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The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-09-25

For sale or exchange for st.
Maries property, three hundred
acres of land on the Flatheal
reservation in Montana. For
particulars address Box Az st.
Maries, Idaho. adv.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-09-25

New and second hand goods
bought sold and exchanged; Stay
q Krouse corner Of Main and II
Streets.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1914-09-25

Sam McGregor left Wednesday
for Kellogg to look after some
business matters.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
Watchful Waiting for Europe.

Naturally the European powers engaged III
war look to this country to protect their interests
in Mexico There is nothing else for them 10 do'
Their hands are full elsewhere. And, moreover
their ships of war could not enter Mexican ports
without becoming interned. But they cannot be
impressed with the assurance the administration
gives of its capacity to protect foreign lives and
property in Mexico. They have watched Mexico
drift from the partial anarchy of Huerta to the
complete anarchy Of Carranza, Villa and Zapata,
while the administration was concerning itself
with Mexicos affairs at least to the edge OF
armed intervention.
Mr.. Wilson acknowledged this country's re-
sponsibity. He kept saying "Huerta must CO."
and he announced his interest in seeing that the
S5 per cent of semi-serfs in Mexico got a square
DEAL He applied the absent treatment to Huerta
and to the Mexican land problem. The same
absent treatment will be all the assurance for
egn warning countries will have that their inter-
ests will be protected while the administration
watches with benevolent eye the two greatest
uplifters that ever were eX-bandits bringing JUS
tice to the landless south of the Rio GranGe.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30

however. we find the theatres now facing what
one manager calls 'the greatest crisis" IN his ex-
perience. Plays built upon theme heretofore
infalble in its appeal have been withdrawn Tor
lack of patronage. Melodrama, considered GER
tain attraction in times of great unrest, has
failed of its purpose entirely. So unique
play as "The Big Idea," which was welcomed by
the critics generally as having popular appeal
is now to be withheld by shrewd management
until more favorable time.
The explanation appears easy enough 10 'he
Law mind. For one thing, the city has too many
theatres 1t could do nicely with ten or hfteen
well conducted playhouses. Then, too, IN great
crises such as the present war, your playgoer
does not find relief from the stark realism OF the
daily news in the elaborate realism OF the modern
popular drama. His thought is rather TO seek
forgetfulness in the production that offers MN
the greatest illusion and by its imaginative pow
er carries him furthest from the grewsome reali-
ties of everyday affairs When there is gen
eral realization of the public demand the theat-
rical world will find its balance just as naturally
as other commercial enterprises have within the
last few months, and will no doubt meet the SIT
uation Just as bravely.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
Regulation and Cooperation.

In view of the incompetence which the Inter
state Commerce Commission has shown TO meet
promptly and intelligently the existing crisis in
railroad affairs it is a shock to hear Mr.. II. A.
Wheeler, of the Union Trust Company, of Chi
cago, who declined an appointment to the Fed
eral Reserve Board declare that regulation is
~INiling to the industries of the country through
the newly authorized Interstate Trade Commits
sion. If the country cannot successful regul"'o
railroads, how can it regulate industries!
Mr.. Wheeler advises The business interests Of
the country to prepare FOR regulation, and haz-
ards the suggestion that if the railroads had CO.
operated with the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion from the outset many mistakes would have
been avoided and many losses obviated, and,
though he' does not say so, perhaps the present
state of mind on the part of the commission
might never have arisen. He points to the anal
ogy of the Federal Advisory Council, which will
represent the interests of the banks and coop
crate with the Federal Reserve Board, and pro-
poses that the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States or some other representative bust
ness organization appoint committee of bust
ness men to confer and cooperate with the Trade
Commission. Mr.. Wheeler has seized on anal
ogy that is full of possibilities. His suggestion
is good so far as it applies to industries, if regu
lation is really to be extended to them.
Perhaps it might also be adopted with advan-
tage by the railroads Why not an advisory
council to cooperate with the Interstate Com
merce Commission? The hostility and suspicion
in the commissions mind have brought the rail
roads face to face with starvation and have
threatened regulation itself with public reac-
ton. The existing lack of confidence and coop
Grafton is a mistake inherited from the past
Does the Federal Reserve banking law point to a
way to retrieve it?
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
The
THE WAR OF YOUTHS
Why, as the First Line Soldier Fall,
Battles Must Go More Quickly.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Every now and then IN the
letters from the combatants on one
side or the other we get a glimpse
Of men becoming insane from the
strain of the never ending battles
which are the rule in this war. And
ye may be certain that for every one
driven to actual insanity there are
many more who, for time at least,
are made nervous wrecks. In this we
may read the coming of a change IN
the nature of the war, an accelerating
of its progress and a speedier deci-
sion in its great battles.
An eminent military observer who
was with the Russians in Msnchurla
stated that the most deep reaching
lesson he learned there was that mod
ern war would be essentially a busl-
ness for the very young men, because
they alone have the nervous residence
TO endure the strain of the continuous
combat into which campaign re
solves itself. To be sure, man Of
thirty-iive, though no longer able to
compete with youth in mile run or
a hard football game, may possibly
exhibit as much or more stamina when
it comes TO long continued exposure
to adverse physical conditions. But
when added to such purely physical
hardships is the constant presence OF
death in all its most terrifying and
revolving forms, the knowledge each
minute of the day for many days in
succession that the next instant may
see him disembowelled or. his head
blown off, then your older mans
nerves go to pieces. II needs the in
herent buoyancy of youth to with
stand such an experience.
From now on the average age of
the men on the fighting lines will
steadily increase, except, perhaps,
with the British army. II the fore
going be admitted, does it not follow
that battles will be brought to deci-
sion more quickly than heretofore?
IL will no longer be possible to hold
men under fire for such long periods
The combatants will become non-ef-
fectives from, sheer nervous exhaus-
tion in a relatively short time. And
as it can hardly be expected that both
sides will 60 to pieces simultaneously,
one or the other will win a victory
1t is a sickening, an appalling
thought that the probable end of the
deadlock between the opposing forces
will be found in the slaughter of the
young men, who alone have the nerv-
Gus endurance necessary for its con-
tinuance. But is not such likely to be
the case? G. S
New York, Nov. 26, 1914.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
PEOPLES COLUMN

: the question of state rights and its
concomitant of slavery, the heritage
that she left us.
Are we neutral to-day? No. We aid
in cutting off food supplies from one
combatant while wheat and meat and
ammunition flow into the enemy's coun-
tries; we submit to dictates in regard TO
our wireless stations; we stand calmly
by and see the commerce of brave
nation destroyed by japanese, who be-
come allies of England not only against
Germany but as instruments for carry
ing on her opium trade in China; we
comply with every demand of one side;
we allow our vessels to be searched
against all rules of warfare and our
passengers taken off as prisoners; We
are asked "to coerce" this country and
that, as if we were aiders and abet-
tors in their quarrel for trade suprem-.
acy. No people should be starved
out. That is not human. Food ships
should go equally to all hungry ma
tions with flag marked "food" flying
under our glorious Stars and stripes.
And what will England gain if she
wins? Nothing but the contempt OF the
world. For she and she alone has put
back the progress of the world one hum
dred years, let hordes into Europe that
she would not welcome into her own
island, subsidized the press TO the low
est slanders for her own ends: Inc
Germans never cut off children's hands.
If there is ore thing that German
loves and is tender toward it is child.
] have sought for proofs of such atroc-
tiles. One child was injured, but no.
body knew by whom. A case OF the
five black crows that the sick man was
reported as having elected. 1t proved to
be in the original report something as
black as a crow"
Our kind of neutrality is prolonging
the war, not shortening it. When we
consent to England's 400 contrabands,
to her methods of starvation and as
sistance of every country on the GLOBE
against one; when she breaks all rules
of international law, blocks and mines
the open sea and destroys commerce Oh
neutral countries, it is time for us TO
call Halt" not by going to war, but
by being really and honestly neutral.
WINSLOW SHIPPEN.
New York, Nov. 81, 1914.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30

people intelligent enough to belong to
the thinking class. The present wal
alone bears testimony in the unprece-
dented decrease of typhoid to one
branch of ne vast progress made in
even deeper science than curing-that
of preventing disease.
How were the ravages of malaria
subdued in the Canal Zone? How is
the dreaded dlphtheria checked? And
yet it is stated with the characteristic
self-complacency of those lacking real
knowledge of their subject that there
are mo specific remedies" and no "di-
minishing of disease" This brief pro-
test is all too inadequate. The exi-
gency of voice greater than a lay
mans to meet such distorted truth as
the above quotation holds is so impera-
tive that earnestly hope this will be
supplemented by a professional record
of actual statistics, showing the mi
raculous advance in the world of medi-
cal science. A. 7. w.
New York, Nov. 81, 1914.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
Visions of Historic Wars"

A giant war should have nothing less than a
giant play to celebrate it on the stage. Hence
Mr.. Granville Barkers decision to produce Mr..
Thomas Hardy's colossal creation, "The Dy-
nasts" in a London theatre. Not all the nine
teen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes are
to appear, it need hardly be said. Not even with
a world war for inspiration can theatre man.
ager expect an audience to sit all day and all
night Only the scenes relating to Trafalgar,
the Peninsula and Waterloo are to be included.
These are thirty in number, at that, and call for
hundred speaking parts. Surely so many he
roes never trod one stage before.
One reason for taking up "The Dynasts" was
the fact that it could not offend those excellent
allies of England, the French. Sir Herbert Tree
has remarked that manager in London has to
step Just now as though his feet were among
eggs. 1t is easy enough to find an English play
"to raise up visions of historic wars"--as Mr..
Hardy has stated the aim of the production in a
new prologue written especially for the occasion
but it is hard to find one that does not offend
one of Engand's new-found friends. Henry
v" for example Just the thing to arouse patri-
otis. but unfortunate in its illusions, as for in
stance, in these lines:
O noble English, that could entertain
With half their forces the full pride OF France
And let another half stand laughing by,
All out Of work and cold for action!
Some of the English correspondents may oc-
casionally convey this impression of national
ability in writing of the operations in France to-
day. But civility and the facts are against
them and it is easy to understand London's aver
sion to such matter as lies in 'Henry "" 1.-The
Dynasts,' while it attacks Napoleon, praises the
French. Moreover, the new prologue concludes
with these lines:
What matter that Napoleon our foe
Fair France herself had no ambitious ends
And we are happy in a change that tends
To make Of nearest neighbors closest friends.
As between art and the entente, England has
no doubt which should give way.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
THE IRON DUKE ON THE GERMANS
What Wellington Wrote About the
Teuton Soldiers.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In a recent number OF The
London Spectator" October 2, there
was a short article by R. Seymour
Ramsdale giving the opinion Of the
Germans of the Duke Of Wellington.
who In 1907, during the war that Eng
land was engaged in with Denmark,
had under his command contingent
furnished by Germany. Writing 70
his mother, in August, 1907, after COM
planning of the want OF cooperation
of the German contingent under Gem
eral Won Linsinger, he says:
81 can, however, assure you that
from the general of the Germans down
TO the smallest drum boy in the legion
the earth never groaned with such a
set of numbering, infamous villains"
Then he goes on to say further on:
"They murdered, robbed and illtreat.
ed the peasantry wherever they went.
Good for the Duke of Wellington.
WILLIAM S. LUDLOW.
Cincinnati, Nov. II. 1914.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
THE SUFFRAGE DEFEATS
An "Anti" View of the Results OF the
Late Election.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The election of November s.
1914, has passed into history. The
National Association Opposed TO Wom-
an Suffrage congratulates the country
and the several states where suffrage
was defeated for the splendid results
achieved. We feel that this election
has been the greatest vindication of
the principles of our organization so
far accomplished in the history of the
opposition movement.
Out of seven states where the ques-
tion Of woman suffrage came before
the electorate five defeated it over
whelmingly; one state, Nevada, the
smallest IN population and in the
per cent of women, has evidently been
carried by the suffragists. while Mon
tana is still in doubt and only the
official count will determine the result.
In Nevada the Socialist vote was over
5000. the Mormon vote more than
l,000-probably $500 votes in all out
of IA total vote of 20,000-or nearly one
third Of the entire vote. These votes
were, of course, delivered in a block
to the suffrage cause.
One feature of the result is specially
gratifying The suffragists secured no
state east of the Rockies; they have
captured no territory in which the
home wields the influence that il wields
generally in the more popuious states.
Even in Nevada, in the larger towns,
where homes were most numerous, suf-
frage was defeated nearly two TO one;
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
Recommends a Cleanup.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: While showing visitor from
out of town through our city ne called
nv attention to the untidy condition or
the statues and monuments in our pup
lie parks. The base of the Lincoln
monument in Union Square is very
dirty. and all of the statues need clean
ing. The filthiest groups are those over
the Chamber of Commerce and over
the Stock Exchange. The metal monu-
ments should be rubbed with crocus
and then covered with a coat of boiled
linseed oil, and unless this is done be-
fore the winter sets in some OF the
bronze figures will be ruined beyond
repair. :;
constant reproach to our city, An ap-
nropriation of few hundred dollars
bv the Board OF Aldermen would be
enough TO have this work done. There
are so many skilled artisans out OF em-
nlovment that many would be glad TO
earn few days wages at this work.
The Chamber of Commerce and the
stock Exchange should have their
bindings cleaned. CHARLES HALE.
New York City, Nov. 81, 1914.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
ANTI-ENGLAND
A Policeman View Of This Country 8
Duty as a Neutral.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Out of this war, made by Eng
land and continued by her, what is she
going to gain from it for herself?
This, ! think, is the first proposition
with England. Absolutely nothing but
the contempt Of every right thinking
man and the loss of her prestige be-
fore other nations. When | call this
England's war | do not mean that she
set the ball to rolling. That. is a Sec
ondary matter. The root of tree is
never found in the branches. The real
causes of such a gigantic conhsgration
as this European war are to be found
far deeper down than in the cruel as
sassination of the Crown Prince of
Austria and his princess. That was
only the match, touched TO house of
straw.
For years we have seen England
forming alliances with nations encr-
cling Germany and which when the
time was ripe could crush her with n
ring of iron. Six weeks before the war
broke out Russia, England's ally and
accomplice, was quietly bringing troops
from the Far East and stationing them
In small villages near the German bor-
TO the Car showed that he wished no
conflict with that country. Belgium was
Milling up her forts with French and
some English soldiers. Belgium was
never neutral. She was the secret ally
Of England as much as France was her
open one. England has promised to
give an indemnity to Belgium equal to
twice her losses. The words of the
Kaiser have been shamefully distorted
and perverted by the English press.
The neutrality of Belgium was a farce,
a gigantic fraud, and, knowing this, the
Chancellor called it rightly "a scrap of
paper For it was worth nothing more.
May the day never come, as "a thief IN
the night" or in England's way, that
we shall find ourselves crushed on the
north and on the south in similar
wise. We'd try and break through like
wise. Belgium is to be pitied, but pit
led for her dubious politics as well for
the devastation of her country. As her
neutrality was worthless. she should
be kept by Germany as a guarantee of
her safety
! do not say this because | am n Ger
man, but because | know both peoples
their language and their character. NV
forebears helped TO make US a nation
when Indians were turned on us as
hordes of half civilized folk and Afri-
cans and Hindus. that she would not
allow to even set foot on her soil in
Canada, are turned upon Germany to-
day. IL Is the same nation, the same
tactics, that sought TO divide our Union
In that sad time when We thrashed out
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
THE DIARY OF OUR own SAMUEL PEPys.

November 2S-My wife to Philadelphia with d.
Fales, the coledge student and / with j. Wise to
luncheon of a venison stew and chocolate very
good, and costing me but So. Thence by elevated
railroad to the Polo Grounds and took him to the
foot ball game and the Washington and Jefer-
son team defeat the boys from Rutgers Coedge; and
saw there L. Fisher the insurance officer, too. But
nobody else knew. Played then with j. Wise many
games at kelly pool, and won no more than one IN
twenty games; which made costly day for me but
bore it with grace.
29-Lay late, what with headache and feeling
i'll; but | arose at noon and rode to Washington
Square upon omnibus, and walked thence to my
Office. Read again Frank Colby's "Imagirary obi
cations" ard was rejoiced at the clear, bright truth
therein Cast about for wherewith to fashion verses
from but found nought to my hand, made none
thinking, it is better not to write any than to have
ahat write inept and tenuous. But often | fear
they are both, and not aware of it.
II we knew any bicyclists, might find that
there is a bicycle which is the scenario of many
wheezes as the -- is in the automobile world.
But we do not know any bicycists whatever; and
though Daniel Frohman and Miss Jane Cowl say
they ride, never have encountered them pedaing.
Speaking of bicycling, of the best things H. g..
Wells ever wrote is "The Wheels of Chance" 1t is
out of print, and should like to buy copy.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
The Crisis in Theatrical Affairs.

The fine show of defiance TO the general busi-
ness depression that followed the outbreak Of the
war made by our theatres at the beginning OF the
season has passed, if we are to judge from the
policy and the guarded statements OF the inhu'
entiaI theatrical managers in this city. AT first
there was no hint Of cessation in the preparation
for a "big year" European plays and play prop
.,t,es were advertised az being superseded by the
American product. It was TO be banner sea
con for the American playwright and the Ameri-
can designer. After normal series oil iahures'
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
PROGRESS OF MEDICAL SCIENCE
A Christian Science Assertion ID
Challenged by a Reader.
To the Editor Of The Tribune.


Sir: In your paper of the 9th was
letter, headed "A Christian Science
Death" feel impelled to take excep-
tion to the following:
els it possible that in this enlightened
age the people are still ignorant of the
fact that after six thousand years the
so-called science OF medicine is still
a wholly experimental system, without
single specific remedy, and that dis
cases have steadily multiplied, not di-
minished, under its ministrations ?"
''ls it possible that in this enlight-
ened age" there is any one living so
wilfully ignorant of the marvellous
strides that even the last decade has
accomplished experimental with"
in general and special medical sci
ence? The constant results Of research
and labor of a profession standing Sec
ond to one other ARG swe-inspiring to
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
The Sabbath Day.

lbs Miss Mary Ann O'Byrne. Of wa,ervllet. y. "
Some people are so particular
Upon the Sabbath day,
That they will not allow their little child
With its companion for to play.
Now it is no sin for any one to enjoy themselves
Upon the Sabbath day.
Provided they attend to their religious duties
At the proper time and way.
Particularly the laboring people
That has to work hard during the week
Do not criticise them
II they jolly time do seek
And when few OF them gathers together
In some innocent pastme to take part
Let them sing and dance and yell and prance
For 1t shows the innocence Of their heart.
But kissing, catching and embracing
They certainly must avoid
When they are In company with the opposite sex
Or their souls will be destroyed.
ITO BE CONTINUED
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

the exceptions were the mining centres
of Goldfield and Tonopah, where the
Socialist vote was exceptionally strong.
Out in the mining camps, where there
were no women, particularly the small
and isolated camps, the vote was prac-
tically unanimous in favor of suffrage.
This is a confirmation of the contention
of the anti-suffrsgists that women do
not want the ballot.
MINNIE BRONSON.
General Secretary National Association
Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
New York, Nov. 81, 1914.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
The Apex of Civilization.

To the Editor Of The Tribune. ,u,
Sir: A recent cartoon from vi.
tBerlin) shows a bunch of French SOL
diers shooting (ostensibly at the Ger.
mans from behind a colossal statue
Of Pallas Athena. who holds IN one
hand an enormous shield and IN tne
other the Rheims Cathedral-some
strong woman, eh? Its legend reaus
"You shoot behind me, you lie oehanu u
me: but you are assaulting the apex
of civilization" Don't those ~ r5qSsrs"' prrT
hate themselves! WEST SIHhIi'
New York, Nov. 81, 1914.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
The Coming Tover
Rounded.

German Left Held Stationary;
French and British Open Cleft -
All the plight OF the unwary
German LETT
How the skilful adversary
Dashing, dexterous and dett-
Conouers. singing "Tipperary"
How the Kaiser'S military
Force is slaughtered and bereit--
I'm surprised that there IS ary
German lett
G.. s. X.
New-York tribune., 1914-11-30
ITO BE CONTINUED

From New York City high school examination pa
per: "Silas Mariner is true to human nature because
we find men now who lose faith because certain things
occur and if they do not become misers they become
suicides or any other of these hobbies. Godfrey
Cass especially is true to human nature because
find many people to-day who do Just what he did,