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The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29
WHAT'S DOING ON THE CARIBOU
FOREST.


During the grazing season of 1916
there will be grazed on the Caribou
national forest 2S5,OOO sheep and 15.-
600 cattle and horses, owned by 425
permittees. OF this number, 16O are
sheep-Owners, and 265 cattle and horse
owners. The average grazing period
for cattle and horses is April 20 to
October 20; for sheep, July l to Sep
tember 10. The increase in cattle is
quite noticeable; so much SO that dur
ing the last three years the number on
the forest range has increased 100 per
cent. The sheep industry, on the other
hand, has diminished practically 10000
head, due to the shortage of spring and
fall range.
The revenue derived from grazing on
the forest reaches $4,000 annually, 35
per cent of which is turned over to the
States in which the forest is located,
for schools and roads. In order to
better grazing conditions, in insuring
more equitable distribution and in
creased carrying capacity, the forest
service has during the last three years
made grazing reconnaissance of the
entire forest, with the result that
basis for a definite grazing plan is now
1T HdHl Ill tHe IOTIl Ol SOOu
ic maps, showing the surface conditions
with the different types of forage accu
rately located, and an inventory of the
range on each section, showing value
for grazing:
For the better utilization Of the for.
age on portions of the forest, it is nee
essary to develop watering places by
constructing troughs and piping the
water from small springs.
This work will be done in co-opera-
ton with the stockmen and grazing as
sociations as soon as funds are avail
able. Two such watering places will in
all probability be constructed on the
Montpelier watershed this summer.
which will furnish water for approx
mately 500 head of cattle. This will
not only make more range available,
but it will make it possible to hold this
number Of stock away from the streams
contributing to the municipal water
supply of the city of Montpelier.
DR.. Charles II. Shattuck. head Of the
School of Forestry and Dean of the
College of Science in the University of
Moscow, has just taken up his special
work on the forest. His broad-nlinded
and deep understanding of matters per-
tanning to the use of range lands is
widely recognized, and the Caribou is
fortunate III obtaining his services for
the few weeks that he can spare from
his work at the university.
One of DR.. Shattuck s activities at
Moscow that has attracted favorable
notice in Idaho has been the furnishing
of shade trees to residents of the State,
at cost. The high quality of these
trees, of many different species, the
trfing cost of the stock, and the fur
nishing of necessary information as to
planting, has made the service very
popular part of the work of the school.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29
THE STARS AND STRIPES
DER THEM WAVE.


Freemen, have you heard what the
newspapers say,
One thousand boys in blue are now on
the way;
A regiment now preparing left behind,
Recruiting every day. so keep that in
mind.
Glory! Glory! Glory! The nations
honor save,
Glory! Glory! Glory! The true and the
brave,
Glory Glory! for those sleeping in the
grave.
While the stars and stripes Ger them
wave.
Governor Alexander parted with his
only son:
And pray in your hearts Gods will be
done.
Oh, bid them goodbye with a cheering
song,
While the heroes in rank are marching
! along.
One thousand boys OF the gallant blue,
Hoping they may return with a record
of honor, too.
From Teton s Peaks, everlasting glis.
tcning SNOW,
And ignorance will soon vanish from
Mexico.
One thousand brave hearts are march
ing with will.
Thinking OF mothers, wives and sweet
hearts still:
Still march hing steadily ..n IN line,
Heroic as the blue and gray in olde,
time.
JOHN BOND SR.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29
SHEEP BUSINESS GOING
OVER TO SMALL FARMERS

One of the best authorities in Idaho
on the wool situation recently returned
from an extended trip over the range
country, and in the course Of conversa-
tion said, among other things. that tho
small farmers of this country are the
ones to whom we must look for our
future mutton supply; that the big
ranges were being cut up by the dry
farmer, and that it would be small
farm proposition with few up to
hundred sheep, says the Hagerman Her
aid.
Most people like to think of the
sheep industry i'll terms Of bands of
$500, also to think of large ownership
of from $4,000 to $4,000. They are
almost unable to see that few sheep
on every arabic acre in the State will
double and treble the output in season
and out of season.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29
3O-Year Service

The Mitchell, we believe, holds the
record for service. Six Mitchell cars that
we know of have averaged 164, ,372 miles
each. That means over 80 years Of ordi-
nary service. And all are running daily.
The Mitchell is distinguished as being
the choice of the ablest engineers. Wehave
a long list to send-on request-of great
engineers who have chosen the MITCHELL
The Mitchell is long, roomy, impress
sive. Its wheelbase is l27 inches. 1t has
a power tire pump, reversible headlights,
ball-bearing steering gear, gasoline
primer on instrument board, and many
other features which make this car favor
ite with men.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29

Our buildings covering As acres
We're designed by him. He has equipped
them with 2O92 time-saving machines of
the most efficient sort.
In this model plant-where every
second is saved we build 90 per cent of
this New Mitchell car. We build it for
haf what it would have cost in our factory
of 1910. We build it for 20 per cent less,
we believe, than any other factory could
build like car.
Those are the reasons for these 26 ex-
tras. They are due to John w. Bate. Any
man who sees them will have new respect
for factory efficiency, carried to the far
thest limit.
Come, let us show them to you.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29
BOTANIST SAYS IMPORTANCE
OF HEREDITY OVERESTIMATED

Chicago, June 24.-1f you picked the
wrong parents, eugenical:y speaking
don worry. All YOU need to do is
stimulating opportunity Moreover
If you are choosing Il mate, don t place
too much reliance on eugenics in the
easy assumption that "heredity will
do the rest.''
In substantially this fashion Prof.
j. NJ. Coulter Of the University of Chi
cagO, specialist in plant life and evolu-
ton, exploded number of venerable
eugenic tenets in an address before the
Eugenic Education society at the City
cllb. He fortified his conclusions with
the results Of his own research and
that of other scientists in America and
Europe.
The Importance of here.!ity, accord.
ing to Prof. Coulter, has been great.
ly exaggerated. The chief value of
eugcmics, in his opinion. is simply 10
build up the physical qualities of the
race. When it comes to ability and
Intelligence eugenics doesn t hold a
candle to stimulating opportunity, I"
he said.
1--WE got into the habit of thinking
that heredity is kind of machine, -
Prof. Coulter said. "The product of
this machine was regarded as inevit-
able. If you could control what went
into the machine YOU could control the
product. In short. we thought that
after the embryo was formed the young
s1',f was doomed.
"Since the discovery of Mendel's law
in 1900 we have found that was all
wrong. Here'lity. of course. is respon.
NihIc for the nnmher and Kind Of .an,
bilities in each child, but we never call
a"v but "a few of these capabilities.
The big thing is opportunity-stimula
ting opPortunity-that will bring out
~" lat""t cnnabilities after a child is
born. No child is doomed.
''Engenics will never achieve sue
cess till it takes account of the child
after it is born. The embryo does not
represent definite program. The of
springs of perfect ..eugenic marriage
nav easily be failures unless the prin.
eiple of stimulating opportunity is
applied
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29
CHARACTER GUESSING.

What's in the other fellows mind.
or i'll his pOcketbook, whether he s cross
morose or kind, whether saint or Il
crook, are problems we attempt to guess
each day we move about. We say,
His whistle means distress, his wrin-
killed. brow shows doubt; his genial smile
shows lack OF woe, his voice spells con
fdence, his purse must be chuck full of
dough, his future is immense. And
thus of men we get a hunch-see what
they have and are; We place on easy
street one bunch, and some behind tn,
bar. We call another class "goOd
scouts,' with just a common pile, an
other one ''oId down aud outs,'' behind
the times and style. We read characters
just like fun, like rolling off log; we
separate the sober ore from him who
sips the grog. We segrcgate the veal
thy set from those without sou; the
sinner from the Christian pet; we spot
the well to do. We guess and guess a.
gain, quite oft we mss and fail. The
man with whom we left our yen, next
month is sent to Jail The man We
thought millionaire off to the poor
house goes; the one we thought without
a care, is weighted down with woes.
Methinks the safest stand to take in
this old guessing biz, would be for me
to count my stGke and let John Brown
count his; and then, before / send John
Jones to meet the prison ward, pick up
the trash and old dry bones around in
my back ward.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29
CIRCULAR LETTER.

For the benefit of alfalfa growers III
southern Idaho arrangements have been
made to extend the period covered by
the weather forecasts whenever, dur
ing the having season fair weather is
expected to continue for several days.
These forecasts will receive the same
distribution as the regular daily fore
casts, by maps, postal cards, aud the
daily press, and will be available TO
all subscribers of the Mountain States
Telephone Company in the State.
Very respectfully,
EDWARD l.. WELLS,
Meteorologist.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29

The Car rides ruts as boat rides
waves. This, to women, is the
most appealing feature found in
any car this year.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29

There are so many great men in this
country that we do not feel III the least
peaved when we are not singled out as
the greatest of the great.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29

1t is right, Of course. that you vOt,
in accordance with your conviction.
without Interference or dictation from
any person whatsoever. And, on secOnt
thought. it is equally right that tn.
other fellow should do the same.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29

'Tis sand that an elephants s trunk
contains forty thousand muscles, which
doubtless, makes it as supple as the ton
que of a political spellbinder.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29
FRED WALDO CROCKETT

Compressed air is used for cleaning
complicated machinery. Politically,
however. it is only of value when it
eyplodes.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29

The wise man often knows not of his
own wisdom. nor the fool of his foolish
ness. But It's nature, and will ever be
so.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29

approved ideas. You will find it
by far the most interesting car
on exhibit.
Exclusive Springs
This is the only Car which has
the Bate cantilever springs. They
offer ease of riding which was
never known before.
You will never believe what a
difference they make until we take
you over stretch of rough road.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29
Exclusive Springs
26 Extra Features
Because John w. Bate Saves Us 2O%

The New Mitchell has 26 extra features
things you want in a car--which other
cars don't offer.
Most of these are exclusive to Mitchell.
And no car at any price has more than
four of them.
We invite you to see these extras.
Judge for yourself what each one means.
Judge how much you would miss it. When
you see 26 of them in single car, we think
you will want that car.
Due to 10000 Savings
Those extras are paid for out of 10000
savings made by John w. Bate, the
efficiency expert.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29
PSI Cars in One

We now have the Mid-Year Mitchell, completed
after the New York Show. Combining all the best
new ideas that shown there. Designed by
experts who first compared 257 of the latest rodes
to embody their best in one car.
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29

Each great designer, every sea-
son, contributes new ideas to cars.
The Mitchell designers contribute
their share.
At the New York Shown jan
uary-all these new ideas appear.
No one car has all of them. One
designer has excelled in one fea-
ture, one in another. The ideal
car of the season would be a COM
posite car. And that's what we
offer in this new-model Mitchell.
The Best-Liked Ideas
Some new ideas were fzzles.
Some were immensely attractive.
On each one our experts secured
the motorists verdict.
They picked out the lines which
were voted the handsomest. They
chose the new features which men
and women liked best. Then they
completed this new model to come
out in the spring, and combine
every last-minute feature in body
and equipment.
This never was done before.
This New Mitchell, therefore, is
show in itself. 1t shows all the
The Blackfoot optimist., 1916-06-29

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Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-02-17
GERMANS MAY CONDUCT
A MARRIAGE BUREAU

Berlin.-A government conducted
marriage bureau is advocated by DR..
E. r. Understand in an article in the
current number of a monthly maya
zine. After the war, he fears, the
young men will have to work harder
than ever, and opportunities for them
to make the acquaintance of young
women will be few.
IF, then" he writes, land this is
urgently desirable, an increase of mar
riages is to take place, it is absolute
ly necessary that men and women
who love their nation take upon them
selves the thankful task of bringing
the sexes together, perhaps with the
support of the state, which is itself
the most interested in this work"
DR.. Understand suggested the posi-
bility Of having marriage counsel
ors,' whose duty it would be to shup-
port future brides and bridegrooms
with sage advice before they took the
final step. In this way, he believes,
eugenic principles could be brought
into their own.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-02-17

1t was obvious that the state ma
chine was reluctant to accept the
principle of Representative McFar
lands amendment providing for d
preferential primary.
When the Richards law was repeal
ed by the present legislature, the
feature relating to preference voting
for the presidency was omitted, the
desire evidently being to provide only
for the selection of delegates and
permitting the delegates to exercise
their own preferences at the national
convention.
Mr.. McFarland's amendment to the
,Ryrne amendment added the prefer
Iential feature, and provided, further,
more, that the delegates elected shall
exercise their best judgment in carry
ing out the wishes OF the people OF
the state, as expressed through the
primary.
As we have hitherto pointed out,
political machines never learn any
thing. Each thinks itself able to do
what nOnp of its predecessors was
lover able to accomplish. namely, the
carrying forward Of only such meas
ures as seem best fitted to pe%rpetuate
the power Of the machine.
But the Mcfarland amendment was
50 obviously the proper thing to do
that it is a wonder that some ma
chine MAI hadn't gotten in ahead
with some such provision, and then
claimed the credit for originating the
idea.
Perha, the fact The Saturday
News ISSUED a direct challenge to
Governor Byrne and the state ma
chine in its edition of january 81,
calling upon the governo" to cooper
ate with a view to allowing the peo-
Pile the right to express their ret
.spective choices for the presidency,
may have had some weight with the
state machine-may have caused it
to hesitate and finally to accept the
principle of the Mcfarland amend
ment.
But its reluctance was evident from
the fact that the machines state Or
gans sought to cast discredit upon the
Mcfarland proposition by suggesting
that the administration feared it con
tanned some sort of a "joker"-as if
the machine were not capable of
reading plain English!
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-02-17
UNWILLING CONSENT.

"If the legislature was not called
primarily to boost the Cummins
cause, which is denied by the Cum
Minis papers, that matter a be cas-
lily determined by the willingness the
Cummins advocates show to adopt
the proposition made by the Water
town Saturday News, to list all the
probable, possible tentative or hoped
for candidates on one ballot includ-
ing Hughes among the number, and
let the South Dakota republicans
mark their first, second and third
choice on that ballot, the candidates
for delegates pledging themselves to
carry out the wishes of the republi-
cans as disclosed OF the proposed
ballot" says the Aberdeen News of
February s.
Notwithstanding The Saturday
News called upon the governor to re-
spond, furnishing the states chief
official with a marked copy of the
editorial suggesting the preferential
method il remained for a wicked
stalwart to force the governors leg
islature to accept the principle of
letting the people rule
A member of the legislature, who
has steadfastly c~o-operated with the
state administration, said to The Sat
urday News since the Legislature ad-
jOurned, that the state administra-
ton accepted the preferential system
with marked reluctance, but, he re-
gretfully added, there was absolute
ly nothing else to dove didn't dare
turn the proposition down.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-02-17

of legitimate newspapers with a con
sequent increased advertising patron.
age, We are not certain that in.
creased postage would require in.
creased rate Of subscription, for the
increased advertising, due to the cut,
ting off of a lot of Cheap John pub,
locations, might supply the deficiency.
But, in any event, those publica-
lions that cannot pay their own way
as a business proposition, without a
subsidy from Uncle Sans postal de-
partment, are not, IS a rule, doing
enough for either their subscribers
or their country II be worth preserv-
ing. Let them go. Nobody will suf-
fer on account of their going. No
body will retrograds in the matter OF
citizenship on account of It. =
Give us one cent letter postage.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-02-17
A REALLY HUMOROUS ORGAN.

Tn" funniest thing We have seen
in one of the state organs in recent
times is the following
The cost of tn" special session
at Pierre was $1,000, Being one
of some 500, 900 South Dakotans,
take your pencil and figure out
how much it cost you to assure
the voter tn" right to officially
state his choice of the next pres
idential nominees"
The old Richards law. which the
legislature repealed in 1915, contain.
ed a provision for preferential vot
ing, allowing the pcopI" the right"
to express their choice for preSiden,
tial nominees. This feature was
omitted from the new law which the
machines legislature enacted, so that
the matter of dropping the prefer
tial system was due to the influence
OF the state administration.
Finding the party confronted by IN
"~emergency,' the legislature was
hastily convened by the state admin
istration to undertake the cure of GER
tain defects of the primary law which
it had itself dictated.
No suggestion came from the state
administration regarding this prefer
entail right" A bad-a very bad
stalwart had TO force the admins
tration to accept the principle of al
lowing the voter the right to ofic-
tally state his choice of the next
presidential nominees"
And now WI find that it cost the
people of the state only $1,000 to get
back upon the statutes the prefer
entail system which the state admin
istration caused to be repealed in
1915.
And, of course, the state admins
tration is to be thanked for conde-
scending to grant the voter this man
given right"
Hurrah for Cummins!
Hurrah for the state administra-
ton!
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-02-17
WATERFOWL WILL MAKE GOOD

Some sharp criticism is being turn
ed Watertown's way by neighboring
newspapers for the failure of the re-
cent poultry show to pay the pre-
miums awarded at one hundred cents
on the dollar. Here is the opening
paragraph from an article in the
Clear Lake Advocate:
Last week the Advocate told
how H. Neuman, register of deeds
was surprised to receive the sill
yer set prize special on his birds
at the Watertown show. Well,
he met up with a bigger surprise
this week, when he received his
cash premium check for SO in
stead of $3.50. In lieu of the bal
ance of $3.50 he got the secre-
tary's regrets and the statement
that the premiums were too
large" .E..
The business men of Watertown
HSiS- "holy uHo are tAdt any SuCu
condition existed as indicated by our
Clear Lake contemporary. Certain
funds were raised to- meet the ex-
penses and, it being generally under.
stood that all the money needful was
pledged, no further attention was
paid to the matter by local citizens
generally.
But it appears that the receipts
during the show fell far short of ex-
~pectations, owing, in part, to the ex-
tremely cold weather. When the
poultry show committee came to fig
ure up everything, the amount on
hand was insufficient to meet the
premiums in full. The pro rata
amount vas RENTED instead, with.
out waiting to take the matter UP
with the business men or the Com.
mercial club.
But we want to assur Clear
Lake contemporary that this matter
will be adjusted to the complete sat
Iisfaction of all concerned. The satur-
day News has every reason to be.
lieve. WATERFOWL, SO far as we have
been able to learn in the half gen
GRAFTON we have lived in it. has met
every obligation that has properly
confronted it-and it's not going to
allow q flaw to creep into this rec.
ord in this day and generation.
Now that the legislative session is
what is the administration go
ing to do about it?