Decorah public opinion., January 11, 1922, Image 1

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"Over the Hill” Most Powerful of all
Modern Motion Picture Dramas
Open# Four Days En
gaf ment at Lyric.
BEST
PRODUCED IN YEARS
Picture Suns at Lyric for Four Days
And Nights, So Doo*t Miss
J. This WofMkrful
Attraction.
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Vol. XXVffl.
One of the great epoch making
photoplays <of many years ,is the
beautiful William Fox photo drama
•of mother love entitled “Over the
Hill,” which opens at the Lyric The
atre in Decorah today.
Founded upon the famous poem by
Will Ca.deton, this simple story of
the devotion of a mother for her
children in spite of the trials and
tribulations to which they subject
her, is one of the most appealing
and lovable stories ever screened.
•Staged under the direction of Harry
Millarde, it has relied for its great
strength with the public upon the
simple theme and plain story of a
mother and her family whom she
carefully rears and protects.
There is no suggestion of big mas
sive scenes, no spectacular effect#, no
crowds—nothing but the simple,
thrillfng and powerful story that
touches the heart of all humanity
and brings everyone to realize the
love and affection with which a
mother’s memory should always be
revered.
Produced in New York by William
Fox in September of 1920, without'
ostentation, without any furore or
newspaper fire works, the fafne of
the simple and beautiful Jpcturc
■“Over th£ Hill” spread like wild-flri.
All who saw it sent hundreds of
their friends. Newspapers hailed it
as one of the groat and crowning
ar"ftic triumphs of the motion pi< J
lure wor Clergymen preached
.ermons about it. Editors wrote ed
itorials advising every mother’s son
and daughter to see “Over the Hill”.
The result of this word-of-mouth ad
vertising was to send such crowds
to see “Over the Hill” that William
Fox repeatedly extended the engage
ment, leasing one theatre after an
other and moving “Over the Hill”
continuously until it was finally pre
sented at six different theatres on
Broadway. It must be remembered
also that “Over the Hill” was pre
sented in leading first class Broad
way theatres, at the top scale of
$2.00 for the best seats, and for
many weeks this single attraction
playing daily matinees drew the re
markable gross business of more than
$22,000 per week. These figures are
asbsolutely accurate and have been
the marvel of all who have been fa
miliar with the presentation of fea
ture pictures on Broadway.
The story of “Over the Hill” deals
with a mother, acted by Mary Carr,
who endeavors to raise her children
in the path of righteousness and with
that end in view she makes every
sacrifice so that her children may
have the proper schooling and com
forts. Unfortunately, her husband is
a genial good for nothing, who even
goes so far as to become involved in
a crime rather than work. In the
family, there are four brothers and
two sisters.- John, the black sheep of
the family, is constantly getting
into mischief, while Isaac, the eldest,
is a cad and a hypocrite.
Finally, the children are grown to
manhood and begin life's occupations.
The two sisters marry. Isaac, the
cad, becomes a prosperous business
man, and only John, the black sheep,
is left alone with his mother, al
though he, too, has a sweetheait.
The father, careless, lazy, and good
for nothing, is accused of horse steal
ing and circumstances are such that
to protect his father from going to
jail John takes upon himself the bur
den of the crime. It almost breaks
the heart of his mother and of his
pretty sweetheart when he is sent
to prison for a crime he did not
commit, but the weak father, hesitat
ing to confess the truth, permits the
sacrifice. *
Three years pass. John is released
from prison and comes back home
to find his father is dead, his mother
has been negletted by all of the
other children, and the hypocritical
Isaac has even approp**ted for his
own use the money that should have
gone to aupport his aged mother.
(Ontiaued on page two)
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USE $75,000,000
ON 1922 ROADS
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What Will Winneshiek County Do
With Her Share of
Highway Fund?
GREATLY EXTEND BUILDING
OF PERMANENT ROADS
Money in Available Soon After Jan.
I—Some Change in Allot
ment Plana.
A federal fund of $75,000,000 will
be available for the highway im
provement of 1922, as federal aid for
road construction in the various
states, the money to be spent under
the supervision of the Bureau of
Public Roads, Department of Agri
culture, under the Federal Highway
act, signet! November 28th by the
president. In addition, $15,000,000 is
appropriated for national forest
roads. The $75,000,000 represents
the Federal government’* appropria
tion to the work of building high
ways in the various states and must
be matched, dollar for dollar, by
funds from the state treasuries ex
cept in states where more than 5
per cent of the area is unappropri
ated public land. The $75,000,00 ap
propriated is for the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1922, and is available
January 1, 1922.
The Federal Highway act in a gen
eral way resembles the Federal Aid
act of 1916, but contains several new
features. Administration of the act
by the Secretaiy of Agriculture, and
under him the Bureau of Public
Roads, remain unchanged.
Apportionment of the fund to the
states is almost the same as in the
previous act, the fund being divided
into three parts, one* part apportion
ed according to population, one ac
cording to area, and one part ac
cording to mileage of rural and star
muter A new feature is the
stipulation t>j*t no ‘4shall re
ceive less than one-half in due 'pci
cent of the total fund which, in this
case, amounts to $366,625. This
stipulation will increase the amount
received by four of the smaller
states, i. e., Delaware, New Hamp
shire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
There is considerable change, how
ever, in the manner in which a state
may use its allottment. Each state
must select a connected road system,
rot exceeding 7 per cent of its road
mileage for improvement with fed
eral aid. This system will be divided
into two classes, one of which will
be known as inter-state highways and
the other as intercounty highways.
The interstate highways must not
exceed three-sevenths of the system
selected; on them not more than 60
per cent of the state’s allottment
can be spent without the joint ap
proval of the Secretary of Agricul
ture and the state highway depart
ment. The intercounty highways,
which consist of the remainder of
the system selected, will receive the
remainder of the state’s allottment.
Except in states where more than
5 per cent of the area is unappropri
ated public land, the amount of fed
eral aid received on any project must
not exceed 50 per cent of the esti
mated cost. In states where more
than 5 per cent of the area is unap
propriated public land the 50 per cent
allottment is increased by an amount
equal to one half the percentage of
unappropriated land in the state. Be
fore any funds can be paid to a state
the state must appropriate money,
under the direct control of the state
highway department, to match Jhe
federal aHottment, and for the main
tenance of federal aid highways.
All highways in the interstate sys
tem must have a surfaced width of
at least 18 feet, unless a narrower
width is deemed permissable by the
Secretary of Agriculture. In case a
federal-aid highway is not properly
maintained by a state, the state will
be given 00 days notice by the de
partment. At the end of that time if
the highway is not in good condition
of maintenance, the Secretary of Ag
riculture will maintain it out of the
state’s allottment and refuse to ap
prove any new projects until reim
bursement is made by the state.
It is estimated by engineers of the
United States Department of Agri
culture that the Federal aid roads
under construction on October 31
were giving employment to about
250,000 men, either directly on the
actual road construction, or indi-
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DECORAH,
BASKET BALL
AT LUTHER
Fine Schedule Has Been Arranged
For This Season. Opening
Game Next Friday.
PREPS HAVE A
FINE SCHEDULE ALSO
Blind Man Gave a Fine Recital at
College Last Friday
Evening.
Coach DosefT of Luther College
has arranged the following schedule
of basket ball games for the present
season:
Jan. 13—Campion at Decorah.
Jan. 16—Iowa State Teacher’ Col
lege at Decorah.
Jan. 20—Upper lowa at Fayette.
Jan. 21—Iowa State Teachers’ Col
lege at Cedar Falls.
Feb. 2—Dubuque at Dubuque.
Feb. 3—Columbia at Dubuque.
Feb. 4—Campion at Prairie du
Chien.
Feb. 10—Columbia at Decorah.
Feb. 17—St. Olaf at Decorah.
Feb. 23—St. Olaf at Northfield.
Feb. 24—Winona Normal at Win
ona.
Feb. 25—St. Mary’s at Winona.
Mar. 3—Dubuque at Decorah.
The schedule contains more state
games than Luther has played in,
years. lowa State Teachers’ College I
at Cedar Falls appears on the sche
dule for the first time in the history i
of the two schools.
The faculty and students at Lu
ther college enjoyed a recital given
by Mr. Walter C. Gran of James
town college, Jamestown, No. Dak.,
on the evening of Jan. 6th. The
recital was to have been held in the
auditorium but due to the extreme l
cold the chapel was used. Mr. Gran
was greeted by a capacity house.
Mr. Gran's program consisted of
selected readings. His work was of
a remarkably high standard consid- .
ering the fact that he has been to tab;
ly blind since his seventeenth year.
Plunged into total darkness without
the slightest warning at that time,
he entered the North / kota State
School for the Blind a*- ** -
grade 3tudent and sine** cp even
year at that institution. -*r written .
Tuo o-n.i livmg at tne same. JP**
ishing high school and coliege.
The “Preps" have a long hard
schedule covering lots of territory, i
Following is the games scheduled to
date:
Jan. 10 —Calmar at Decorah.
Jan. 13—Waukon at Decorah.
Jan. 20 —Pillsbury Academy at
Owatonna.
Jan. 30 — Lecorah H. S. at Luther.
Feb. 3—Cresco at Cresco.
Feb. 9—Waldorf at Forest City.
Feb. 10—Academy at Albert Lea,
Luther Academy.
Feb. 11—Pillsbury Academy at
Owatonna.
Feb. 16 —Cresco at Decorah.
Feb. 24 —Waukon at Waukon.
Feb. 25 —Campion at Prairie du
Chien.
Mar. 3 —Decorah at n. S.
Mar. 7 to 9—lnterscholastic
Tournament at Luther among Aca-1
demies in N. L. church of America.
“What can you expect of a coun
try” said congressman Purnell of
Indiana the other day, “that spends
twice as much money on chewing
gum as on school books?”
The fathers of the people who are
throwing away their money on non
essentials, got a start in life by deny
ing themselves these little luxuries.
They scrimped themselves so as to
have money * for self improvement.
So they developed an intelligent gen
eration that produced a wonderful
mechanical civilization.
The American people are sound at
heart, and in the end surmount dif
ficulties. But they make themselves
much trouble by spending their re
sources for trifles, while neglecting
such a fundamental of. prosperity
and welfare as education.
Noting that the teachers are talk
ing about organizing a union the
Perry 'Chief suggests every time
Johnny is kept after school hours
for punishment there can be a bill
for overtime.’'
When she quits calling it “lingerie"
the honeymoon is over.
rectly in the production and trans
portation of the materials which en
ter into the construction.
The new act just signed, will, it is
stated, keep these men at work, so
far as weather conditions will per
mit, and thereby prevent the unem
ployment situation from becoming
more serious. Without the new ap
propriation many of the states would
[soon have been forced to curtail their
work for lack of fuitds.
Chewing Gum and School Books
COUNTY, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1922
C. 0. F. BANQUET
NEXT SUNDAY
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Initiatory Banquet of Catholic Order
Of Foresters Will be Held in
Decorah Sunday, Jan. 13.
LARGE CLASS W ILL
BE TAKEN IN
Preminmt State Officials Will be in
Attendance. Fine Program
Will be Given.
if The Catholic Order of Foresters of
Court No. 1240, Decorah, are plan
ning on a big initiatory banquet to
be held in Decorah next Sunday,
January 15. During the afternoon
a large class will be taken in and
a’ banquet will be served at 6:00
p. m. in the parlors in the basement
of St. Benedicts Catholic church. The
organization has been growing rap
idly and a large number is joining
the order.
A number of the state officials of
the order will be present and are
on the program for toasts. The
following program will be carried
out:
Program
Toastmaster Atty. E. P. Shea
Toast John Ryder
' State Chief Ranger, Dubuque
Song Miss Hazel Courtney
Toast Wm. H. Meuser
State Court Trustee, Dubuque
Toast —“Good of the Order ......
; Orvine McHugh
State Court Trustee, Cresco
Violin Solo Mrs. Ruth Dowpey
Toast Rev Father M. Hogan
Song—“ The Holiday"
Miss Lucile Rosenthal
Toast Chas. E. Byrnes
State Secretary, Cedar Rapids
The following menu will be served
by the ladies of the church:
Menu
Fruit Cordial
Roast Chicken, Dressing
Mashed Potatoes, Brown Gravy
, Peas
House Rolls Butter
Vrter,' *** ->
< i Jelly ' j
Pumpkin Pie Whipped
Coffee
j Opera Stick Cigars
* The following candidates will be
I taken into the Court next Sunday:
John P. Casey.
John P. Courtney
James A. Keefe
Joseph Carolan
Thos. McConnell
James W. Casey
Ernest A. Broghammer
Patrick H. Carolan
John R. Casey
Miles E. Henry
i Raymond B. Gossman
J. Malanaphy
Patrick Courtney
J James Caiolan
John W. Kelly
James T. Kelly
j James S. Carolan
A,,uke J. Courtney
J. Mullaney
iUiv*. ael F. Courtney
T. F. Courtney
Wm. Skeely
W. H. Burns
James P. Keefe
Edward Keefe
Big Year for Automobiles
The total production of gasoline
propelled vehicles up to December 1
exceeded 1,500,000 and the total for
the whole year will be close to the
record and possibly exceed it. Signs
like these indicate that the business
depression has been considerably ex
aggerated. The country on the
whole must be prosperous, to invest
so great a sum of money in this
means of transportation.
While the majority of these cars
are used primarily for pleasure pur
poses, yet all these machines im
prove the equipment of the American
people. They save time and permit
business and civic work to be carried
on in a much more economical way.
They facilitate all kinds of public
and private enterprises, besides pro
viding millions of people with a form
of outdoor life that builds up their
physical condition.
Is Home Life Gone?
Anamosa, lowa —Father Robert
Powers, chaplain of the men s re
formatory, declares that the current
crime wave is the effect of a dis
eased condition of the social body.
“Home used to be considered the
cornerstone of the republic and the
foundation of democracy,” he said,
“but now it is little more than a
place to eat and sleep. Divorce and
disrespect for the law with the lack
of love is undermining, dismantling
and disintegrating the home.”
Lots of self-made men forget their
wives bossed the job.
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BIG HOMECOMING
HEBE FAIR WEEK
Commercial Club Has Decided to
Stage a Big Homecoming of
Former Decorah Residents
Next Summer.
COMMITTEES FOR WORK
#AS BEEN SELECTED
BE TAKEN IN
Will be the Biggest Week Decorah
Has Known in Many
Years.
The question of a big homecoming
of former Decorah residents has been
settled by the Decorah Commercial
Club and plans now laid are to hold
the big event during our fair week
next August.
Committees have been selected and
\#ork on the program will go on
daily from now on.
The first homecoming held a few
years ag) was a tremendous success
and proved a great week for De
corah. We want all the old “boys
and girls” who formerly called De
corah their homes to be back Home
coming week and renew old ac
quaintances and look the old town
ever again. The keys of the city will
be turned over to the homecomers,
and it goes without saying that they
will have the time of their lives.
Watch the newspapers for further
particulars, and plan to be one of
the merry throng who will visit
their old home town next August.
A meeting of the Commercial Club
will be held tomorrow Thursday eve
ening at the Rest Room, and fur
ther nTUtters pertaining to the home- j
coming will be taken up. Don’t miss j
the meeting tomorrow night.
IOWA’S WARMEST
YEAR WAS 1921
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Record Wet For Average Tfm-
at 53.9 Degrees.
•L-lipsed Highest Average
• \ ’Mark of Any Previ-
ous Year.
SEVERE BLOW DEALT TO
MEN WHO HANDLE COAL
Highest Average Mark of Any I*re
vious Year During Forty Years
Of Record Keeping.
Des Moines—Old Man 1921, bat
tered and disheveled, who was
knocked out of the ring by “Kid’
1922 Saturday night when the hands
of the clock stood straight up, drag
ged with him a new record.
For forty-four years officials of
the local weather bureau have been
attempting to issue a satisfactory
brand of weather to the people of
lowa, but it remained for the newest
addition to the years of history to
produce the most agreeable weather
on record.
The past year was the warmest
year in the history of weather an
nals in lowa.
With an average temperature of
53.9 for every day of the year, 1921
eclipsed the highest average mark
of any previous year. A record set
in 1913 in which the average temper
ature was 51.8 w’as battered by 2.1
degrees in the showing made by 1921.
November was the only month of
the year which registered lower than
the average months of previous years,
according to statistics issued last
night by the weather bureau. No
vember, 192 1, showed an average
temperature of 35.8 while the previ
ous average is one degree higher.
The year may have dealt some
mean blows, but it helped us keep
the coal trucks from cracking the
cement in the driveway.
Two farmers in an English coun
try inn had managed to get hold of
a newspaper. One held it and they
both devoured it. After some time
one of them muttered:
“Marvelous things, them newspa
pers. Cater to 'every taste. Some
thing for everyone.”
“Yes” said the other, “but what’s
that kind o’ blank space?”
He pointed to the space at the foot
of the stop press news.
“Oh, that,” said the first airly,
“that be for them as can’t read.”—
Chicago Herald and Examiner.
To get more not only work more
but more intelligently.
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Something For All
MUBOER HEABING
STILL GGING ON
Investigation of the Van Brocklin
Murder Case is Still in Pro
gress at Court House.
NO INKLING WHEN
Witnesses are Being Examined and
the Case is Being Probed to
the Very Bottom.
The preliminary hearing of F- B.
Kneeskem held in connection wifh
the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Van Brocklin on Dec. 11, is still in
progress at the court house. The
public is barred from the hearing,
and no news is given out, so the
procedure this far is all guess work
on the part of the public as to what
is going on, and how long the hear
ing will lasjt.
A report in the daily papers last
week was to the effect that the At
torney General of lowa was going
to make an investigation of the case
here because of the secret hearing.
But that was so called daily news
paper hot air. The attorney general
said no one had complained to him,
but the matter of a closed hearing
was up to the county attorney to
decide, so it is very evident that the
officers here are proceeding according
to law.
SUPERIORITY TO MONEY
Many Have Learned to Get Along
Comfortably Without Much
Money.
The American people have always
been ‘charged with worshiping the
“almighty dollar”. Anyway, the pur
suit of money, for the majority of
people seems the most evident mo
tive of their lives.
When 'pu consider how anyone
comfortably in these times, It I* at
least a natural point of view’. Yet
there are some who have learned to
get along comfortably without much
money. For instance, there is Sergt.
Alvin C. York, the war hero, to
whom Marshal Foch said: “What
you did was the greatest thing ever
accomplished by any soldier of any
of the armies of Europe.”
Sergt. York could go into the
movies, and clean up a few hundreds
of thousands of dollars as easily as
you would run a peanut stand at a
circus entrance. But he won’t do it,
and perfers the modest life of a
humble cabin in his Tennessee moun
tains, where he can be close to Got!
and nature auij the simple hearted
and genuine mountaineers, where al
so he can work for his cherished pro
ject of educating the people of his
own 'highlands.
There is something almost sub
lime in this indifference to the money
worshipping sentiments of his fellow'
countrymen. Many people would say
that York was foolish thus to re
main out of step with the spirit of
the age. If he w’ould go into the
entertainment business he could eas
ily earn funds with which to carry
out his cherished projects of home
betterment.
If Sergt. York had been an ordin
ary man, he would probably never
have dared take such chances in bat
tle, and so would never have been
heard of. While ambition for busi
ness success is laudable, and he;ps
serve the public efficiently, yet men
like York are a reminder that the
American people think far too much
money, and believe that it alone will
give happiness, when . ever does.
Developing Water Powers
The passage of the federal act of
1920 providing for development of
water powers, is encouraging many
capitalists to go ahead on this class
of projects. The number of appli
cations for such development for the
past six months equals the total of
all applications for the preceeding 15
years.
Every such a development means
a lower cost for power now generat
ed by coal or other fuel. It enables
many industrial districts to get along
with little coal. Water powers do
not go on strike. Investors should
be encouraged 'to put money into a
kind of project that reduces cost 9
for all that use it, ami the product
of which must sell better and bettes
as the country grows.
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