Payette enterprise., January 09, 1919, Image 2

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1918
UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN
'lue louowiug, ow.ng to the epi-i
SUie
demie that has gapped our
is the betatfcd report of the umredj
War Work cam t aif,n of November,
lith to 18th. It auouid be stared here!
ir the cast; of the counties
hot yet reached tueir apioriion-Jnt
nave
nrent we have confidence tuat tuis
will be done b- tore the campaign :s
finally closed In ihtse counties. Ow
ing to the severity of the epidemic
it was impossible in tnese particular
counties' to get a final report in
your hands at th.s time.
1 he report speaks for itself. To
say that we have dune our best
under existing conditions is only
part of the truth. As a matter of
fact, many of our workers have donej
the impossible thing, and we a r«
today standing with over HALF
MILLION DOLLARS RAISED ON
OUR APPORTIONMENT OF $426,250
On behalf of the State Committee!
we take pleasure In thanking you for
your particular part in the campaign.
Of all the campaigns for war work
this one will undoubtedly stand o
as the one marking a new era
co-operation. The seven already ex
isting agencies, wilh their machin
ery, within a few days werte mould
ed into this one organization
the particular purpose of rais'ng
funds for the work to be carried.
on by the various organizations rep-j
restented in the merger,
gratified in knowing that in our State
the campaign was a success,
only from the financial part,
from the fact that our people work-j
bd together in the strictest harmony
This report is going to tevery work
er listed at State Headquarters. If,
been
and
for
We arr
not
but
by any chancte, some have
verlooked, prss cn your copy
drop us a postal card for more,
want everyone to get th's
appreciation from thte United
mlttee.
word of
Com-j
On behalf of the Commit'ee, we|
tike pleasure in wishing you a most
happy and prosperous New Year.
Yours gratefully, ,
C. A. Bar'on. Ht-t" Chr.
Richard E. Randal', !
' State Director.
War Cost in Life and Blood.
accuracy how j
any lives this war has taken, and j
ow many men it has left crippled or;
ivalidcd. Sortie of our leading au-j
. '.orities have figured the matter outi
id then announce that the allies
It will be many months before we
m know with any
ave had 58,514,709 men under arms,
' fat they have suffered 24,536,108
asualties and that 10,091,834 lives
ave been sacrificed. But these fig
ures are too suspiciously exact to be
eliablc, for, as we have said, nobody
knows yet what the true totals are;
ill we can use as yet is "round num
bers," based largely on guesses or
"estimates."
Less than two month : ago our peo
pie were given to understand that the,.
total American casualties would run
over 100,000, and yet shortly after
ward an official statement was issued
admitting that the total reported up to;
the closo of hostilities, Nov. 11, had
reached over 263,000. This is no
doubt somewhere hear right, but thcji
figure is liable to bc swelled still by
additions which will be made after ali
the lists are in and checked up. .
Gen. Pershing cables that about 40,
0C0 casualties are still to be forward-j
ed to Washington—these being almost I
all cases of severely wounded ar.d that!
.
these should bo received at Washing
ton Within the next few days,
preliminary figures as already given
out place the number of Americans
killed in action or died of wounds at
about 36,000, those who died of dis
ease and unclassified causes at about
t ijP7,000, those wounded about 180,000
'■ijind those taken prisoner about 2200.
r 'boys captured about 44,000
«■«nearly 20 to one, this
ti speaks eloquently for the hard
ing they .did.
casualty lists have seemed
The
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As
IX, 'Hl
Gi
ns,
t r<
j heavy, bu
' vh3 fe-.-oc a. Canada's and we have 14 1
hey number only about
times her population. Belgium- is j
credited w. n putting 350,000 men |
into the war, and her total casualties !
are estimât: d as high as 300,000, of
which 50,00., were killed.
The French have refused from the!000
first to make public their casualties,
but everybody knows that they were
terribly heavy. One list' credits them
with 6,000,000 men under arms, and
assigns a total of 4,1)00,000 casualties,
including 1,100,000 killed.
Great Britain has also suffered
greatly, and with 7,500,000 men in the
service she has had 3,000,000 casual
ties with 700,000 killed. A widely
published estimate puts the Italian
casualties at 2,000,000 and deaths at
500,000. Russia is assigned by the
same authority a casualty list of 5,
000,0C0 and a death list of 3,500,000.'
Serbia and Rumania - are figured to
have lost 350,000 men between them
and to have had -a total of 500,000
casualties.
On the other side, Germany is es
timated to have had 11,000,000 men in
I
the Austria-Hungary 8,000,000, j
7urkey 2,000,000 and Bulgaria l,000,-ij
1000; their casualties are placed at 4.-lf
000,000 for Germany, the same or
more for Austria-Hungary, 800,000
for Turkey and 200,000 for Bulgaria;!
killed are put, in round numbers
1,600,000 for Germany, 2,000,000
250,000 for
for Austria-Hungary,
Turkey and 50,C00 for Bulgaria.
Taking these estimates as a basis
with them but supplying few troops—
wou j d be about'35,000,000, while those
|bat the central powers had would
bc about 22,000,000, or about two
thirds M many . T he total casualties
for thp a] , ies would be about 16>0C0) .
the number of men that the leading
allies had under arms—not counting
the dozen or more nations associated
is
;C00 and killed about 6>000 00 o, while
A:,. . . , ., . .
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! ' V ° U bC 9,0 °'° 00 a " d th ® k ' Cd 4 ''
JOG,COO.
The aggregate casualties on both
sides would reach about 25,000,000
ar.-.i the killed about 10,000,000. (The
London Tirrfts puts the total death
list, from war and sickness, at 20,
000,000.) And yet* this death toil on
account of the war is considerably be
low that taken by the Spanish influ
enza within a few months, according
to the estimates. So that war, after
a jj ( j s no t as much ci' an evil in that
rnso ^ {j- ese insidious diseases are.
that prices for commodities and la
are on an artificial basis.
Commodity prices are already be
Excitable Talk.
Wo hear much excitable talk that
wages must not come down.
No cane man wants to see the wage
learner (and we are all wage earners)
lose either work or. wages.
But a sane man recognizes the fact
„inning to drop ar.d with world com
petitjon returning, the readjustment
downward will come faster than many
expected.
No man made rules can stop for long
the inevitable working of the law of
supp'y and demand and when the time
labo" and industry must face
conditions, and adjust their relations
accordingly or unemployment and'
closed factories will follow.
corn
Strikes and lockouts will only ag
gravatc the case and give foreign
competitors added advantages,
Why Not Advertise.
In pre-war dires the railroads were
It is not quite true that "troubles
never come singly," for they come
singly, in pairs, in threes, in multi
pies. One trouble aften does lead to
another, and now and then we see a
staggering succession of misfortunes
which may or may not be related to
"ne another. For example the other
day a woman put her two children—
both under two years old—in the bath-Jests,
tub to bathe them. She was jnterrup-jsion
tec! by a ring of the doorbell.
rushed down stairs to answer the bell,
fell down ahd killed herself. At the
one of the new^iapers best advertis
ers.
I
Under government operation rail
road. advertising in newspapers is cut
oft
Now in Director General McAdoo's
"information for the press,''.which oi
course is for free publication, news
papers are advised of railroad excur
sion rates to different parts of the
country in order to build up traffic.
Freight anil passenger rates have
25 per cent—more
management evei
* ncre ased
than
private
thought of asking.
The newspapers are wondering how
Director
k ' n S jt wi " be brtorR the
Gcnerail
legitimate
advertis
uses
n ° hmild up the trade the roads
now need.
Why not advertise a little, Mr. Mc
Adco. The war is over and tBe news
pa P ers have advertising space for sale
and udvci rising is a legitimate ex
for an y up-to-date business,
-
She
.
band had been killed in the
door was a telegram saying her hus
war. And,
when the neighbors came in they found
the two babies had been drowned ini
the bath-tub.
Do the people of Idaho want $500,
worth of new roads next year at a
iust to this state of only half tnat
som? Idaho will receive more than
for a special highway tax.
100,000 a year for the next seven
years — providing Idaho puts up an 1
equal amount for road work every 121
months. Already more than $250,0001
of this money has been put to this j
state's credit, but it cannot be touched I
until Idaho raises an equal sum. The I
state has reached its limit of bonded !
indebtedness, and the only course left !
open is for the legislature to provide
!
Peace commission which sailed for j
Europe aboard the George Washing
ton, headed by President Wilson, bids j
fair to accomplish a great deal more I
toward "getting the boys out of the,
trenches" and bringing real peace
the world than the peace expedition,
headed by Henry Ford, which sailed
t jj e Osear II exa.ctly three years be
ore .
I
Bolshevism alone is a dangerous,
destructive, malvolent system; and
when its devotees combine it with
"kulture," as they have in Russia and
some elements threaten to do in
Germany, the result is something
more insidious and wicked than any
previous invention of the devil. Let
the world be on its guard against
such a combination.
Whether you be laboring man or
capitalist, this is your country and it
going to be up to you to decide
whether you stay with American tra
ditions and principles or step back
ward and adopt the socialistic pro
gram now threatening the nation.
TWIN FULLS
The big irrigation event oi the, year
in Idaho will be the meeting of the
Idaho Irrigation Congress at Twin
Falls, January 13th to 17th inclusive,
in connection with the Joint Confer
ence of various state societies Not
only will matters pertaining to prac
tical "irrigation be «(.scucscd, but the
program will cover a range of sub
jects extending to the proposed crea
tion of an irrigation commission to
have control of all of the waters of
the state.
In several of the western states the
conflict of court decisions has been
remedied by the creation of such a
board. Suck, a board, it is claimed,
would pass upon all disputes arising
out of the use of the waters of the
state, thu3 avoiding the expense, de
lay and uncertainty of litigation. The
board would take over the state en
gineer's jurisdiction of water matters,
well as having the function of a
court.
The conservation of water will be
another topic dwelt upon at length
is pointed out that there are both
vast wastes of water on many of Ida
ho's projects and expansive areas of
'and susceptible to irrigation. The
purpose of the congress will be to
devise some means of securing a more
efficient use of the state's water
sources, in order to make water avail
able for the reclamation of a greater
area of land.
Authorities on irrigation matters
will address tho congress on
various
n hases of irrigation and after such'?
,, ,.
olTt? rr° n : T d ^
r to get ho viewpoint of actual
water users, irrigation company offi -1
:'r S , Ration engineers and other
interested. I
Cash pr:zes in the amount of $700
have been provided for the best seed
exhibits at the state seed show, to be)
held in Twin Falls, the week com
mencing January 13th, in connection
with the Joint Conference of agri
culture, live stock, engineering and
irrigation societies of the state.
Idaho is known throughout tho !
world as the greatest of clover seed!
producing sections. Its extensive
reputation need not be limited to
clover seed as it has been found that
its soil and climate is admirably suited
the production of a high class seed
wheat and seed potatoes.
The seed possibilities of the state
well as the protection of its ifter
will be a lively topic of discus
at the seed show, which will be
reputation, who will address the
.vention.
re
.
attended by seed men of nation-wide
con
mi of aiiii
icacn
nTimi I "I m Humm
COAL
Canned Fruit Sent By Local Work-;
ers Will Be Saved for the
Boys Returning from
Overseas.
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Two barrels of canned fruits wer«
sent to tho Canteen in Huntington:
the luter part of October.
tions were received from there about
We wish to announce to the People
of Payette and Vicinity
that we have purchased the FUEL BUSI
NESS of the Maule Coal Company, and will
be ready on January 15th , to fill your orders
for the FAMOUS CASTLE GATE COAL
ins true-
two weeks ago to send the remain- |
ing thrbo barrels to Glenns Ferry, I
as they were serving more rnaa's i
and would bo better able to givei it |
to tho Boys. The following letter j
was received in reply:
ITq Mrs. C. F. Muller, . I
Chairman Canteen Cam., Woman's
Committee, Council of Defease,
Payette, Idaho.
My dear Mrs. Muller:
Pardon the delay in answering
I
your tetter regarding the fruit far
warded by freight which arrived a
day or so ago ia fine condition,
Will you p'.easo express to all
concerned our sincere thanks and in- I
form them that we are saving some 1
it fqr those who are returning i
from ovorseas.
Since the 1st to the 20th inclus- t f
ive wo served over 5600 men,' our ! l
work is increasing rather than de- j
creasing.
Below is a list of articles we j
have given this month to the 20th:
2194 sandwiches.
249 gal. and 6 cups coffee.
381 pkgs. cigarettes.
PAYETTE VALLEY REX SPRAY CO., LTD.
Spray Materials, Fuel and Wood Pipe
09
46 pkgs. cigarette papers.
373 pkgs. gum.
131 pkgs. poaauts.
141 games.
2 lbs. Epsons Salts for a bunch
overseas Boys.
7 boxes candy.
3 boxes cigars.
248 doz. doughnuts and cookies.
21 cans tobacco.
' 8 boxes apples.
1482 postal cards.
79 boxes matches,
?8.92 postage stamps.
284 bars Red Cross chocolate.
Christmas Day we served mince
pie, oranges, cigars, candy and other
littl-.- treats including hot coffee and
sandwiches.
The Boys certainly enjory these
treats and tell us that if it were
not for the Canteens they would in
many cases go hungry.
W® have on the platform a Christ
mas Tree lighetd with 36 globes. At
Shoshone we hear they hav« a San
f a Claus, so the spirit of Christmas
is clearly exhibited.
The Boys tell us that Glenns Fer
ry is known everywhere—even
Franco P was the first to really get
into tho work properly. The Dalles
whioh I re-organized a month or so
ago is also doing splendid work and
has been meeting every train like
wo do since I visited there.
Again thanking the people of Pay
ette for thoir generous help and
wishing you. all a very Happy and
Prosperous New Year, I am.
Very sincerely,
A. LEONARD WOOD,
Commandant Gienns Ferry and Field
Director Idahq, Oregon A. R. C.
Canteen Service.
P. S.
'21
If you feel you cam help us
in cur work at t be Canteen
with
MrS ' E ' L ° Sai1 baby George
WaUa Wal ' a ' Wa8h '' M "'. C ' E '
Boggs and J. W. Fee and wife are!
aPendmK tbeh « llday * their}
parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. S.. Fee.
Jim i rby and family were guests of
E. Jones New Years Eve.
Mrs. Geo. Scott and children are
spending a couple of weeks at the I
ranch. I j
El < Holbrook returned from Wash
^Ston last Tues lay much imp oved. |
Vera Fce returned to Eoise toi
ti- ' k? up her work a sain. |
B<=\eral frem Crane Creek attend-j
tl * <iall <' e at the Fee ranch |
^ ears Eve - I |
Eorraine McWilliams of Ontario
^ ValIey looklllE for
0 F ay
further donations we shall appreciate
it very much and
that it will bo appreciated by
Bays.
can assure you
the
Pleasant Valley News
New Educational Idea.
For teaching children to read
rapidly a Boston man has invented .'
machine which displays but a singl
line of printed matter nt a tl
mon
ie.
Ideals.
We must love ideals and struggle
toward (hem ourselves, but wo mus'
not use them excessively in flic men:
urement of others.—David Swing.
of J
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SYRIAN RELIEF
$30,900,000.
It is same money.
If Adam had saved a dollar a day
till now he would have three fourths
of it accumulated.
Win. H. Harriman Juggled C &
R. R. stock and madia four times
the amount in ten yeaye.
It wouldn't buy cmq meal for
tho citizens ot the U. S. at
cheapest restaurant on. ''mid-way.''
It is' about the amount that Foal
King Louis XIV put into thq Palace
where the Peace Congress is to op
en shop next week.
It would havq paid the war ex
| penses two hours and forty minutes.
It is one third the price of the
chewing gum used in our country
yearly.
It is twice what we paid for the
Louisiana Purchase, and four times
the price for Alaska.
It would pay the drink bijl of the
U. S. thirteen days if you don't count
soft drinks.
It is the amount asked by the Ar
menian - Syrian Relief committee
from the whole United States
save from starvation, one and one
third times as many people as wei'e
m this country when we became
the "First Democracy."
They are people who have endur
ed unspeakable barbarities, of which
barbarities a German Teacher In the
German school nt Ale\ppo said
his Government, "it can never be
removed from the minds of
world that the German Officials or
dered the massacres and deporta
tions."
the
to
Payette County is asked to give
*1200. That is even less than the
" thlrt y ce" 1 «'* W. capita for the
Country at large A portion of thiB
was 3JÏ through So slX
|Schools under Mrs. J. C. Lewis'
management. Mrs J. A Lauer has
beea ap p Cl nted County manager and
treasurer for the balance. The
cburcbes ^ tlwj County have agreed
to bo tho machinery for gathering
the sum. Except In the regions
wbcr<J a re no churches; then
tbe p ub n c Schools wiii be the agents.
The time is next Sunday, Jan. 12,
and if there is any lagging, which
wa dQ uot; eX p ec t, the canvass will
be carried through the week to the
lsma -
But you ueedn't wait for any ■
manager or machinery; neither for
to
the
any time. Make checks payable to
"American Committee for Armenian
and Syriaji Relief", and leav« with
any of th° four banks In the County,
mall to Mrs. 'J. A. Lauer, or as a
final act' of accommodation, any of
the preachers or church committees
will pass your bounty on to the place
of its destination.
People like to know what R costs
to get their gifts to the proper
place. _ There Is an anawer In re
LUMBER & MILL WORK
Honey Cases, Bee Hives
MISSOURI OAK
If you are going to build get our pi ices
jBEFORE BUYING
PAYETTE BOX MILLS
MARK PR1NDLE. Prop
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J. A. Lauer & Brother
UNDERTAKERS and ËMBALMER
GLENN C. LANDDN, Funeral Director and License
embalmer. Lady Assistant When Desired
spect to this enterprise which we
are more than glad to give. You
know, if you have remembered all
President Wilson's proclamations,
that this is the third call for this
purpose. The amount collected two
years ago was $7,000,090; and tho
amount distributed tq tho "Miser
ables" was $7,025,000. The Tele
graph and Cable Companies donated
the use of their Billion dollar
plants; the clerical work is all paid
by one Nqw York man, and the
Banks added 4% interest for all the
balances in their hands, from day to
day. There ha* been paid in nearly
$350, far this present county call
and already that is at work buying
food and raiment for the destitute.
This is not all nor half what ought
to be said to relieve the feeling of
the committee but it is enough
touch that chord of sympathy, which
has become wondrously responsive
when wretchedness, out of this cruel
war, is brought to attention of Pay
ette County citizens.
Don 1 be afrald 01 OV6r payment
1110 "committeer" a,t their first bud
^ meeting figured that the "irre
ducible minimum" was over a hun
d - d billon, and they have
chan S«d their minds on the basis of
me€tllu S the actual need. But the
word had eono out for thirty mil
lians ' ^'cause up to th« "armis
tice " ' Purk «y prevented sending
lief tq 411 bu >- oue »Ulion of
de8titut ®- N ow the whole four mli
11qïx aPe w'^in our reach, but the
committ *o sees no way to increse
tb<! amcn mt except to put the case
before America and hope for the
same over generosity that has been
sbown ,, < u. »,
™ drlV « 8 in whlch
have ba d part,
to
not
re
tire
Possible Source of Treeses. . ,
The other day I, with a neighbor's
child, went to a hairdresser's estab
lishment. The chHd has red hair.
While I was buying various tilings the
child wns busy looking about. Shr
Anally discovered some fnlse hair the
color of her own and came to me with
tills question ; "I wonder If my red
hair was boughten here when I was
borne«!."—Chicago Tribune.
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Walter Watts
Transfer
All Kinds of Light
and Heavy Hauling
done.
Prices Right
Satisfaction
Guaranteed
Automobile Trucks
House Phone 88-j
Quick Service
J H NORRIS '
Attorney and '
at Law
Over First Nat'I Bunk
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Counsellor
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Dr. J. W. EASTER
Dentist
ROOMS 8 and 9
Office: Upstairs in Thurston
Building
F. H. LYON
A TTO RN E Y- AT- L A W
Office inJLyon Block
Payette,
Idaho
Unclp Eben.
"IT you stop to think befo' you
speak," said Uncle Eben, "de chances
are you'll discover you dldn' have
nullin' wuf tellln', nohow."