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The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18
IT is WORTH YOUR WHILE

To hear the temperance cantata "A
Stainless Flag" which will be present
ed to the Grangeville public. Wednes-
day, Now. 24th, at the opera house. by
one hundred boys and girls as follows:
Opening Chorus-;Leora Grattan. Lor-
Is Rauch. Clara Carlton, Viola Riutcel.
Anneta Poe, Ruth Munroe. Ruth Gage,
Elsie Gage. Gladys Larue, Dora Wilson,
Dorothy Stdwell, Mamie Richards, Ro-
salia Klinger. Mildred Campbell. Bea-
trice Dysard
Young Campaigners Mary Barker.
Odovine Poe. Myrtle Calkins. Cecil Rose,
Vernon Miller. Ralph Rose, Virgil Nor
ton. Lorine Wilkins. velva Sanford.
Miss Columbia ...... Margaret Krakau
Uncle Sam .......... Wesley Calkins
Miss Columbia's Girls-Helen Craddle-
baugh, Georgiana Wood. Amy Wiley,
Pearl Norton, Bessie Tomhn, Mabel
Lingo, Freda Ring, Claire Baker. Mar
guerite Pearson, Lois Gornall, Opal
Warden.
Citizens-Blacksmit Melvin Anson;
storekeeper, Gerald Craddlebaugh; car
penter, Give Gattan; doctor. Ray Gage;
tailor, Wendell Hockersmith; housekeep-
ker, Marie Arson. baker. Audrey Parks.
&acSoclsSE oOt ddA <ANUe'e'NA
Governor of Kansas -. Paul Eimers
! u. 5. Judge ............ Lyle Hartiett
| Policeman ................ Stanley King
Anti -Saloon League Representative
........... .......... Russell Myers
w. c. T. U. Representative
........... ......... Marie Phillips
Soldiers-Homer Campbell. Orrin Fitz-
gerald, Russell Myers. John Atkinson.
Give Grattan Leroy Atkinson, Paul
! Atwood. Gerald Craddlebaugh.
Negroes George Wilxoff, Ruth Noyes,
Laura Wilson. James Pierson. Frank
Wiley, Mary Webb. Helen Turner, Ar
| thur Wilson.
Indians-Floyd Hamill, Murl Phillips
Albert Turner, Addie Pearson, Hazel
Ring, Gladys Rose. Leo Carpenter
Suffragettes Leora Smith, Dorothy
Stewart. Virginia Shisler. Lizzie Turn
er, Ruth Cochran, Mabel O'Keefe. Clara
Calkins. Ida Chandler. Neva Klinger
American Children-zelda Lingo. Ha-
eel Calkins, Cecil Callison, Alvin Nor
ton Harold Klinger. Edna Wilson, Ralph
Wiley, Lloyd Riutcel. Helen Carlton, Del
mont Schwalbach.
This entertainment is given under the
directions of the local w. C. T. u, and
a small admission fee of 10 cents will
be charged to defray expenses.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18
SELL CATTLE AND Too UP.

George Shissler and Henry PetllDv ~
came out the first of the week ~ .r
their ranch on the Upper Selway. ~ W.
were accompanied by Elmer Luper W."
assisted them In bringing out ~ Is IS
of fat steers for the market Ge"s
many social engagements reauhe sss
more extensive wardrobe than No
previously maintained and 30 the =.
turn to the mountains will see nun -.
king In plentiful supply of gay MT pst.
ties. striped sox. etc. Even Henry M,
tibone bought him q new shirt w
all this? There's a lady homes, s.,,ss
in the Three Forks country now'--'
Enterprise
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18

that they grow big crops and win prizes
once and then relax their efforts. but
they keep 1t up and continue to do
better year after year. All of which
goes to show that we have the best
agricultural land under the sun. We
grow the best grains, we raise the best
hogs and the best cattle. Here's where
you find the ideal mixed farming coum-
trv.-Culdesac Enterprise
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18

confidence that the press viii refuse to
suppress facts and to publish misstate-
ments for political advantage. there
will be no trouble about the primary
system. Give the voters the truth and
the Signal has the utmost confidence
they will do the rest.--Weiser Signal.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18
BEST COUNTRY THE SUN SHINES

This section of Idaho is one OF the
richest agricultural spots IN America
The most satisfactory aspect in con-
nection with the splendid showing made
by northern Idaho agriculturists Is not
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18

looked at the children playing at
home, where they ought to bel How
often. oh. how often. in those days Of
the proper stamp. have / gazed ON the
parents reading at home by he evening
lamp! But the world has gone to thun-
der. forgotten that elder day; and I
took up the bridge and broke It, and
threw all the chunks awayA-walt Mason
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18

it through his holy prophets. II y
device OF Satan to hell" We VIZ
like to see that school board in q i I
ern gas machine. driven by Joe'-fo
dinand Enterprise.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-11-18

Start riglst with that dairy herd ,1sl.
thoroughbred Hoistsin bull from
Ter Hickerson-.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-24

still be proven, is still more doubtful.
1t seems a too common misfortune in
this country-and Illinois is not the
only state thus hampered-thate eff
fective action is hard to obtain on the
pure food laws.
The laws of the nation and of the
various states are good, generally
speaking. There is a wealth of whole
some, as well as freak legislation, on
the statute books. The difficulty lies
in the lack of thorough, impartial,
disinterested application of the laws.
A distinguished citizen of this coun-
try has advocated the absolute en-
forcement of all laws, asserting this
to be the most effective means of
bringing about revision of bad laws
and effective work from good laws,
and in this instance, at least, he is
right.
The best law in the world is worth
less until it is put into operation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-24
THE "CORN ETIQuETsrE,,,

From the Shreveport Times.
Inc world Is able to classify a man
by two things-his table manners and
the style of his hand baggage. For in
stance. it, in your travels YOU en-
counter an individual at A heoel who
can cover his knife with mashed no.
'a.oes TO the hilt and then get them
All OIL without Injury to his tonsils.
you Immediately have this mans So
clal number. On the other hand. If he
carries a canvas telescope or "knee
Rnocker" reinforced by a part of his
wlfe's clothes line, then you are also
able to classify him properly.
You may have an inkling of a mans
bringing up by the tools he chooses
III eating his pie. or by the manner in
winch he muffles his exhaust in eat
ing soup. Yet when it comes to green
corn, every known rule is violated
Some ways for eating certain things
are planned for economic reasons. Thus
the country hotel keeper serves his
olives In bottle and expects you to
get them out with you fingers. He also
furnishes you with possibly a crane
irult or orange in the morning and
expects you to keep your ears clean
with a paper napkin. There are recog
nized ways of taking soup into the
system and these ways all call for a
limit to the noise zone
But when folks. even the most re-
lined folk-folks that won't even per-
nit poodle to sleep with them-start
ia on their boiled corn part of the
menu, past precedence is thrown to the
winds. The book of rules. is consigned
with all other etiquette to warmer
place and every man is content to get
his corn off the cob in the fastest and
most convenient way in which he is
able to operate.
NO, neighbour we shall never have to
worry about any styles relative to
denuding the cob OF its succulent kerr
nels. We may have worried whether
1t was proper to remove jelly from the
nose with a fork or napkin, and il
may have annoyed us few to re-
member whether it is better form to
sneeze under or over the table, but we
shall never have to tax our brain on
new rules for eating green corn from
the cob. 1t is catch-a as catch can
proposition and the hair-lipped farm
hand is just as refined and just as
mannerly at this delectabe pursuit as
the guy who learned his table manners
from a young woman's seminary
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-24
Southern Development Activity


Now that S. Davies Warfield of Bal
timore. chairman of the Seaboard All
Line, has arranged for the refinancine
of that system on large scale and fol
its immediate expansion, he is giving
his earnest personal attention to the
work of the Southern Settlement and
Development organization which he
helped to form two years ago and Of
which he is the executive head.
Mr.. Warfield has won wide reputa
ton as a financier. He has already
done much for the south, and as he
has the ear of large capitalists in every
part of the country, he is sure to make
success of his southern develop
ment enterprise. 1t is purely a public
spirited work He receives no salary
and he announced at the start that nc
stakeholder would be allowed to use
the organization in furtherance of any
money making schemes.
Mr. Warfield has recently issued an
address in which he sets forth the
great resources of the south. Other
sections have been fully developed;
some of them overdeyeloped The
south, as Mr.. Warfield points out, is
the only section that offers especial
opportunities for capital or for set
tiers with small means but industrious
habits.
The Southern Settlement and Devel-
opment organization asks for the CO.
operation of the people of Alabama
and the south Atlantic states and
particularly the cooperation of farm
ers' unions, chambers of commerce and
industrial corporations.
Mr.. Warfield is a man of enthusiasm
and tireless energy, and when he
undertakes to bring settlers to the
south and colonize them on idle lands
and to build up manufacturing towns,
he will know no such word as fail
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-24
Student Democracy

American colleges can scarcely be
called cradles of democracy in this
day and age. The growth of frater-
mites and secret societies has largely
changed the early democratic spirit of
the colleges-has broken their social
life up into groups.
The University of Michigan has
started a plan of bringing all students
into a harmonious organization, the
college union" it is called, and an
enormous auditorium will be built to
accommodate the meetings of this edu-
cational union. Two thousand alumni
will begin at once to solicit funds
from the $4,000 graduates of the uni
versity.
1t has long been the idea of DR..
Angel, president emeritus of the uni
versity, who is now Sc years old, to
establish this organization with a big
hall to house it. 1t is proposed that
this union shall do away with college
aristocracy, and bring together all
students from the husky athlete to
the pink tea heir of aristocratic fam
lily.
A wave of protest has gone up
everywhere against snobbery in uni
versities and the growing exclu-
siveness of fraternities, which have
gained such strength that, to quote
Woodrow Wilson, "The side shows
have swallowed the circus"
There is no place for class distinc-
tions in the American university
such condition is un-American and
yet it is condition which prevails
not only in many schools of higher
learning but in high schools as we'll.
State universities, above all others,
should be democratic in spirit and free
from petty exclusiveness. 1t is a good
sign certainly, that the movement in
Michigan toward democracy has
sprung largely from the student body
and is being pushed by students and
alumni.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-24
THE DOLLAR SUPREME


No more impressive and convincing evil
dence of the enviable position which
America occupies as the, rising financial
center of the world could be given than
by the steady decline of British exchange
which has brought the English bankers
face to face with a novel situation which
demands action. The history of this
country has doubtless no parallel to the
remarkable shift of positions that the past
IL months has seen. Last August at the
weeks a rush of gold to Europe and the
bankers of New York strained every
nerve to prevent the country from being
drained of gold. Opinions differ sharply
as to whether or not large reserve of
gold is essential to nationa! prosperity and
safety. but the large majority of fnanciers
think that 1t is necessary and act on that
principle, and hence the necessity is real,
and the situation that would have been
presented by goddess country would
have been serious in the extreme. Now
on the contrary gold is pouring into the
United States from Europe. The enor-
nous expectations and the negligible i'm
portations have made trade balance of
unexampled proportions In our favor, and
the Europeans having no goods with
which to settle the balance. are hard
pressed for gold with which to make the
payment. In the meantime the American
dollar is at the head of the column
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-24
As to Size of Cotton Crop

81 have never been engaged in the
cotton business, but have taken much in
terest In the reports of crop conditions
and estimates on the size of the CROP
said L. F. Hates of Cincinnati.
Last June I was in Georgia and Ala
bama-the second and third cotton states.
respectively-and heard a prominen, cot
years crop would fall below 600
bales. But when the government esti-
mated in July that the crop would be
between 12,OOO.OOO and 100000 predicted
that no matter what happened this year $
production would be above 100000.
II heard a well informed man say last
week that Alabama's cotton crop would
be smaller than the government estimate,
owing to bad August conditions. If l
were making bet 1t would be that the
south's great staple would be nearer 49,
100000 than 100000 bales. But the main
question is what price can the far-aer
expect? That depends upon certain con-
tingencies that will develop within the
next few weeks.
1.-The crop diversification movement will
be worth millions upon millions to the
south. 1t has made a good start and in
time cotton will be the surplus Crop and
the south should be the richest section
of the United States. for 1t surpasses all
other sections in resources"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-24
METROPOLITAN COUNTIES

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
That counties in general are superfluous
and should be abolished has been urged
and denied That a county which has
been entirely absorbed by a municipality
has lost its usefulness and ought to be
eliminated is scarcely open to discussion.
The case argues itself
A recommendation ha been made to the
New York constitutional convention to
permit radical reorganization of the
government of the Ave counties COM
prised within the limits of the metropoli-
tan district. 1t Is difficult to understand
why reorganization Is urged instead OF
abolition, unless it be with the idea that
the convention. unwilling 70 listen to the
more radical proposal, might be persuaded
to adopt the alternative.
County government in the city,. says
the report of those urging its reorganiza-
ton, f'has been the favorite field of par
tisan politics and special legislation. Year
after year county positions have been
multiplied and county salaries increased,
eliminating in the creation of Bronx
county at an additional annual burden OF
s70O,0O0.55 Instead of reorganizing the five
metropolitan county governments they
should be abolished. Whatever purpose
they may have served may now be bet
ter and more cheaply served by the GEN.
tralized city government.
1t is an issue that arises in other states
than New York The county is an arbi-
tray geographical division, the utility OF
which Is open to question, while the cost
of it's government and the political infiu-
ences emanating from it argue against its
indefinite continuance in its present form
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-24

FROM the new YORK Times.
NUR sense of the fathomess stupid
ity of the German propaganda in
- this country supplies a comforting
emolient for the anger and resentment
of the propagandists naturally provoke.
1t is a hateful thing. The bold high
as we detest the pickpocket. When a
mans pocket is picked he not only regrets
his loss, but he resents the personal af-
| front involved in an exploration of his
raiment by the highland firty-fingered
practitioner. So when, these German gen.
| try come among us, and. with the aid
| of others of their kind who have long
| been here resident, enter into conspir-
acies to interfere with our trade, to buy
| or bride the newspapers and try to shape
J and pervert American opinion to the i'm
perial need and liking, we resent their
| product has faint and a repaling GinI
that betray the maker. The result IS that
| to tho innate American aversion To the
German policy and German methods in
| tile great war there has been added "A
impudent activities, ard some get pretty
mad about It. They have gone much
| too far, and from the documents pub
lished by our neighbor. The World. it APP
pears that some Germans who should be
hound by their personal and official bonor
to hold aioof from works of that nature
| splracy.
But IN the month of August wrath is
an unreasonable emotion and we are
saved from some of its discomforts by
our reflections upon the amazing asinity
of the German propagandists They
brought with them to this country and
sought TO apply the methods that are
OF customary use il Germany, whers what
| is cal ed the reptile press has always
been ready, by hire or command, to aid
those who had an interest in poisoning
public opinion There is no country on
earth where that hoary device would be
50 absolutely sure to fail as in the Un,. ed
Stat,s The conspirators were most Sc
lici:cus that their work should have the
appearance Of truly American orig,a. sng-
gestion and support, but in that igncble
business there can be no concea msnr. The
feeilng nf contempt for the efforts Of the
pro?aeandjsts. They have thought .rnb-
ably that thei, work was subterransall.
yet It has beer all the time openly mani
fest. We know that the con spi,'arors
Ware a, work. that the conspiracy was
widespread. and we had pretty good idea
of the Identity of the chief workers. We
did not know until the latest disclosures
were male that the creatures who were
a. the time taw'ing about the payment of
British gold to influence public opinion
here were themselves taking German
money in payment for their services.
These German propagandists were as
blind as bats. They were seeking covertly
and secretly, by intrigue and device, and
in disguise, to enter where the door was
wide open and the hand OF welcome ex-
tended. The American press has been
prodeal in its expenditure of money and
space for the presentation Of German
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-24
Law Enforcement

The state food inspector of Illinois
has been arrested charged with having
passed favorably upon large con.
signment of canned tomatoes that hao
been found to be unwholesome-for 3
certain money consideration received
by him from the wholesale grocery
concern that was anxious to unload
the alleged spoiled goods.
Whether or not the Illinois food in.
spector is guilty of the charge has
not been proven-and whether, in the
event he is guilty, the charge can
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-24
POLITICAL "CUCKoOs,
From the Santa Te New Mexican

from the Santa Fe New Mexican
don't know just how the word
cuckoo" came to be used by Amer
leans in the sense it is now used, as
meaning man who hasn't any opin-
ion of his own but waits until he knows
what his boss thinks, and then be-
comes a loud mouthed advocate of
what he knows will please those on
whom he Is fawning. The cuckoo is a
bird, and a queer kind of bird, and SO
is the political cuckoo. The ornitholo-
gcal kind is a parasite. 1t won't do its
own work. 1t waits until 1t finds some
other bird off it's nest and then lays it's
eggs in that other birds nest so that
the other bird matches its young for it,
True to its nature, rs soon as the young
fledgling gets it's shell shaken from its
back it promptly throws the young of
its foster mother out of the nest. and
takes all the food itself. But politically
cuckoo" is said to be one who toots
for someone else.
The political boss gether around him
all the syncophantic political cuckoos he
can find, gives them a dollar and a
kick, and orders them to go out in the
highways and byways and preach the
bosses political gossip. and above all
to ridicule, slur and abuse all who do
any thinking for themselves. When any
honest man of brains Is attaining
prominence, all the cohorts of pred
atory wealth pass the word along that
he is persona non grata and 10! thence
forward every little fawning minion
OF the criminal interests pecks at him
from every direction--some of them
even sit up nights to think out slurs
to cast at him. jokes to belittle him,
and lies to SANDER him with.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-08-24
COURAGE

FROM the Shreveport Times
Colonel Roosevelt said in one OF his Cal
ffornia speeches that the man who Is
afraid to fight is not fit to vote: but the
courage which makes man willing to
fight Is the cheapest form of courage in
the world.
That, which is most plentiful is easiest
achieved and cheapest The person who
practices the public formalities of religion
may be truly religious; but he may be a
hypocrite. The man who rises ostenta-
tiousy when the Star Spangled Banner"
is played may be real patriot; but he
may be one of those hypocrites who would
make money out of the flag and love II
because it affords a cloak for pluncer.
That man who is afraid to fight may be
better citizen than the ready battler.
Benjamin Franklin never showed any
Willingness to go into battle, but he risked
his private fortune to help outfit Brad
docks army, and served his country well
In the revolution. Benedict Arnold and
Aaron Burr were both men to whom the
battlefield brought a fierce joy more de-
licious than any of the pleasures of peace
and both betrayed their country
When war breaks out 1t is always easy
to find men with courage to fight Prac-
tically all men have that courage to a de-
gree quite as high as that in which it is
possessed by Colonel Roosevelt. 1t is a
very common attribute of all races. The
Turcos have it, The Japanese have 1t.
The Italians have it. The Turks have it.
The Hindus have it. All of them have 1t
to a degree which would be wonderful if
1t were not so nearly universal The Ital-
ian section hands on the western railways
are laying down their TOOLS and going
home because they have this courage to
fight
And they have this quality quite ire
spective of the goodness or badness of
their citizenship.
with that temperament of his he would be
quite as belligerent if he were a crook.
George Fox was afraid to fight. Not
afraid of being killed, but afraid it would
be displeasing to God But was not the
great leader of the Quakers fit to vote?
/ think he was. I think he was quite
as fit for citizenship as Oliver Cromwell
or Prince Rupert, both contemporaries
of his, and brave fighters.
The colonel says that a woman who is
not willing to raise her boy to be SOL
dier is not fit for citizenship.
OF course not.
What has she DONE anyhow, that she
should presume to refuse the responsible
ity of sending that boy of hers to be
MANNED. trampled upon, starved, pois-
oned, infected with dread diseases? What
indeed? All she has done is to go down
into the valley of the shadow of death
to bring him forth. All she has done is
to suckle him at her breasts. All she has
done is to watch the little soft form grow
large, strong and prideful. What bust
ness has she to differ with the colonel on
this matter? The nerve of the woman?
And yet. should scarcely feel like talk
ing the responsibility of denying to her
the rights of citizenship when she revolts
from the ordeal of sending him to war
prefer to let the colonel establish that
principle.