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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-10

Joe Tong Lee gave a banquet the
other day with sing-song girls on the
side. We had jolly time He is no
longer connected with the college but
We see him once in awhile. Tomorrow
evening | am going to the Chinese
theater and to a Chinese banquet as
the guest of one of the Chinese teach
ers. I can't say that I really look for
ward to these affairs any more, they
are becoming rather of an old story.
We are having a lot of excitement
over football here. Our team has de-
feated all of the Shanghai teams, and
last Monday defeated Soochow Uni
versity, which in turn had defeated all
of the other schools in that vicinity,
including Marking. Our students
have worked up some pretty good
yells and with their pennants, band,
ETC., the games seemed quite like
home.
Shanghai is continually improving,
the Yang King Pang and Defence
Greeks are rapidly being converted
into boulevards. Two very large six
story office buildings have just been
completed on the Bund, nearly half
miles of Chinese shops on Nanking
Road have been replaced by foreign
style buildings, and innumerable other
have been made in 9TH
er parts of the city. You would hard
ly know the old town.
New Year holidays in Manila. May
see Gurney while l am there as :
lad a postal the other day saying that
le was there.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-10
CHINESE STUDENTS
COMING HERE
S. r. SHELDON WRITES INTEREST.
ING LETTER CONCERNING LIFE
IN SHANGHAI
Chinese University Making Great Pro-
gress-Shanghai Improving Rapid
Iy-China New Year to be CeIe-
brated in Manila

Sidney R. Sheldon, for a unmber OF
years head of the department OF
electrical engineering in the universi-
ty and now holding very important
position in a great government uni
versity in Shanghai, China, is send
ing to Moscow for work during the
second semester two students whose
scholarship and achievements he
praises highly. In letter of introduc-
ton to S. E. Hutton he gives an ac-
count of his present life that will be
most interesting to the many friends
he has here.
Mr.. Sheldon says:
l am giving a letter of introduction
to you to two students, Messrs. Hsu
Pei Kwan and Yang Pei-fung who
desire to enter the University of Idaho
for this coming semester. They are
both excellent students standing at the
top of their respective classes, 1913
and 1914 and should get along in good
shape.
They expect ultimately to join the
traffic department of the Santa Fe
railroad but some difficulties came up
regarding their entrance into the Uni
ted States and they therefore decided
to take a semester's work at Idaho
first.
They wish to fill in their time as
profitably as they can and you may
be able to advise them as to subjects
They would probably chiefly elect en-
gineering subjects but might find some
political economy, advanced English
or other similar subjects useful |
shall be greatly obliged if you can
help them in getting settled.
We are having an old-time winter
here The fall was rather wet and dis
agreeable and now the thermometer
is hanging down near Is degrees T.
and with the creeks all frozen over,
people are thinking about getting their
skates out.
College affairs are progressing IN
fine shape, we now have six foreign
soon will have three more
The new men are to be in English, a
physical director and a civil engineer
% take Hu's place, Hu going into
railroad work.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-10
Sanguinary Battle

PETROGRAD, Feb. 10.-What prom
ises to become one of the most san
culinary and decisive battle of the war
is developing from the desperate fight
ing for possession of the slopes in the
passes of the Carpathians. The noun
tain sides are strewn with dead. The
Russians and the combined Austro-
German forces heavily reinforced are
carrying the fight to a conclusion.
Severe repulses of the German arms
at Bartfield, Svidnik, and Lupnow
passes are reported by the war office
In these encounters the Slavs took SO
and 5000 prisoners.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-10
New Activity in Lorraine

PARIS, Feb. 10-The attempt by the
try assault the French position north
east of Maronviller, in Lorraine, was
repulsed with heavy loss. The an
to mark the resumption of active opera
tions in this province. The weather
is moderating. From the Aisne to the
Champagne district artillery d'iels
command attention.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-10
FAIR BOARD TO MEET

The directors of the Latah County
Fair Association will meet this eve
ming at eight o'clock at the office of
T. A. Meeker. Members of the Board
say that the outlook promises an un-
usually successful fair this fall.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-10
OVERWHELMINGLY OF OPINION THAT MOSCOW
BANK is ENTITLED TO MONEY
ECONOMY BUG" SQUELCHED
Propose Longer Residence for Divorce Proceedings
Minority Leaders, Bill Downed-Pickett's
Resignation Asked For
BY d. w. GREENBURG
(Staff Writer for The Star -MirrOr)

BOISE, Feb 10. = Notwithstanding
ethe fact that Minority Leader Anderson
of Canyon waves the economy bug
every time any measure whatever
comes before the house for passage
which carries with it an appropria-
istered an effective and direct slap at
the accusation that the "pork barrel
held sway. The house by vote OF
AZ to passed Hunters house bill
No. 26 giving relief to the First Ma
tional Bank of Moscow which is seek
ing the money which the district courts
and the supreme court have both unan-
imously decided it was justly entitled
to. Another crack at the economy bug
was directed when the house killed off
House Bill No. ISL by Anderson of
Canyon
H. B. No. 26 by Hunter-Appropriat
ing $7427.75 for the relief of the First
National Bank of Moscow, judgment
against the regents of the university
and affirmed in a decision of the su-
preme court
H. B. No. 161 by Anderson of Can
yon-Fixing the salary of the state
chemist at $500 per annum, payable
monthly.
A measure amending the marriage
and divorce laws was introduced in
the house by Randall and in the sena- G
Hart introduced a measure providing
for a years residence instead Of six
months before divorce proceedings can
be started
The house also passed Hous
1876 and 100.
H. B. No. 1876 by Koelsch-Permits
the making of an Geographic will by
either married or an unmarried wom-
an.
H. B. No. 100 by Hunt and Hull
Amends the bill organizing Benewah
county to prevent disorganization of
school and highway districts on the
formation of the new county of Ben
ewah from part of Kootenai. The Ben
ewah county bill has already been
signed by the governor.
The senate this morning passed
House Bill No. 72, and Senate Bills rs,
s, AZ, and 50.
H. B. No. 72 by Committee on Uni
form Law-The uniform bill of lading
law
S. B. No. 26 by Grant-Amending
section 448O of the revised codes as
amended in 1913, relating to exemp-
tions.
S. B. No. 8 by notwithstanding
Sec 1913 session laws permitting pa
tient in civil action to authorize Ida
ho physicians or surgeons to give con-
fidential testimony relating to pa
tient.
S. B. No. AZ by Judiciary Committee
to notaries public, and pro-
viding that all commissioned notaries
public may continue to do business
for the full term of their commission.
S. B. No. 81 by Harding
for an appropriation of $4,000 for the
purpose of assisting in the construc-
tion, repair and improvement of the
Pleasant View-H -Holbrook road in Onei-
la county
BOISE. Feb. 10.-In order that he
nay appoint some one who resides
closer to the park, Governor Alexander :
las requested the resignation of Geo.
J. Pickett of Moscow, commissioner of :
Hepburn park. :
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-10
VESSEL GOES THROUGH CANAL

BY the United Press
SAN DIEGO, Feb 1O.-The steamer,
Great Northern, from Philadelphia to
San Francisco, via the Panama canal
has arrived.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-10
VATICAN REFUSES ANNULMENT

By the United Press
PARIS, Feb. 10.-The appeal of
Count Boni de Castellane to the vatic-
an to annul his marriage to Anna
Gould was denied by the rota tribunal,
according to advices from Rome
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-10
STATE DEPARTMENT SILENT

BY the United Press
WASHINGTON, The state department
declines to discuss the charge that
the steamship Orduna. had used the
American flag.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-10
DEFEAT OF AMENDMENT
BY the United Press

BY the United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. = The
amendment to the sundry civil bill
eliminating the appropriation of three
million dollars to be used in obtaining
the physical valuation of railroads was
defeated today in the house.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-10

The trustees of the Congregational
church at Avon have just completed
fine new church building and have In
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-02-10
ANOTHER ENGLISH VESSEL
FLIES STARS AND STRIPES
PASSENGERS ON ORDUNA CLAIM BRITISH CAP
TAIN WAS OBEYING ORDERS
so, 900 GERMANS KILLED
Two Hundred Thousand of kaisers Men Wounded
Last Week-Carpathian Passes Still Seat of Con-
flict-Russans Have Many Reinforcements
lBy United PreSSl

NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-Passengers
arriving on the Cunard liner Orduna
from Liverpool declared that the ves-
sci flew the American flag twenty
hours on January 30th while in the
Irish sea. The flag was hoisted at the
orders of Captain Taylor. The pas
sengers said the change of flags fol-
lowed the receipt of a wireless either
from the British admiralty or the
Cunard officials. 1t was on January
31st that the German submarine sank
three steamers off Fleetwood. Henry
Winters, assistant manager of the
Cunard line, denied the report saying
that the flag had flown as usual.
number of passengers declared that
the American flag was placed where
the British should have been
Enormous German Losses
LONDON, Feb. 10,-The Germans
sustained enormous losses fighting
along the Borzhymow line in Poland
Stars Petrograd correspondent He
estimates that not fewer than $4,000.
Germans have been killed, and four
times that number have been wound
ed as a result of the fighting.
Zone Extension Explained
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-The offic-
ial text of the memorandum to the
press recently issued by the German
government explaining the recent or
der extending the war zone to British
and French waters has been submitted
@ the state department by the German
Embassy. This will be translated and
will be compared with the text publish
ID in the American newspapers. The
tate department will then be ready,
is stated, to take official action re-
,arding the situation, and also in the
natter of the Lusitania's flying the
american flag.
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family as well as for the man himself.
and as living expenses are higher
down there than in the United States
his rate OF salary Is equal!zed 10 con-
form TO the difference in living ex-
pense.
while we are more than satisfied
that a great development in trade
with the United States Is to follow
intelligent efforts. yet we are also
satisfied that trade must be carefully
developed. Business men OF the
United States who desire increased re-
lations with South America must
adapt themselves 70 the peculiar needs
OF the countries whose trade ,s sought.
We can't go down there in n rush and
grab for a share OF trade, and get It;
and we don't want 20. not II we de-
sire the kind OF trade nat Is worth
having"
The general situation as regards the
development OF business with South
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Southern Railway station in
Buenos Ayres.

greatest adaptability. Throughout
South America you will find many Of
the large wholesale and retail estab-
llshments owned, controlled and man
aged by Germans and Englishmen,
and through their efforts a demand
Is being created among the
ing public for their goods.
III in the future we are successful
in building up III foreign commerce
It Is necessary thai we begin at once
to educate our young men in the in
tricac!es Of export ~buriness; and the
business languages, Spanish, French
and German. should be part of the
curriculum of every school and college
which pretends to train young men
for earning their living.
We hear II said with great fire.
quency that one of the obstacles In
the way Of developing foreign COM
merce OF the United States on a large
scale Is tho lack of an American mer-
chant marine. \ fair study of the
situation shows, however, that until
the general interruption OF shipping
by the European war there were suf'l-
Client vessels TO carry all the cargoes
w ihAN ~ bh'is IL hai AaAANcs ~
may be said, private enterprise. either
domestic or foreign. will provide ships
IL there are for ships to carry.
1T - unquest!onably desirable that
American goods be shipped under the
American flag. and hat the transport
tatIon Of American should
be In the care OF those interested In
the development OF our trade. But
considering the matter practically and
not se~ntimentally. little complaint can
be made about the transportation
heretofore OF our overseas commerce
on the score OF lack Of facilities.
1T is in times like the present that
the need OF a merchant marine OF our
own becomes a matter OF vital i'm
po-tance. England and Germany to-
Ecther operate approximately 81 per
cent. OF the ocean borne shipping OF
the world. and before the war their
ships carried about SO per cent. OF all
our foreign measured in
tonnage and a still larger part of the
goods passing in trade between North
and South America.
The war is to-day paralyzing our
overseas commerce, because of the
tonnage II has taken out OF tho mari
time transportation market. So long
as war and the possibility OF Its re-
currence -ema!n In the world the
United States must at all times face
a repetition OF present conditions until
Il builds a merchant marine OF It's
own.
But II the people Of the country
agree upon the d~esirahillty OF a mer-
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American countries has been carefully
considered by William s. Kles, also Of
the National City Bank. and his views
Of the opportunity which awaits
American business houses IN foreign
trade are widely sought by manufac-
turers and exporters who realize that
an opportunity exists which never a
existed before. Mr.. Kies struck the
keynote in his first sentence.
In Germany and England" ne said.
young men are carefully educated for
the export neld. After a period Of
training in which 10 fam!l!arize him
self with every detail OF home manu-
featuring. a young man Is sent to
the foreign market 20 grow UP with
his future customers.
He lives their l!fe, he studies their
manner and tastes, ne talks to them
in their own language, and does bust
ness with them in their " way.
Germans particularly have shown the
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soc.ng things, Cruising about makes
them alert.
IF We halt anywhere for n day or
so IN" children e. ashore To the near
est school, and If the nclchhurhuod is
not a good on" We keep them aboard.
The fact IL we Al look after our Oft
spriNg in some ways better than city
parents because they must send their
YOUNGSTERS to the public school in the
ncighhurhoOd, and thoir children must
aSsur'atc with the run of the chill
drcn found there, with my pay and
with Two girls lil,c these, whore would
o rather i've Aboard tlis hoat or
in AN l.us, side tenrment?"
what m" tarrrm man said Is corrob-
Grated hv a report made a year ago
20 the Police Commissioner 10y capt.
James W. HulloCk OF the Harhor POI
lice. capt. lIa,lock said:
There are about 5000 Of this class
~ boats owned md operated In tho
harbor and the vicinity of New York.
Conditions obtain on these barFcs
equal 10 the ordinary tenement house
dwellers, The cabins are usually ~
hy 30 feet, divided into three rooms.
The rooms are light and airy and gem
orally sCruptiIouSly clean. believe
that the living quarters are sanitary
when properly cared for, as the rooms
are as large as those In a small sized
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Not only thar. hut | don't have TO
buy my fuel, and the wife and chill
dren look pretty healthy and happy.
don't they" Those youngsters see
more thinga in twelve months than
any shorehrcd children with the same
money for their providing. And. don't
you FORGET it, they are n good deal
wiser and more wide awake in the
bargain.
How about their schooling? Well.
during the winter We are not very aC-
tive and the boat will be laid mp for
months nj n time, Last winter we
stored nj Eric Basin and the young
sters went to school regularly IN
brooklyn, Their mother had taught
them som" here between times, and
| ten You those children were keen
at their books. especially when they
found themselves quicker than their
associates ashore.
cot Cours II Is hard to keep the
children regularly nj school when we
begin to nov about. but so long as
We are here at the city waterfront
tho children al he sem TO the neArcst
school, when that In out Of the uuos-
ton then their mother has TO help
them with their books, and their minds
anyway are none the worse for an oc-
casional holiday. for they learn by
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nay. do you see that big white
= beauty Of q tug out there?"
asked the captain Of a barge.
well we call her the Ghost.

dShcu tno captain OF q barge.
We'll, we call her the Ghost,
because she has a way Of slipping
along through the water without any
fuss even when pulling a string Of
half a dozen large coal barges. When
you hear people talking about lcaky
tugs with wheezy engines pulling coal
lows down the Sound Just remember
that boat.
That white beauty is pretty much
in power seagoing capacity like
the rest OF her sisters engaged in that
kind OF work. A bulldog is tickle on
the grip compared with those boats.
They have never been known to cut
their lows sdrift In order to save their
own necks in time of storm.
Gables have parted, as cables will
when taxed to the limit, but the cap
tains OF those tugs hold It a matter Of
professional honor to hang on to their
charges and to nose their way into the
heaviest seas. Indeed II they did any
thing else they could not keep their
Jobs.
There have been reports that the
lives of the barge people traversinG
the Sound are at the mercy Of I'M
scupulous tughOat skippcrS-men that
would not hesitate to cast the barges
adrift in stormy weather and beat il
full TIT 10 shelter, trusting that Provi-
denCe would look out for their help
less conveys, Statistics d!sprovc
stories Of that kind. They show that
from July I 1919, TO July !, 1914 there
We're only a dozen harges lost in Long
Island Sound, one Of these went
ashore n the rest of them foundered;
but there was not a single life lost.
Possibly you arc not familiar with
traffic on that stretch Of water. on an
average, and this Is a low estimate, at
least ten barges travel there daily. so
with n yearly volume of more thar
5000 boats "A loss Of "A dozen of them is
pretty good proof Of how wpatherly
the craft are and how well the tug
boats see them through. Indeed Just
because SO few of the barges are lost
the owners arc uniting for lower in
suranCe rates.
1.-THE job | have here on this barge
means a good deal more to me THAI
the same amount of money made
ashore at any trade. ] get more real
comfort In my quarters aboard this
barge than most men ashore In a
tenement house. can sec daylicht
everyway | turn, and the sun reaches
every on" OF nay rooms. | never lack
for fresh air, and I am the boss Of this
hattleship and don't have to bother
about noisy neighbors.
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DR.. Enrique Carlo, Minister of
Finance of Argentina.

future with our South American bust
lcss are receiving n course OF lectures.
delivered daily by Mr.. Caroline. n vice.
resident OF the hank and head Of
he foreign exchange department. He
s teaching them what may be termed
he mechanics OF foreign exchange.
Likewise. in the credit department
a number Of young men are being
trained with an eye TO foreign credit
work, and equally careful thorough in
struction Is being given still others
IN what we call our foreign trade
service. this including investigation Of
the South American field as to trade
opportunities and the best ways OF
developing them.
AT present we have twenty-five
men In our Rio branch and in the
su~b-branch at Santos. while the
Buenos Ayres branch has forty-five
or fifty. Easily tw~o-th.rds OF these
men have been sen from the United
States, the remainder having been
found IN the foreign field. WhaSn~e
propose to do ultimately. here In New
York, IL to have q mill OF instruction.
steadily grinding out men with gen.
eral banking training, and added 10
this a special knowledge of South
American conditions. and furthermore
ability TO speak easily in Spanish as
we'll as English. and possibly one or
two other languages"
d you experience difficulty In and
ing the right kind OF men who are
willing to leave their homes in this
country. and face a life amid strange
conditions in South American"
We DO" Mr.. Curr1er replied.
Many men do not wish to leave
their former homes and friends and
virtually expatriate themselves. At
first the men as a rule do nor under
stand that Buenos Ayres. for example,
is one OF the great capitals OF the
world, that in It's appearance, its So
ciety, its clubs. opera and general
culture It In equal to Paris or New
York.
Most OF the men we are sending
down there take their families and APP
parently are prepared to make South
America their permanent place OF
residence. And that Is the kind of
mar 10 whom we give a chance. We
pay the cost OF transportation for the
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II but in the past these thieves have
carried on their activities with a high
hand. We have been instrumental
inside II a year n securing some-
thing Ike twenty-five convictions for
such offences az theft OF rope. looting
OF cargo and the assault and robbery
Of captains The punishments meted
out for these offences have ranged all
the way from sixty days to Ave years
and the h1rbOr and waterfront are
now beginning to fee! the beneficial
effects Of the efforts II this association
along these lines.
"Our organization represents to-day
quite 200 600 IONS OF shipping IN the
form of COW c~oalboats, lighters, tug
boats and barges, and has among its
membership Of more than a hundred
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the leading companies doing business
n and about New York harbor."
What has been said about the con-
ditions aboard the vessels owned by
the New York Boat Owners Assoc,a-
ton applies In a general way to all
canal boats. Many of these latter
craft are the property OF their cap
,ains, and the proprlotors are Just as
jealous Of the upkeep and the man
agoment of their floating homes as
any class Of householders. Their lives
are even more varied than that OF
the bargemen about this harbor. FOR
they travel far inland and enjoy a
degree OF security against weather
hazards which cannot be the case
where boats traverse broad. deep.
storm swept waters.