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ATTORNEYS
COGGINS, BRAZEAU &
GOGGINS
Attorneys-at-Law
Second Floor, MacKinnon Block
WISCONSIN RAPIDS. WISCONSIN
D. D. CONWAY
Attorney-at-Law
Over First National Bank
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
B. M. VAUGHAN
Attorney-at-Law
Wood County National Bank Building
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS
DU. W. G. MERRILL
five, Ear, Nose and 1 hroat
Glasses Fitted
Second Floor First Natl. Bank Bldg.
Phone Office 605 —Residence 82
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
DR. W. M. RUCKLE
Eve, Ear, Nose Specialist
Second Floor Wood Cos Realty Bldg.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
DR. J. K. GOODRICH
Osteopath
Second Floor Old Johnson & Hill Bldg
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
DENTISTS
DR. D. A. TELFER, D. S.
Wood County Realty Cos. Bldg.
Second Floor
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, W ISCONSIN
INSURANCE
GEO. N. WOOD
Real Estate—lnsurance
Phone 372. Commercial Hotel
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
R. M. GIBSON
Insurance
Room 8. MacKinnon Block
WISCONSIN RAPIDS. WISCONSIN
J. G. HAMILTON
Insurance
Second Floor Wood Cos. Natl. Bank
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
COAL DEALERS
BOSSERT COAL CO.
Dealers in Coal and W r ood
Seventh Avenue South
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
DALY ICE & COAL CO.
Love Street, East Side
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
J. R. RAGAN
Licensed Embalmer and Undertaker.
Phones; House 69; Store 313;
John Ernser, House Phone 435
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
ORSON P. COCHRAN
Piano Tuner
Best work guaranteed. . Call tele
phone 233, o- call at the house, Kruger
.'e Wheelan Flat, First St. N.
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
\V. c. WEI RICK, D. C.
Chiropractor
Wood Block (over P. O.) Tel. 162
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
AUTO TRIM SHOP
R. F. Sweet, Prop.
Opposite Henke Grocery Company
Second Street North
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
EAST SIDE POOL HALL
Frank Wheelan, Prop,
Billiards
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
ARCHITECTS
L. A. DeGUERE—
Post Office Building
Second Floor
W ISCONSIN RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
o JOHN BEAVER o
.> Doctor of Chiropractic o
, Palemr Graduate. Lady Attendant o
j Phone 537 700 Grand Ave. o
> WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WIS. o
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Christian Science Church
Sunday Service —10:45 A. M.
Wednesday evening:, Testimonial
- eeting 7:45 o’clock.
Lesson Subject—Doctrine of Atone
ment.
A Grievous Mistake.
At Jim Hose’s boarding house Is a
fellow all out o’ humor. He does his
own mending—likes to do it. Hasn’t
a wife to do it for him. so just does
it himself. But what he’s angry about
s—well, he has reason for feeling a
iit feverish in temperature. The other
day he made the mistake of cutting a
teg from his Sunday trousers to patch
u pair of old ones. —Exchange,
Drivers who try to beat trains are
jumping at conclusions.
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BY HARRY A. EARNSHAW
H T BELIEVE that work is a blessing.
H I BELIEVE that the work I am doing is worth while.
111 BELIEVE that the interests of mankind are mutual, and that business
is simply organized service.
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‘ I BELIEVE that the only way life can be made happier and living cheap
er is for everyone to do his full duty.
H I BELIEVE that incompetence, laziness, or greed in an employee is not
only unfair to the employer but a sin against the whole body of society.
If I BELIEVE that if I fail to do my fair share of the world’s work I shall
only make life just that much harder for some other fellow who perhaps
has greater handicaps than I.
If I BELIEVE that the Creator gave me talents in the expectation that I
would use them in the service of my fellow man. Even if unmindful of my
own interests, I have no right to cheat others.
H I BELIEVE that every piece of goods I help to manufacture represents a
part of myself when it goes out into the world. Whether I write letters or
file them, whether I work at a desk or in a factory, or in a store, I believe in
the thing I am doing, and will put my best thought and effort into it.
HI BELIEVE in myself and in my friends. I believe in my company. I be
lieve in humanity in general, and that the good in the world far outweighs
the bad. I believe that I shall receive justice and a square deal. 1 believe
that if I do my best, if I study to improve myself, and look cheerfully upon
life and its tasks, whatever rewards may be justly due me I shall receive.
—From Moore Pep, Moore Drop Forging Cos., Springfield, Mass.
FOSTERING
CLOSER RELA
TIONS BETWEEN
FARM AND TOWN
Community Centers and Good Schools
BY SAMUEL H. HOURVITCH.
Editor’s Note.—Samuel H. Hour
vitch, a world traveller, lecturer and
writer, has explored practically every
section of the civilized world. As an
expert on farm problems, the follow
ing article will be read with interest.
When our forefathers the Pioneer
Farmers penetrated into the Western
parts of our great country their main
object in life was to acquire as much
land as they could put a claim on.
The object of these farm-pioneers
was to get away from outside influence
and remain the builders of their own
destiny. Present conditions have
fully justified the vision of these up
builders of our great West. By
managing their own affairs without
interruption from foreign influence
these farm-pioneers were able not
only to revolutionize farming at large,
but also to build up a superior class
of manhood and womanhood.
Times have changed and with them
the economical conditions as well. It
is not enough for the farmer to breed
live stock that hold the world record
in the production of milk, pork and on
the racing tracks The modern
American Farmer does not feel
satisfied tyith his ability to produce
better farm produce at a price that
enables the American exporter to
compete successfully with the prod
ucts of many a distant country in
their own land.
It is a well known fact that it is
the farmer that won the World’s war
for democracy. It is also the Amer- i
ican Farmer that ‘‘saved starving
humanity from hunger after the war.”
Having thus ascertained his eco
nomical and class position, the farmer
came to the conclusion that by keep
ing aloft from other humanity he is
not only missing many an advantage
offered to the average citizen of the
community at large of many an im
portant factor that helps make our
country the best place to live in.
While our men farmers have dis
tinguished themselves in producing
better crops and farm produce, our
lady-farmers in the meantime have
accomplished more than any other
class of people on the field in which
they are best fitted by nature, inclina
tion and personal superiority.
Thanks to our lady-farmers, our
supply of “leaders” in the fields of
industry, commerce, statesmanship
and most of the learned profession
is being kept up with the increased
demands for such super men.
It’s thanks to these “Mothers” that
our nation leads in the percent of
human beings, superior in brain, su
perior in physical endurance, in per
fect beauty and the charm of its
women folk; also intellect and the
higher standards of our children at
large.
This may be the reason why the
farmer is one of the leading support
ers of our better church-movement,
our moral improvement campaign and
the real cause of many a legislative
measure to brighten our task of living
and improve our conditions.
“Ma-Farmers.”
Under the leadership of “Ma-Farm
er” our rural population soon became
the leading user of telephones, motor
cars, labor-saving devices and of the
better class publications. Improved
transportation facilities, better mar
keting systems and easier ways to
purchase farm supplies does not sat
isfy the modern farmer.
As soon as they have a chance Mr.
and Mrs. Farmer prefer to settle
among their friends. Unfortunately
present conditions of farming do not
permit the agriculturist to live among
his friends without sacrificing his
farm for the benefit of social improve
ment. Many a time when the farmer
has to decide between the isolated
farm and the opp< rtunities offered for
the success of their children, in larger
communities the farm mostly gets the
worst of it. The homestead of the
family goes to the first “renter”
while future leaders of the nation,
; needing the leadership of “Ma-
Farmer” settles in the city and thus
deprives the farm from a most use
! ful element.
It seems to me that a community j
would solve this problem most sue- |
cessfuily. The towns-people need the
farmer as rnuen as the big city, the
manufacturer. —•
It is the farmer that keeps up the
stores, the offices, theater, banks and
business of the smaller towns on a
paying basis. It’s thanks to the
farmer that the small towns-people !
are enabled to keep up their duties
toward the church, the school and
other institutions. It‘s the farmer
that supplies work to the superfluous
hands of the town. It’s the farmer
that keeps our small communities
free from the evil of crooked politics
dishonest public finances and internal
troubles so well knowm in our in-
I dustrial and cosmopolitan districts.
Advancement of Education.
Our farmers could greatly increase
j the educational value of most of our
j country schools by inducing the
teachers who, by the way, are mostly
bom and r°ised on the farm them
j selves, to improve the program of the
! schools by incorporating in its pro
i gram the teaching of domestic art
and science, gardening and farm eco
i noanics, social manners and the ways
of keeping the good will of prospec
tive customers and business friends.
Principles of self-government based
upon the constitution of the U. S. and
the state involved. The laws and
definitions of our local state and na
tional institutions and the rights and
privileges we enjoy as members of
our great Republic. The ways and
means and requirements necessary in
applying and keeping your job as
well as to gain the confidence and
respect of your fellow citizens as
employer and public institution. How
to size up human beings and put them
in their proper place of work without
hurting their personal feelings. How
to conduct and assist in a proper
manner public affairs without depend
ing upon foolish s&nsational mediocre
that miade our politics the laughing
stock of everybody.
A few farmers added on the Board
of the town council as trustees of the
Church and Schools means sometimes
a good way to reduce friction, induce
honesty and straight business in the
management of a town. By induc
ing the farmer to settle in town many
a small village would thus be enabled
to reduce its amount of taxes per
capita to improve its police and fire
protecting devices, to increase the
valuation to its assessable property
and thus increase the market ability
of its lands.
Many a small village which now
depends upon outside help to keep up
their public utilities could with the
addition of only one hundred farmers
to their population utilize their rights
to great franchises and thus save
quite a bit of their utilities.
Community Centers.
Many a farm industry which at
present is dependent ioutside
capital could be successfully utilized
by the farmers themselves personally
if congregated together. I don’t un
derstand why for example a town of
1,500 population located within the
dairy belt has to purchase manufac
tured milk from a factory while the
neighboring farmers sell their real
milk at a price of $1.30 per cwt.
Consider how much of an opportu
nity such farm communities would of
fer for the construction and main
tenance of creameries, milk conden
series, casein-plants, community
slaughter houses, soap factories,
tailoring establishments, toy plants,
cold storage warehouses, ice cream
plants, tanneries, brush factories,
grain elevators, fruit storage houses,
etc. The last item above named would
save millions to the farmers. He
' could sell his produce at the proper
time, buy his stuff when he needs it
from the local market thus eiiminat
| ing transportation and paying interest
to different middlemen for the privi
lege of taking his produce to and
| from the central markets.
By moving to the village our farm
er would be enabled to enjoy their
school, the library, etc. Ma farmer
could exchange her present “Wom
! an’s work is never done” with an ef-
ficient system of labor-saving devices
and devote_ her extra time thus gained
to social work or self-improvement,
etc.
The good road problem could easily
help the farmer to a ride to and from
his field, in time while his chicken*
and cattle would be well protected
from increased activity of some
speed maniacs who try to compete'
with each other in the amount of
damage they impose upon the farmer.
One hundred Additional farmers
would add to the average town about
25 square miles of land, consider
ing the holdings of the average farm
er to be about one hundred sixty acres
of land. Thus the farthest distance
for the farmer to travel from his house
to the field would be not more than
five miles With modern roads such
a distance could be easily traversed
by auto within fifteen minutes Time
enough for the average farmer to
accomplish his work without hurry
and giving his wife and children an
opportunity to enjoy the advantage?
of the farm and town combined.
FARE INDUSTRIAL
FILMS EXPOSED
Executive Warns of Moving Pictures
Used in Stock Promotion.
Holds, However, That Industry Is On
Eve of Great Benefit to Honest
Firms.
BY FRANCIS HOLLEY
(Editor’s Note). —Dr. Holley is at
the head of the Bureau of Commer
cial Economics, and is beyond doubt
the greatest showman in the world.
His Bureau sends motion pictures
to all parts of the world, and
reaches more than one million
people every week without charge,
and invariably to audiences admitted
free. These pictures deal with in
dustry, trade, commerce, agriculture,
public health sanitation and travel,
and are used to familiarize the peoples
of one country with the activi tH 3
and habits of those of another.
Since the revival of business a
strenuous effort is being made in the
industrial centers of the country to
devise new methods for exploiting the
goods and merchandise of the pro
ducer, not only for home consumption
but in foreign trade.
The motion picture seems to have
come into its own, and is being em
ployed very largely by various Euro
pean countries in their publicity cam
paigns.
The United States stands fifth in
this line of effort, but if the plans of
the various industrial organizations
are carried out it may move up to
first.
One of the difficulties in the mat
ter has been the imposition practiced
upon many of the large industries by
the unscrupulous film makers who
have by adroit advertising victimized
scores of them, subjected them to
enormous expenses, and obtaining
their money under false representa
tions. This is also true of many who
are using the screen for the sale of
fraudulent securities.
Misuse of Screen.
One of the functions of this bureau
has been to detect and expose the
films made to deceive the public. So
far the only opposition we have met
with comes from makers of film who
rob the manufacturer by subsidizing
the advertising manager.
As you well know, a bank has the
facilities for ascertaining the respon
sibility of a borrower; the merchant,
the credit of a customer; the news
paper, the truth of an advertise
ment; but where may a preacher or
a schoolmaster turn for light on
these subjects ? How may he know
that the advertisements contained in
the pictures he shows upon 'his
screen are reliable?
When a device, commodity or se
curity; worthless bond or stock,
Smoke preferred or Balloon common,
is so questionable no bank will lend
money to promote it, a respectable
broker deal with it, or a reputable
exchange trade on it, then the pro
moter seeks refuge in the celluloid
in an effort to gain a bank roll, by
fair or foul means. As he finds the
avenue of the professional screen
closed to his scheme, he resorts to
the schoolhouse or the neighborhood
church, and there work his wiles
upon the confiding and unsuspecting
members of the community. Such
picture may be shown under many
misleading titles —“Diamonds,” for
instance, and depict the mining of
nothing but coal; or “Gold,” and
show the mining of iron. Such men
will step at nothing to ensnare their
victims. Now, who is morally re
sponsible for the financial losses of
these innocent and unsuspecting
people?
No. Appropriation.
This bureau is constantly in re
ceipt of inquiries from all parts of
the United States, as to what Uncle
Sam offers in the way of facilitating
advertising in this and foreign coun
tries. Uncle Sam has no proposition
to make, for there is no appropria
tion available for exploiting any com
modity of any individual.
It is not uncommon for employes
of the Government to seek to use his
or her position to develop business
for the producer of any industrial
picture and use the facilities of the
Government in such a way as to im
press the advertising manager with
the thought that he is acting in be
half of the Government, whereas, in
■ ■ ■ cigarettes
A year ago—
almost unknown mS m
Today —a leader HB Ljß
A sweeping verdict for QUALITY
truth and in fact, he is only exploit
ing himself, and bringing his depart
ment into public ridicule.
They often use the automobiles of
the various departments and the
office facilities in outside agencies to
mislead and gullify the manufac
turers, but all of this should be dis
missed; for Uncle Sam authorizes no
one to spend his appropriation ex
cept under sanction of any Act of
Congress.
Taxes for Advertising.
It is unlawful for any Government
to us any public moneys, whatso
ever, in any manner, to advertise or
exploit the goods, wares or merchan
dise of any person, firm or corpora
tion, or lend or contribute the ser
vices or advice of any employe of
the Government, government “postal
frank,” or facilities or pay any trav
eling or other expenses of any em
ploye, in so doing, or use any instru
mentality of the Government or pres
tige of endorsement of any person,
firm or corporation for his, her or its
product or render or supply any
effort at the expense of any public
fund or appropriation in this behalf.
Any person, firm or corporation who
solicits or accepts any such co-opera
tion or contribution in defiance of
this fundamental basic principle of
law may be deemed equally guilty,
and redress may be had in the courts
by an injured taxpayer or trade com
petitor It is clearly just as unlawful
to use the instrumentalities of a gov
ernment to promote sales of the
product of a favored few as to pass
in any legislative body class legisla
tion.
This is absolutely prohibited by
statute.
LESS ALFALFA
THIS YEAR
Of the ten principal alfalfa counties
in Wisconsin, only two, Fond du Lac
and Sheboygan, counties show an in
creased acreage this year. The ether
eight counties all had their acreage
reduced by 35 to 80 per cent. Includ
ing one-year fields from which the
first crop will be cut this year, the
acreage is estimated at 92,000 acres,
compared to 131,000 in 1921 and a
five-year average of 71,000 acres.
Winter-killing was severe over south
ern Wisconsin. Condition on June 1,
was 75 per cent, compared to 94 per
cent last year and a ten-year average
of 89.8 per cent. Production is fore
casted at 199,000 tons compared to
343,000 tons in 1921 and a five-year
average of 190,000 tons.
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The latest in baby buggies, or—as our English cousins call ’em—“Pranrvt”
—the “Pramotor,” just put on the market. This ne wperambulator is pro
pelled at a speed of four miles per hous by a small gasoline engine which is
fixed to an extra wheel attached just behind it. The nurse stands on foot
boards placed on either side of the propelling wheel. Comfortable springs
and large pneumatic tires prevent vibration. i
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POPE ILL FROM SECLUSION IN
VATICAN
Pope Pius XI is sick and under the
care of physicians according to re
cent dispatches from Rome. When a
Cardinal he was known as a robust
mountain climber, but voluntary seclu
sion in the Vatican’s golden prison has
resulted in surprising decline in the
past few months. This is believed to
be due to the change from accustomed
open air and exercise to a quiet, ae
dentry life. This exclusive photo was
taken on his 65th birthday which he
celebrated recently.
RYECROP
COMING FINE
Production of rye is forecasted at
6,584,000 bushels, compared to 6,501,-
000 from May 1 conditions, 4,756,000
; bushels produced last year and a five
jyear average of 5,661,000 bushels. This
crop is well headed and over a week
earlier than usual. Conditions on
June 1 was 92 per cent, compared to
90 per cent last year and a ten- year
average of 89.9 ped cent.
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Farming in Iceland.
Iceland counts farming as one of
her leading Industries. She excels In
sheep-raising and in dairying. Ice
| land exports about 8270,000 worth of
I blitter in a year.