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which should have been utilized by the
government in the great undertaking
now at hand. His honesty is as I'M
questioned as is his ability. He has
fought against the encroachments of
politicians and spoilsmen and, what is
very important, had gotten upon the
best of terms with Senators and Repre-
sentatives.
Secretary Nagel may have been en-
tlrely sincere in seeking DR.. North g
resignation. There has been a stand
ing quarrel of years duration between
the Census Bureau and the department
which exercised jurisdiction over it.
Expedition in the hundreds of details
that are involved in preparation and
execution is quite as indispensable as
expedition in compiling the figures
which the enumerators have gathered.
Theoretically the secretary of Com
merce and Labor should be consulted
about every important move that the
director of the census makes, but in
practise the director has been going
ahead on his own hook and merely ask
ing the secretary formally to approve
of his course
One of the great problems of census
taking is the tabulating machines The
makers of those machines mulched the
government ten years ago, as DIR.
North believes. They charged enor-
nous prices for their machines,
and were seeking to get big price
for them to be used next year. DR..
North had scheme of his own for
making machines, which he had invent
ed at least in part. He intended to
obtain these machines from other man
ufaeturers and to ignore the Tabulat-
ing Machine Company, of which the
former director of the census, ex-Gov.
Merriam, of Minnesota, has been a
prominent official
DIR. North did not consult Secretary
Nagel about the various steps he was
taking in the preparation of contracts
to obtain these tabulating machines.
To have done so would have necessir
tated delay. 1t is very slow work do
| ing business with cabinet officials In
Washington. They have deal of work
to do and can not devote their atten-
ton to a given matter on the spur OF
moment. But when he had drawn his
contracts and was ready to go ahead,
DR.. North went up TO the Department
of Commerce and Labor to ask Secre-
tary Nagel to approve those contracts
That was essential to their legality.
Then the explosion occurred. Secretary
Nagel protested. Nominally, at least, he
| was responsible for the census. 1t ne
was to be responsible, he also preferred
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to exercise authority Immediately and
in detail.
This is only cited as an example.
There are many like transactions Here
tofore director of the census has been
chosen year in advance and has had
to speed on with his work, ignoring
the Secretary of the Interior, who had
jurisdiction over the Census Bureau
until the last few years, and making
all the haste he reasonably could. He
cut red tape, because of the emergency.
Congress, especially the Senate
branch of it, is apprehensive about Sec
rotary Nagel carrying out his plans
successfully. theoretically he may be
right. But he has not been accustomed
to holding public office and is new to
the range of work which the director
of the census has to handle. During
the summer months, when the work of
preparation should progress materially,
Secretary Nagel intends to be out of
town most of the time. According to
his arrangements much of the census
work would have to wait upon his re-
turn and valuable time would be lost.
Mr.. Durand might be doing his very
best, but he is new to that kind of
work and if he is to be something of
a fgurehead instead of a real director,
the plans for census taking, for drilling
the hundreds of supervisors, who will
probably be appointed within few
weeks, for organizing the great army
of enumerators, for getting the neces-
sary blanks and other equipment dis
tributed and so on through long cate
CORY. would halt and the lack of eff
ficiency and thoroughness would be
marked.
Things had come to such pass that
President Taft really had to choose be-
tween a member of his cabinet and the
director of the census IF Secretary
Nagei had had keener appreciation
of the situation and had been willing
to forego some ACKNOWLEDGMENT of his
own office in connection with the cen
sus, probably the open quarrel between
him and Director North would have
been avoided A dozen influential Sen
ators sought to pacify him and to fix
up the differences. The secretary, how
ever, was so insistent that pacifcation
seemed to be out of the question Presi-
dent Taft did the only thing there
was left for him to do. He submitted
the matter solely to the secretary to
decide and the secretary Immediately
called for Dr. North s resignation.
The Senate proposes that Secretary
Nagel shall at least be taught some
thing of lesson. He has had his way
and Mr.. Durand has been nominated
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THE ROW IN CENSUS OFFICE
MAY BUNGLE THINGS UP
How Director North and Secretary Nagel Came
to Disagree--The Nomination of North's
Successor Is Held Up in the Senate.

and trained commanders to take charge
every ten years Then there would be
expedition and accuracy. Both quail
ties are very essential to the highest
value of a census Heretofore, the de-
cennial census, it is generally CON
ceded, has not been as accurate as it
might have been. Great delays have
attended the compilation of the figures.
Census reports, printed in big volumes,
have been like most other government
reports. They arrive SO late that the
information is several months old. In
case of census reports this delay is
very reprehensibie because census of
the population today is not accurate as
a census of the population three months
from now. 1t might not be so vital
in the case of a population total, but
the census nowadays comprises a vast
deal of important information about
agriculture, manufactures, and indus
try generally the country over. There
are numerous OF TdIui4Cdlfono, III WI
the Importance of a speedy and aceu
rate census is demonstrated.
All Congress was satisfied with the
trained director, who had been at the
head of the permanent bureau. No
one. it appears, has seriously criticized
the ability of S. N. D. North, whose
resignation has just been forced at the
instance of Secretary Nagel of the De
partment of Commerce and Labor. Be-
cause of the numerous political appoin-
tees in that bureau there has long been,
at intervals, more or less salaeious Cos
sin about the bureau personnel and adj
ministration. But those things have
been at a minimum, since DR.. North
has had charge. He is recognized
statistic an of unusual ability The tax
ING of eensuses in almost a Profession
in itself. During the last six..years the
bureau has been doing a vast amour,
Of enumeration work, taking special
cpnsnses and the like, and DIR. North
gained from the supervision of those
Efforts a splendid preliminary training
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BY Ernest G.. Walker.
mail Special to the Advertiser.)


WASHINGTON, DC, May 31.--By
the time the enumerator gets around
efkour residence next April to inquire
ut your age, nativity, occupation
" IA a half dozen other things, lot
-of politics, that are now figuring in
census taking, may have been forgot
ten. All the same it is very deep
game-this making ready for the count
ing of 90,0o0,000 noses.
A very capable young man, E. Dana
Durand, now Deputy Commissioner OF
Corporations, has been nominated for
director to preside in the large, low
brick building at the corner OF First
and b streets, northwest, almost within
the shadow of the Capitol. The head
quarters of the very extensive opera
tions which will cost from $4,000, 600
TO Sl5, 1000, 900, will be in that low brick
building. Presumably Mr.. Durand Will
ba1a charge of them and, from all ap-
nearances. should handle the great en-
terprise well. But his nomination mas
been held up. Confirmation is not forth
coming. Senators are inquiring SEN
ator La Toilette, chairman of the Cen
sus Committee, is one of the inquisltive
snortals in that connection. BY ana
by Mr.. Durand will be confirmed, per-
haps! Not however till game OF POI
ities has been played and some people,
high in government station become
.wara IF who's who and what is what
in census taking.
Very soon after Theodore kooseVel'
he,ame President, he made great cam
paign before Congress for a pernanen'
census bureau. He followed chafao'oi
istie methods and he got his perinai'e ~
census. The plea for it was thas 'neio
might be skilled force as nucieu''
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for director. There is universal regret
in Washington over this, excepting on
" a little coterie of politicians, of
whom Secretary Nagel and Postmaster
General Hitchcock are the central fig
ures. The administration of Census
Bureau affords opportunities for doing
favors. These can be turned to polit
cal advantage. In short the supervi-
make quite a political organization and
can be utilized in a great many ways
to the advantage of those who have
hands upon the lever.
As things were progressing much of
this advantage would have been with
the Census Committees of Senate and
House, to whom DIR. North apparently
recognized allegiance quite as much as
to the Department of Commerce and
Labor But on the whole, under the
restraint that President Roosevelt had
exercised, especially in vetoing the
spoils feature of the proposed census
law, this domination of Congress over
the bureau was not iniquitous. Under
all the conditions it was making for
efficiency Now with new control,
which probably is intended TO be Re-
publican National Committee control,
there is a promise of more or less
decentralization and the consequent lack
of thoroughness and efficiency in the
work.
So the Census Committee of the Sen
ate is holding up the nomination of
Mr.. Durand. Secretary Nagel, who has
been a member of the Republican Ma
tional Committee and was a prominent
worker in the last campaign, must come
to terms with the Senate, as matters
stand now, before that nomination will
be confirmed If he attempts to be as
contrary as he was about the case of
DR.. North, it may happen that Mr..
Durand will not be confirmed at all and
some other may be named as director.
Senator La Toilette who does not play
politics much in leg station at the Capt.
toll. is not the only Senator who is bear
ing hand All the old leaders are in
terested Senator Hale is member Of
the Census Committee. He is backing
the demand for an inquiry into eondi-
tions, not only because he wants an I'M
derstanding with Secretary Nagel, but
because Senators Root, who has been
one of DR. North 3 most ardent cham
pions. and Lodge and Crane and Al
drich and Carter want to know what
is what.
They want to find out more about
those contracts for tabulating machines
The investigation had proceeded suf
feiently to vindicats DR.. North's &C
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ton, before his resignation was asked
for Several hundreds of thousands of
dollars are involved in those contracts
and furthermore the Senate wants to
know that the right kind of men are
going to have an oversight on the pur-
chase and installation of those
machines. Should there be a bungIe
in that line, an enormous delay might
ensue in the compilations. DR.. North
knew all about the subject. Any new
man who comes in now will have to
learn and it may take him months and
cost the government very extravagant
sum.
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AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER MAN
RECOMMENDS A WELL KNOWN
REMEDY.

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by personal experience that Chamber
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Remedy will cure dIarrhoea, and we
have heard like testimonials from other
reliable people in the community Ev-
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the same to say of it. For sale by all
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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-09

Kansas sold today at 1915 to killers.
Sheep and yearlings sold stronger
last week, but lambs declined about
% cents. which was legitimate
equalizing of prices, margin between
sheep and lambs having been too
great heretofore. Utah stuff is NOV
ing freely, lambs today at $500 to
S7.25. Colorado yearlings Friday at
$3.50 and $3.50. a new mark for
worth up to $500. ewes S4-75.
Feeder buyers are taking the full
amount of the offerings in the feed
ing classes, lambs at $500 to$6.25,
wethers and yearlings $3.50 to $500.
The extra large amount of grain and
forage crops this year in the corn
area makes a place for the immense
quality of thin stuff from the ranges.
J. A. RICKERT.
l.. S. Correspondent.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-09
STOCK MARKETS.

KANSAS CITY STOCK YARDS,
Sept. Z, 19O9.-Rains the middle of
last week which extended over the
Missouri Valley put the cattle mar
ket on a more stable basis than it.
has had, and removed the encum-
brance of the increasing volume of
cattle driven in by dry weather.
Receipts dropped sharply after the
middle of last week, and the run Of
21 900 head here today is - per cen
less than on recent Mondays. Crop
experts figure that the drought,
which has now been broken, dam
aged corn z per cent in Illinois and
Iowa, and between IS to 20 per cent
in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and
Oklahoma. The good rains which
have fallen lately have started the
fall pastures. and demand for stock
ers and feeders is now at its
height, and market on these classes
today is Is to % cents higher tain a
week ago. Good killing grades are
steady to firm with a week ago, me-
dunn and low grades a shade lower,
including a decline of 10 cents to-
day. A train of the parsons steers
from Rifle is here today, Ills 6 at
S4.25. and a shipment from Grand
Junction here today contained heif-
ers at s3.65, and cows $3,40, wet
cows, S2.65, bulls $2.S5, stock sters
S3.75. Nothing in either shipment
fully tested the market account OF
lack of quality. but some better
grade stuff from Colorado will be
here the middle of next week Utah
stockers sold at s14.2O last week anC
train of Old Mexicos grazed il
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-09

er's home last week. the review was
prominent feature.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-09

Mrs Mary C. Obs Allen of Castle
Creek exchanged the earthly for the
heavenly home August 80, 1909.
aged "a years the 14th day of last
May. She was born in Sweden,
came to America nine years ago.
widow with a little daughter three
years of age to be provided for, and
how faithfully she did her duty is
a standing monument to her indus
try and paternal affection. March
9,1906, Mrs. Obs became the wife of
Mr.. Victor b. Allen, and with great
reason "Her Husband Praiseth Her"
Wednesday September LIST, at IL o.
clock in the forenoon, from the
home at the William Evans ranch,
from the shade of that magnificent
grove, Rev c. E. Mason of the Noun
tain Home Congregational church at
tending. The remains were laid to
rest at the Oreana cemetery where
burial services were conducted, an
asemblage of people awaiting the ar
rival of the procession. Mrs. Aliens
religious faith was Lutheran. She
leaves as relatives to mourn their
loss a husband and daughter, Sigre
Obs, twelve years of age, a sister in
Wisconsin and a cousin in Notus,
Idaho, to whom go out the sympathy
oftheir friends and the public.-Con-
tributed.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-09
KNOWLEDGE NOT ALWAYS GOOD.
ignorance Has Its Uses, According to
Philadelphia Writer.

knowledge is no help TO courage
Fools rush in where angels fear to
tread; and how useful these fools are
sometimes every general knows.
1t is said that the British army was
beaten three times during the day of
Waterloo, only it did not know it.
Napoleon ragged at its stupidity. Edu-
cation cultivates the imagination,
which is the greatest foe Of courage.
When in the dead OF night, you hear
a noise in the front parlor, you remem-
Der all the stories you have read of
worthy householders being shot by
frece burglars you wonder how it
feels to be hit on the head with a jim
my, and you take a long time finding
your slippers. Ignorance would have
save you from these fancies, and9 you
would have gone downstairs without a
tremor-and found it was only the
cat
It was the acquisition of knowledge
that lost our first parents the Garden
of Eden If they had only been con-
tent with their ignorance we might
all be living there now, instead Of
only getting an occasional weeks
end. This, at any rate, is the belief Of
a writer in the Philadelphia Record.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-09
Congregational

worship, sermon andmusic by the
choir Sunday at 1880 a. m The
sunday school is held at $3.50 a. m.
The Junior Endeavor at 400, the
Young Peoples Endeavor at 700.
The Union meetings at the Park at
500. Rev. Hamilton will preach.
The Ladies Aid held their open
meeting Thursday afternoon at the
residence of Mrs. L. L. Spring, the
officers entertaining.
The monthly business and social
meeting of the Y. P. S. c. E. was
held this Friday evening with Winnie
Gaines.
Mrs Pascoe's S. S. girls class were
pleasantly entertained at their teach
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-09
RESOLUTIONS

RESOLVED: That we the w. c..
T. U. of Mountain Home, Idaho,
note with hearty approval the decid-
ed stand taken by Gov. James H..
Brady, on the temperance question,
the side that makes for the uplifting
of the people, for better government
and for happier homes
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-09

GRAND VIEW, IDAHO, Sept. z.
1909.-At a school meeting held last
Friday afternoon. it was determined
September is. to vote on the ques-
tion of bonding the district for new
school building. The proposition is
to bond the district for the full a.
mount allowed by law, eight per cent
of the valuation, but not to exceed
$4,000. Should the district vote to
bond, fine building will be erected
at once on the new townsite. near
the Grand View hotel and all child
rem in the valley will be taken to and
provided at public expense. This
centralized school plan is proving
very successful in the east and has
so many advantages that there
should be no question of its adoption
here. Instead Of a deserted country
schoolhouse every few miles, or at
best with an attendance of a dozen
pupils, good schools are now estab-
lished at central points and covered
RIGS are provided to take the child
rem to and from school for radius
of six or eight miles. Better build
ings, better teachers and better facil-
titles for teaching are thus provided;
higher grades are taught and at less
cost than under the old plan ofmain-
tanning so many small districts.
This is a move in the right direction
and the best interests of the valley
demand its adoption Let no rival
ry defeat this enterprise for the in
terests of the whole valley are one
and any fight Of any section against
another is always sure to react.
Give us the centralized school plan
and it will do more for the whole
valley than any other one PROPOSE
tion, for people will be deferred
from locating any place when there
arc not frst-class schools.
Three cloud bursts in "a hours
last Thursday and Friday is a record
that made the oldest inhabitants sit
up and take notice. Heavy rains
in the hills Thursday night filled to
Overlooking the dry beds of Birch
Creek, Shoo-hy and other water
courses, taking out the fumes and
washing out the canal in many
places. The next day two more floods
came and the water poured over the
rim rock with the noise of a Niagara,
washing out gullys large enough for
river beds. Part of the house at the
Garnet fruit ranch was washed away
and the hail storm was the worst
known in the valley for years, but
the damage was not very great.
MIR. and Mrs. Mosier, from Next.
co, are visiting their old friend, J
w Jones.
Miss Whitson from Mountain
Home is visiting her parents
A. A. Dunn is enjoying visit from
his son-in-law and daughter, from
Washington.
Mrs. Sam. Lawrence and children
have left for their new home nv
miles from Boise, where they have
bought home and ten acres Of land
sam. will follow in few weeks
when Dr. Proctor, who succeeds him
arrives here with his family
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-09
First Meeting Of Entire Nous.

The ladies of the Entire Nous
Club met for the first time this
season. Plans for the coming year
were discussed and delegates APP
pointed to represent the club at the
State Federation this fall.
Owing to small attendance ele-
ction of officers was postponed to
the next regular netting.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-09
Notice

All persons who desire to have a
Box on the Grand Stand during
County Fair" will please leave their
names with me prior to the 20 of
September.
The price for the box witch admits
6 persons daily to the fair is $3.50
for the season. j. A. PURTIL,
1919 Secretary.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-09
NOTICE

All persons who will have rooms
to rent during fair week will kind
" notify the Secretary.
Giving the name, the number of
rooms and the price for the use of
them, and greatly oblige the fair
Management. lS-zO
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$4,000 ACRES
Carey Act Lands TO BE Opened.

For settlement at Arco, Idaho, on
September 18th Reduced rates
via Oregon Short Line. Tickets on
sale September 18th, to 14th, inclu-
sive, limit, September 18th. 1913
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-09-09
CALIFORNIA EXCURSIONS

Via Oregon Short Line. Daily
for tickets one way via Portland
Frequent dates for other routes.
See o. S. L. agents for further de-
tails. 3-2l
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W. c. t. I.

The state convention of the ". c..
T. U. will be held at the Congrega-
tional church, October Z. s. 9, and
10. Fifty delegates will represent
the temperance work in Idaho.
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Nazarene.

c. d. Norris and Amos L. Walker
from Oskaloosa, Iowa, will preach
Sunday Sept -, morning and even
ing, at the Nazarene Han. Come and
hear these young men.
AT REST.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-08-18
DON'T FRoWN, BUT SAY THANKY
Edison Paper Tells People 1t Takes
Money TO Run a Two Town

EulSon Paper Tells People 1t Takes
Money to Run a Live Town.
The last issue Of the Edison News
said:
The Dawson News Of this week
contains the information that the city
council of that thriving city Of Tev-
rell has levied the tax rate this year
of So on the thousand.
Wonder what some of Edison
folks would say were they living in
Dawson this year, or had this tax to
pay, when so much kicking was done
on a $3.50 levy which was made
last year by the city council Of Edi-
son?
We see from this that it takes
money to run the business of a thirty
ing town as we'll as any other kind
of business
So when the collector comes
around don't frown and get hot, but
thank our city fathers that they run
the business of Edison this year on
such a small rate.