The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-02-24
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
Idaho Figures in Appropriation Bill to
the Amount Of $l5O.0OO.
Especial Correspondence

NSpeclal Correspondence.
Washington, ID. c., Feb. 1.-THE
good roads appropriation bill calling
for an appropriation of S25,000,000 has
passed the house of representatives
AS the bill is now drawn the distribu-
ton of the appropriation carried by
the bill will be made upon the basis of
the population and number of miles
of star routes of each state.
1t is estimated that Idaho's share of
this will be only about $150,000 Rep
resentative Mondell of Wyoming, in
trOduced an amendment in the house
calling for the additional item of area
taking in connection with population
and star routes in making the division
of the money, providing for the distri-
button to be made by the several
states appropriating an amount of
money to be spent along with the
amount of money given by the federal
government according to the ratio that
the cultivated land in each state bears
to the total area of land in the state.
The administration steam roller in the
house, however, refused to consider
the Mondell amendment, and the fight
will now be carried into the senate by
the Wyoming senators aided by Sena-
tor Brady of Idaho and other western
senator's. If their efforts are success
full, Idaho will come in for her fair
share, which will amount to nearly a
half million dollars.
In addition to this Senator Brady
has pushed his thirty thousand dollar
appropriation bill for the completion
of the Yellowstone road from
Ashton to Yellowstone. The bill is
now up for consideration before the
committee on agriculture in the SEN
ate, of which Senator Brady is mem
Der.
State Land Commissioner George A.
Day and Secretary Dietrich of the Up
per Snake River Valley Good Roads
Association, are in Washington. They
have appeared before the department
of agriculture and the interior de-
pertinent with Senator Brady and
Representative Addison T. Smith, and
will go before the committees to which
road legislation has been referred in
an endeavor to secure a larger apYfo-
priation of money for roads, IN Idaho.
The western states have been given
additional representation in the senate
on the public buildings and grounds
committee in the. disappointment of Sem
ator Brady of idaho as member of
that committee 1t is reasonable to
expevt may Idaho and the western
states Wlllfnow be given better consid-
Grafton in the passage of legislation
provld/ng for additional public build
1ngs/in the west.
Walter johnson and Clean Living.
Some days ago Representative Bur-
7 oh dol aI1 in,
the Y. M. C. A. lecture hall to high
school boys of Washington on the
general subject of Clean Living" Mr..
French so well knew the habits of the
famous base ball pitcher, Walter John
son, that he wrote him letter prior
to the address asking for statement
from him of his personal habits to
use in connection with the address to
the young men.
The youngsters did not know that a
word from Walter Johnson was COM
ing, but from the effect the letter had
upon the audience it was clearly ap-
parent that the high school boys of
Washington, d. c., at least, regard
Walter Johnson as rather a model and
are willing to take his judgment on
habits of life.
ANSoShile thio ydll VI tilS ttlul toS,
Mr.. French said, Men who attain sue
cess in every field of activity are the
clean men,-clean in habits and clean
in mind. Go to the house of represen-
tatives. | could count up on the fling
ers of my hands the members of that
body whom | have seen under the in
fluence of liquor. Go to the business
men in every community; go to the
doctors; go to the lawyers; go to the
men, in fact, who are taking the lead
ing part in all the interests of their
communities and you will find that
they are the clean men.
Shortly after you will leave this
lecture hall, you will go to the gym
nasium to take part in an athletic pro-
gram in which every boy in your high
school is interested, or ought to be in
terested, and this reminds me that
the boy who excels in athletics is the
clean boy.
II have in my hand a letter, part
of which ] desire to read Does any