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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28
PROSPERITY DAY


Because 1916 has an extra day, The
18th of February, there will be a eel.
ebration over the nation tomorrow O.
Prosperity Day. The attention of the
public is to be concentrated On the
%spero condition of the country
The wage-earner is urged to put
his extra days wages into the bank
Every man, woman, and child is
asked to forget the trying times
through which the world has passed
and to Talk, Think, and Feel Prosper.
ity.
The idea is not bad. Forgetting per-
sonal worries might be successfully
practised by even the gloomiest indiv-
iduals one day in the year. And focus
ing the thoughts on mercies instead of
on trials or dangers would make
quite a healthy change in the point of
view of a good many of us. Appre-
hension is a good thing to dismiss.
And gratitude and cheerfulness are
virtues that never grow stale from
over-exercise.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28
TAKE THE SCHOOL OUT OF
DOORS

If the pupils who registered at the
good roads school had had actual dem
Onstrations of road improvement
mingled with the theory immense re-
turns in the betterment of roads would
certainly have resulted during the
next two months. The approach to
the university campus n the new
road in front of the engineering build
ing would have served as excellent
laboratories. 1t is safe to say that
there are no worse roads in the coun-
ty than those over which the good
roads enthusiasts were forced to
drive on their way to school. Elm
street south of University avenue or
Blake avenue has been for all time
a perfect example of what a road
should not be. Some day a cab with
a distinguished visitor in it will dis
appear from sight il the mud on
Blake avenue, and then our author
tiles will be fugitives from justice,
running from a charge of abduction.
We should like to see all the coun-
ty paraphornalia for road making
hauled to this site .anG the road the
orists actually. get to work and show
how a muddy, miry road can be handi-
ed.
Using a little elbow grease in plain
sight of all the common people, out
of doors, would be following a sound
pedagogical principle. A whole lot of
people, especially adults, learn a lot
more quickly by seeing than by hear
inp
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28
SOBER CITIZENS

One of the mild pleasures to which
we look forward all the week is see
ing the little boys and girls go primly
by on their way to Sunday school
In their best, go-to-meeting dresses
suits, caps, hats, and shoes, they
walk sedately by, their little sisters
and brothers guided by a protecting
hand and ordered with grave author
ity to keep up with a procession which
(for all its dignity moves a bit too
speedily for three-year-old legs.
What a contrast these serious little
figures are to those we saw flying by
just twenty-four hours earlier. On
weekdays the tiny misses skip and
hop in groups of three or four, their
arms around one another's waists,
their hair flying loose behind, all I'M
fettered by hat OF cap, their voices
calling out gayly to mates who join
them on the corners. There is lively
s%alutation, there is contest in reaching
the school house first in a swift race,
there is an apple intended for teach
err but, (alas for human frailty) bit
ten into before the school yard is
reached.
On Sunday these red-cheeked,
laughing hoydens are transformed in
to somber citizen. For some rea-
son they look on Sundays much more
like their elders. Family resemblance
not observed before. show plainly on
the solemn way to Sunday school. A
weight of responsibility rests upon
those capable-looking young should
ers. Bible and prayer-book are car
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28

that we enter into competition with
European states in the maintenance
of great army and navy establish
ments, wisdom demands that we
adopt as the permanent machinery
Of government that which under our
constitution was intended for emer-
gencies only-in other words, that
we put our liberties in commission
and clothe our president with auto
cratic powers and surround him
with expert military advisers.
PREPAREDNESS IN EVERY DE-
PARTMENT OF CIVIC AND SOCIAL
LIFE is OUR PRESENT NEED.
THAT is OUR FIRST LINE OF DE-
TENSE. MILITARY PREPARED
NESS is OUR SECOND.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28

ried reverently by. Steps are shorter
and mud holes avoided. All is decor
UNI.
There is something very %endearing
in this sudden sobriety. And a tend
erness which children always inspire
is a whit heightened by the Sunday
morning procession.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28

Commercial reports say that the
European war will aus Immediately
a great increase in the price of drugs.
The small boy will hope this hits the
trade in time to. make sulphur, mo-
~lasses, and castor oil ~prohibitive. And
the rest of us don't believe it because
drugs long ago stabbed the blue sky
for a limit in price.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28

The departure
advocated by
the enthusiast
for a big army
and navy is not
for a season,
but permanent
ly. If this is to
be done it is
folly to attempt
longer to main
tain our demo-
cratic institu-
lions. If neces-
itv dictates
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28
The Omelette SOuffle
Bv HERBERT KAUFMAN
Author of "Io Something! Be Something!"

1NHERE is a vast distinction between distribution for the sake
of increasing the circulation figures and distribution for the
= sake of increasing the number of advertising responses.
There is a difference between a circulation which strikes the
same reader several times in the same day and the circulation which
docs not repeat the individual. There is a difference between circu-
ilation which is concentrated into an area from which every reader
can be expected to come to your establishment, if you can interest
lhim, and a circulation that spreads over half a dozen states and
shows its greatest volume in territory SO far from your establish
lment that You can't get a buyer out of ten thousand readers.
You've got to weigh and measure all these things when you
weigh and measure circulation figures. 1t isn't the number Of copies
printed, but the number of copies sold-not the number Of papers
distributed, but the number of papers distributed in responsive terri
tory-not the number of readers reached, but the number of readers
who have the price to buy what you want to sell-that determine the
value of circulation to you.
You can take a single egg and whip it into an omeette soutae
which seems to be a whole plateful, but the extra bulk is just hot air
and sugar-the change in form has not increased the amount of egg
substance and it's the substance in circulation, just as it is the
nutrition in the egg, that counts.
(Coprght)
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28

DEMOCRACIES have waged
- great wars, but they have
done it ~wastefully and have
succeeded only when they have
evolved themselves for the time be-
ing into something not democratic.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28
America Will Suffer Moral Debasement
as a Result of the War


I JAR brutalizes: brutality means crime. War impovershes; poverty
w means crime. Argue those two facts to their legitimate concur
sion.
Nor with Europe suffering from an abnormal number of weakened
and manned men, from an unusual number of brutalized men and from
an unwonted poverty unfavoraby affecting men, women and children
alike is it possible that the small balance of the world which is not IN
volved in its mad struggle entirely can escape the consequences of that
struggle. 1t will be impossible for this country to avoid some harm from
the moral contagion which after the a will thrust outward from Eu-
rope. JUST AS 1T is IMPOSSIBLE FOR NEAR NEIGHBORS
ENTIRELY TO ESCAPE THE MALARIA BRED IN A MOS
QUITO DISTRICT.
It is the most sordid of wars. Try as they may, not one of the fight
ing nations can find for the conflict a truly elevatlng motive or any other
than mere self defense, and all are anxious to disavow responsibility for 1t.
NOT ONE OF THEM CAN PROVE THAT SELF DEFENSE ALONE HAS
Who'll " CAUSED ITS PARTICIPATION IN THE HosTILITiEs.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28
Local and Foreign
MHRKETS

The following market quotations are
the prices paid to the producer by the
dealer and are changed daily, thus CIV.
ing the public the accurate quotations
on all classes Of grain, produce and
meats:
The grain quotations below were
furnished today by the Mark p. Miller
Milling company Of Moscow.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28
Shoe Repairing

SHOE REPAIRING, CHILDREN'S
half soles and heels, 35c to 75c;
ladies' half soles and heels, soc to
65c; mems half soles and heels,$1;
mems half soles and rubber heels.
SIPS. Oiling harness, 81 per set.
]. N. Friedman Harness Shop.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28

"Read-not to contradict and
confnte, nor to believe and take for
granted, but to aVeigh and consid-
ey."-Lord Bacon.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28
Classified Ads
CLASSIFIED AID RATES

First insertion one cen a word, the
minimum charge being 25 cents. Sub
sequent insertions, five cents a line II
consecutive. Intermittent Insertions
take the One-time rate. Six average
words are counted as one line.
Twenty-Five per cent discount on ads
running N month or longer without
change of COPY. $3.50
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28
Printers
LODGE DIRECTORY

MOSCOW LODGE 871 LOYAL ORDER
of Moose. Meetings Wednesdays at
1889 at K. of P. Hall. E. O. Thomp-
son, Dictator; Howard Frazee, Sec
rotary.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28
Harness Maker

NOW is THE TIME TO BRING IN
your harness for repair and oiling.
Will pay the highest price for all
kinds of hides. G. Weber, Main and
Third streets.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28
BUSINESS CHANCES
POULTRY

FOR SALEARHODE ISLAND RED
Cockerel hens and pullets. E. R. and
Jennie G. Headley. Phone 1871.
13tf
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL
DIRECTORY
Osteopaths
Chiropractors

CHAS. D. GERMAN, D. c., CHIRO-
practor. If your case is Chiroprac-
tic see me, If not see your M. D. Of
flee Ill Second street.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28
Real Estate

THOMPSON-MICKEY REALTY co.
Real estate and loans.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-02-28

The notes on farming which appear
from time to time in the Star-Mirror
are alone worth the price of the paper
to farmers.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1916-01-28
FARMERS DRAY CITY ROADS

All honor to d. f. Eicher, Guy Me
David, f. r. Weber and John Sweat !;
their road drags and their teams; not
because these men dragged the roads
in front Of their respective farms. moi
because they are among the best
fruit men and farmers in this sec
ton; but because they are broad
enough, progressive enough. and en-
thusiastic enough to spend a half
day dragging the roads.
Business men of Springdale were
surprised Monday afternoon TO no
tice coming down the main business
street OF the town, four road drags,
and with progressive farmer, not
a road oyerseer, nor hand" warn
ed out to work the roads, riding each
one
These four men drug the roads
rom the FERNS, one three and
a haf mills west Of Springdale, into
Sprinqdale and Gown Emma Avenue.
the main business street of the
town. They used their own road
drags, their own teams, and their
own time; and they weren't paid by
the city, the township, nor the state,
they did it because they are men who
know the value of good roads be
cause they are progressive; and
right here-well, We hate to say it..
but these men came to Arkansas
from other sections, moved here to
help develop Arkansas; they are fur
rilers" to this section there was
not a native Arkansawyer in the
crowd
May their efforts be but a starter
to many others in this section, who
viii drag their road. 1t should be
an incentive to our road oyerseer to
get busy" and an incentive to our
city roadman, to go to work, meet
these men half way, and We'll have
the best roads in Arkansas.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1916-01-28
FOR BETTER ROADS
Good Crowd Attends Meeting Here
Tuesday ACCOMMODATIONS
Alexander Law

for the citizens of that we'll known
summer resort, said that they We're
ready to proceed under the Alex
ander law, and while they had exper-
fenced some opposition to the law,
it was rapidly passing away, Just
as fast as the farmers became ac-
quainted with the law, and It was
placed before them in the proper
light.
A rising vote on the Alexander
road law was called for and carried
unanimously, only one vote being
cast against the law.
A motion was made and carried
empowering President Deayer to APP
point a committee from Springdale to
interview the farmers and others
interested along the proposed route
relative to the constructing of lie
road. Like committees will be APP
pointed at the other towns through
this section along the route.
It was urged that a large delega-
Rogers, and other Intermediate
towns, go TO Fort Smith Oh Wednes-
day and Thursday, February % and
cath, to attend the good road meet
ing at that place. Delegates are ex-
peeted at that meeting from as far
south as Shreveport, and north to
Joplin 1t was the sense of the
meeting that the sections covered by
the meeting Tuesday have a large
delegation on the dates. above men-
toned The secretaries of the var
ious organizations through northwest
Arkansas were appointed as a COM
mittee to make arrangements for a
special train from Grayette TO Fort
Smith, on the above dates to attend
the convention.
The next meeting will be held at
Rogers on Tuesday, February sth, at
which time various committees will
make their reports. and final ar
engagements made for the trip to Fort
Smith.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1916-01-28
WIN MANY MEDALS

Arkansas Won 309 medal awards
at the recent Panama-Paeific Expo
sition on horticulture. more than any
other state in the union. Below is
list of fruit growers in this i'm
mediate section who won medals
with their exhibit
w. c. Banks On Ben Davis
bronze medal: on Gano. bronze; on
Winesap. silver; on Collins, silver.
c. s. Bouton On Grimes, gold
medal; on Rome Beauty. bronze; on
Jonathan, silver; on Missouri Pip
pin, silver; on Ben Davis. bronze
on Stayman Winesap, bronze
w. B. Brogdcn On Mammoth
Black Twig, bronze medal; on Pen
Davis. bronze.
D. E, Eieher On Collins collection
silver medal; on Gano bronze on
Jonathan bronze.
W. A. Claypool On Winesap,
bronze medal
Jeff Cover On Collins Red, sill
yer medal.
J. NJ Hewitt On Collins Red,
bronze medal.
Hewitt & Cover On Ben Davis,
bronze medal; on Gano. bronze; on
Winesap, bronze.
p II. Hough On Winesap, bronze
medal.
|. r. Rothrock On Winesap,
bronze medal.
Berry Sherrod On Lady Pippin,
bronze medal.
]. H. Stokes On Winesap. bronze
medal
Washington County Fair Associa-
ton - On collection apples, bronze
medal.
University Of Arkansas-on co.
lection Of potatoes. medal Of honor.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1916-01-28

1t is impossible TO estimate in
dollars and cents the amount of the
damage done by the high waters
Wednesday night. 1t Was q flood I'M
thought OF and unheard of fer
Springdaie. Not 10 the mind of the
oldest citizen can be recalled time
when the town branch got on such a
rampage
At the spriredale Light and Pow
er Co, which unfortunately is lccat-
ed on the banks Of the town branch.
and gets it's water supply from tie
lake at the Auditorium the damage
will mount high. Shortly before nire
O'Clock the water in the lake began
rising. and the engines and genera
tors were operated while workmen
stood in water. 4 retaining Wall was
recently erected 10 safeguard
against a heavy rain, but il did not
prove equal TO the occasion Wednes-
day night. A warning signal was
sent out from the plant little after
nine, and the lights were turned off.
while the main drive to the genera
tor was shifted from the large Gorliss
engine to the emergency engine On
ly the street lights were turned Oh,
but lasted only a very few minutes.
TIE water began rising very fast,
and suddenly, with a roar and crash
broke over and around the retaining
wall, and rushed waist deep into the
boiler aud engine room at the plant.
Workmen at the plant were compel
ed to desert the plant and We're able
to carry out. only their books, and a
few minor articles All the machin=
cry tools. etc. being left at the
mercy of the flood
The ere.t Of the flood came about
ten thirty, and the waters of the
Lake were backed up to within lew
feet of the back door of the Auditor
lam, which occupies a position on the
top of the small hill The waters
were rushing around the light plant
buildings on adj four sides, waist
deep, and in such way that ii was
impossible to reach the plant al
though it was attempted
The plant presented a sceg Of
desolation early Thursday morning,
after the waters had receded, which
they did shortly after midnight We'd
nesday night. Mud and sand cover
the floor, which is concrete, and
the generators and dynamos, as
WeA as engines We're clotted with
sand and mud. Almost all the coal
had been washed away, nd the floor
OF the engine room was badly wash
ed. Oil stoves We're soon started in
an effort to dry out the wet machin-
cry, but it is feared that this will
avail little as it is impossible to
eonJure the amount Of damage the
water hes done TO the bearings of
the different machinery. which must
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1916-01-28
HIGH Water VISITS SPRINGDALE
Local Light and Power Plant Completely Flooded
and Service Cut Off-Basements Flooded and
Streets Badly Washed

mecca for many spectators.
Something might be said here eff
the value OF a good macadam road,
but t might be best to cali attention
TO the condition of almost every
road leading into Springdale. and
TO roads that were considered the
very best. Every one of them, and
reports have been filtering into this
office since the flood, are washed
down to bed rock.
Reports from White River are TO
the effect that it is the highest ev-
CT known. At Headas Ford the neare
point to Springdale the waters have
backed up to the store, and were
still rising at ten o'clock Thursday
morning Stock in the lowiands
have suffered greatly from this
heavy rise. Usage is higher than
!. has been for years.
1t IS practically impossible for any
person TO imagine such a flood as
visited Springdale, and particularly
those who ere acquainted with the
sections through which the high wat
ers moved II was a sight worth
visiting, and one that will go down
in the history of Springdale as
unthought of. Many local business
men were called from their home
Wednesday night, and by the aid
of flashlights, oil lanterns, and
matches watched the waters until
the high crest had passed.
Cooler weather arrived Thursda.
morning, announces the close of the
rain, and work is being pushed re-
pairing the damage that has been
done. Marshal Avis was out with a
crew Thursday morning, going over
the city locating washed out cufverts
filled up drains, and reports that it
will take much time to repair the
city streets alone.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1916-01-28
PEACHES BADLY HURT

Notwithstanding earlier reports to
the contrary, the peach crop through
this section was badly damaged by
the recent freeze. Our report last
week came from growers, before
they had examin ed their trees, and
the warmer weather of this week
has shown that large per cent,
possibly 50, of the peach crop was
killed when the thermometer went
to zero recently. Some growers re-
port a total loss, while others say
that they win have a few. Peaches
on the highlands are damaged almost
as bad as those lower down. a feat
IRE that WAS practically unheard Of
during past seasons.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1916-01-28
White RIVER
ON RAMPAGE

MONDAY reports, Thursday, from
points along White River state that
this we'll known stream is the high
est in it's history, several feet high
er than last August, and mile after
mile of fence is being washed away
and in several instances barns and
out houses are going down before
the raging torrent.
At the new bridge. just below
Heads Ford, the water was within
five inches of the bridge, and was
rising. The mail carrier driving over
the bridge, easily reached the water
Grave fears are expressed that the
FILL on the west side will be washed
out.
At Heads Ford, proper. the vat
er is standing III the Heads Bros.
store, something unheard OF by men
who have lived all their lives on
White River. People residing in the
lowlands have moved their families
and household goods to higher points,
but many of them We're unable TO
save anything but the immediate
wearing apparel CT the family How
much damage has been done IL IS
impossible TO state, but will amount
to several thousand dollars. Much
stock is reported drowned. Heavy
timbers are crashing into bridges.
causing much uneasiness, but it is
thought the heavy rise passed at
noon Thursday. Early Thursday
morning the river rose at the rate
OF an inch minute
War Eagle is ON a like rise, largest
ever known, and much damage IS
being done in the section through
which il passes
All trains into Springdale are de
layed; there being four washouts on
the main line of the Frisco between
this place and Fl. Smith, and No.
northbound passenger, due here at
S:55. is he'd b. washaat at point
bs3ow Fort Smith.
The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1916-01-28

be in first class order.
Almost every building near the
banks of the creek suffered The
building occupied by A. A. Backus,
with his monumental work was twist
ed around, the underpinning wash
ed out, and but for the heavy stones
would have washed away
Lewis Fitzgerald, whose yarn
stands Just on the bank OF the
creek. was fortunate early Thursday
morning to find four COWS alive.
They we're in the midst OF the water.
and il VAS impossible to bring them
out How they weathered the wat
or is a question, as the water rush
ed around the barn on all sides,
more than hip deep.
Colonel Lar gford and family, who
were marooned on small island
which was finally covered, were TAX
en- out of their residence about
eleven o'clock by local parties, and
taken to higher ground.
Bridges and calyerts all over the
town are washed away, streets are
cut to pieces by bitches.
The large stone arch leading to
Bluff Cemetery is badly damaged. the
approach on the north side is washed
away.
The water completely filled the
easements of the Majestic Theatre.
and Fletcher and Searcy grocers, on
the south side of Emma Avenue, an3.
was almost on the main floor. In tn,
Majestic the water reached depth
of two feet in the lower part eff the
main floor, and has probably damaged
the piano to some extent. Manager
South erland announced early Thurs
day morning that there would be no
attempt at Il show tonight (Thurs day
partly on account of the DAMAGE to
the building and the piano, but prin-
the light plant leaving them wi bout
service.
Fletcher & Searey were not dSmag-
ed to any great extent, as they had
very small amount of goods in the
basement.
X. E. Trone was damaged a little,
on account of the waters filling tire
basement under his restaurant on the
north side of the Avenue.
The smaller branch which Turs in
the western part CT theresidence dis
trict was clear out Of banks; the re-
sidenee of G. f. Renner On Emma Az
enue being completely surrounded b.
water, which came up TO within d few
inches of the first floor.
School at the High School was
dismissed Thursday morning on ac-
count of the high water in the base
ment and most Of the youngsters
spent the morning viewing the var
ioas damage done ty uhe high wat
ems. The light plant has been tire