Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1913-02-28
CURRENT NEWS.

The number Of automoiles in actual
use in this country will this year
very likely reach the grand total Of
] LOO 100000, valued at about ST.
J0o. 600, 900 The figures give a startling
idea Of the stupendous growth Of the
automobile industry in tie past few
years and OF the change 81 has
wrought in our national life
Fix" is one Of the words tiat we
Americans habitually misuse, but il
Is not often that tie mistake leads
70 such absuTdity as il does in the label
If certain stain remover now on the
market 1T will fix the stain. says
the notice. Since fix means to make
permanent. the manufacturers Of the
stain remover have not said quite
what they intend to say.
Not ineed a silver spoon but a bank
book awaits every baby born this year
IN certain Connecticut town. The
directors Of the local bank have de-
ctded TO give every new baby bank
book with a dollar entered TO the
child credit They hope that the gift
wiz induce the baby's parents and
0ncles and aunts 70 add TO the re-
count, 50 that by the time the child
is twentg-cne it via have something
to begin life with.
There are only four States left in the
Uhion in which there IS no dry" terri
tory. They are Pennsylvania, Mon
lana, Nevada and Arizona. In eight
states the sale Of liquor is absolutely
forbidden by law. They are Maine.
Kansas. North Dakota. oklahoma Ten
nessee. North Carolina. Georgia and
Mississippi. To that list West Viz
ginia VIII be added in 1914. In the
other states, local or county option pre-
walls. but in mnst Of them there is far
more dry than wet territory.
After considering many designs. the
Lincoln Memorial commission has ac-
cepted plan for the monument that
Is to stand in Potomac Park Washing
ton. neer the Washington Monument
and the Capitol The design calls for
a rectangular marble structure, 156
/ feet by efg'lty-four, on TWO sides Of
which viii rise Doric columns forty
/ four feet high. in the great central
iau viii stand a heroic bronze statue Of
I Lincoln surrounded by Ionic columns
fifty feet high Congress has appro-
priated s.. 100000 TO build tie mem
Jrial and improve the site.
The Battle Of Gettysburg. the turn
ing-point Of the great Civil War. was
! fought by soldiers tie majority Of
/ whom were little more than boys.
/ Otherwise. it would not be reasonable
to expect from $4,000 to 1000 Vet
erans-out Of about 100000 soldiers who
constituted the two armies to take
part IL the celebration Of the fifrieth
anniversary Of the battle next July.
: Definite plans for the reunion are
already making on an elaborate scale.
/ TIE national government viii super
wise the meeting and viii supply
81 900 tents and maintain a complete
field -hosrital. The camp vii! occupy
276 acres. Such reunion is unique
in the history Of the world.
Farmers who are really in earnest
can establish cooperative loan asso-
Citations for themselves without watt
ing for the Passage Of any new laws.
Tilat mas been shown by the Jewish
Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society.
which has helped organize eight CO.
operative money-iending associations in
New York and Connecticut. Bach So
eiety has a capital of about $500. di
vided into fve-doIar shares. To
( every association, the aid socaty las
( lent $1,000. at two per cent. interest.
with which 10 increase lis working cap
ltsl The oldest s9ciety-and that is
cot Yet two years Of age-llas thirty
two members who hold ninety-six
sla IS. IN the first fifteen months
of is existence il lent little more
than So, 600. in sums averaging fifty
G ght dollars. More than one-half OF
the loans We're repaid within the fifteen
months and on September Both ii had
about Sl.400 in outstanding loans This
! society earned eighty-four dollars in
/ the fifteen months. on its capital Of
I $3.50. When ii pays the 81 900 that II
| borrowed in order 10 start, each Of
/ its shares VIII be worth fifteen dollars
instead Of the original five. The pros
pect OF tripping taieir money by lend
{ ing il TO one another must appeal
strongly to men of a commercial race.
Alld there is no reason why their hopes
cannot be realized as long as the bust
I ness Is conducted within reasonable
limits.
The Webb bill. prohibiting the aAip'
ment Of liquor into prohibition states
was passed by the House Of Represen-
tatives on February Sth by a vote OF
240 to sixty-five. on February 10th. the
Webb bin was passed b. the Senate
as an amendment TO the Kenyon bill.
Tie eonstirutionality Of the bin was
attacked by Senators Root Of New
York Sutherland Of Utah and Pomer-
enc or Ohio. on the ground that it per-
mits tle states To say when liquor /
may be shipped in interstate COM
n.erce. An attempt So to amend the .
bin as TO permh the shipment Divine I
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