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The Idaho Republican
SEMI-WEEKLY
Published every Tuesday and Friday
Byrd Trego, Editor and Proprietor
F. C. Kutnewsky, Managing Editor
Mabel Christensen, Business Manager
Entered at the postoffice at Black
toot, Idaho, as second-class matter.
Subscription price - $3.00 per Year
LABOR MARK A IlLUNBER
AT POCATELLO
About a mouth ago we published
a statement about a candy maker at
Pocatello being blackmailed by an
agitator at a labor convention, lie
cause it was employing a widow wo
man, the mother of five children, to
wrap and pacj? candy, and was pay-,
ing her only* a meager wage of two
or three dollars a day. The speaker
who brought it to the attention of the
convention said the firm that would
employ a woman and not pay her
Tone
Murderer?
Not the Sonora, which won
highest score for tone qual
ity at the Panama-Pacific
exposition.
Sound Box, a delicate portion
of reproducing mechanism,
is made of carefully se
lected materials. No violin
maker is more painstaking
than Sonora makers In
looking for the exact qual
ity of wood desired.
Sonora motors run from fifteen
to forty-five minutes with
out rewinding.
Prices reasonable
Clive Music
Company
18 W. Bridge
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the patronage of. the public and
ought to be listed as unfair, and be
avoided accordingly. He did not
pro fetes to know whether the woman's
service was worth any more than
they were paying her, but merely put
it upon the firm that happened to
hire her, to see that she had all the
money she needed.
A Preacher's
Mistake
Since that time another chapter
has been added to the case, related
by Theodore Turner, U. S, commis
sioner of Pocatello. He states that
a minister, Rev. Mr. Hamilton, took
the matter up in ltis church, and de
voted considerable energy to telling
the congregation how dastardly a
thing it was to employ a widow wo
man with five children at her home,
and not pay her enough to live on.
They were giving her only $30 a
week, he said, and she needed twice
that much to keep her family. Any
firm that would treat a woman that
way was not entitled to the favor and
patronage of the public.
Now let's see what that philosophy
vould lead to. Naturally she would
stop working for that candy com
pany, and would seek other employ
ment. Or if she did not quit, the
public, by refusing to buy of them,
would destroy their business, and she
would lose her job, so in either case
she would soon be out of employment
by reason of the adoption of the new
code of ethics advooated by the min
ister, who sees the new light and the
new way of doing things on plans
savoring of righteousness plus, some
times called bolshevism.
Woman Has Little
Chance
When the woman is out of a job
she goes about looking for another
,? The Necklace"
(Apologies to de Maupassant)
She, a beautiful wife of a government clerk, borrowed a beauti
ful necklace to wear to the grand ball, where she played for one
short evening the part of a conquering beauty.
The necklace being lost, the couple secretly borrowed a small
fortune to replace it—said nothing, and slaved away for the
rest of their lives to repay.
To be properly adorned is the desire of every
true woman, and it isn't necessary to mortgage
one's future. Get them of
Christ—Jeweler
place to work, and each employer
having work 'to do, knowing that it
will become his duty to furnish her
ail the money she needs to support
tier family, will hesitate about taking
j on such a burden, and will be in-1
' dined to employ a widow who has
j only one child, or to employ some
woman who has nobody depending on
her lor support. Or he may adopt
the policy of not employing a woman
at all. seeing that it imposes burdens
and risks upon his business, without
giving him any chance to make her
work commercially profitable. When
all employers reach such a stage In
their line of thought and their plans,
then the woman needing employment
has no chance at all, and tlfe good,
loyal worker is placed on a par with
the careless, indolent person who
does not give very good service.
Investigating the
Preacher
Now comes a new phase of the
question. The business men of Poca
tello investigated the case, and found
that the woman in question had com
plained that she had to be at home
part of the time to take care of her
children, and had been allowed to
come and go about as she pleased,
working when it suited her and go
ing home when she got ready. This
lid not get tne work done for the
candy makers, but out of biggness
of heart of the firm, they paid her
full time even when she was working
only about half time. Then when
she had some sickness in the family
and needed things which her wages
would not buy, the employer bought
and paid for them out of the till and
charged them to the expense of op
erating the business. This some
times amounted to as much as her
wages, so they spent as high as $60
a week on her account and received
whatever service it suited her to
it render.
in the face of all this generosity on
the part of the employer, she was
grumbling about the treatment
in-1 corded to her, and the labor agitator
j was talking about it in the state
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labor convention and in the pulpit.!
When the employer learned of her
ingratitude In giving rise to these
damaging reports against their busi
ness, and stirring up the anger of the
public against the firm, it naturally
followed that they ceased to feel gen
erous and loyal to her, and wished
themselves free from such encum
brance. A delegation waited on the
Kev. Mr. Hamilton to inform him
that lie must have either spoken
without first learning the facts, or
having the facts, must have distorted
them, in either case they had little
use or respect for him and no longer
considered him a safe adviser and
counselor.
Hurts Every Working
Woman
The net result of it all is that a
widow woman seeking employment
in Pocatello does not meet with the
consideration that she did before,
and all women seeking employment
are under more or less of a reproach
which this unfortunate incident has
brought about. Organized labor, so
far as it was stirring up this muss,
has discredited itself and is not re
spected quite so much as before, and
men possessing the true spirit of
comradeship for their fellow men
land women) find that some of that
spirit has been dislodged or de
stroyed. Thus do the fool-friends of
labor overdo matters and block their
own progress.
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ALCOHOL FOR FLU
AND PNEUMONIA
William Henry Porter, M. D. pro
fessor emeritus in pathology and
general medicine, of the New York
post-graduate medical school, writ
ing in the New York Times, gives
it as his firm opinion that "there is
nothing, so far as known, that can
take the place of alcohol in the
crisis where life hangs by the slend
erest of frayed threads."
He declares that in his thirty years
of active practice he has made it a
matter of routine to prescribe alcohol
early "in the pathological process"
to all patients in need of a really
oxldizahle stimulant. Whether this
method is better or one where
alcohol is denied he leaves to the
hospital mortality records.
The reason why alcohol can not be
replaced by any other therapeutic
agent with dependable results is, the
doctor says, that "alcohol is the one
product that will yield heat and force
without the expense of any digestive
energy."
Alcohol is absorbed and immed
iately oxodized, and each gram of it
thus consumed yields seven large
calories of heat, "and without this
heat and energy production the pa
tient simply dies from nerve exhaus
tion and non-eliminated toxins."
It is reported from different parts
of the country that in the present
epidemic, in which patients are often
found in the lowest condition of
nerve and digestive vigor, prescrip
tions calling for alcohol are not to be
filled for love or money, in spite of
the federal ruling which allows
alcohol on prescriptions by doctors.
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BAKER SCORCHED BY
AIR COMMITTEE
A house sub-committee investigat
ing aircraft production and expendi
tures of the war department severely
blames Baker for "woeful extrva
gance, total incompetency, utter fail
ure and wild extravagenve." The
"also rans" are Col. Disque and Di
rector Ryan.
The report recites that Col. Disque
an ex-penitentiary warden, in
charge of airplane lumber production
"could not tell a spruce from a fir
tree." It charges that with 30,000
soldiers incuding 1200 officers he
could not do as well as one lumber
man in Canada, without soldiers or
government aid.
During a period of nineteen
months $1,051,000,000 was used for
aircraft and only 213 DH-4 observa
tion planes bad reached the front
at the time of the armistice. These,
the report declared, were "utterly
dangerous," and were called "nam
ing coffins" by flyers.
The committee found that no
fighting planes whatever had been
built. American air-men used a good
many out-of-date machines that the
allies turned over to them, and
several hundreds of them were only
imitation planes, like wooden guns.
At the same time between 3000 and
4000 trained American aviators were
waiting in France for machines.
France had 3321 fighting planes
when the war was ended, England
had 1728 and Germany had 2750.
All the planes, good, bad and other
wise that America furnished her air
forces in Europe number 740. No
American bombing or pursuit plane
ever got across.
The report shows that 4000 of the
dangerous DH-4 observation planes
underwent 3600 changes and cost
$50,000,000. With full knowledge
of their defects they were neverthe
ess shipped across the water. The
sum of $6,000,000 was spent trying
to fit a Liberty motor into a con
verted Bristol machine, and then the
machine was thrown In the scrap
heap. About $17,000,000 was spent
on standard training machines and
these also were scrapped.
All of which goes to bear out the
saying that where there's much
smoke there's some fire. The at
tacks on Baker for inability to handle
his job were not all contemptible
partisan politics.—F. C. K.
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CELEBRATE HOLIDAY
The banks of Blackfoot were
closed all day Monday in honor of
Washingtons' birthday. Very few
other business houses closed that
1 4']
day.
SALT LAKERS MARRIED
Charles J. E. Martinson ana Nina
C. Reagan of Salt Lake City were
married Thursday by James Duck
worth. They returned to Salt Lake
City following the ceremony.
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First Cost
We can't compete for battery business on price.
Willard service does cost more, so does a Willard
Battery. But isn't it true that you hire a real
engineer, or architect, or contractor, or carpen
ter, or mechanic, or doctor, or lawyer, that it
saves in the long run?
We're in business to do the job righ t the firs t time
—and that costs more than to fix it so it has to be
done over again soon after.
When we sell a Willard Battery with Threaded
Rubber Insulation we charge more for it, but, it
doesn't come back for re insulation with a big bill
to you. It stays on the job till it has delivered all
the service you bought—and generally a lot more
than you'd believe possible.
Try it once—and you'll feel the same as 99% of
■II who own Willard Batteries with Threaded
Rubber Insulation.
Drop in, glad to tee you.
Bl&ckfoot Storage
Battery Co.
N. Main St. Bl&ckfoot
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In place of an Easter
card—your photograph.
Both seasonable—but
one a permanent re
minder of you.
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(An early appointment means time for
careful work.)
HASSING PHOTOS
Phone 523VV
Eccles Bldg.
Blackfoot
Get Butterwrappers at The Republican
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BEACHY'S
What you get for what you pay" in buying shoes was
never more important than it is today.
Make your dollar do its full duty by buying reliable qual
ity only.
Beachy's shoes afford the utmost in style, comfort and
and wear, the always reasonable prices considered.
The careful fit you get will make your satisfaction
complete.
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Beachy Shoe Co.