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-fjryTrirt wi "ia4uw11' i' 1 g. ijCTifw ii0 ii-ffirf Tt mr ix hi tfin8- t- Home Owned Hume Filileil Hume Read ED1TOK1AL PAGE OF THE CAPITAL TIMES Thursday Afternoon, December 16, 1948 OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Major Hoople THE CAPITAL TIMES Daily Records A Communist Slant On Fire Published every nfternoon end Sunday morning by Madison Newspapers Inc Editorial direction oy The Capital Times Company. Until Noon Today From N. Y. DAILY WORKER, Organ of Communist Party HOURLY TEMPERATURES WILLIAM T.

EVJUE Editor and Publisher GEOROE STEPHENSON Executive Editor HARRY SAGE Associate Editor PUNN Managing Editor CEDRIC PARKER City Editor 29 27 2 25 25 29 27 29 30 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By carrier in Madison and Suburbs: One year, 13.00: six montns. $6 50: three months 3 -5; ene month $1 10. me week. 25c pavai'l ltber in advance or weekly to the caller boy Mall Prepaid lu Wisconsin except totowns where carrier delivery service is established. One year $8 00: six months 4.50: three montns 2 50; one month 90c.

In ell other states: One year 13.00: six months. $8 50: three montns. 3.25: one month. 1 10 Foreign Countries: One year. Ub 00; one montn, 2 50.

SpeclM rat to Servicemen and Servicewomen. One year. no. 1 1 The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use lor publication of all the news 1 this newspaper as well as all APnews dispatches. TODAY IN MADISON University YMCA-YWCA Christmas festival, 8 p.

Wisconsin Union theater. East Side Business Men's association Christmas party, 8 p. ESBMA clubhouse. City Farmers club dinner, 6:30 p. Park hotel.

Madison District Osteopathic society, p. Park hotel. National Guardian Life Insurance dinner, 6:30 p. Loraine hotel. Farmers Mutual Insurance Christmas party, 7 p.

Loraine hotel. Oscar Mayer and 7 p. Park hotel. Madison Exchange club, 6 p. Capital hotel.

Wisconsin Mens association, 7 p. Memorial Union. Hesperia Forensic society, 7:30 p. Memorial Union. Newman club Christmas party, 7:30 p.

St. Pauls University chapel. German club Christmas caroling party, 9 p. Bas-com hall. Dec.

16. 194 f' cold war, a peacetime draft, an armaments boom, Taft-Hartley laws, anticommunist witch-hunts and the rest. All that costs billions. And it leaves no money for public housing, which alone can break through the housing shortage. COLD WAR CASUALTIES! The motto of the Republicans and Democrats alike is Atom Bombs, not Housing.

The blame for the death of Ihe Dinger family rests with the bipartisan coalition in Washington, with people like Sen. Joe McCarthy, with labor leaders like Phil Murray and Bill Green who try to be more ardent "cojd war shouters than Wall Street. The blame also rests with liberals, like Mr. Evjue, who do not place the guilt squarely where it belongs on the bipartisan cold war foreign policy now in effect, which has shevled Roosevelt's policy of Big Three Unity, and is booming a new world war. An atom-bomb did not fall at 15 S.

Bedford Nov. 28. But atom-bomb diplomacy snuffed out four lives none the less. SPEAK UP! DEMAND AN END TO THE COLD WAR! Demand that Truman and congress repeal the draft, end war expenditures, destroy the atom-bombs, end the Marshall Plan and oe-gin to carry out the foreign policy that Henry Wallace put forward in his campaign! Demand enactment of a public housing program, health insurance, and other social security measures! Remember The Socialist Soviet Union has a much greater housing shoit-age than we have. But they are solving it.

They have no real estate profiteers, building trusts, nor cold war program to interfere. That is because they have a socialist society and can plan their future without regard to profits for a few. For our country also the final answer to the housing shortage will require Socialism. But right today, a beginning can be made through public low-cnst housing. Let's have that beginning now! FOR MADISON 1.

A Hospital for the East Side of Madt son ills ON SUNDAY. Nov. 28. a mother and three children were killed by fire in a crowded apartment building at 15 S. Bedford Madison.

Nancy Dinger, 11. is the sole survivor of the family of 5 which lived in a single room 13 by 13 feet in size. Twenty-seven other persons fled in night clothing to save their lives. The Capital Times says it warned of such a danger last July 31 in a frontpage story telling of the overcrowding in this house. It expresses the pious wish that this tragedy will he a sufficiently strong object lesson to us here in Madison to make us do a little realistic thinking on one of the major problems of our day.

WHO IS TO BLAME? All of us need to find the responsi-bility for this tragedy. The landlord says The families living there were overcrowded but they just couldnt find any other place to live. This thing was due more to the housing shortage than to the house. WHY IS THERE A HOUSING SHORTAGE? All agree the Dinger family was wiped out because of the housing shortage. But not all yet understand a most important thing that THE HOUSING SHORTAGE IS A FRUIT OF THE COLD WAR.

If billions of dollars aie to be spent to "fight Communism in Europe and Asia, to support fascists in Greece, Italy, France, 'to rebuild militarism in Germany with ex-Nazis in charge, to woo France, etc. how can there be any money left for housing? If real estate interests and building trusts are to continue raking in profits, there must be a housing shortage. If a national administration whether a Truman or a Dewey heads it is going to reinstate Free Enterprise, so that rent profiteers may keep getting richer out of the poverty of slum-dwellers, then there must be a Marshall Plan, a 2. Annexation of Adjoining Communities to Madison. 3.

A Public Marina on Lake Mendota. 4. Clean up Madison Lake Pollution. TfUE LMXVOL) SPOie OP IS 3UST AROUbiD TUE owt iti temtcc. inc.

ci BIRTHS At Madison General hospital son to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Lease, 206 North Wednesday; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gesner.

1710 Van Hise Wednesday. At St. Marys hospital son to Mr. and Mrs. William Meinholz, Cross Plains, Wednesday; daughter to Mr.

and Mrs. Norman Martinson, 131 S. Marquette Wednesday; son to Mr. and Mrs. George Bauer, 2618 Van Hise Wednesday: son to Mr.

and Mrs. Trank Bernard, 532 W. Wilson Wednesday; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Endres, Dane, today; son to Mr.

and Mrs. William C. Buech-ner. 425 Webb today. At Wisconsin General hospital daughter to Washington Merry-Go-Round Mundt Not Averse to Publicity i 1 i Disciplinary Action Against McCarthy Is A Healthy Sign THE ACTION of the state board of bar commissioners in starting disciplinary action against Sen.

Joseph R. McCarthy for alleged violations of the legal code of ethics Is reassuring. It is the long-awaited and welcome sign that the board, which has always showed enthusiasm about enforcing the ethical code against obscure and little lawyers. Is ready to apply the code to the big shots, not only In the bar but in politics as well. We hope that this sets a precedent for future conduct, particularly in some of the cases the board has before it for consideration now.

developed, the committee was so anxious to nrt inhn I keep its pumpkin-discovery out of justice rS Sms, Eag He ghts, partment hands that it 6ent the film to 10 friend in the veterans administration SsIn G.lmln There two rolls ere exposed to the light i Wednesday; daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Clif and are now worthless. ford Sorenson, 216 S. Hamilton Wednes- Meanwhile, D.

M. Ladd, assistant FBI di- day. rector, went up to the un-American activities DEATHS Mrs. Gust Miller, 57. of 14 N.

Franklin died today. Mrs. Ethel S. Cleveland. 82.

of 843 E. Gorham died Tuesday. Voice of The People Let the People Have the Truth, and Freedom to Discuss it, and All Will Go Weir'S FIRES Wednesday Fritz 429 State lire. No. 2 company.

EY DREW PEARSON VUTASHINGTON Grover Whalen. New Yorks famous and popular greeter, is sole witness to the only conversation between Pres. Truman and Gov. Dewey during the recent campaign. It occurred at the opening of Idlewild airport last June, when Whalen introduced Truman to Dewey.

On this occasion Truman made one of his proverbial off-the-cuff remarks. Governor, he said, what do you want to get into the white house for? Theres nothing there but trouble. Karl Mundt of South Dakota has more prestige and common sense than any other member of the house un-American activities committee. Unlike some of his colleagues he knows the dif-ference between right and wrong. Writing to a South Dakota constituent about the knockdown, drag-out tactics of the committee, Mundt frankly Pearson admitted: I agree with you about the procedural ESTATES FILED FOR PROBATE Christina C.

Murray, Madison; assets, liabilities, $100. 4. The Chinese people are definitely tired and have reached their limit in enduring the pains and horrors of war, corruption, anti economic disaster. They want peace. They will long remember what the American would do in the next few weeks.

It is the good-well and gratitude of these millions of people that you must count in the future security of the world. 5. The Chinese people wants American friendship and help not in the forms of more guns and bullets, but in equipments and know how for peaceful reconstruction. Most leaders in the future coalition will be Western educated men. They will form the bulwark against the totalitarian type of Communists.

Their position in the government can be A LETTER FROM TWO CHINESE STUDENTS Madison, Dec. Ill Come ta think of it, at this atomic age. old China is not only very close to the U. S. but she is also very vital to the American interest.

Here is an open letter from two Chinese student at the University that may interest your readers. TO THE OF WISCONSIN: At the present critical moment of China, the American people thru their congress is going to make a decision on military aid to Chiang Kai-sheks regime in China. Before deciding you would probably ask some questions: Would further military aid change the present situation? Would such an aid broaden or endanger our future security in the Far East? Do we want a political party or the Chinese people on our side in safeguarding world peace? You are surely entitled to know what yoi will get before burdening billions of dollars in aid. Here are some first hand informations from some Chinese students. Most of us came over very recently.

1. There will be no democratic government in China as long as Chiang remains in power. He has been heading the government for 21 years (no real election). In spite of this, his wife is in this country soliciting you for more ammunitions so he may continue his strengthen with American economic assistance. Perhaps a declaration by some Chinese tu- methods of the house committee on un- int at i a .11 a) A tvs nm sifivlitoc rAF ft Ilf inf ArHi fltl fill.

dent at Columbia will shed American activities. For your information. committee and asked that the microfilm be turned over to him. Assistant Atty. Gen.

Campbell made the same request. So did Atty. Gen. Tom Clark. No result for one whole week.

Finally the non-publicity-seeking Mundt and Nixon yielded. Another backstage move which the public didnt know about occurred when the committee called ex-state department official Henry J. Wadleigh. During an hour or so of grilling, Wadleigh refused to say anything. Previously and secretly, however, he had told his story to Alex Campbell.

Campbell had asked him not to testify before the because of section 3486, title 18 of the U. S. code, which states: No testimony given by a witness before either house, or before any committee of either house shall be used as evidence in any criminal proceeding against him in any court. Campbell has also warned the un-American activities committee officially and by formal letter that testimony by witnesses before it might prevent the justice department from using this evidence later in criminal prosecution. However, the nonpublicify-sceking Mundt and Nixon have continued their frantic search for the headlines just the same.

SOME GUESTS WONDERED why Sec. of Defense Forrestal wasnt at the gridiron dinner last week when most other cabinet members were. Inside reason was that Forres-tal was invited one month ago, but declined: Then, about a week ago, he changed his mind, sent word he wanted to come. The answer was: Sorry, all seats at the head table are taken. Forrestal hit the ceiling.

Despite reports, Margaret Truman is planning no concert appearances in Europe. The men who will revive the old Philadelphia Record are: Matt McCloskey, building contractor; Arthur Greenfield, real estate man; John B. Kelly, ex-Olympic champion and former chairman of the Philac'. lphia Democratic county commit tee; Luther Harr, city treasurer; Isadore Os-troff and Stanley Wohl. Former Gov.

Cox of Ohio and John Knight of the Knight newspapers, also bid for the Record but lost Bootlegging is on the upsurge again, and in ternal revenue agents have, redoubled their drive against it. Moonshiners are 50 per cent more activ- this year than in 1947. University additional light on the whole subject: The contemporary scene in China is essentially the imminent and final defeat of one of the most unpopular government in all of Chinas history a government which has repudiated the people and therefore has been repudiated by the people. It's defeat stems from the prime fact not just of its ine.Ticiency and ineptitude but also basically of its active opposition to the aspirations of the Chinese people for peace, livelihood and democratic government. The ill-advised aid of the U.

S. government Cong. Nixon of California and I have been working for some weeks on a new set of rules to govern the procedure of our committee. Just as soon as chairman Thomas is back, we expect to have the committee approve these procedures. Thomas, continued Mundt, is a hard fellow to control, as he is a bit of a publicity seeker, and is also of a highly impetuous nature.

While he usually has the facts pretty well in hand before he speaks up in public, still I do not like his method of making a public statement about an individual until he has had the opportunity to be heard before the committee. I feel certain that the abuses of which you rightfully complain are going to be corrected within the next two or three weeks OT MERELY THREE WEEKS, but nearly SUPERIOR COURT Driving under influence of liquor -John OBrien, 45, Chicago, fined $75 and costs. Unlawful operation of vehicle Robert H. Man-ke, Arlington, forfeited $15. Leonard J.

Druschba, Route 3, forfeited $10. Speeding Harvy F. Zeck, 2910 Shore Acres rd.t fined $12. Dean Cleary, 443 W. Gilman fined $10.

Eugene V. Fairchough. 450 W. Gilman and Herbert Gross, Tripp hall, for-ifeited $10 each. Harold L.

Thomas. Shore-wood Hills, forfeited $5. Arterial Robert Hinman. McFarland, forfeited $5. Failing to yield right of way Daniel E.

Bor-chert. Marshall, forfeited $5. Passing car on hill Amol H. Swanstrom. 2401 Sommers forfeited $5.

U-turn John D. Shand, 1914 Jefferson fined $1. Left turn Joseph C. Rodgers, 1033 W. Johnson forfeited $3.

Spilling gravel on street Herbert Beale, 2813 Union forfeited $10. Parking V. T. Wahl, Berntsen Brass foundry, Kenneth Parelskin, and M. Hansen forfeited $2 each.

R. G. Stephan, Ray E. Heibel, Sylvin Lange, Mrs. John C.

Labb, D. D. Lescohier, Leonard Boeker, John C. Larsen, Richard Potter, Albert Weier, George Cass, Robert Russow, Mrs. Geraldine Ryan, Douglas G.

Trodahl, Alice C. Vinger, Frank Holt, Allen J. Strang, John Skelly, O. Neesvig, W. L.

Huff, Willard S. Stafford, L. N. Pulliam, Nancy Southwick, Roy C. Mapes, Lyall T.

Beggs, Jessie H. Warden, R. C. Har-yer, W. G.

Olson, R. I. Ricksham, A. R. Jennings, C.

W. Klum, F. Kelsey, M. C. Palmer, E.

H. Mueller. Alyce Duckwitz, William E. Riggert. Glen E.

Pommerening, Jones Typewriter H. B. Healy, Alfred O. Edland, Ralph Frisch. Richard Hubanks.

A. Zwitzke, W. E. Wilking. Hazel Jacobs, Joseph J.

Clarini, Harold Siko. Clarke Hynum, Glenn Bredeson. and James D. Lombardo forfeited $1 each. IT WAS to be expected, of course, that Sen.

McCarthy would shout politics when the action was brought by the board. This is the same kind of squealing Cong. OKonski indulged In when the state tax department brought action against him for dodging his income taxes. OKonski shouted politics even though the action was brought against him by a department functioning under a Republican administration. He finally shut up and paid up.

What is the truth about the charge of politics made by McCarthy. The members of the board of bar examiners who signed the complaint are all conservative members of the bar, men who probably supported McCarthy when he ran for the U. S. senate. They are E.

Dempsey, R. T. Reinholdt, W. T. Doar and George A.

Affeldt. Does McCarthy charge that these men are involved in a political plot against him? Ths board had this situation to consider: In 1946 McCarthy ran for the U. S. senate while still holding his seat in the circuit court of the 10th Judicial circuit in Wisconsin. He was campaigning over the state while still on the bench.

The code of judicial ethics of the American Bar Association, which are recognized In this state, provide as follows: While holding a judicial position he (a judge) shall not become an active candidate either at a party primary or at a general election for any office other than a judicial office. If a judge shall decide to become a randidate for any office not judicial, he should resign In order that it rannot be said that he is using the power and prestige of his judicial position to promote his own candidacy or the success of his party. If the board of bar commissioners did not believe that there was sufficient ground to sustain a complaint against McCarthy the matter would have been dropped and no complaint would have been issued. It found otherwise. Now it Is up to the supreme court of Wisconsin to make the decision on whether a violation did occur and to impose proper penalties.

2wLmt war.us I to this regime has been ineffective not because by both sides the civil war were made in there bas been inadequate aid but because the Not 12 months have passed since that letter over-whelming material superiority of Chiang Kai-Sheks troop has been havily over-balancea by the hatred of the common people. The hatred began to mount at the end of the war against Japan when Chiang decided to fight in mantaining his own power instead of cooperating with other political parties in rehabilitation and reconstruction. There can only be tragedy and bitter irony if the U. S. government which has traditional.y upheld China's sovereignity and integrity is to prolong the war by sending more arms to the aristocratic clans.

Americans have helped China for many You have sent missionaries, teachers engineers; you have given millions of the U. S. 30 to 40 per cent of American military help to Chiangs regime eventually fell into the Communist hand. Such an equilibrium would not be changed by giving more aid since the common soldiers believed that they are fighting just to preserve the wealth of a few men. More arms from the U.

S. will only prolong the fighting and drive the Chinese Communists into the Russian hand. The militant policies of Chiang Nationalist were responsible for driving many traditionally democratic intellectuals. workers and peasants into siding Ait ti the Communists. 3.

If there is no hope of further military aid from the U. the liberal elements in the government will trke control and accept the Communist in forming a coalition. Both parties will then stride ahead in the great task of reconstruction. Future election will allow the people to decide on the relative number of representations from each party. Clipping From Montana Taper MARRIAGE LICENSE Henry A.

Schumann, 2934 University and Edna V. Baier, town of Roxbury. dollars in the name of Christianity and humanity. Are you now to send more weapons of destruction to intensify slaughter, to spill more blood, and sharpen the cry of agonies? God forbids! Two Chinese Students, C. C.

H. and C. S. L. CONTAGIOUS DISEASE REPORT (By the Madison Health Department) was written.

In the interim, Parnell Thomas has been relegated to the sidelines, and heres whats been happening under the two congressmen Mundt and Nixon who did not approve Thomass publicity-seeking. It was on Nov. 19 that the Baltimore at torneys for Hiss and Chambers called the justice department and revealed that secret state department documents had turned up in the Hiss-Chambers slander suit. Hard-working Alex Campbell, assistant attorney general, went to Baltimore same day. It was 21 days later, Dec.

1, that alert Rob ert Stripling, attorney for the un-American activities committee, first heard about the secret papers. He has since admitted that he learned about them through an item by Jerry Kultz in the Washington Post. Immediately he telephoned Whittaker Chambers, the ex-Communist agent, and asked him to stop in when he was next in Washington. Chambers, an old friend, did so, and promised to get some additional documents for the un-American activities committee This was done via the pumpkin at the Chambers farm in Westminster, Md. It looks now that placing the microfilm in a pumpkin was nothing more than a clever scheme to hit the newspaper headlines.

Because the microfilm was not placed in the pumpkin until after the conversation between Stripling and Chambers took place. AFTER THE UN-AMERCAN activities com mittee got the microfilm, however, it lost two rolls because of amateur bungling. Instead of sending the film to the FBI to be The spirit of secrecy seems to have caught on In other city functions. The people of Madison, evidently are not expected to have much to do with government other than paying for it. Sent In by Reader The little old lady who lived on, the wrong side of the tracks had been trying for months to join a church on the other side of town.

The pastor of the church was not too anxious to have the lady in tatters sit among his well-to-do parishioners. When the lady approached him to inquire about membership, the pastor replied: Well, you go home tonight and have a talk with God about it. Then come back and tell me what he says. The old lady departed, returned home across the tracks. Weeks went by but she did not return.

The pastor, thinking by this time his psychology had worked, chanced to meet her on the street one day. Well, did you have a talk with God about your desire to join my church? he asked. The little lady smiled sweetly and replied Yes. I had my talk with God. -What did He say? God said: Dont be discouraged.

For 20 years too, have been trying to get into that church. I havent been accepted either! Books of Today Edited by AUGUST DERLETHj lice incident is a good case In point. The members of the commission cooked up a pretty little scheme whereby they would avoid going on public record on the vote to bring Bruce Weatherly from San Antonio to act as police chief in this city. The vote was taken In a secret session at the home of one of the commission members. A ban on divulging the vote to the public was imposed.

Some of the commission members -took the arrogant position that the public had no right to know how they voted. Within 24 hours after the ban was imposed, The Capital Times found out what the vote was and disclosed it to the people of Madison, who, whatever some of the commissioners might think, have every right to the information. TEST OF POETRY, by Louis Zukofsky. Objectivist Press, Brooklyn, 165 $3. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Laurence J.

Pfister to C. Alvin McElmurry, part of lot 4. block 2, Sherman park, Madison. Hannah G. Flood to Wallace N.

Schwartz, land in section 22, town of Vermont. Wallace N. Schwartz to Carl Mickelson, land in section 22, town of Vermont. Joseph F. Lothe to Lawrence Maly, part of outlot 2, Sun Prairie.

Herta M. Postweiler to Walter Bielski, lot 8. block 11, second addition to Eken park, Madison. Arthur Guitzkow to Arthur B. Babcock, land in section 10, town of Blooming Grove.

Westye F. Bakke to Frances A. Sternberger, lot 6. block 18, first addition to Wingra, Madison. Roy E.

Bewick to William F. Ziegler, land in section 34, town of Burke. OUT OUR WAY By Williams WEDNESDAY, McCarthy Issued a statement in Washington in which he said that the charge was fully aired by his opposition during the campaign of 1946 and that he discussed the matter freely with the voters during the campaign. The voters, he said, approved of his conduct by electing him to office. The truth is that the people of Wisconsin were never informed about this issue during the campaign.

The newspapers, with the exception of the Milwaukee Journal and The Capital Times, never mentioned it. And when Sen. McCarthy says that he discussed it freely during the campaign he is exhibiting nothing more than that he possesses a faulty memory. We recall only once that he mentioned it. That was under direct questioning from his opponent, Howard McMurray, at a political meeting in Milwaukee.

After trying to squirm out, he finally declared that he was not a member of the American Bar Association and therefore the code of ethics did not apply to him an assertion which revealed his imperfect knowledge of the rules of conduct for his profession. THIS IS NOT the first time the commission has sought to get by with secret proceedings. It was only a few weeks ago that The Capital Times found it necessary to make a long distance telephone call to Tokyo to get information on what this citys fire and police commission was doing in its plans to hire a new police chief. This continued secrecy in city government is in line with the whole business of secrecy which has descended on Madison under the city manager form of government. Apparently, secrecy goes with city managership.

It is becoming commonplace in the city hall to make vital decisions on public affairs behind closed doors. Zukofskys arrangement is as clean in form as its criticism and the good examples of poe-hy it offers. It is appraised correctly on the iacket of the book by Clifton Fadiman, Marx Van Doren, and W. C. Williams: distilled excellence, rich portions from the poets from Homer through the present, some of these being difficult, since poetry is not soft, supported by Zukofskys precise interpretive remarks.

The lines of poetry of great emotional significance in any age are rare. To obtain an accurate criticism of them and of the lesser work which surrounds them, reading shouicl not shun anaylsis. To read for pleasure is the aim here. The world needs poetry out of the living processes" of everyday and from there to always another phase of existence. What makes certain lines of poetry good and others not so good? Part II, the pivot for the entire book, begins, so far as Zukofsky's remarks are concerned: A simple order of speech is an asset in Parts I and III offer more examples of good poetry, but without comment or authors signatures, to add to the zest of a game.

A turn to the chronological chart shows the full use of an index with titles, authors, dates when supplemented by standards such as content, emotion, inevitability, measure. It is a book for the general, sensitive reader, in classroom and out. Zukofsky is moved, of course, by certain perceptions: the exact word; any word a poetic word if used in the right order, with the right cadence, with a definite aim in view; song, one of the mainsprings of poetry; a poem: an emotional object close to the people and their experiences, I. the source, something to put your hands on as against metaphysical rockers; in any age the lasting attractions in the words of a poem land its construction make it classic and contemporary at the same time. I In this day of adding machines in bookshop windows, of comic greeting cards, the surface tilt, the armed avoidance of quiet, of deep satisfaction, this book is printed.

A TEST OF POETRY rould be bigger; the reader can make it so. Lorjne Niedecker. ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY Sunday no paper. FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY The final contingent of Wisconsin men serving with the Third volunteers in Puerto Rico, arrive in a New York harbor on their way home The house of representatives will consider a bill requesting that the standing army be maintained at 100,000 The American peace commission sails from Paris for Washington after concluding the peace treaty with Spain; they are to be given an official welcome upon their arrival in Washington The city common council ap-provea-repair of Langdon st. TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY Sunday no paper.

TEN YEARS AGO TODAY The U. S. calls for reduction of all tariff barriers to international trade at the Pan-American conference at Lima, Peru Aubrey lYilliams, former executive secretary of the Wisconsin Council for Social Work here, is reported to be a leading candidate tor the appointment as WPA chief A heavy rain breaks a 227 day drought in southern California, the longest in its history Mrs. H. Cole, 79, of 630 E.

Gorham city pionper. Hips William McCoy. Fond du Lac, and NO, McCarthy cant get out of this with the ancient shibboleth of political persecution, which he and Konski have used so much in the past. Here is once when he has to answer for his conduct. Feed The Birds! THE CAPITAL TIMES Is ones again making its annual appeal to our readers to "Feed the Birds.

Snow and ice on the ground make it difficult for these feathered creatures to find food. A bit of suet, crumbs, grain, and other food on your window sill or in a bird feeder will help the birds stand the rigors of Wisconsin winter weather. You will be more than repaid by the presence of these eheery, friendly visitors. Dont forget Feed the Birds! The Truth Will Out WHEN WILL public officials learn that secrecy will not work In the conduct of public affairs? Sooner or later the information to which the public has a right will get out. as it should.

The conduct of the police and fire commission in the chief of po- J.RvsmLUAMS oft mnfx a em WITHOUT THiNKINf Adeline A. Olsen. Milwaukee, will lead the junior prom at the university..