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sppppipw > * - .. •SfM PLAINDEALER :roi m , ^ i iW; ~p-*'7§s mm mm M, THE M THE M'HENRY PLAINDEALER Published every Thursday at McHenry, 111., by Charles F. Renich. Entered as second-class matter at the postofflce at McHenry, IU., un der the act of May 8, 1879. Subscription Rate* One Year .. Sfac Months . .$2.00 $100 BninmimniiHiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiii I Mews Brevities of Illinois IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIfflS A. H. MOSHER, Editor and Manager TRY THE HOME MERCHANT FIRST According to newspaper reports under date of Sunday, llarcli 14, the widow of the former head of one of the largest mail-order houses in the country has just made a donation of $4,000,000 to one of the large universities, beipg the second gift of t4(is size to the same school. • , That's fine and we are glad to see the educational institution benefit by this lady 's gonerosity>but we cannot help but pause and ask where did all this money come from originally? Does it represent profits derived fronrTTfr mail-order business! If so, it also represents millions which should have been the profits of the business men in every town or small city in*the - United States. There is no question but what the money was Obtained legitimately and in a businesslike manner; no doubt but what the purchasers received-the goods they bought and knew before-hand just what they were going to pay, and did ;,end the cash before the goods arrived. The mail-order house cannot be blamed and again we say we are pleased to see the university profit by the gift. But if the people who made it possible for the accumulation of such an amount of money had patronized their home merchants and business houses, there might have been more and better local schools built and maintained, more improvements of the roads and streets, more new business blocks and homes and more money spent for bettering the home community in hundreds of ways. These millions of dollars should have been spent in towns and small cities and then they would have been re-spent, many of them finally arriving back into the pockets of the original owners, to again be tossed into the circle and make the rounds. But when the cash is sent to the big cities mighty little of it ever returns. " What makes the-small town or city possible? The answer is "Business." . Where would this country be if all the business went to the mail-order plan? It would mean no towns, no place to market the produce, no banks and no stores. We can't all be farmers of big city people. The small town represents the life of the'railroads and in fact every other industry. The merchant in the country must have business or quit. He is deserving of patronage and entitled to a legitimate profit. In some cases his price may be a little higher than the mailorder catalogue, but usually it is just as cheap when quality is considered. Usually most ahy article desired can be found in local business places although there are some exceptions. "Try first to buy it at home," is a mighty good rule to follow. The home merchant does not ask for the cash until he delivers the goods and sometimes does not get the money for several months after delivery. The mail-order house must have the money before shipment is made. Oftentimes the cash customer of a catalogue house is the credit customer of the home merchant The trade-at-home movement wouldn't be a bad study once in awhile in the schools. Some of the heaviest taxpayers are the men in business right here at home. It is their money which helps to make the schools possible. The students in numerous instances are the*sons and daughters of these merchants. Yet quite often an example is set for them by the school itself in buying away from home... Business men are continually being" solicited fo* donations to help put over some" community move and very seldom do many of them refuse. They are the ones who are entitled to some consideration when this same donation is to be spent If this community, and i! is no different from any other, could hold the business that now goes to mail-order houses and the larger cities, every merchant and business man here would be forced to put on more help to take care of it, thus giving more employment to our own people. Handing your dollars to your neighbor creates an endless chain of local prosperity. Tliink it over next time you look at the attractive pictures of the big, fat catalogues. WITHHOLDING THE NEWS • How often do we hear somebody remark, speaking of a newspaper, "There's nothing in this blamed paper." Anc • sometimes they are justified, too. Of course, right away the editor is condemned for the shortage and again sometimes rightfully: " But the editor is not always altogether at fault. There „ are certain classes of people who do not want their names or thing in their power to prevent the publication, even to threat ening the published it lie prints anything concerning them It is the policy of The Plaindealer to pay no attention to rumors unless they can be traced to the proper source and facts established. Many times the publisher is told of happenings, and when a reporter starts tracing the rumor and finally reaches the source of verification, he is told not to publish anything. This circumstance happened two or three times during the last week. Another policy of this newspaper is to pay absolutely no attention to anonymous communications. These arrive at the • editor's desk very often, but unless letters are signed by the writer they will receive no consideration whatever. One in stance of this kind occurred last week. We received a letter stating that a young man from a western state, giving his na was visiting relatives in this communitv and planning to s of name , , „ - . . planning to start a sto(M< farm this fall; that he was reported to be wealthy, single and 'spends his money freely on women." The letter askec ja»V°n The Plaindealer and it was signec A rTiend. A friend of ours or'of the young man? Whoever wrote that letter is certainly no true friend of the partv mentioned and we do not want any friends of this calibre. v,„u °,°c,e, sajd that "An editor gets hell if he does^nd tell if he don t. And after many years' experience in the game, we behove he was right. However, we welcome any just eroticism. Whether we "do or we don't," we expect it any- Any items of news are welcomed and solicited. It is impossible to get out a newspaper without the help of the people The Plaindealer wants the news. Maybe a few of thoL who eay There's nothing in the blamed paper" might help bv calling 170. F ' Victor Deweln, known throughout central Illinois as a grain buyer, la dead at Decatur. Mrs. Warren Boteford, an invalid, burned to death in a clothes closet of her home at Mollne. Mis* Mollie Lannan, for 11 years business manager of the Lincoln Star, is dead following an operation. Three Peoria high-school girls were expelled for having and drinking wine at school. Their nams were withheld by school authorities. Purchase has been made of a tract of 11 acres of land upon which Moline plans to establish two 5,000,000- gallon water reservoirs. The 20-room country home of Harmon A. •, Mar bold, near Oreenvlew, north of Springfield, was destroyed by Are with a loss of $66,000. Northern IUlnols division yolley ball tournament, under the auspices of the state Younx Men's Christian association, will be held at Rockford in April. The Moline Ministerial association has launched a campaign of opposition to the state boxing bill, the adoption of which Is left to the voters on April 20. Willam C. Blair, sixty-five years Old, former state representative and brother of Prances G. Blair; state superintendent of public instruction, is dead at Mount Vernon. The Winnebago County Medical society has adopted a new fee bill increasing the charge for night and Sunday calls to $5, day visits to $3 and office calls to $2. At a meeting of the Kane county board of .Supervisors at Geneva, Miss Etta Norton of Dundee was elected coroner to succeed her father, the late Eugene H. Norton. The county board at Danville has Issued the first dance hall permit for resorts outside the city to the I. and I. Fair association, stipulating that no Sunday dances be held. Surgeons who recently operated on Mrs. John Mock of Charleston, found rusted ten-inch forceps in the abdominal cavity, left there by surgeons who operated two years ago. The village of Pleasant Plains does not want a woman town marshal. It showed that at its primary election, when It gave Maude Adams, running against eight men, but two votes. Mrs. Alice Gllllland, supreme oracle the Royal Neighbors of America and for years prominent in national women's fraternal insurance circles,, died at her home in Rock Island. Kankakee, the home town of Governor Small, has been awarded the 1927 annual meeting of the Illinois Farmers' institute. Waukegan, Peoria, Rockford, Jacksonville, Macomb, Mollne, Mount Vernorf^and Pinckneyvllle all had sought it. Determination to object to the bill costs filed against Rock Island county by Knox county in the matter of the John Looney murder trial held Galesburg last December, Is announced by State's Attorney Ben Bell. This bill, approximately $8,000, will come before the supervisors at the March meeting. George F. Kuhlman, Virginia, former commissioner in Cass county, must return $800 Into the county treasury which he had been given for aoting as overseer of the poor. The Third district Appellate court held he had no right to pay for those duties'when already he was receiving a salary as commissioner. Pointing out that typhoid fever prevalence in Illnols in 1925 was 45 per cent greater than In 1924 and that automobile touring Increased In similar proportion. Dr. Isaac D. Rawllngs, state health director, has Issued a pretourlng season warning to motorists advising vaccination and rigid sanitary precautions against this disease. One cigarette every two and a half seconds represents the average rate of consumption by University of IUlnols students, results of a survey show. The aggregate annual consumption of cigarettes is 13,968,000 and of pipe tobacco seven and oneseventh tons. The number of cigars smoked, or at least purchased, by students, Is 296,160. Hunters and farmers can obtain from the Illinois department of conservation pheasant eggs for hatching. There will be 50,000 of them on hand during the next three months for the department to distribute to those who simply ask for them. With these the total number thus supplied during three years will have been brought up to 150,000. The nilnol8 State Conference of Plasterers and Cement Finishers at their sixth annual /meeting at Danville, elected the'following officers: President, James Dunn, Champaign; secretary-treasurer, Samuel McCurray, Bast St. Louis; vice presidents, Frank H. Cunningham, Ottawa: Charles G. Tomlinson, Danville; Robert Davis, Rock Islatad; George Pagent, Streator; C. H. Bales. Waukegan, and Charles Jenkins, Gillespie. Peter Staats, forty-five years old. | farmer, living near Wood River, killed his estranged wife, Hulda Staats, forty years old, and then killed himself. The Hansen murder jury at Springfield was dismissed when It told Circuit Judge F. W. Burton It was hopelessly deadlocked. The court Immediately set March 29 as the date for the new trial of the two youthful defendants, John Buskievlch and John Parks, alleged slayers of Bdmund J. Hansen, Chicago furniture manufaoorer, MARCH 18, 1926 The funny side of life, it seems, slips by a lot of folk. They never get the benefit of any bloomin' joke. The little things that tickle one, and oft provoke a smile, are just the things that, after all, make living worth the while. I have a lot of sympathy for men who cannot grin. They lose the fun most people get by letting sunshine in. Their facial lines, instead of up, are always turning down. But this would change if they would let a smile replace their frown. A hearty welcome always waits the man who,s full of cheer. The world, at large will greet him 'cause it's mighty glad he's here. He spreads the ^ort of spirit jthat can make the world look bright. He thinks a laugh's a tonic and he always finds he's right. Come on, you sombre people who are dull and sad oface, produce a smile and knock the frown and got to try a bit; its soft to make the grade. Step ou and hrow a laughter fit and join the joy parade. I like waxed floors. After I re waxed and polished ours the other week, a neighbor tfho "just ran in to see if I could use your phone for a moment" for the fifteen thousand nine hundred and seventeenth time slipped on the glassy surface and had to be carried home unconscious. The plumber who came to replace ja. section of leaky waterpipe and grossly overcharged me, lost his footing at the head of the cellar stairs. I don't think I ever saw a man fall harder. They say he will be able to leave the hospital in two weeks. A woman who was collecting funds with which to establish free beauty parlors for Hottentot girls, sat down unexpectedly in the hall and slid half way to the kitchen door. She left at once, laughing hysterically. Uncle Harry, who regularly invites himself to visit us for an indefinite period every year, forgot to be careful on the landing and descended the remaining stairs in a very unconventional fashion. He did not miss a single tread. I know because I counted thirteen distinct thumps. Next morning I helped him out to the taxi that was to take him to the station. As I said before, I like floors. DRYS PLAN WAR TO STEM WET ADVANCE Counter-Offensive Started to C^cdk Demand far Change in Present Law. Washington.--Goaded Into action by fear that prohibition la losing favor, dry leaders In and out of congress have determined to start a counteroffensive to stem the rising tide of sentlmeat for modification of the Volstead act. While drys publicly denounce the poll being taken by newspapers, revealing an overwhelming majority of the votes cast In favor of beer and wine, they admit privately that the poll has convinced them that they must bestir themselves or the prohltlon cause will lose ground rapidly. Senator McKellkr of Tennessee, a teetotaler and one of the most enthusiastic prohibitionists In the senate, has been selected to b^gln the dry drive. In order to stop criticism by wets of the laxity of enforcement, It Is understood Anti-Saloon league leaders hope to win support from the President for more drastic legislation. Although Senator Cummins of Iowa, chairman of the senate judiciary committee, announced appointment of a subcommittee to 'consider the various bills for repeal or modification of the Volstead law, the question of open hearings will be determined by the full committee after the small body reports. The subcommittee consists of Senators Means, Colorado, chairman; Uoff, West Virginia; Harreld, Oklahoma; Reed, Missouri, and Walsh of Montana. AU but Reed are counted as drys. In the house dry leaders held a council of war and determined to defer as long as possible hearings before the house committee on alcoholic liquor traffic to survey the results of prohibition. Representative Oliver of New York offered a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment providing "a state law consistent with the Constitution shall be the supreme law within the boundaries of the state; the Volstead act notwithstanding." In an accompanying statement, Oliver declared congress has usurped the field of enforcement, under a Supreme court decision, and reduced states to mere enforcement agencies of the national government. He added: "The rebellion of the people against the Volstead law Is so widespread that the time Is here for the restoration of state authority." waxed A Country Doctor Defined: If you can set a fractured femur with a piece of string and a(*flat-iron and get as good results as the mechanical engineering staff of a city hospital at 10 per cent of their fee: If you can drive through ten miles of mud to ease the little child of a dead beat; If you can diagnose tonsilitis from diphtheria with a laboratory fortyeight hours away; If you can pull the three-pronged fishhook molar of the 250 lb. hired man; If you can maintain your equilibrium when the lordly specialist sneeringly refers to the general practitioner; If you can change tires at four below at 4 A. M.; If you can hold' the chap with lumbago from taking back rubs for kidney trouble from the chiropractor; Thon, twy hny, you a, Conntrv Doctor. A little girl from Illinois was crossing th<k Atlantic with her mother. It was ner first ocean trip. The sea was As smooth as the proverbial mill pond for the first three days; then the ship began rolling and pitching heavily. The child could not under stand what had happened. "Mamma," she said, "what's the matter; are we on a detour?" WASHINGTON BRIEFS France has reopened discussion with United States of her $4,000,000,000 iebt The house foreign affairs committee favorably reported the bill appropriating $10,000,000 for constructing American embassies and consular buildings In foreign capitals. Organisation of the nation's first dry air corps was ordered by Rear- Admlral BUlard, commandant of the coast guard. The Internal revenue bureau will continue to accept separate Income tax returns from husbands and wives In Nevada, Arizona, Idaho, Louisiana, Texas, Washington and New Mexico, it was announced. Author* Who Evincad interest in Cookery It the stories of Brilhit-Savarln which It Is proposed to publish In commemoration of his centenary reveal their author to the world as a successful writer of fiction as well as a gastronomer, he may perhnvs be regarded as repaying the Interest which some noted novelists have taken In matters of the table. Balzac took a keen Interest In cookery, as befitted a man of gigantic appetite. So also did George Sand, whose cookery must have been pretty good, since It was reputed te be as exciting as her romances. Joseph Conrad, as he admitted In connection with a cook book written by Mrs. Conrad, gave a high place In his esteem to the culinary arts, while George Meredith left a book of cookery receipts In his own handwriting which figured In a book seller's catalogue some years ago and may possibly yet appear In print ' ' Plaindealer Ads Get Results. Idea of inferiority • Not ai All Uncommon The feeling of Inferiority is an experience so nearly universal that It ounnot be considered abnormal or evidence of disease, declares a writer In H.vgela Mngazine. Most of us have had this feeling at some time In our lives, such as when making a speech, undertaking a new Job. or raking a prominent pan in Home social function. Th® stammering, trembling, palpitation and emptiness of mind which comes at being called on to face a new situation are familiar fo all of us. However, by establishing habits of coursge and self-reliance and by learning to attend to the matter In hani rather than to our feelings, most of up have been able to overcome these dlw Acuities. If these feelings of inability to meet the situation are not facedfrankly and overcome, one establishes . a habit of fear. Then the sense o| * failure and the feelings of Inferiority become habitual, and one's lot will bi Indeed unhappy. Friday and Saturday SPECIALS INTRODUCING OUR REGULAR 40c COFFEE, a good blend at, per lb 35tf BASKET FIRED JAPAN GREEN TEA, per lb.--49^ SLICED PINEAPPLE, No. 2Vz cans at, per can--25^ CORN, No. 2 cans ^---- 2 FOR 25^ COOKING APPLEJ5 , 4 LBS. FOR 25^ BANANAS 3 LBS. FOR 25^ CHOICE TENDER ROUND STEAK, regular price, per lb. ------28^ NATIVE POT ROAST, special at, per lb. , •" , 21 it BACON, excellent grade, per lb -- 35^ We offer only the best for sale. Riverside Drive Cash Grocery & Market ALBERT BARBIAN, Prop. KEGK will be the* call letters of the "North Pole Radio Station" of the Arctic expedition to be headed by Lieutenant Commander Richard B. Byrd, he announces. Powerful radio equipment for transmission of telegraphic reports will be carried Into the Far North, Byrd stated, and dally communication will be attempted. "I' don't mind housekeeping," McHenry bride said to the Plaindealer. But I do hate to cook. It seems useless to work so hard to make something and then sit down and eat it all up." « "Why," asks a ness-loving hermit, "should man sell outu the only life he has, the things that make for happiness for a bathtub and steam heat?" He should find the answer in any wilderness where the winter temperature registers minus zero, the ice is a foot thick on all creeks in the neighborhood and the firewood box is empty. Anyway Somebody wisecracks that It often takes a man's children to make some thing of him. At any rate they can get married and make a grandfathet of him.--Strickland Gillian In Fans Life. 2 A Meal in Ret Victim (to barber wh careless with his lather)- good. You must have RM sometime.--Boston « f.iifc-1. • . .miaaaaeBM&aiht " A man is as old as he feels, and a woman tries to act like she feels as young as she would like to look. An old man travelling on a lone highway came at the evening cold and gray to a chasm deep and wide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim, for that swollen stream had no fears for him, but he turned when he reached the other side, and built a bridge to span the tide. "Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near, "you are wasting your time in building here, your iourney will end with the closing day; your feet will never again pass this way. You crossed the chasm deep and wide, so why do you build a bridge at the evening tide?" The pilgrim raised his old gray head, "Good friend, on the way I go" he said, "there follows after me today a youth whose feet must pass this way. This chasm which has been naught to me, to that fairhaired youth may a pitfall be. He, too, must cross in the twilight dim, and, good friend, I am building this bridge for Mm." Mob Kilh Three in • Mexican Church Riot Nayarlt, Mexico.--Three representatives of the State of Nayarlt were killed and a number of persons injured, one girl probably fatally, In a riot resulting from orders to close s Catholic church at Jallsquelio, a neighboring town. The officials met armed opposition from church followers. A Catholic priest at- Jallsquelio had Called to comply with the closing law and was standing his ground against Presidential orders, with the backing of his flock. Representatives of the government at Jallsquelio were met by an Infuriated mob, which demanded their withdrawal. Undaunted by t£e mob confronting them, which was armed with all sorts of weapons, the three men faced the gathering and read the authorization of the government's closing of the church. Soldiers In sufficient numbers to protect. -the dignitatis were not available. We Are Pleased to Announce the Affiliation of Mr. ROBERT J. GREEN as a Partner in the Firm of REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Telephone 164 McHenry, Illinois To Prison for Life Mason, Mich.--Arthur C. Rich, millionaire's son, was found guilty of criminally assaulting Louise King, twenty, Battle Creek college co-ed, by a Jury here. Judge Colllngwood immediately sentenced the twenty-twoyeer- old defendant to life Imprisonment at Jackson. Wine "Fiddle Down" at 72 #lblon, Ind.--liariey Buss, seventy- 5 j, won first place in a fiddling and clng contest staged hers. Wing Spread Variee The spread of an albatross' wings Is 14 times the width from bark to front, while the spread of the swallow's wings Is only four times the width. Golf Widow's Refuge An Atchison woman sees so lit tie of her husband, who Is a golf player, that she will become a foreign mli»- try--Atchison (Hefcft, ? ' Legislative Voters League STATEMENT OF RECORD FOB EIGHTH DISTRICT (Counties of Boone, Lake and McHenry) William F. Weiss, representative (Rep.); lawyer, Waukegan. Is ending his third ^erm in the House with a very good record. Charles H. Francis, representative (Rep.); lawyer, Woodstock. Is ending his third term; at the last session he did effective work in getting the Tice bill for the tuberculin testing of cattle amended for the protection of the dairy interests of the state; is recognized as one of the most hard-working and independent members; has habitually voted against extravagance and has made a very good record. N. L. Jackson, representative (Rep.); farmer. Belvidere. Is finishing his first term; sickness caused him to miss many roll-calls during the session, but 14s record was creditable. ' OFFICIAL^£UCTIgpJill£U&, 1924 Primary '24 Jackson Francis Boone Co. ..7,638 1,506 McHenry Co. 4,664 8,893 Totals in Three Counties Weiss .. .29,333 Jackson .15,729 Francis .17,864 2 Counties . . . . . 1 2 ,203* 10,399 Election 14 Boone Co. .... McHenry Go. 2 Couatiit ; Jackson Francis ...11,430 2,782 ... 9,041 11,734 --r----- .. .2M?1 14,616 11,469 Weiss' Majority Totals in Three Counties Weiss ...34,919 Jackson .84,721 Francis .S0,Q,0 $5^ J