The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-08-13

tleship But events of actual war
fare have revised ideas on this sub
ject
Now the shipyards in and around
this city are busy building for Eng
land hundreds of swift motor boats
with sharp steel prows. What for?
To ram German submarines
Prosperity does not always wear
fine clothes. A ragged beggar gath
cred in by the police had several hun
dred dollars in ragged stocking and
a bank book showing 1914 in deposits.
Again has the war been brought
close home by the hating of the Dutch
liner Nickerie, right off the New Jer-
| sey coast, by the British cruiser Isis,
and the taking off of two German cab
in passengers.
The "Sun," strongly pro British,
comes out with two-column cable
gram from London on well Uplifted,
England Less Optimistic" pointing out
that feeling of depression has fol-
lowed the revelation of the real pro-
gress and status of the war.
Every day in this big city there are
people who acquire ready-made child
rem by adoption, but now comes wi
dow, we'll on in years, who formally
asks the court to sanction her adop-
ton as a son of 43-year old young
ster with bristling mustache and bald
head
The life insurance business has at
tanned to immense proportions, as
shown by the report made by the state
commissioner, that the assets of the
companies doing business in this
state amount to $4636, 9700, 900. In
New York state alone, 7,16SO00 poll
| cies are in force
Popular imagination has been
caught by the idea of John Wanama-
ker that it would be fine thing to
raise $100,00O,000 and buy back Bel
GUM from its conquerors. But hard
headed statitician punctures the idea by
pointing out that the sum named
would cover the war cost for only ten
days-and the war is now a year old
Edward M. Grout, a few years ago
one of the most conspicuous figures
in this city, as controller of the big
gest municipal corporation in the
world now occupies cell, convicted OF
perjury, for doing practically what
every bank president in the country
does habitually, in swearing to reports
Of the banks condition as prepared
| for him by SubOrQinateS
The impossible has happened
public official proposes that his owl
salary be cut in order that his deput.
may be better paid r. A. G.. Smith
commissioner of docks and ferries,
shipping man who has built severa
. fleets of merchantmen, is the strang,
individual who believes that $4,000 il
big enough pay for himself, but want
his first deputy to draw $500, :
There have been two strange TRACE
dies here in public life. William M
WINS, great figure at the bar and il
municipal politics, expected to roun'
out unique career by smashing
Roosevelt in the Barnes libel case A
counsel for the big boss he hammere'
the former president numerically blu
the jury indicated Roosevelt AM
WINS came home from Syracuse ant
laid down and died
Preserving season here and suga
up to eight cents! Certainly. In tn
eleven months ended June /, Americ;
exported 4SS,620,677 pounds of sugar
worth $22,616,677, as compared witt
47,662,S45 pounds, worth $1,713,514
in the proceeding year. War make
nations hungry for sugar. Americ
makes for the supplies cut off fron
Germany. America does big businnes
But every Housewife pays
Events have verified my analysis O
the munitions fight as merely figh
for the eight-hour day, for when short
err hours and larger pay were granite
at the Remington plant the men wen
contentedly back to work, 900 Ger
mans being among the number. An
: Samuel Gompers has not establishe
, his contention that German influenc
was back of the movement, nor has h
succeeded in explaining his own al
titude.
What is the News? The Times,
for example, in the same column ha
a dispatch from Petrograd, "Nichola
Ready to Strike" how the Grand Duk
is prepared to hurl his armies in an
direction, while another dispatch is 0
Russians Now Complain" of the sue
cessions of defeats, and third, "Wal
saw Free From Care" rejoices at tn
increase of population in the Polls
capital ignoring the fact that this
L due to refugees crowding into til
city.
III The cotton problem is growing mol
acute, with 100000 bales unsold b.
cause. of the interference with Amer
can trade, and another crop coming Il
This is the largest single factor in tt
insistence of America upon the fire.
dom of the seas, particularly as IL
great south is absolutely dependaI
| upon selling it's cotton, and the strai
put upon Dixieland is being fe
| throughout the country