Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast is for a sunny day with a high temperature of seventy-three degrees.
Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission will meet tonight from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The agenda is available online.
It’s Homecoming Week here in the Whippet City, and today’s activities include a Canned Food Drive this morning, a Lip Sync competition tonight at 7 p.m. at the high school, and the traditional Burning of the W outside the high school tonight at 8:30 p.m.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls a famous defense of free speech from our past, from this day in 1917:
1917 – Robert La Follette Supports Free Speech in Wartime
On this date Senator Robert La Follette gave what may have been the most famous speech of his Senate career when he responded to charges of treason with a three hour defense of free speech in wartime.
La Follette had voted against a declaration of war as well as several initiatives seen as essential to the war effort by those that supported U.S. involvement in the first World War. His resistance was met with a petition to the Committee on Privileges and Elections that called for La Follette’s expulsion from the Senate. The charges were investigated, but La Follette was cleared of any wrong doing by the committee on January 16, 1919. [Source: United States Senate]
