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Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14
GEORGE E. CRUM.

Weiser Semi-Weekly Signal: AS
announced elsewhere in this issue,
Hon.. George Crum, of Lewiston,
visited Weiser this week, and this
was the first opportunity the Signal
had had to size him up. This paper
has not as yet indicated choice
among the candidates for the Republi-
can nomination for governor, but we
unhesitatingly say we were most
favorably impressed with Mr.. Crum,
and if he creates the same good i'm
preston everywhere he did in Weiser
the other fellows will know they
have been in a race when the prim-
aries are over.
Mr.. Crum has a most pleasing
expression and a splendid counten-
ance. He at once strikes you as a
gentleman of sincerity and character
who would rather suffer thousands
defeats than to sacrifice a principle.
There is positively none of the tin
horn about him, and he has none of
the bearings of the prattler and
promiser or the sinister, scheming
politician who would stoop to any,
thing to win. Without reflection or
the other candidates, or comparison,
the Signal can say with all sincerity
that George E. Crum will bear the
closest scrutiny and would make q
candidate of whom the Republicans
of the state could we'll be proud. II
the north gets behind his candidacy
the people up there will certainly
have put their best foot forward il
their effort to capture the governor
ship.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14
KENTUCKY is GAINING.

While the vote on Kentucky's state
wide prohibition bill fell six short of
three-itfhs required to submit the
constitutional amendment, the major
ity given is highly significant as an
indication of public sentiment. The
vote stood 81 to 40 in the lower
house. The late George Fitch is
quoted as saying Kentucky was noted
for its sunshine and its moonshine,
it's blue grass and its red noses, !"
and the popular idea may be that the
road to prohibition for that state is
long and rocky. But Kentucky is
nearly white on the prohibition map.
OF its ll9 counties, les are already
day and rs per cent of its population
are living in no-license territory.
As dry territory increases, mooon-
shine and red noses decrease.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14
''BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL
KNOW THEM.

The Clearwater Republican began
fighting booze in Clearwater county
the day the present editor began
editing it two and half years ago.
We did not stop to inquire how our
attitude towards bootleggers might
effect the election returns in the fall
of 1915. We did not care. We
would have condemned the officials
for failure to enforce the law, and
would have published the booze list,
and have exposed the whole miserable
situation had we known it would have
been sure defeat for the republican
party. The saloon is wrong; booze is
wrong; bootlegging is wrong, and
eventually will be driven from the
earth. What position has the Orofino
Tribune taken on this question?
What has that paper had to say when
the laws were violated? Where does
it stand today? Fighting for John
Barleycorn. Opposing the present
county officials in their efforts to
enforce the law. Defending the
record of the old gang in protecting
bootleggers and permitting bootleg
cling. The Orofino Tribune dare not
deny this charge. 1t dare not open
its mouth on this issue. And it
wants the present county officials,
who are enforcing the law, to be de-
feated for reelection, and superseded
by officials who will not enforce the
law. If the Orofino Tribune could
get the county printing it would not
care now, any more than it cared two
years ago, anything about law en-
foreement, bootlegging or open pros
titution. The Orofino Tribune has
been tried and found wanting. 1t
had its opportunity. 1t has teen
convicted of inefficiency, and is un-
worthy. No friend of prohibition
can consistently render aid or abet
in the work of establishing gang
rule in Clearwater county.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14
DRINK TO BLAME.

Captain l.. P. Pinkston Of the U.
S. marine corps has compiled table
showing that of all applicants for en-
listment in this country last year
only 93l per cent. met the physical
requirements for military service-an
average of one man in each eleven
examined. Alcoholic liquors, with
the vices engendered by their use-by
even their moderate use-are, say
authorities in and out of the army,
chief cause of this incapacity on the
part of Americas young manhood.
1t is evident that if the nation is to
survive we must guard it's people
from the foe now permitted to prey
upon our citizenship foe which in
the name of government itself is I'M
dermining our chief defenses. The
hour has struck for nation wide pro-
hibition of the liquor traffic. There
is no neutrality here. Every man
and woman of America is either fol-
or against the war now on for the
defense of home and national life.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14
w. C. T. u. COLUMN.
This column is edited by Mrs. Vivian
Craig, Orofino, Idaho.

Some one said to me not long ago,
Whenever the press of the country
takes stand for prohibition we will
get it, If this be true we have
cause to rejoice and be glad", that in
due time if we faint not, our beauti-
full land of the free shall be free from
the awful slavery thrown around us in
the form of the legalized liquor
traffic.
Over eight hundred daily news
papers of the United States, with a
total circulation of about five and
one half millions, decline all liquor
advertising.
The anti-liquor ADVERTISING laws
are in effect in seven states: Wash
ington, Oregon, Colorado, Oklahoma,
North Dakota, West Virginia, and
Maine. Anti liquor laws have been
passed and will soon be in effect in
four other states Georgia, South
Carolina, Virginia, and Mississippi.
:. A convention composed of the State
Press Association, State Associa-
ton of Commercial Clubs, State Corn
Growers Association, State Live
Stock Association and prominent real
estate dealers of South Dakota went
on record as favoring the anti liquor
movement, as one of the best ways to
promote the prosperity of the state.
Has statutory prohibition helped the
citizens of Idaho, or has the liquor
mems prophecies been fulfilled? Is
business and pleasure stagnate?
Judging from facts prohibition not
only prohibits but helps.
Boise's three wholesale liquor
houses are all being remodeled for
other purposes. Three or four former
are now soft drink places.
One saloon is turned into a music
store. and two into barber shops.
One of the former wholesale liquor
stores is to be variety store.
Adiutant Burnett said the trans
formation in the soldiers home since
the first of the year was wonderful.
If the State only went dry for the
benefit of the soldiers home, it is
worth while. -
Sheriff Pfost said Never have |
here been so few prisoners at the
county Jail as at the present time.
The former average was from 8 to %.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14

Since the state went dry the number
has grown less and less until at the
present there are but four1 county
prisoners and one held on a federal
charge
Many former saloon patrons pass
their time at the library. "Men
who have never been in the library
now appear almost daily An un-
usual number of foreigners are noticed
In the library. In short the attend
ance at the Carnegie library has al
most doubled since the close of the
saloons.
Our state capital city Boise con-
tanned % per cent of the one hundred
saloons in our Gem State.
This fall We vote on Idaho Constit-
utional Amendment to make Idaho
dry forever. | wish to urge every
voter in our county and state to help
give freedom to us all. Make Idaho
White. Vote Eyes on the Amend
ment and vote the Amendment first.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14
IN BAD

Pocetello Tribune: According to
the Northern Idaho News, published
at Standpoint, Alexander said that
Bonner county representatives were
too busy playing politics to get any
thing for Bonner county,
1t is rather amusing to figure the
logic in that statement, after follow
ing up the course of the governor.
Representative Conner from the
county was the head of the workmen s
compensation commission, appointed
by the Twelfth session to draft a
measure of benefit to the labor inter
ests of the state. The members of
that commission spent a great deal of
time working on the proposition and
formulated billf that met with the
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14
GOVERNORS STORY TO THIN

Blackfoot Republican: When Gov
ernor Alexander was at Blackfoot
recently he was telling the audience
about his great savings in expense
and mentioned the report about taxes
which the Haines administration had
spent so much money to gather and
to give the public. What they
worked on for IA months, we think
he said, he gathered himsef and then
he got it printed for a dollar six
bits. The audience applauded Justify
and listened for more, which, of
course, they got.
Two copies of the report have
reachted us and we remembered what
the governor has said at times about
his desire to have labor receive it's
just reward for service rendered. He
has made some very nice talks to
labor, yet when we computed the cost
of setting his report in type at the
$l2.9 80 for typesetting alone and that
is only part of the work of getting
things printed. The cost of the
paper and cutting it, for thousand
copies of the report laid on the press
ready to print is "a dollar and six
bits. Looking at it from any angle
we don t see how he gets by.
Speaking of the Haines admins
tration and Governor Haines' tax re-
port, issued in book form two years
ago, we were curious to know which
fund was drawn upon to pay for
printing it, for we thought it was a
hobby of the Governor and it must
have cost several hundred dollars to
issue it in book form. While at
Boise for the state convention We
spent considerable time in the office
of the state auditor tracing up such
matters as we had some knowledge
of, and we could find no charge for
that piece of work. There was only
one fund which We thought he could
legally pay it out of, the governor s
contingent fund, and it did not APP
pear in it. Long afterwards we
asked Governor Haines about it and
he replied that he had paid it out of
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14
EFFECT OF LOW TARIFF ON
EGGS

American Economist: Just as an
appetizing reminder to those dear
Free Trade friends who enjoy eating
their eggs scrambled these brisk
March mornings, we would inform
them that prepared" frozen or
evaporated eggs are now coming into
this country in bulk since the Free
Trade Tariff cut the duty on these un
eel tain foreign products from per
cent under protective tariff to per
cent under free-trade. During the
Free Trade fiscal year 1914 we i'm
ported 8, 400. 900 pounds of these mys-
ferrous mixtures of hen fruit, estima-
ting IL real eggs to a pound. Eggs
prepared in this manner are used
principally by the bakers in making
cakes, which ought to be pleasing
news to those astronomical experts
who have partaken of their wedding
cake under Free-Trade.
Just as suggestion of the way this
industry has aided American "pros-
perity" under our present administra-
ton, our Chinese consuls report that
American factories employing Ameri-
can labor and using domestic eggs
have removed from Boston, Topeka.
Kansas and other points to China
AS all this has not lowered the price
of eggs here, what in the name of
humanity is the reason for such free
trade law?
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14
MUST DELIVER THE GOODS.

We are again curious to know what
has been done; what the Governor has
done since his election to warrant his
campaign talk. We are still wait
ing for picture of the guy Gov
ernor Alexander threw out of the state
capital basement. This is entirely
pertinent. 1t is asked in all serious
ness. During the campaign Mr..
Alexander told the people how the
state capital was alive with needless
hired help, drawing pay, but unnec-
essary, and the first thing he would
do, as governor, would be to go
down into the state house basement
and throw the "guys" out as fast as
he could get to them, and he would
keep it up till he had reached the
dome. The facts in the case are
Governor Alexander was simply say
ing the republican state officials
were robbing the taxpayers of Idaho;
that they were all corrupt, and that
the election of Moses Alexander
would put a stop to this thing. Is il
impudent t. now ask Governor Alex.
ander to make good?
And, suppose Nose Alexander, dur
ing the campaign was dispicable
hypocrit, resorting to crooked
methods to gain his election, deliber
ately deceiving the voters, is it pert
inent to unmask such man?
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14

Prohibition is not party issue.
We are for it for because it is right,
and have been opposed to the saloon
all our life because we have felt it
was wrong. We have seen the havoc
liquor has wrought in the lives of
men, the misery it has brought to
wives, mothers and children, and the
terrible destruction to those who have
persistently used it in any form.
If the saloon has any virtue we have
never seen it, and if there is any
reasonable excuse for it's existence
we have never heard of it.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14
CHILD LABOR IN EUROPE.

American Economist: The move
ment for national child labor law
to prevent interstate commerce in
goods manufactured by children under
| IA years of age comes at a time when
the same subject is vital factor in
the question of imports. 1t is appar-
ant that with the terrible loss of life
in the war many families in Europe
must depend for support upon the
labor of fatherless children. When
the war is over the factories of all
the belligerent nations Will employ
thousands of children and the pro-
duets of their labor Will be shipped
to the United States for sale in COM
petition with goods manufactured here
by adults.
Unless there is Protective Tariff
to prevent this flood of cheap goods
from coming into the country, it will
be utterly impossible for American
manufactures to compete with the
European products Largely made with
child labor.
In this connection the warning
sounded by DR.. Davis Jayne Hill at
the dinner of the Home Market Club
in Boston recently should be read and
needed. He pointed out the dangers
to this country if unprepared CONNER
cially to meet the conditions abroad.
Even Great Britain is already fortify-
ing with Tariffs against the influx of
goods from the. continent.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14
approval of all people.

The governor hit IT with MS veto.
One is at a loss to understand
wherein he can conscientiously lay
claim to criticism of Bonner's repre-
sentatives, when he utilized every
process possible to block those rep
resentatives. 1t is certain they
couldn't ''get anything by depend
ing on Alexander, and if there is any
individual in the state who has SO
persistently played politics as Alex
ander we would like to see his litho.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14

his own pocket and said he did so
because it was a hobby of his and
he felt it was his place to pay for his
hobbies; that he had plenty of money
in the contingent fund to pay it, but
he turned that back into the treasury,
about $500.
Will somebody at Boise kindly look
up the voucher for printing Gorvenor
Alexander report?
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14

The Clearwater Republican be-
lieves in patronizing home industry
and does. This does not make it nee
essary for us to pay any of the Blake
gang commission to act as our agent
on imported shingles. And we'd i'm
port shingles from China before we'd
buy them from Zelenka if he made
them in Orofino and sold them for
ten cents a million.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14

Bass Hibbs hasn't been selling very
many of his patent culverts to Clear
water county since the Blake gang
were kicked out of office, it might be
pertinent to remark.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14

One thing certain the republican
county officials have not bought $50
worth Of booze, paying for it out Of
road funds.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14

Blake gang rule in Clearwater
county means booze gang rule in
Clearwater county. by their fruits
We shall know them.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14

Who saddled the $126, 900 warrant
Indebtedness on the people of Clear
water county? And what did the
people get for this immense sum of
money!
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1916-04-14

Assessor Hinckey is now assessing
Orofino.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-05
WANT SUPERINTENDENT
RETAINED.

Petitions are in circulation asking
that the municipal commission do not
dispense with the Office of superintend-
ent of waterworks. 1t is held that
the city should adhere to the policy of
letting well enough alone and that in
asmuch as the present water supply is
what may be termed scientifically
perfect" in the interest OF public
health there should be no experiment
under erroneous theories of economy.
What effect these petitions, together
with the protest of the Rotary club,
which it is believed reflect to a large
extent public sentiment. will have up
on the council remains to be seen.
The Argus has already made it's po-
sition clear on the subject, in holding
that while the public should approve
of Commissioner Murrin's desire to
econOmize, and the fact that he has
already saved the city at the rate of
$4,000 per annum in fuel bills, that
which conserves the public health is
money well spent regardless of the
cost
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-05
THE FARMER WHO MOVED
TO TOWN.

This is the story as told by Farm
and Fireside, of a farmer who sold his
property TO live in the city, because
his city friends wore good clothes,
had money jingling in their pockets,
went to the movies, belonged to clubs
and enjoyed a yearly vacation" He
found, however, that the city man pays
dearly for these Injuries.
I'VE came to know" he said, that
it was just as hard for the city man to
get up at o'clock in the morning as
it was for the country man to get up
at s. Why SO? Because he must not
relax; he is ever on duty He must
smile at this person and that person.
He dares not notice any ones pecu-
liarities. or oddities or unreasonable
ness. The result is he must find his
relaxation in the evening; therefore
the family rarely gets to bed before 10
or II o'clock, and in the morning
finds him just as sleepy and far less
refreshed than found him on the
farm.
We found going TO work for some
body else every day in the year. ex-
cept Sunday and perhaps a two weeks
vacation under somebody else as man
ager, didn't exactly suit our country
spirit or freedom. We came to know
that our friends saved scarcely cent
and, furthermore, one couldn't exactly
see how they were extravagant. In
the city is seems unbelievably hard to
separate luxuries from necessities"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-05
TOWNSHIPS MUST DRAG
ROADS,

Newspapers advocating better roads
are beginning to call the attention Of
authorities to the provisions of the
new law which provides that from So
to S. mile must be set aside in each
township for road dragging and
makes it mandatory on the town
clerk and highway commissioners to
see to it that this fund is provided. In
the event that these officers should
fail to make this provision there is
a penalty attached for such failure
and an added one for the second of
Tense The law says when the roads
shall be dragged. In part the law
says:
All roads and bridge moneys of any
town or road district shall be held
by the treasurer Of the road and
bridge fund subject to the order of
the commissioner of highways: Pro-
vided that not less than So nor more
than SIS for each mile per annum
shall be taken and appropriated from
the road and bridge fund Of each
township, or district, to be known as
a road drag fund to pay for the work
Of dragging earth roads in the town
ship or district as provided in section
107.
1t shall be the duty Of the commits
sioner Of highways to designate from
time to time what roads in the town
ship or district shall be dragged. He
shall cause the work TO be done by
giving the parties contracted with for
the performance of such service
such notice as shall be deemed suffi-
cient; he shall on or before the 18th
day of September in each year con-
tract with as many suitable persons
as he deems necessary to drag the
roads in the township or district for
that year, but shall not apportion the
dragging of more than six miles of
road to any one person
The commissioner or commission
ers of highways may at any time csn-
Gel such contract or contracts for
dragging the road when the stipula,
lions herein contained have not been
properly complied with or when the
work is not done in a satisfactory
manner. Provided, however, that in
making contracts shall not be let for a
sum exceeding 81 per mile each time
dragged. Provided, further, that the
width required to be dragged shall
not be less than IA feet, if the width
Of the roadway will permit.
Thus it will be seen that it is the
duty of the clerk and commissioners
to ascertain the exact mileage in the
township and then levy accordingly.
There is no alternative.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-05
~
William Drady,M.D
Treating a Baby's Gold"

My baby. aged years, writes a pro-
fessiOnal woman, had another of her
frequent attacks of Group a few nights
ago, and still is wearing a piece of
flannel on her chest Shall | take it
off? What can l do to make her take
cold" less frequently? She is a SPLEEN
did baby and won prize in a better
baby contest. When a child has Group
must she sleep in warm room?
Would she be less liable to colds" if
she wore cotton instead of wool silk
lined undershirts? Do You believe in
rubbing the chest with any grease for
a cough? When a child has Group in
the night and is apparently all right
next day, should she go outdoors to
play?
Answering these queries in order,
we depose and testify as follows:
Why put the flannel ON in the first
place-to shut out the "cold?" Would
you close the door after the colt had
scampered away? The sooner you
take it off the better for the child.
To prevent respiratory infections Of
all kinds, call them colds" if you
will, the first essential is DON'T COD
DLE-don't discriminate in favor of,
or against any particular area of the
skin of the body. Dress comfortably,
neither too much here, nor too little
there.
A warm room is necessarily one
with inadequate ventilation No heat
ing contraption yet devised will heat
all outdoors. No bedroom not open
to the free passage of open air is by
gienic. We have never yet met with a
case of Group in child sleeping in a
well ventilated hedroom-one in which
the air is cool or cold as the outside
air, but the child as warm as toast.
Cold air is Natures preventative of
Group. Let the child have plenty of it
to breathe. and yet keep the child
comfortably warm by means of special
sleeping garments made for those who
have the porch sleeping habit.
W pea GOiihl4s lawn WOOi VI BIN anu
wool, knitted underwear, light weight,
for everyone-but it must be COM
plete suit not the shirt alone, and wool
or silk stockings too.
The only grease" suited for rubbing
the chest, we think, is camphorated oil
(that is, for children. Dissolve all
the powdered camphor very hot olive or
sweet oil will take up, and keep tightly
corked, for camphor is volatile. Rub it
all over the chest, front and back, over
throat and bridge of nose, once or
twice day. But no flannel "coddling'
afterward
| No matter what a child has In the
night. outdoors is the place for the
child next day. Particularly is this true
II the child has any kind of respiratory
disease outdoors is the place to Eight
1.-THE indoor plaques.