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Entered the Postoffice at Caldwell,
Idaho, as second class matter
THE PICKLE BUTTE BRIDGE.
Advices from William J. Hall, state
commissioner of yublic works, indi
cate that there is a considerable like
lihood that construction of the Pickle
Uutte bridge may be indefinitely post
poned. Because the federal gopern
ment defrays approximately 50 per
cent of the cost and these may, there
fore become unavailable unless
promptly taken advantage of, the sit
uation becomes particularly one for
concerted public action.
inability to obtain bide, which is
tying up the work, is due to threats of
taking the matter into court. Injunc
tion proceedings are understood to
have been threatened and contractors
refuse to be implicated in a tie-up for
an indefinite time.
It will be recalled that last summer,
following a controversy of some heat,
state officials from the highway de
partment were asked to act as media
tors in the controversy over the exact
location of the bridge. - Some few
Caldwell persons and a strong dele
gation of Nampa business men, ac
companied the arbitrating party, went
to Snake river, investigated the merits
of each of the proposed sites, listened
to arguments from both factions and
submitter the matter to'a vote. Over
whehningly, the Pickle Butte site was
selected and the stamp of approval
placed on that location by Mr. Hall
and the matter was considered closed.
Nothing could more clearly show
the power of a minority than this new
phase of the situation. That a hope
less minority for reasons based dan
gerously near those solely of selfish
interest can thwart a sorely needed
public untlity is sufficient indication
of that power. Public opinion and the
prompt action of proper organisation«
should emphatically show those per
sons that their implied intention to
halt a necessity, is, to say the least,
ill timed.
PRESIDENT WILSON.
When, before the conclusion of
President Wilson's recent western trip
in behalf of the League of Nations, he
was compelled to return to Washing
ton because of ill health, many an
tagonistic publications hinted, or even
charged, that the cancellation of the
remaining addresses which the presi
dent was scheduled to make was due
to his discovery that western people
were definitely apposed to his scheme
of internationalism. Reports from
Washington indicate that nothing can
be farther from the truth.
Never physically robust. President
Wilson has finally succumbed to the
enormous physical and mental strain
he has undergone the past six months.
And his condition was, early in the
week, regarded as almost critical.
Whatever may have been said in the
past in opposition to the president
and his policies, no man has ever
questioned the honesty of his policies.
His motives heivte remained above
reproach.
That his inability to continue his
fight for the principles which he ad
vocates should have come at the truly
critical time may prove a formidable
handicap. His most ardent opponents
will extend to his bedside the wish
that the president, in at least the nam«!
of a fair fight, may be again speedily
and actively arrayed against them.
Wilson is the American leader of
today. With countless problems of
vexatious magnitude confronting con
gress, his illness could hardly have
been more untimely. One hundred
million American people are sympa
thetic watchers at the White House
bedside.
GOLD AND H. C. L.
One of the serious situations de
veloping from the exhorhitantly in
creased prices prevailing is the reac
tion on the production of gold. Gold
is the basis of the world's monetary
system. Because of the highly inflated
condition of the world's currency, the
yellow metal has reached an unpre
dented pinnacle of importance. As a
medium of exchange, It is virtually
gone out of circulation. Economists
tell us that never again will coined
gold be used with the freedom thàt it
was prior to 1914.
Everything with the exception of
gold has increased in value. Gold re
mains on the old basis of $20.67 per
ounce. But the cost of production has
not remained stationary. Many mines,
working low grade ore, have been
compelled to close down. Prohibitive
prices have prevented development ol
prospects.
The government is casting around
for means to simulate production of
the precious metal. Various measures
have been suggested. One that bears
particular merit i9 that of John Clan
sen who suggests that the United
States take over sixty-five per cent of
the output for coinage and that the re
mainder have an artificial price con
siderably in excess of the coinage
value set upon it. This portion would
be devoted to jewelry and other orna
mental purposes to which the metal is
commonly put.
To insure the success of this plan,
all coined gold must be taken from cir
culation. Else jewelers will meh the
coins for their uses. Being consider
ably cheaper than the supply piloted
them such a practice would afford too
fine an opportunity for profit to pass.
And no legislation could prevent such
a practice.
In favor of the plan, it is urged that
the increased market Value of a con
siderable portion of the gold output
would sufficiently stimulate produc
tion to give the government all that
it could require.
AMERICANIZATION
STRIKES.
AND
That the steel strike in eastern in
dustrial centers is primarily a test of
the strength of the present heads of
the American Federation of Labor
seems the consensus of opinion based
on facts brought out before the con
gressional investigating committee.
While the entire machinery, of the
labor unions has been devoted to
stimulating strength of the movement,
eperything points to the radical ele
ments as those responsible for the
walkout. Samuel Gompers, loyal
American that he is, quite clearly is
fighting for the dominance of those
principles of organization and leader
ship and their application which were
vitally instrumental for America's suc
cessful particiyation in the world war.
William Z. Foster, labor organizer,
and head of the striking forces, has
been proven to have been aligned with
forces some few years ago that were
circulating and preachitig un-Ameri
can and anarchistic propaganda. Of
the striking men, a preponderatingly
large number, are from the masses of
un-Americanized foreigners bronght
into the United States only a few years
ago to work for the United States Steel
corporation. Where Americans were
employed, efforts to induce them to
join the ranks of the strikers proved
unavailing, even where threats upon
the individuals and their homes were
made. These men have testified that
they have no grievance. Wages arc
good, ranging fro not quite five doL
lars to thirty-two per ten hour day.
These, in brief, are the facts sur
rounding the big steel walkout. One
remedy, fortunately readily available,
stands out clearly as a definite pre
ventative of the recurrence of another
situation exactly analyous to the
present one. That is Americanization.
It is the duty of the steel corporations
to see that these men are informed of
Americfn ideals, of the relationship of
democratic government to every one
of them to the extent that they can
see things as the American working
men, operating under identical con
ditions, have seen them. Once again
it has been proven that the United
States has a vital duty in its obtiga
tion to educate, to "melting pot" those
who have come here to make their
homes.
FOREIGN PROHIBITION.
Announcement has been made by
the Anti-Saloon League of America oi
a determination to come before the
American people next January with a
request for fifty million dollars. A
considerable portion of this sum, it is
the avowed intention of the league to
use in fostering prohibition in Euro
pean countries and others where alco
holic beverages are still in use. Some
of the money, if raised, is to be used
in enforcing prohibition in the United
States.
With the latter plan, we have no
quarrel. America has elected pro
hibition. By all means, let us enforce
it. Probably America is overwhelm
ingly glad that this country is dry.
But the federal government has a
peculiar habit of doing well what it
undertakes. No doubt that, after
Uncle Sam clears away such legal
debris as stands in the way, he will be
fully capable of disposing of prohibi
tion enforcement. But If the Anti
Saloon League chooses to assist, no
one can offer any objection.
When it comes to contributing real
American money to tell European
people what they want, it seems to us
that the organization has overstepped
It* province. Germany, France and
England are not consumers of drink
in the same way that America has
been. Where we were gluttons, those
people are moderate. Dinner without
wine is famine to a Frenchman.
Of course, prohibition has been
largely agitated in Europe. Probably,
after a campaign of education analag
ous to that contducted in the United
State, Europe will be willing to con
cede the merits of prohibition. But
that will take years and vast sums of
money. Some time we must draw the
line where funds are to be extracted
from American people. It would seem
that gouging America for money to
promote such a campaign in Europe is
just about that time.
Every conceivable v organization has
apparently concluded that all that is
necessary to raise money for any pur
pose is to take advantage of the habit
of giving generated during the war
and, presto, forth will come the gold.
We believe that we have enough seri
ous conditions to rectify in the United
States which require liberal gifts from
the pubHc without resorting to a cam
paign to uplift people who. are appar
ently quite content as they are. In
the event they desire prohibition,
probably they can find a way to ob
tain it without our help.
WEEDING OUT THE SLACKERS.
The American Legion, the organi
zation of the young men who fought
for the freedom of the world, the
young men who served in the army,
navy and marine corps, is doing
a splendid work in "weeding out the
slackers" and holding them up to
public ridicule and shame. The alien
slacker who refused to do military
duty, and withdrew his application for
naturalization must go back to the
country from which he came. The
American Legion demands this and
congressmen, rank cowards as most
of them and when it comes to taking
a stand against any foreign "element
which may have voters in their con
gressional districts, will be confronted
with the choice between the American
Legion vote and the foreign vote.
As the Legion will be thoroughly or
ganized and will make it a point to
record and publish the votes on all
such questions, there can be no doubt
that rigid deportation laws will be
passed and enforced.
But the alien slacker is not the
worst type of slacker we have. Some
of the very worst are American born
and reared. There arc the slackers
who refused to buy bonds, who hoard
Dependability
A VERY POPULAR CLASS MOTTO FOR HIGH SCHOOL
GRADUATES IN THE PAST HAS BEEN: "HITCH YOUR
WAGON TO A STAR
NOW, that it a good motto. It is a right good thing to hitch a
wagon to in a pinch, but as a precautionary measure, how about
taking along a good span of dependable Missouri mules for emer
gency?
Of course, we know that the idea to be conveyed in the motto is
to »et yourseff a high standard, and to everlastingly cling to t|iat
standard.
OUR MOTTO OF "SERVICE" YOU WILL FIND EMBLAZ
ONED UPON OUR CHARIOT OF PROGRESS, SECURELY
HITCHED TO THE STAR O F BUSINESS INTEGRITY AND
AMPLY BACKED BY THE MISSOURI MULE OF DEPEND
ABILITY.
We also keep a "FORD" hanging around for emergency. From
a two by four to intelligent and expert advice, you can depend upon
getting at .any BOISE PAYETTE YARD.
IT'S
TOO
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FOR
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ed food, who did many unpatriotic
and selfish things. The,slackers who
secretly hoped that Germany would
win and who fought and hated Ameri
ca's allies.
Down in Oregon the Legion has
searched out and is making it tropical
for a young man, the very worst kind
of a slacker. His father is a wealthy
banker, who owned much land. The
boy was educated in the University of
Oregon to be a banker. It had been
planned that he would take a posi
tion in the bank when he finished
school, which he did while the War
was on and about the time the Unite I
States entered the war. He was of
draft age, physically fit, but his
father took him out of the bank and
put him on a large farm the bank
owned. He then made claim of ex
emption as the necessary head of
necessary industry. The local draft
board refused to allow this elaim, and
it was appealed to the district hoar'I.
The young man had an uncle on that
board and the finding of the draft
loard was reversed and the vi-unx
man was exempted as til<• manager of
3 farm.
The war ended on VovM.-ibtr II,
1918. Four days later thtr, equipment
this young slacker haJ usiH ■ ■»!, the
farm was sold at auction and he went
back to his place in the bank. H
was only the "head of a necessa.y in
dustry" while there was danger of
ha.ving to fight.
Now the American Legior lias U
ken the matter up. It may not be
able to convict any one of fraud,
but it has shown to the world, to that
young man's former friends an«'
neighbors that he was a\ slacker of
the very worst kind and he will go
through life with the brand of Bene
dict Arnold upon him.
This is only one of scores, yes hun
dreds of cases the Legion has brought
to light and it has just begun. But
the man who failed to do his duty
when the freedom of the world was
threatened is. going to have hard
sledding while the Legion is active in
ferreting out the slackers.—Star
Mirror.
Mr. and Mrs. William Imus reached
Caldwell last Friday evening from
New York. They are guests of Mr.
and Mrs. C. H. Imus. William Imus
is here on a 30 day furlough having
recently been assigned to Bremerton
where he will go at the expiration of
his furlough. Mr. Imus' enlistment
expires next August. Until that time
Mrs. Imus will remain in Caldwell.
Mr. Imus has been in the service two
years and a half.
It Cost
3 million
dollars
To Perfect The New Edi$on
But the three million dollars was the smallest part
of it. Any group of capitalists might devote this
sum to the perfection of a phonograph. But lack
ing the native genius and hard won experience of
Thomas A. Edison they would fail of their object.
It required the combination; the three million dol
lars plus the brain of the world's greatest inventor
to achieve
The
Neu; Edison
"The Phonograph with a Soul"
What is the result? An instrument which RE
CREATES the artist's voice or instrumental inter
pretation with such complete fidelity that even by
the test of direct comparison it is impossible to
distinguish getween the two renditions. This has
been proved by public tone tests, not once, but
more than 1500 times. More than thirty great
stars of Grand Opera have conducted these tests.
More than five hundred newspaper critics have
supported our assertion regarding this marvelous
instrument.
Drop into our store the next time you are down
town. Hear your favorite songs RE-CREATED
on the Official Laboratory Model. Then decide
whether or not you want this three million dollar
instrument in your own home.
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