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* Hie Emmett Index Published every Thursday by ED SKINNER A SONS „...12.00 . 1*0° Subscription Rate» in Idaho On« year . . Six months ... Three months Outside of Idaho $2.60 *•25 _ ; I ■ One year_ Six months ... Three months (15 Entered in the Emmett postofficc as second class mail matter. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS i Look *» th« Printed label on your « paper. The date thereon shows when the subscription expires. Forward your money in ample time for renewal Notice date on label carefully, and if j not correct, please notify us at once. CURRENT COMMENT T^HERE'S lots to be said on both aides of the college question. It is true that you can find college grad uates in Jail, and boys who have never seen the inside of a schoolhouse sit ting in t^e seats of the mighty, but that isn't the rule. An American with no schooling at all has one chance in 160,000 of becoming emi nent. "With a high school training he has 87 times as good a chance. With a college education he has 700 times as good a chance. Going to col lege, for most boys, means a few years of hard study and penny pinch ing, but if it increases the chances of success 700 times, you have the an swer to the question, "Why go to college.7" Why, indeed, shouldn't the boy go to college, even if it Involves some sacrifice on his own part, and some on the part of his family? / TPHOUGH peace has been patched u| in the far East, keen observers of world conditions predict » war in the not far distant future. The Turks are determined to get back into Eu rope, and when they attempt it war will break forth. There Is but ono way to prevent it. If the Turks are to be kept out of Europe, Christians must necessarily be kept out of Asia Minor. The white race is the domi nant race of the world. It is also when it to taking a world census. Ancient and medieval history teach us, If they teach us anything that a dominant race is courting destruction when it undertakes to press either its plan of government or it* religion upon another race. HAMMETT Is not alone in being hard put to find room for her public school pupils. The newspapers of practically every village, town and city are facing the problem of over flowing school buildings. In some cities the pupils are put on half time. This is an unwholesome condition. The beet thing that a democracy can do for its children, and incidentally for itself, ia to give them each a seat un dar a competent teacher. It is an expensive undertaking, a hundred million dollars for a million children; but if the education is what it should be, it is the most profitable invest ment that a community or a state can make. "After bread, education" is a good motto to write above our budg> eta, which means that they are to be pawed not with less scrutiny, but with deeper realization of what an educational budget really means. These budgets are growing enormous ly, but till every child has a fail chance to get the education U> which he is entitled, and which a seat should not only symbolize but secure, they cannot be said to be too large. iwoDn.Mc ,. „ , . u ACCORDING to the dispatches Sam uel Untermyer has expressed a willingness to assist in the attempt t 1 impeach Attorney General Daugherty, Daugherty's offense was that he tried to stop sabotage and violent*» with the railway Strike. There is no doubt of his guilt. As a result of his action it is a crime to assault a non-union workman or burn a railway car. Free dom has been attacked in one of its vulnerable spots. ' ATE ME NTS made by Candidate j Alexander that the "Cabinet Form j of Government" and offices in the | state house are responsible for high ! tuxes in Idaho were shown without foundation by Captain A. H. Connor, ! LUC STRIKE IGAPETTI I ! ! ràl TOASTED It's toasted. This one extra process gives a delightful quality that can not be duplicated candidate for attorney general, when he analyzed one of Mr. Alexander'» own tax receipts at a meeting re cently held in Salmon City. Under the name of the Alexander Realty I Company, Mr. Alexander owns a farm in Lemhi county. His receipt for his 1921 taxes was No. 6, and was divided as follows: State tax. County tax . School tax - $27.12 82.20 45.00 . $154.68 Total . Captain Connor showed that of each d „ u jn t „ eil tor lUU purpos , , on ly D* cents goes to the mainte nance and upkeep of the various de pertinents of state government which Mr A!pxandt . r delights in calling the "Cabinet Form of Government." The remaining 86 cents goes to schools, roads, interest and sinking fund on bond issues, legislative and judicial departments, all of which Mr. Alex ander has publicly stated must not be touched. He burned his fingers in his administration when he cut previous appropriations for state schools to the point where the institutions were seriously crippled and he says Idaho must have good roads. He told a Salmon City audience: 'We are go We are go ing to build good roads. to build them all over the state mg and if the Republicans don't like them they can ride in the brush, leaves only 16 cents for state depart ments where he can save his mijlion dollars to the taxpayers of Idaho. On his Lemhi county farm that would amount to just $4.06. If he would dose the state house, discharge all So that employed there and abandon the func tions of the state government, he would save just 15 cents on euch dol lar of his state taxes. I See That— Everybody's cash increased by 46 cents in August, according to the treasury department. Ours must have gotten lost in the «mail. The estimated cost of maintaining a private soldier in the United States army is $2680 u year. Whe-e-ew, what it must cost to a gen eral or a supply sergeant. A man 104 years old, arrested for drunkenness, was released on his promise not to take another drink We fancy that if he can hold out the first 10 years, he'll be safe. for 30 years. A director of the Harriman Nation al bank of New York, which loaned the Miners Union $100,000 during the height of the coal strike without oth collateral than the integrity of the 900,000 members of the union, says the men could have borrowed 5 million dollars as well as $100,000 on the same security. er A centenarian claims his 100 years are due to the fact that he has always raised Ned and lived the life of a tough. Lots of old boys like to brag how wild they were in their youth. The postoffice window is to go. Uncle Sam plans in the near future to hand the mail out over a counter. The country store postoffices of bygone «lays, and those maintained in saloons such as 7,eke Sweet tells about, are to be vindicated at last. It will only take 28 hours for New York air mails to reach Frisco, pro vided, of course, they reach there at all. Mr. Gompers has decided to im .peach the attorney general, but will ^ for gevenl l days wheth hl . wi „ remove President Harding >r not. TALES OF TOWN ) j MY EPITAPH. 1 ask no stone to mark me where I lie. Only a pine's tall shaft in a deep wood Beneath blue skies with white clouds drifting by Where I may sleep in soundless solitude. And let there be no written record planned— My scroll shall be the seasons as they pass; The white of snows when winter veils the land; The moons of springtime latticing the grass— It may tie then that I shall hear again The things I love«l so well so long ago— The fitful drumming of the young yeaj's rain, The first spring flowers thrusting tnrough the snow. BROWSING IN BOOKS r PHERE is. I know inot how, in the *- minds of men, a certain presage. as it were, of a future existence! ami this takss the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.— Cicero. It is hard to tell what and when the world is coming to. AAA The country's bumper crops are all right, but they seem to have no place to go. « « * Babe Ruth has a swell job. All .he does when he wants to ga fishing is cuss an umpire. A * « These are also the days when the hew teacher sizes up the parents via the children. ♦ A * A woman is as old as she looks—a man is never too old to quit looking. « * A The list of Emmett young folks who ore attending college or who are teaching looks almost like a roll call. A. A « We have seen a few of the new long skirts in Emmett, and really we can't say that we like 'em. AAA Were it not for the radicals and the pullbacks we would have no middle ground. We then would either go to smash or die of dry rot. AAA On the way to the upper country a traveller asked a farmer of foreign birth which of two roads was the better. He said: "Both iss the same far, but one is the most hill up." AAA An Emmett man came to this of fice to buy old newspapers to put un der a carpet. On being offered a bun dle of comic supplements he refused them, saying that his wife was in clined to be hysterical, and he was afraid the "funny papers" would tickle her feet. AAA Little Mary was attending her firsi class in domestic science and was asked to tell briefly the surest way to keep milk from souring. Mary, being an exceedingly practical child, gave this recipe: the cow." And Leave it in AAA An old friend of ours, a German by preference and because he cannot help it, and his wife did not get along. One day at the close of a particularly violent argument his wife remarked, "I vish I vas in heaven!" "Huh!" commented Heinrich, "I vish 'There you vas in a beer garden. 1 go," exploded his frau, "always vish ing yourself in the best place." AAA A man wanted by the police was photographed in six different posi tions. The pictures were circulated among the police of other cities. The chief of a small town wrote head 1 duly received quarters, saying: the pictures of the six miscreants whose capture is desired. I have ar rested five of them. The sixth is under observation and will be ar rested soon." A A A On a summer evening, after a show er, you wonder where all the bugs from and where they have all come been keeping themselves before the shower. start. The school children swarm out So it is when the schools on the streets and you wonder where they all come from and where in the world all of them kept themselves during the summer months. AAA The Methodist conference had just adjourned and one of the brethren was feeling very much disappointed his appointment. A kind heart over ed brother, wishing to comfort him, laid a friendly arm about his should "Now, my dear broth er, cheer up! You must look for the hand of the Lord in your appoint I do," mourned the disap pointed brother, "I do! But every time I look for the hand of the Lord I see the paw of the presiding elder." AAA A typographical error is always possible. down our spine paper after the edition is printed and find that some linotype slugs have gotten mixed in the makeup. Other editors undoubtedly have the same trouble, as witness this card of thanks clipped from an exchange: this means of extending our thanks to nil those who were so kind during ers and said: ment." The cold sweat trickles when we read the "We take the sickness and death of our loved We especially thank the givers one. of the beautiful flowers. 1 sulkey hay rake. 1 log chain, a grindstone and other articles too numerous to men tion." AAA "Speaking of snakes," remarked Old Bill Misgivens, "they ain't bad critters at nil if you know how to tr«>at them right. I found a snake one winter «lay out in the yard near to perishing. Evidently he had neg lected to provide himself with a hole for the winter and just fooled around until a sudden cold spell caught him out in the open and he mighty near froze to death. I sort of pitied the reptile and took him up to the fire, warmed him and gave him some sweet milk to drink. Well, that snake was the most grateful snake I ever saw. He would follow me around like a dog and when 1 whistled he would come a-crawling to me as fast as he could. He was a heap better than any cat for catching mice and when I used to be working in one of the outside fields and didn't want t.o go home for dinner that snake would go to the house, take the lunch my wife had put up in a lunch basket, take 1 w à fi  V \n New low prices effective today make Overland beyond any shadow of doubt the greatest tomobile value in America. au Gem County Garage Netc Prices: TOURING Wat $550 $525 ROADSTER Wat $550 : $525 SEDAN DOWN Today to Now Now Now $895 $875 COUPE Wat Now $850 $795 Was /. . k ToU. $ So.b. c Ibledo f % T. B. HARGUS Emmett, Idaho Headquarters for Paint Our Certain-teed Prices Per gal. Per Per Per Gal. Quart Pint $ 3.70 $ 1.26 $#•30 .86 .55 House Paint No. Outside White No. 448. Olive Green No. 445. $3.50 900 Universal Varnish.. 33 Dark Oak Varnish Stain.... 13 Ivory Interior Enamel. 461 Barn, Bridge & Roof Paint 1.25 $2.80 1.80 4 JT isn't often you get the best quality at the best price—but you certainly do in Certain teed paint. The reason is the Certain-teed cost plus basis. No arbitrary profits are added to make color prices uniform, from the best materials and then prices the colors according to the cost to manufacture. You get the benefit of both quality and price. It is a pleasure to recommend Certain-teed — it never disappoints. See us before painting—it will pay you. f i 1 a * 1 Certain-teed makes each color I77 mm //, 1 Certain-teed ra I Hfun HUNT I SS» VCAm.SMW 4 * PAINT • VARNISH * ROOFING ■ LINOLEUM OIL CLOTH 5 RELATED PRODUCTS the handle of the lunch basket in his mouth and crawl out to the field with the basket. He used to be mighty useful, too, about driving the cows from the pasture. He would slip around from one cow to the other and nip each gently on the heel, but never bit them hard enough to hurt, but just enough to make them get a move themselves. But the thing that attached me especially to that snake j was when he saved my life. One night the house caught fire and every one I of the family was sleeping sound. Not one of them would have known j thnt there was any fire until the roof would have fallen in on us and every one of the family would have been burned to a cinder. on Well, sir, that the front snake was sleeping porch and when the fire broke out durned if that snake didn't crawl out | in the yard, catch the bell rope in his teeth and go to ringing the din- j bell like all possessed. on That : ner waked me up and I bounced out of ; bed and got water on the fire in time j to save the house with little damage." j Patient Working and Waiting. There Is no achievement that Is not (he result of patient working and wait ing.—J (• Holland. Prune Growers 5 We have the largest and most modern equipped packing house in Southern Idaho. We have all the necessary equipment and material to handle your fruit carefully and quickly. We are in a position to make you a guarantee fruit. : j on your Emmett Fruit Growers Assn. E. E. DEAN, Manager. Phone 46. <« I saw it in The Index. Why not subscribe and read it yourself. All the news. $2.00 per yeaf