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EVENING : CAPITAL : NEWS
_AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER _
Published Every Afternoon end Sunday Morning nt Bo tee, Idaho, a City of
80.000 People, by
the capital, news publishing coupant, J JMTTED
__RICHARD STORY SHERIDAN, General Manager.
*t the Poet Office at Boise, Idaho, aa Second-clans Mall Matter.
Phones—Business Office, IK Editorial Rooms. 15». Society Editor. 11«»
THEY WONDER WHY NEVERTHELESS
'"TP HE people of tins country are ready to make any sac
rifice for the good of the common cause. They are
J ready to go on short rations or to adopt substitutes
in the interest of the allies and of our own soldiers; but
when they do so they have a right to know something
shout the results at home.
The food administration is doing splendid work in eon
serving grain and meat and sugar for use by our allies,
but the time must come, it seems to us, when its broad
powers must be exercised to help the people at home—to
protect them from soaring prices being inflicted as a pen
alty for public patriotism.
For example, we have a big crop of com in this country
and the people, in order to save the flour for use abroad,
bave substituted corn meal to a large extent. One result
is that the price of com meal has risen materially. One
housekeeper writes the Capital News on this subject and
we quote one paragraph:
It has not been so very long ago since I paid 35 cents and 40 cents
for a 9-pound sack of corn meal. Now It la 75 cento and, I am told,
even *0 cents for the same sise sack. Is this necessary?
We cannot answer the question. It must be admitted
that the increase in the price of corn and of labor would
have an effect on the price of the finished product, but we
would like to know, and the public would like to know : Is j
all this increase legitimate or is part of it due to a price
raising fashion?
Other illustrations might be cited, but the case of corn
meal seems to be particularly in point because it is a staple I
and is necessary if we are to have any general substitute'
for flour. Moreover, its use is being strongly urged by!
the food administration. The law of supply and demand
under prevailing conditions must be considered, but there
can be no justification for any raise simply because of:
added use with perhaps the largest com crop in the na
tion's history.
Perhaps it is not for the public to "wonder why" but
simply to "do," still they are bound to wonder in the ab
sence of any explanation.
INFLUENCE OF ONE WOMAN'S LIFE
IN Chicago the first of this week the last rites of affec
tion and respect were paid to a woman whom Boise
U could ill afford to lose—the late Fanny Lyon Cobb.
Thirty years ago Mrs. Cobb and her family came to
Boise, and as those years have passed her influence grew
and spread. Probably Boise people themselves did not
realize the extent to which she had made herself part of
the life of the community until they were shocked by the
news of her death.
It pleases some persons to he forever in the public eye,
laboring feverishly and often fruitlessly at this and that.
Others concern themselves with exclusive selfishness only
with their own affairs.
Mrs. Cobb belonged to neither of these classes. With
unselfish zeal she gave herself to all movements for com
munity betterment, but her work was so unostentatious
and so quietly effective that as a rule only her co-workers
were aware of the extent of her efforts. Hospitals, the
Children's Home, Red Cross—these are only a few of the
worthy things that shared her devoted efforts of late
years, and it can be truthfully said that everything to
which Mrs. Cobb turned her attention was the better for
her aid. Few, indeed, are the public men whose passing
is heralded by columns of fulsome praise who have had
the beneficent influence that Mrs. Cobb so quietly exerted
on her own community.
And this is not the end, even though her presence is
gone. More lasting even than her labors of a semi-public
nature will be the effect of lier life, her example and her
broadly sympathetic views upon those with whom she
came into personal contact, and they included persons
from all walks of life.
Boise has suffered a loss—a loss so great that its full
effect will not he felt immediately. It is in the months to
come that this city will realize to the full the measure of
the deprivation occasioned by her untimely death.
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WHATCHAMA
COLUMN
PEPS
"What la needed la a balanced ration
—some balance betweeà eata and coat.
The rapidity with which thos3 can
tonmenta were built denotea that the
carpenters were doing their brace and
bit.
—o—
The La Follette hearing may be all
l ight, but O the smelling 1
After Nov. I It will cost 3 cents to
send a letter from Boise to Meridian,
nine miles, but only two cents to send
one from Boise to London. Another
case of distance lending, etc.?
—o—
Demand for labor Is greater than the
supply, we are told. Same thing true
of wages.
Colonel Roosevelt is reducing by box
ing. Throwing his fat Into the ring?
OVER THE TELEPHONE.
Hello I Who Is—
• • •
Pay yet? What—
You're my friend and going to pay?
Say—
• • •
You're slick; well you may be but—
Selling you wife's socks? Say for
the love of—
• • •
Ask for a receiver? What In the—
.* * *
O, I understand. You ask me to
shake up the receiver. There you are,
now try—
O yes,, I get yt
to pay me—
now. You're going
G-r-r-r-b-u-z-z.-r-i-p-g-r-r!
Central, for heaven sake repeat it,
• e •
, Central—"He says he is your old
schoolmate, John Slick. He says he
Is In Nampa selling some nice stocks.
He's going to Payette and then com
ing back to pay you and your folks a
visit.'
Yes, yes! Hello. ,l*ohn. Couldn't
get you. Come right along. I'll meet
you at the station and show you where
you can find n good hotel and—
Hello!
• » • \
HELLO!
Say, central, did you c*it us off?
NATURE'S WAR PLANES.
An American Port, Sometime in
October.—One of the largest mosqui
toes reported In the past decade was
killed In the vicinity of the army
camp at Yaphank the other evening.
The insect made a vicious attack up
on the occupants of one of the army
tents, after ripping open the canvas
roof. One of the soldiers grabbed his
rifle and, taking careful aim, shot the
mosquito through the leg, but the
predatory invader limped away, car
rying the buttlet with him.
LIMITED.
Sign In Trafalgar Square, London,
reads;
"ANDERSON, ANDERSON A
ANDERSON (Limited)."
Limited to Andersons, as it were.
FOLLIES OF 1917.
Swedish "neutrality'.''
White House picketing.
Shark meat stews.
Revival of the bustle.
Kilts for men.
Canned potato peelings.
POOR FATHER.
Our neighbor is bitter.
i wife is a knitter.
She's knitting for rookies,
Mule drivers and "cookies."
His desolate wail can be heard for two
blocks,
For he walks around "with no feet In
his socks.
THE CLERKS CONTRIBUTE.
Department store clerks have from
time to time sent in the following say
ings of their customers:
"I want to buy a shirt for my hus
band. He wears a six and seven
eights hat."
"They ain't wearing those hats. You
don't see 'em in any of the funny car
toons."
"Are these $1.29 cufflinks solid gold?
If not, I don't want them."
"I want to buy a corset for my wife.
She's a panatela shape."
POLICE!
Prince Sarath Ghosh of India, an
other of the lavender nightie philoso
phers now touring this country. Is
famous for doing his own mending.
Here we have at last in reality "those
Ghosh-darned socks."
DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES.
Headline In Chicago Evening Post:
SHOT TO DEATH,
HE REFUSES TO GIVE
NAME OF HIS ASSASSIN.
The British government plans to
supply motor tractors to he used on
the additional cultivated lands In the
Untied Kingdom. It ts expected that
between six thousand and seven thou
sand machines will he needed.
An electro magnet weighing only
seven pounds t^st will lift fifteen
times Its own weight has recently been
Invented. It Is Intended for use In
machina shops.
The caribou develops to Hr greatest
size In the Cassiar district.
Tractors are coming Into general use
on the plantationa of Hawaii. There
Is an excellent field for these supplies
and automobiles.
TOO MUCH
EFFICIENCY
A CLEVER SERIAL STORY.
By E. J. RATH.
Author of "When the Devil Was
Sick," "One-Cylinder Sam," etc.
Synopsis of Prsceding Chapters
John W. Brooke, owner of a large
hardware manufactory, has the
concern reformed by the Economy
and Efficiency Corporation, Ltd.
President Sherwood, of that con
cern. boast» «that there Is no busi
ness on earth that he can't Im
prove, and Mr. Brooke challenges
him to "efficleneylze" an American
home. Sherwood takes up the
gauntlet, with the result that
Brooke goes on a vacation, and
Henry Hedge, efficiency engineer,
is made head of his household and
"father" of his three children—
William, aged twenty-two; Con
stance, aged twenty, and Alice,
aged fifteen—during his absence.
Hedge takes hold vigorously, and
gets himself cordially disliked by
all three, who are unused to au
thority. On a tour of inspection.
Hedge visite the gymnasium, just
in time to get bumped by a too
vigoronsly pounded punching-batf
at the hands, or rather, fists, of
Constance. The bag Is inscribed:
"H. Hedge, E. E."
Hedge continues his campaign of
reform by an attempt to abolilh
Constance's Pomeranian pup. by the
installation of a time-clock In the
kitchen, by the introduction of more
efficient steps in the dancing of a
party of friends of hers, among
whom he makes a hit; by warning
off a couple of them (mates) as be
ing useless members of society,
and by buying her a hat. He tries
to get her a cheap one, and finds
that he has paid half as much
again as she had asked for!
/ CHAPTER Xlf.
The Declaration.
T HE notable documentary feature
of the American Revolution was
the Declaration of independence. In
this respect, the American Revolu
tion was not a single step In advance
of the Brooke Revolution. The latter
was as inevitable as the former.
It was declared at breakfast, while the 1
efficiency man happened to he looking
across the table at Constance.
lie could not be blamed for looking.:
She wore something that was blue, and '
the morning sunlight helpc*d her to re
semble the freshness of an old-fash-1
ioned garden at dawn—save that she*
was not old-fashioned. Instead she !
was fetching—a poor term, yet one
that will serve in these days. As for!
H. Hedge, he was in evident form and
splendidly efficient. He was ready to
make the day's work eat out of his
palm.
*Alice, as she took her seat, laid a
tightly rolled paper at his place. It
was tied with a red, white and blue
ribbon. The efficiency man picked it
up and examined It in cursory fashion.
"Something^ for me to read?" he
asked.
Alice nodded. * j
He slipped off the ribbon and began I
the laborious task of trying to make!
three curly sheets of foolscap He flat.
"Never roll, always fold," he mur
mured.
Alice, w r ho was watching him with
bright eyes, frowned slightly, but made
no comment. Constance and Billy
were watching the performance with
furtive glances;
The writing on the first sheet began I
about three inches from the top, imme -'
diately under a single line that read:|
To H. Hedg, E. E.:
The efficiency man unconsciously |
nodded his approval of economic spell- ;
Ing, as applied to his own name,
then read aloud:
"When, in the course of human
events, it becomes necessary for Wtll-j
iam Walton. Constance Thatcher, and!
Alice Brooke to serve notice upon H.
Hedg that they will not stand for «11 !
,, . ..... I
the rules and regulations he has been
™- .*; a _ d ? C ,r. n A r -?. P _ e ?, t .- f .° r A he ° p j n :'
lons of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel
them to speak as a have."
, "Your orange-juice, sir," interrupt
ed the deferential voice of Horace.
"Put it down," said Hedge. "I'm
busy."
He read on :
"We hold these truths to be selfev
ident, as follow's:
"He has refused to give us our regu
lar allowances, having cut same in
half.
"He has refused to give us credit at
stores, so that we cannot buy the kind
of clothes and other things we need.
"He has bossed us around, when he
. . . . . . . ..
îl a "v. n °v do *°' 1 " Ch 58
If he had ns much to any about It as
our father—which he hasn't!"
H. Hedge glanced up from his read
ing and detected Constance In the act
of bestowing an extraordinary glance
upon Alice. He continued:
..... , , . . .
'He has made a lot of rules abouti,.
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. [
Ing out reports every day until we are
nearly all crazy.
hours that make us feel as it we were
orphan asylum children.
"He has put a time-clock on the
servants, and has got everybody fill-!
Billy Brooke coughed loudly and be
came busy with his orange. The effi
ciency man went on relentlessly:
J
I
.... . . , ... ,, . j
He has combined with others to
subject u, to a jurisdiction foreign to
our (onstltution and unacknowledged
lÿ- our la ws."
H. Hedge looked up at the paneled,
s u n,e, r'- * ,
document bewildered him. The model
was sublime, but It was difficult to
tell where the model left off and
Alices document began.
. . -
Allce! she whispered, Is that what
you made me sign
Alice nodded.
"It's—It's—
"Well, you sighted," said Alice blunt
IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS BEFORE THE WAR—AND NOW
D
I \NELL WELL
/ WELL-0 Bill
' VYHY 1 HRVEN Y
I SEEN YOU FOR I
iQont KWOU) WH67?
H OtAi'S THE.
uiWrt d vr say
if IV£ HAVE a
UTTLfi SOMETHIN^
for old T/mes
SRKE.
— - 7
UiHlVT'l t TO»/ HAVE
©ill, oont ae r
NOOeST. nothings
Too eooo oR. ex
pensive for you
IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS JIM USED TO SAY
iS This Ybu.oiLL?
UÆLL-U;ELL WHERE
IN SAM HILL WAVE VfeO ti
SEEM ke£P(n "Yourself <
V
lets Co outre to
JERRY'S RNp HAVE
a little cheer,
UfHAT XAV ?
SRlKC OS TWO
©OTTER NIL* S
<)ERR V
BUT NOW
1
'
!
a
Upcle Walt Has for
You This
BEGGARS ON WHEELS.
m SEE a million autos scoot be
fore my dwelling daily; the
engines hum, the honk-horns
toot, the wheels are spinning
gayly. I recognize a lot of
Jays who thus go whizzing past me,
and say, "it beats me how they raise
the wherewithal, dodgast me!" For
there goes Boggs. W'ho doesn't pay the
butcher and the baker, who's standing
off, from day to day, the patient un
dertaker. And there goes Skaggs; I
saw him stfck a mortgage on his
j shanty; he couldn't get a prune on
I tick 'twixt here and Tpsilantl. And
there goes Swigg; he's borrowed mon
from every friend and neighbor; he's
so enamored of his fun, he's' cut out
useful labor. I see the long proces
sion go, the tireless autos flitting, and
wonder, as I watch them flow, what
poorhouse they'll be hitting. An
auto takes a goodly hoard; some traps
its always wanting; not one in 20 can
I a Word to keep a motor taunting. But
-' every one now has his car. no man's so
b «dly busted that he can't Junket near
and far, past creditors disgusted.
| (CopyrlglT 1917 by George Matthew
; Adams.)
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!
ly. "1 asked you to read It and you
wouldn't."
"But 1 never thought—"
The efficiency man was reading
again :
I "He has Interfered with some of our
frlPnrt , comlnR to the „ouse. with dr
:' .-»mstances of cruelty and perfidy
scarcely paralleled in the most barbar
ous ages.
"He has incited domestic insurrec
tions against us.
"He has made us all miserable and
unhappy and ashamed to look our
friends in the face, and our repeated
petitions have been answered only by
repeated injury."
The efficiency man seemed to he suf
fering from a choking spell. He was
wondering how George III felt when
the Declaration of 1776 Was laid at his
breakfast place.
Conwtance and Billy were shooting
angry glances at their sister.
'Say, kid," w'hispered Billy, "w'hy
'didn't you read it to me first?"
"Huh!" exclaimed Alice. "You
signed when you heard Connie had."
"I know—but I thought she had read
it."
"She was too sleepy," said Alice.
"She wouldn't. What's the matter with
11 « «u>«aj .
Billy dug viciously Into his orange
and turned purple.
H. Hedge was reading again:
[ "A person whose character Is marked
hv act whlch may define a t y
J rant. Is unfit to be the ruler of John]
W. Brooke's children."
I He paused and studied the celling:
j again. If he was busy chevying his un- !
dPr „ Constance and Billy failed to 1
, t< T „ey try i ng to wither
Allce wlth (nr „ n dlarv glances,
"We. therefore-''
Hprt(fp lingered over the "there
(ore " HP ventured an Inspection of
the three Brookes, but only Alice met
h „ eyp she was defiant. !
therefore. William Walton
Brooke. Constance Thatcher Brooke.
!®nd Alice Brooke, solmnly publish and
declare that we are, and of right.ought
to be. free and independent children."
The efficiency man paused and read
(Continued on Sport Page.)
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YOUR HEALTH
By JOHN B, HUBER. A. M„ M. D.
Without health life is bmt
An Easy Problem.
T am 20; have had a remarkably
good constitution all my life, al
though affected with asthma —until
« change of climate cured «4« of
that. But last teinter I have e break
down. I could hard ly stand «g and
1 was sick all over; my head swam
around so that the floor looked as
though it were coming up like wones.
I could not sleep at night; had
tremors that * came creeping up and
down me. I felt as if I would have
convulsions, and would stay awake
until three or four. I now feel giddy
nearly all the time and particularly
when I get tired. Everything tires
and exhausts me and yet I have to be
up and doing. Previous to the break
down I have mentioned 1 was work
ing in a R. B. office with might and
main. Besides the day work I worked
at night. But I hung on and at night
I took up inventory work besides,
in a Department store office—half
the night, until I felt perfectly
dazed and almost numb in my brain.
And yet I kept agoing. It was after I
had done that one i peek, including
all day Sunday, with' 15 minutes for
meals, that I gave out. Has my con
dition been brought on by overwork
or something else. Also previous to
my breakdown I took large doses of
quinine, which made me very ner
vous and weak; and yet I kept on
with my daily duties. Is quinine
really as harmless as they sayf I
feel tort of deaf all the time; my
ears sing, especially when I am tired,
frightened or excited. I have also
taken tonics, but they do not make
my head feel much better or kelp
those cold tremors.
Answer —Xo more thaAa word la
necessary. Here Is a human mach
ine that has been worked at foroed
draught; the only rasult of that
kind of thing la that if kept np long
enough, the machine must all pre
maturely go to the scrap heap. Yon
Dr. Huber will answer »11 signed letter, pertaining to Health -If your question I. of
generol Interest it will be answered through these columns; if not ft wtlf be answered
nersonelly 1( s'imped, addressed envelope*! enclosed. Pr Auber will not pree-ribe (or
individual rser, or »kc disgno.es, Addroee Dr. John B. Hnbor."sro of thlS7w"-~
To Liberty Bond Subscribers:
OUR FIRE-PROOF VAULTS ARE AT YOUR SERV
' ICE FOR THE SAFE KEEPING OF YOUR
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THIS SERVICE WILL BE GIVEN WITHOUT COST TO YOU
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have accurately ffeserfbed fhe symp
toms of an overdosing with quinine.
» hours for work. 8 for recreation,
8 for sleep, and living The Hygle
nie Life, will re sto re you. Nobody at
yonr age ahould need tonics except
In conTs l esoanoe after a serious dis
ease. No knmoae person would mis
nse a dray horse aa you haws misused
your constitution. Many worklry
women ahould find Instruction lu this
CHBOWTD IBOOK AJTD
xmnuBTKunjL
Two years ago I had an aoddemtrwoe
thrown from a carriage. Mnos than I
have had a paouWar dosed fasting in
my head. It yets ou my ner ve s, end
gives me great depression of «äfft».
Several doctors who have examined
my head find nothing wrong Wift ti.
Do you think I am suffering from
•hockt
Anewer —Tee; there ts suah a thing
as ohronlo shock, which may in its
turn be causative of neurasthenia,
fatigue of the nervous system. Avoid
ance of atlmnlants (alcohol, ooftes,
tea), or great moderation In the use
of them, tobaeoo barred, and the
loading of The Hygienic Life will
In most eases restore such a sufferer
to the normal.
XHASLB&
1. Are all kinds of measles subject
to quarantine 2. How many JH-uJ.1
are theret 3 .Which kind is t).
worst. 4. How long before a mild ran
should be allowed to mix with oth
ers, especially childrenf
Answer -— 1. Shoula be. 2. Two. the
ordinary and Rotheln (Germes
measles). 3. The ordinarv. 4.
About a week after all eruption has
disappeared.