| Show I I By EDWARD EMERINE El Feature I A balance has been struck in fn inI Wisconsin where the happiest I combination of farm and factory fac fac- I tory has been found The state is rural in appearance appearance appearance appear appear- ance its industry so widespread widespread widespread wide wide- spread that it is never far from a dairy barn to a factory door The truck and garden plot the orchard and the country home homeI I are but a n step from the gears of in in- in In Wisconsin the neighborliness neighborliness neighbor- neighbor I liness and friendliness of the smalltown smalltown small I town is never lost The milk of human human human hu hu- hu- hu man man kindness is never evaporated I in the fiery ovens of a factory A great industrial state with more factories and mills than you can canI I count Wisconsin remains the land landof of milk cows cheese butter apples and and more milk cows Everything grown in the north temperate zone is produced in Wisconsin Wisconsin Wis Wis- in grains vegetables and fruits So varied is its agriculture that the state produces corn wheat rye barley hay flaxseed potatoes sugar beets tobacco for cigar wrappers hops peas sorghum and maple syrup More peas are canned there than in any other state and more hemp is raised The state ranks high in cranberry production and also produces apples cherries plums and other fruits Wisconsin remains a leader in the number of dairy cows in cheese production and in the output of condensed milk products Industries Are Varied Made in Wisconsin stamps thousands of articles used all over the world from the smallest radio part to the greatest moving earth-moving machinery The state has miscellaneous miscellaneous miscellaneous laneous mining and quarrying sawmills sawmills sawmills saw saw- mills and lumbering paper mills and wood products factories breweries breweries breweries brew brew- eries and flour mills cheese factories factories factories fac fac- tories and creameries Manufactured Manufactured Manufactured goods include sheet metalwork metalwork metalwork metal- metal work foundry products farm machinery machinery machinery ma ma- chinery electrical goods engines and pumps plumbing supplies tools and hardware automobiles and tractors refrigerators precision precision precision preci preci- sion instruments and countless other other other oth oth- er articles During World War Var II its hundreds of factories produced tools of war for the army and navy backing U. 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S fighting men on every every every ev ev- ery front Wisconsin is one of the most for- for w- w V. 4 S Ss Sy s y 4 N Nl L 4 f l ly y y 4 4 v rA 3 f r I n Two Great Lakes Superior and Michigan and hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of small smaIl ones lure fishermen fishermen fishermen fisher fisher- men to Wisconsin LAKE r C C 0 I z 1 H i Z ZIA U ZU IA Q I Q s sI I L L I N O I 5 S of states in transportation facilities Steamboats ply the Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- and other rivers Lake ships dock at Superior Green Bay Milwaukee Milwaukee Milwaukee Mil Mil- waukee Racine and other points and Great Lakes traffic is consid consid- erable Fast modern railroads speed across the state Truck traffic traffic traffic fic from city to city and from Wis- Wis y r 1 1 w 4 y- y y'S S 'S Si A i t S 4 1 t r. r 4 A Aw w v a sy r 4 n r TWO CANOES Wisconsin's lakes and forests are never ending and andare andare andare are always a source of pleasure for those who love the outdoors to the rest of the United States is increasing steadily Lived Like Badgers The pioneers found Wisconsin a avast avast avast vast wilderness They cleared it broke it and built upon it They dug deep into lead mines and often lived in holes in the ground ground like like badgers some said That is why it is often called the Badger State But the people of Wisconsin for all their industry always have loved to play to enjoy life and to find refreshment refreshment refreshment re re- re- re freshment in the states state's great play play- grounds The northern half of Wisconsin is isa isa isa a great forest smelling of pine pitch and brush fires Rivers thunder thunder thunder thun thun- der over trap-rock trap ledges or flow quietly on clean sand beds There are hidden ponds many swamps and uncounted lakes A third of the northern boundary juts out into Lake Superior and the entire eastern eastern eastern east east- ern length of the state is washed by bythe bythe bythe the waters of Lake Michigan In Inthe Inthe Inthe the southwest sprawls the coulee country often steep and irregular veined by streams and rivers tributaries tributaries tributaries trib trib- of the Mississippi Apple orchards smother the ridges with their pink and white blossoms while the slopes are covered with sugarbush sugarbush sugar sugarbush bush and abandoned beds Wisconsin has counted lakes miles of trout streams miles of Great Lakes shoreline innumerable innumerable in in- numerable rivers and springs It has lakes for swimming boating fishing and all water sports sports- sports Fake I ake Winnebago Lake Geneva and the lakes around Madison to name a few On the Great Lakes trim sailing sailing sailing sail sail- ing craft course out to the horizon while outboards and racing boats split the water near the shores Jean Nicolet was the first white whiteman whiteman whiteman man known to have set foot on Wisconsin soil He came to the Green Bay area in in j 1634 and visited the Winnebago Indians who lived along the shore and whose descendants descendants descendants de de- de- de still live in Wisconsin Territory Organized In April 1836 over years after after after aft aft- er Nicolet's visit the Territory of 01 was organized to include include include in in- clude what is now Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota and parts of the Dakotas and Illinois The townsite of Madison Madison Madi son the capital was surveyed and platted that year Gradually however how how- ever the territory shrunk in size after long and bitter boundary To give Illinois an outlet on the Great Lakes the boundary was moved northward and Chicago was lost The northern peninsula a are region re region re- re gion rich in copper and iron was given to Michigan to replace territory territory terri terri- tory taken from Michigan by Ohio Other boundary adjustments followed followed fol fol- lowed as the drive for statehood was accelerated On May 29 1848 Wisconsin became a state The years following Wisconsin's admission as a state brought a great influx of German and Scandinavian Scandinavian Scandinavian Scan Scan- immigrants Population doubled and trebled each decade Railroads opened the rich interior of the state to farmers and lum lum- bermen Wheat became a basic commodity with flour and grist gristmills gristmills gristmills mills springing up everywhere Introduction Introduction In In- of livestock brought about Wisconsin's noted dairy in in- By 1880 many towns were offering offering offering offer offer- ing inducements to industry and manufacturing was begun Paper and pulp mills began operating and meat packing was introduced Shoes and leather products followed nat nat- The metal industry now one of Wisconsin's greatest grew rapidly because of the states state's location location location loca loca- tion halfway between Minnesota's iron ore are deposits and coal fields in Illinois and Indiana The land of green woods and cool waters continues to grow and pro pro- gress gross Its industry agriculture and good homes make life better Wisconsin Wisconsin Wisconsin Wis Wis- is a serene and balanced land S Sy 43 k y CH ey y Z Ar ArX X b x r 4 v Ct x yr LIFELONG RESIDENT Walter Waiter Walter Wal Wal- ter S. S Goodland governor of Wisconsin Wisconsin Wis Wis- is a native son born in Sharon December 22 1862 He has been a lifelong resident of his native state having been engaged engaged engaged en en- successively as a school schoolteacher schoolteacher schoolteacher teacher lawyer newspaper publisher publisher publisher pub pub- lisher mayor of Racine farmer and lieutenant governor before becoming the states state's chief executive tive lie He took the oath as governor governor governor gover gover- nor January 4 1942 and has served continuously since |
