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The Washington times., 1916-04-04
REPORTS AGAINST BRANDEIS

The report Of the Senate Judiciary
subcommittee on the nomination of
Brandeis to the Supreme Court is
very significant. That subcommittee
undoubtedly was regarded by the
political machine which is trying to
force Brandeis into the Supreme
Court as a committee almost as
good as packed" Senator Cum
Minis and Senator Works are liber-
ais, if not radicals. Those who
have been behind Brandeis have
been clamoring that the only oppo-
sition to him was by the conserva-
tfves and reactionaries; and they
must have been supremely confident
that two such liberals as Cummins
and Works, concurring with the
Democratic members, would give
Brandeis more than the benefit of
the doubt.
AS a matter Of fact, there Is just
as strong opposition to Brandeis by
liberals throughout the country as
by conservatives and reactionaries.
Nobody who understood the merits
Of the case could honestly have
questioned that fact. But if anybody
did question it, his doubts must now
be dissolved by the strong and con-
vincing minority reports of Cum
minis and Works against the con-
frmation of Brandeis. These liber-
als-these liberals from the West
point out, describe, and denounce the
disqualifications Of Brandeis on ex-
actly the lines of every other critic
Of the nomination that has pro-
tested against putting into the Su-
preme Court of the United States
a lawyer who utterly lacks the con-
fidence of men of all professions and
all parties and all interests.
1t is, as one of the protesting
members Of the subcommittee de-
clares, inevitable that a justice mis-.
trusted by everybody must do the
greatest injury to the reputation OF
the highest tribunal in the land. In
deed, it must be discredited before
the whole American public.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04
GAYETY.

1.-THE kissing Girls is the title OF the
two-act burlesque in four scenes which
Is holding forth at the Gayety this
week 1t is replete with catchy music.
clever comedy, and a we'll balanced
company in which there are three head
liners. They are Sam Howe, a comedian
well-known to burlesque patrons; dainty
Eva Null, a soubrette OF pleasing looks.
and Margaret Flavin. There Is just
enough plot to keep up interest in the
performance. Howe Is much in evidence
throughout the performance, and his
comedy brought forth many laughs. his
Juggling act, in which he brought forth
out of the air a bowl OF goldfish, was
one OF the features. Stephanie Ander-
son, as a Spanish dancer, is good.
Other members OF the company include
Vera Desmond, Charles Moran. Anthony
Ccrtelli, and Hal Pierson. The chorus
is a lively aggregation of good looking
girls, who can sing and dance, and who
enter into the spirit of the entertain
ment. The costuming and scenic effects
are up to the usual Howe standard.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04
To Tell Press Club of
His Experiences at Ypres

Major Norman Thwaite will lecture at
$3.50 o'clock this evening at the Ma
tional Press Club on his experiences at
Ypres and other battletields of the war.
The Amherst College combined mu-
steal clubs, the oldest college glee club
tho club last night. Congressman
Rainey, a graduate OF Amherst, escorted
the members to the Press Club and in
troduced them. The clubs have been in
Washington since Sunday. In addition
been received by President Wilson and
entertained by Secretary OF state
Lansing.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04
Tomorrow.

Community center meeting, with address on
City Government" James Hugh Kelley.
Eleventh and Harvard streets northwest, 5
Art exhibit. Home Club. 10 a. m. to 10 p.
Benefit entertainment. Indoor outdoor Club
Of the w. c. A., Hotel Lafayette. S:15
Meeting. Round Table Club. Y. w. C. A..
Meeting. Baraca and Phllathea Union OF
Washington, Centennial Baptist Church. 8
Entertainment in celebration of tercenten-
airy OF Shakespeare's death. Business High
Celebration, centennial OF the United States
Coast and Geodetic Survey. under aus
pieces OF the Washington Society OF En-
Concert. Motel Society. Memorial Continen-
M ts nan citizens Z IS; Association Of Chevy
Chase. d. c., Chevy Chase School house,
Meeting. Mems Glass Of Calvary NJ e.
Church, followed by banquet. church. hall.
Debate, ''The Minimum Wage Question
Senior and Junior Debating Societies CT
Georgetown University Law School, at
Meeting. Association As of Oldest Inhabitants
Union Engine House, $50 ?. m. ,,,,,.
Masonic Washington Centennial, Ne. II;
Osiris No rs; l King SOLOMON No Hr,I y; East
No. 0, Royal Arch; Potomac. No. 3. knights
,Templar; Areme, No. 10. Eastern Star.
No. 20; Harmony. No, 0; Friendship. No.
IL; Mount Nebo No 6, encampment: As
sembiy Home Circle. Rebekahs.
knights of Pythias-Mount Vernon, No. s;
Equal, No. IL; Friendship Temple. No. $.
Jr' o. q. A. M.-Mount Vernon Council. No.
TO-
National Union-General Deputies ASsocia-
tion, headquarters.
Socialist party-suday school conference.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04
MAKING OVER The SCHOOLS

DR.. Abraham Flexner, secretary
of the General Education Board,
demands a serious practical expert
ment to determine whether pres
ent educational methods are cor
rect. He says he has no particular
theory to advance, looking to revolu-
ton in school methods; but he does
want a real trial Of various plans
that have been proposed for modern
izing EDUCATION and making 1t more
practical.
A school without formal teaching
Of grammar, with the supposedly
higher mathematics eliminated, with
Latin and Greek omitted-this would
be merely the beginning Of this ex-
pertinent. DR.. Flexner makes the
point that the higher mathematics
instead Of disciplining the student
mind are quite too often inspiration
to the development Of slipshod, in
sincere methods of study which give
results exactly opposite to real dis
cipline. The same, he believes, Is
true Of the dead languages, though
It is hard to feel confident that omis-
sion Of Latin would be possible IL
anything like real culture were the
object in view. The service Of
Latin and Greek may not be very
apparent in the immediate develop
ment Of the students mind; but they
leave residuum Of knowledge about
the elementals Of the composite Eng
lish tongue that certainly Is Of real,
practical value to people who use It.
Indeed, it would seem that more
study Of Saxon fundamentals could
we'll be added in the curriculum,
rather than that other mother-lan-
guages should be dropped out.
Better teaching Of literature, and
the teaching Of real appreciation for
the best literature, is undoubtedly
needed. Still more, perhaps, is more
effective work in history. It may be
doubted If any great nation teaches
its history to its own children so
badly as the United States does.
Children get their heads filled with
things about American history that
simply are not true; and only the
most fortunate among them-those
with initiative, originality, and mag
ination enough to make them stu
dents Observation-Disclosures get these
misapprehensions corrected. It would
seem that the manifestations of mis-
guided public opinion on many sub
jects Of historic and international
subjects, in the last two years, might
make this point obvious without
much argument.
The Flexner experiment deserves
to be staged in a big, broad way.
Certainly a man from Mars, know
ing nothing whatever about educa-
ton in this world, would not, after
looking over our social scheme, de-
wise an educational scheme that
would parallel the one we now en-
ploy. He would inquire what are the
great, dominant, persisting inter-
ests of the people; what they do and
think about; and he would try to
make education really fit them for
this doing and thinking. The pres
ent educational process does not ac-
complish satisfactory results, meas
ured by such a standard.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

gress might well give attention to
expediting the passage of the pend
ing bill H. r. 1882, which, IL enacted,
would allow the District Commits
sioners to enter into such reciprocal
sewerage arrangements with Mary
land.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04
Anti-Embargo Debaters
Win At q. w. u. Event

When war occurs between two other
nations the United States should not,
declare an embargo on arms according
TO q decision rendered by judges OF the
debate on the subject between members
Washington University last night.
Martha McGrew and w. w. Ostrow
argued the negative and Elmer Kayser
and Harry Newman supported the AZ.
firmativ0
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

Another mystery explained: Louis
vile man says they flash that zone
Minute to Change Reels" sign on the
screen to warn loving couples to I'M
clasp hands.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04
Amusements.

National-"ziegfeld Follies," S:l5 p. m.
Belasco-'The Little Shepherd OF Kingdom
Come" $50 D. m.
Polrs-"Clothes," lis and s:l6 p. m.
Keith's-Vaudeville, 2;l5 and S:l5 p. m.
Gayety-Bur1esque, 2;l5 and s:15 y. m.
Loew's Columbia-Motion pictures. 1850 a.
m. to IL y. IN.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

One of the most serious drawbacks
to this alter ego aiibi, seems to be
that no one will step in and help
you prove it.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

With molasses shortage predict
ed and sulphur away up, the folks
back home will have to dig a lot Of
sarsaparilla root this spring.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

Ego in a child, says a Richmond
preacher, is an incurable disease.
Razor strop massage, parson, has
been known to decrease visible symp-
toms of the affliction.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04
To Reopen Canal April Is.

PANAMA, April AFTER careful
survey Of the slides In the Gaillard cut.
Maj. Gen. George w. Goethals said that
the canal would be reopened April Is, as
previously announced.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04
RoWboat Is HearSe.

ALBANY, April "A rowboat was
used as a hearse at the funeral of Mrs.
Sarah Staatz today because the Hudson
StaAtx Island.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

The United States used to give
Villa lot of rope, but he had to go
and look for more, and the chances
are that he's going to get it.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

Night machine gun practice by
U, S. troops may mean the disap-
pearance of star in the Mexican
armament.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

Chief worry right now is whether
this old pair will last until low shoe
season really arrives.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

Prohibition gets a sad blow. Pa
permakers find good use for the
breweries' refuse hops.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

The truth of several Presidential
timber claims seems destined never
to be refuted by popular vote.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

Locating Villa is easy enough. The
chief trouble lies in reaching the To-
cation before it changes.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

A Chinese vase has been I'M
earthed that is worth more than $780,
900. To whom?
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

Root for Roosevelt! No, you read
it wrong. Root is a noun, proper.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

How big does a regular army
have to be, to be a regular army?
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

Yuan got out from under, but he
may yet get further.
The Washington times., 1916-04-04

Socialist party-Suday school conference.
woodmen of the world-Meeting OF Oak
Camp No. I, at Northeast Temple. p, m.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07

cation which they all need because
it teaches them to do the everyday
worthwhile things of life. 1t cor
relates the regular work of the schoo
with home and farm problems, digni
fies the profession of farming, helps
to keep the young people on the farm
and appreciate the great opportuni.
ties today open to the educated farm
er who learns the science of agricul'
ture and keep books.
A Mistake
Too often teaching begins and ends
with the assignment and recitation Of
lessons from the text book. Toe
great stress is placed on preparing
pupils for examinations-one after
another-education means more than
merely passing examinations, secur-
ing credits and diplomas.
They are all right but do not al
ways help to earn the bread and but
ter needed.
The education that trains our boys
and girls to live and make a living,
as we'll as giving them a knowledge
of books, is the balanced ration so
necessary and essential. Therefore,
the necessity of vocational training
and agricultural instruction in the
schools along with the cultural. This
is where the boys and girls clubs
help the teacher, the school, the
pupils and the parents. 1t helps all.
1t is now recognized as part of the
great educational plan for the state
of Idaho, and is strongly endorsed
by DR.. Sisson and Miss Mccoy, who
urge teachers to start the work in
their schools. Mr.. Potter states that
there are some good clubs at Downey
and Central in Bannock county and
that he and the county superintend-
ent, Miss Aiken, are going to visit the
at their homes, encourage
and help them in their work.
Last week at Fort Hall Mr.. Potter
organized a Mother-Daughter Can
ming club among the Bannock In
dams with an enrolment of As mem
bers. They will take up vegetable
canning and will learn to can all
kinds of vegetables by the latest gov
eminent method.
Last year the garden and poultry
clubs of the Lewiston school pro-
duced $8,426 in products, shown by
carefully kept records.
This year they will beat last years
Over $50 of the high school
Students are not too busy or import
ant to study gardening and poultry
and do the work required.
The boys and girls clubs are the
pest kind of medicine for high school
Students and they r urged to also
clubs.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
WORKING FOR BOYS
AND GIRLS ON FARMS

At the regular assembly of the
summer school today, T. w. Potter
of the University Extension depart
ment, addressed the 200 teachers and
students in boys and girls clubs.
He gave a history of club work in
the United States and Idaho, stating
that the movement was first started
in this state about four years ago
by Miss Shepherd, state superintend-
ent. Senator Brady's gift of $4,000
enabled Miss Shepherd to firmly es-
tablish this important branch of edu-
cational work in Idaho. Today we
have nearly 5000 boys and girls en-
rolled in one or more of the club
projects and their gross earnings last
year were $4,000. They are also
learning some of the elementary
principles of scientific agriculture
and home economics as we'll as adj
ding to the financial resources of Ida
no. This work was transferred to
the University Extension department
two years ago, and is now reaching
into every community where teachers
and parents desire it. The club pro-
jects are corn culture, potato culture,
garden and marketing, poultry rails
ing. hog husbandry (known as the
pig club, canning of fruits and
vegetables, sewing, cooking and wood
work. Other special clubs are or
|ganized where needed and consist of
sugar beet, bee, sheep and baby-help
clubs.
Institutional matter is supplied by
the state University Agriculture Ex-
tension department and the United
States Department Of Agriculture,
which is cooperating in the work.
+ ollow up instruction is also given
as well as field meetings, demonstra-
tions, etc., for the necessary instruc-
ton and encouragement of the men,
bers.
Boys and girls 10 to 10 years Of
age are eligible to membership. They
organize by electing a president, sec
rotary and local advisor. They are
required to keep records Of their
work with items of expense, labor,
receipts, ETC., so that they can deter
mine the profit made during the year.
They must also exhibit their prod
ucts at the fairs, where prizes are
given to those who excel, make the
best showing in financial gain, as
well as In quality of products exhibit
ed. Mr.. Potter in emphasizing the
Of the work said: tits
main object is to interest the boys
and girls in studying agriculture and
1t Is the practical edu-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
ENGLISH VICTORIOUS
IN THE ARTOIS REGION
Penetrate German line Five Miles in
Places-6O Mile Front Attack

In a new and cautious offensive
along 60 miles of trenches between
the sea and the river Somme the al
lies have made a successful prelim-
mary dash into the Teuton lines. A.
five day bombardment, in which
every part of the enemy line was
literally showered with expensive
shells, preceded the first advances.
No more are thousands of men sac
rificed for temporary, or triling
gains, even If the news sounds fine
at home and looks brilliant to the
world.
The New Way
In the first place p%rojectiles are
not spared until the trenches to be
taken are practically destroyed. Then
patrols of officers lead out, followed
by infantry, and point the way. The
first line trenches are thinly oc-
cupied. They pass from side to side
so often in fast fighting that the loss
is beyond the gain. A large number
of men in a first line trench can do
little better than a few when they
are made the mark of distant bat
.teries. And with the two or three
outpost lines to act as buffers, the
principal ones in the zeal can be
maintained much more cheaply. AM
so the recent gains in territory are
not accompanied by large numbers
of prisoners taken, or do they cost
SO much in men. When the stormed
trenches are reported about torn to
pieces the infantry make their raids.
If the trench is still strongly held,
they simply retreat and wait for fur
Their bombardment.
In these last rushes the allies have
surrounded certain detachments of
two and three regiments of Germans,
and swept on past them to threaten
the e "a trenches and towns behind
those. So that in places they are
fighting before and behind, and al
most as much surrounded as their
enemy is.
Strength Of the French
The endurance of the French is a
of comment. They seem never
lack plenty of reserve forces, and
with the aid of the Russian REIN
forcements landed among them this
spring they have kept up a constant
defense and ~offense, blow for blow
with their Teuton enemy.
Verdun is as far from falling as
aver. In fact during the last several
weeks the allies have retaken some
Of the surrounding positions from
which the Germans were threatening
nat long stormed fortress.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
DO YOU KNOW THAT

It's worry, not work, which short
ems life?
A cold bath every morning is the
best complexion remedy?
Poor health is expensive?
The U. S. public health service has
reduced malaria 60 per cent in some
localities?
The death rate from typhoid fever
in the United States has been cut
in half since 1900?
Pneumonia kills over 10000
Americans each year?
Flyless town has few funerals?.
The we'll that drains the cesspool
is the cup of death?
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
Clerks GO-Mail Mixed

Thru the absence of three postal
clerks from the Twin Falls post Of
flee the mails have become longest
ed and the place is swamped. Most
of the difficulty results from lack of
complete addresses, the senders de-
pending upon the first hand know
ledge of the public carrier servants.
Postmaster Stronk has asked the
citizens to help his department by
complying with the law and placing
street numbers on their addressed
letters.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
Shooting i'm Joint

Albert Hess, employed as camp
tender near Herman, Idaho, found a
tap in Soda Springs and tanked up
on prohibition fire water. then with
several other men got embroiled in
a river front resort. A woman was
accused of having $40 belonging to
n of them; there was a rough
house, smashed furniture, bruised
woman, gun shots, and one dead
man. Before he died Hess stated
that he tried his best to kill the
woman and she was exonerated on
basis of justifiable homicide.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
Rich Strike at Mackay

Deep tunneling in the holdings of
the Empire company has disclosed
extensive deposits of sulphides, low
grade ore. Things point to the sup
remacy of Mackay in copper produc-
ton in Idaho. The Empire company
is shipping $50 tons a day, but their
production exceeds the shipment by
100 tons. No arrangements seem to
be in order for smelling the ore at
home, and the Garfield plants are
swamped, so the stuff is accumulat-
ing.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
MAKES CAMPAIGNING EASY

II you wish a nomination for a DO
litical office, have your announce
ment l n the official directory of IAN
didates soon to be issued by The Ida
no Republican. 1t is the easiest, the
cheapest and the most effective way
OF campaigning. You don't have to
leave your work and attend to the
disagreeable part Of campaigning.
That is done for you.
For particulars see the editor or
tne b"ookkeeper at The Republican
olhce. adv. 61tf
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
POcatello DOlled Up

A practical town cleanup was fin
ished the last day of. June after four
teams, and eight men under the sup
ervision of L. w. Phillips had put
in two or three weeks hauling away
garbage and refuse, fly traps and fire
menaces, ash heaps and tin cans,
from the pretty little city of Poca-
tello. Other committees busted them
selves with bunting and flags, so that
by the glorious fourth Pocatello was
all decked out in Sunday best. But
the main point is that the
ton preceded the fine clothes. Good
example. The temptation with some
people and some towns is merely a
slap-dash face wash and a clean col
lar.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
Wood River Valley Irrigation

Work will soon commence on the
completion of an irrigation project
to water lands near Bellevue and
Gannett, since the Lumbermen's
Trust company, of Portland, Oregon,
has purchased $4,000 of bonds. De-
livery is to be made at once and the
Utah & Idaho Improvement company
will then begin the work.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
Looking for Fight

Two young patriots, of Paris, Ida
no, being fired with an ambition to
help click the greasers," procured
revolvers and started for the border,
via Montpelier. They are about IA
years of age. But one of the fathers
telephoned to Officer Hitler, of
Montpelier, and the rovers were de-
tanned. They went home, but still
long for scenes of trouble at the
border.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
Maybe Twin Falls Extension

At a sale of the Western Pacific
at San Francisco recently a re-organ-
ization committee purchased the road
at the figure fixed by court, $1S,0OO,-
900. These men Of the new man
agement are believed to favor the
long hoped for extension of track
from Wells, Nevada, to Twin Falls,
and also the proposed Winnemucca
line to Boise.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
NEWS OF INTEREST
FROM over The STATE
Alleged Attempted Robbery

Two men, Clark and Wardle, are
held at Pocatello, charged with beat
ing up and attempting to rob Chester
Thompson. In the fight that follow
ed their attack, Thompson says he
managed to slip the money out of
his pocket and down into his trous-
ers.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07

county seat of Custer county from
Challis to Mackay, because of the ma
jority Of residents in the eastern por-
ton of the county. But after thresh-
ing out the question they decided not
to disturb the present arrangements
and SO avoid all friction that might
result yer a county seat fight.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
Car Ran Off Bridge

J. W. Greenstreet, of P~ocatello,
driving on Oldsmobile touring car,
met another machine on his way
from Blackfoot to Pocatello right at
a bridge. He turned too far out
and ran off. With some difficulty
the other men extricated him from
under the wheel of his machine, and
he was found to be suffering nothing
more serious than bruises, mostly
about the face. The car was junked.
Lyman Fargo, who drove the other
car, remained untouched.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-07
Jail Break

Harvey Stanley, a Rock Creek man
being held for trial in the Twin Falls
Jail, sawed thru n bar of his prison
and slipped away. The opening made
by removing one bar would not let
out the three other prisoners in the
same room.