STATE POLITICS
Revell, Aldric
State Politics HeiVs Autobiography Street Car Conductor Ain't It Funny? fBy AU>K1C REVEIA] FOR some time we had been at a loss to discover why Gov. Heil clanged about the executive office, never...
...Maybe he has $16,000,000 in his own treasury but in the state treasury, nein, as the German lassies used 'to say to the boys in Duesmond an der Mosel in the halcyon days...
...P. S. Please remind Hans to feed the guppies...
...that for the benefit of those readers who will be unable to see the book we reprint excerpts from it with comment from the galleries...
...I ain't going in the right direction...
...We take it that Julius wasn't very good at figures while at school...
...We have visions of Julius, cap cocked at a jaunty angle and right foot jiggling up and down on the bell, taking his street car around the curves in high...
...This geared the boys up to fighting pitch with the result that they smashed out a brilliant tie with Purdue...
...He was sent to many parts of the world tn install the newly-patented Falk process of welding street car rails and installed the first electric railway line in Buenos Aires in 1899...
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...off at the right stop in his interviews, until upon reading the 19-10 Blue Book we discovered that at various times in ms colorful career Julius had been a street car conductor...
...Just as he fired boilers at the Falk Co., so today he is firing state employes...
...Love to Betsy and Grandpa Fritz...
...The residents of Duesmond an der Mosel have only themselves to blame because no self-respecting person could ever address a postcard to himself there and still have room on the card to say...
...As a blacksmith Heil learned to strike while the iron is hot and he is doing that today in promising the farmers to get legislation passed giving them $1.60 per 100 pounds for their milk...
...The autobiography of Julius which appears in the Blue Book is ve> revealing, so much so...
...That was Duesmond an der Mosei's loss and Wisconsin's gain...
...He can dangle a participle until the blood rushes to its head, and when he misplaces a modifier all the king's horses and all the king's men can't find it...
...folks...
...il funny how our industrial g...
...He came to this country in 1880 with his parents who farmed near Prospect Hill In Waukesha county...
...Most blacksmiths get muscle-bound on the arms from swinging the heavy hammers, but Julius escaped this fate...
...He is also a natural hair splitter...
...Unfortunately for Wisconsin's football team, Heil interested himself in it and predicted that while he was governor the team wouldn't lose a game...
...A PARTICIPLE DANGLER Heil happens to be a natural Infinitive splitter...
...What the—well, well, imagine that...
...Look behind the can of sardines on the back shelf, Julius...
...Why didn't he stay in Buenos Aires...
...There we have Julius revealed under a microscope from his clerking days on Prospect Hill to his clowning days in Capitol park, from his trolley dodging in Milwaukee to his question dodging at Madison, and from his shouting newspaper headlines on the Milwaukee road to his * housing at newspapers in the Mll-vv " Athletic club...
...The motto of this company is to mete out justice to the boys and girls...
...His most intriguing job to us, however, was street car conducting...
...Julius P. Heil (Rep...
...Governor Heil sold newspapers on Milwaukee road trains, fired boilers at the Falk Manufacturing Co., where he was also apprenticed as a blacksmith, was a drill press operator at the Milwaukee Harvester plant, and at various intervals was a street car conductor...
...We forget what happened In the other games...
...was born at Duesmond an der Mosel, Germany, on July 34, 1876...
...His work as clerk has stood Julius in good stead, however, for he is constantly shopping around for some excuse to explain how come he didn't save $15,000,000 a year as he promised...
...He is interested in many sports activities and has sponsored many championship events both at home and abroad...
...v + J. CLERKED IN STORE "He received his education in the country school...
...We come to this conclusion due to the fact that he still isn't good at figures, at least not state budget figures...
...He's still telling the people he's got S16,000.000 in the treasury...
...Perhaps this is for the best...
...He recently got rid of Arthur A. Tiller, his press secretary, because Tiller refused to split infinitives, dangle participles, and misplace modifiers...
...Zoooom...
...Now we're getting some place...
...The autobiography failed to say whether he learned to tango, if he ever had a yet-to with a gaucho on the pampas of a Saturday night, and whether that was the place where he first learned to throw the bull, Probably the man didn't think it was important...
...What's that lady...
...He must have been a popular conductor...
...Having a wonderful time, wish you were here...
...Imagine a Milwaukeean stepping onto a car in the morning and hearing Julius: + + + HOLD ON FOLKS "All right folks, I'll get you to work <>n time, never you fear...
...Heil clanged about the executive office, never seeming to get...
...Obviously he learned all he knows about writing publicity from the newspapers he sold on the Milwaukee road...
...And we might add, with the same motions...
...He worked on his father's farm and clerked in the general store at Prospect Hill...
...I must have started off backwards...
...Didn't she take it like a beauty...
...Hold on to your hats, here we go around Wisconsin ave...
...How should I know...
...Though he eventually became muscle-bound it was not on the arms, but much higher up...
Vol. 10 • June 1940 • No. 22
