in charge.”
Dog in Yellowstone
By Wilson's 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. Mis«s Ethel Provost,
of Parsons, received an announce
j 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 hot- -1 in
! Yellowstone National Park. We have
I been informed that no clogs are al- l
lowed in the park confines. Mr. Pres-J
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 .‘* i parated .
and I can not t»ear the thought of
leaving her beh’nd She I- r- old
for i dov. ;’nd WO'J d n•• !;<■ ■ bl. io
1 harm any of the park ahhnais”
HOW AUTHORITIES VIEW
WOMEN FOR COURAGE
“I have never seen a woman who,
in time of danger, wasn’t braver
than a man while the danger last- 1
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 are 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
Tip able to direct and command, but
when it comes to tt|e real test of the
finer things necessary, he hasn’t had
the trainink that gives n woman her
power. His 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 suffer
ing. a woman is much braver than a
I 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 i
that a man is the braver of the two.
“And yet it #is something about |
which I might change my mind if I
l had given it more thought. It seems ,
to me now that because a man is 1
more accustomed to physical danger,
because he takes more risks with h’s
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 '
the 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 j
pinned down to the subject.
“Really, you know,” he said—and
apparently through his mind went
visions of the predicament he would
he in if he said the wrong thing on
such a delicate matter —"1 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. Kimball 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
oxer 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 SIOO of the
total fund of $1,113.75 be given to the
1 Y. M. C. A. and the balance divided j
I equally among the Catholic, Jewish .
and Protestant organizations.
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ILLAK.M O OV.U/.U li-y. >1 ABAI, ILAIDL ft Ji., lUld.
HEHMIT BUILDEH
OF RAILWAYS HAS
PROVED Ml
With Pair of Mules, Kansas Man
Graded Four Miles, Then In
tetested the Santa Fe.
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IETMoRE. KANS.. Sept. 20. —After
four years of hard work on a railroad
projected b>- himself and for which
he obtained the light-of-way by pur
chase from farmers, Rudolph Myers
I the other day led a gang of Santa Fe
railway laborers to the roadbed and
set them to work on a 54-rnile cut-off
from this city to Garden City.
With no assistance except that of a
pair of mules. Myert had graded four
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 towp realizes the wisdom of his
plans.
NOT WHAT WE SAY—
fak TtS-BUT WHAT OTHERS'SAY’
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“ "Y T Y’E recently “visited Lynchburg, ‘The Hill City’ of the southland, and came away
|/1/ impressed with what we saw of its wonderful trade and development, population
considered. Our 9 investigations pertained largely to its shoe business, irhich 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 5500,000. 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 8500,009
in 1888 to SI 1,000,000 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
h You Are Patronizing Southern Industry
I k From Which Every Southerner Must Eventually Benefit
Uncle Sam Hunts
For Two Good Cooks:
Government Chefs Must 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 hi/ad in the paper
for two .competent cooks to proceed I
Immediately to White Earth, which is I
in Minnesota, and they must be able
to cook beans for the,.Minnesota In-
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; Civil service examinations for tjiese
, Important posts will I>e held October
.6. The advance bulletins issued bv
| the Government do not specify
, whether or not a complete knowledge
of proteids. carbohydrates end other
i strange articles said to inhabit our
nourishment is necessary. Neither d«
' they require an intimate knowledge
I of dietetics.
FRENCH CARICATURISTS
TO HOLD BIG EXHIBITION
Special Cable to The American.
PARIS, Sept. 20.—The first exhi
bition of the Society of French Carica
, turisfs —please do not confound them
with the humorists —will open in No
vember. The witty draughtsman
known as “Sein” doubtless will be one
,of the attractions of the show. His
1 latest album, dealing with “Real and
unreal chic.” has made almost as big
■i hit as his earlier one. which bur
lesqued "Tangoville,” otherwise Deau
. ville and Trouville.
The National Shoe Wholesalers 5
Association Monthly
Bulletin Says:
EASTER MI!
IS MYSTERY OF
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 mib*s from the
nearest continent, ruck-bound an<r
;stormswept. this small desolate island
the farthest outpost of the Polynesian
group, has earned the title of “The
Mystery the Pacific.”
This sphinx of the oceans and
its nearly extinct inhabitants have
proven a baffling problem to scientists
an 1 explorers of modern times. It is
said by some to be the remains of
a submerged continent and declared
by others only to have been inhab
ited by an advanced race of natives.
The fibster Islanders were the onlj
i natives of the Pacific islands who had
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 unasonry.
On the island, which Is about 50
i square miles in 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 are 30 feet
high and over 200 feet long. On these
platforms stand colossal figures carv
ed out of lava from an extinct crater
eight miles away.
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Court Holds Wife
Ca.ii Keep Store Teeth
Husband’s Plea That He Paid for
Them Does Not Give Him
Possession.
NEW WASHINGTON, OHIO. Sep*.
20. —Separation from one« wife, in
the eyes of the law. furnishes no ex
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 is
the ruling of Police Judge Aukam.
and as a result Henry Hardesty went
to the work house under a thirty-day
sentence.
“But, judge. I bought and paid for
them." Hardesty expostulated. “She
wears 'em. but they’re mine.”
Judge Aukam declined to accept
the husband’s viewpoint.
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