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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25
MONTANA SQUIBS

Sidney Chamber of Commerce is
seeking to locate a flax fibre mill.
Prospects for a bumper crop in
eastern Montana never looked bright
er.
Copper companies are offered 20
cents a pound for entire output of
1917.
At Havre one gas well producing T.
000, 900 cubic feet per day and anoth-
er well is being drilled.
State park, 25 miles square, is to
be maintained in Absarokee National
park, is planned at Big Timber.
Montana Methodists in session at
Livingston last week proposed
summer school for ministers be es-
tablished at Helena.
The chamber of commerce of Bill
lings has taken up a movement to
obtain one of the IL federal farm
loan banks for Billings.
School funds can not be used to
pay doctors bills for students who
are injured in school, ruled the attor
ney general recently in response to
QuCiJ AlOul OOuuly aIIOihCJ ~.
Cotter of Broadwater county.
Secretary Edgar A. Newton of the
Montana Bankers association has
given out the official program for the
meeting which opens at Miles City
Friday. The Rev. Frank Durant will
offer the invocation. H. B. Wiley
will welcome the delegates to Miles
City.
One death from infantile paralysis
occurred at Billings Monday, that Of
little child less than one year old,
bringing the total number of deaths
here up to five. Twelve cases of the
epidemic still exist. The little vic
tim of the disease was taken i'll dur
ing the forenoon and died at in the
afternoon.
Tom Hodrell, age 10, son of John
Modrell, rancher, lost his life recent
ly by drowning in Sun river. With a
chum he was bringing horses to the
corral. They struck deeper water
than expected and when the horse
swan Modrell became frightened and
jumped into the water. Ira Pearson
the companion, barely escaped while
trying to save Modrell.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25
FINANCIAL NOTES.

Announcement has been made of the
organization of a new bank at Billings,
Mont, to be known as the Security
Trust and Savings bank, which will
open for business within the next go
days. The institution will have a cap
ital stock of 100000. w. e. Waldron,
for nine years cashier of the Yellow
stone National bank, will be presi-
dent.
A. r. McClaskey, cashier of the AL
bion State bank at Albion, Wash, has
disposed of his interests in that in
stitution to the present stockholders
and John Bloom, Ed Rinehart, w. j.
Walker and w. r. Anderson of Col
fax. Messrs. Bloom and Anderson
were elected to the board of directors
II. o. Conn of Colfax will act as cash
Ter and John E. Miller will continue
as assistant.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25

News comes from Italy that "a mar
velous new bread" has been invented
in Rome called natural bread" From
600 pounds Of grain $50 pounds of the
new bread can be produced. The new
process is described as follows: The
clean wheat is washed and then left
from As to 60 hours in a warm bath,
when 1t terminates. 1t is then crushed
in a special machine and made into
dough, which is baked. The product
is grayish in color and has a fine odor
and taste. The dispatch says it has
higher nutritive qualities than ordi-
nary bread; but no scientific authority
for the statement is given. AS a mat
ter of fact, this identical process is
at least 40 years old. 1t was described
in the Mueller-zeitung of Vienna in
1877 or 1878, as being practiced In
Moscow. 1t is malt bread and prop
erly made is tasty. We will say that
much for 1t, even If the process does
eliminate the miller.-American Miller.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25
END OF GREAT WAR
NOT YET IN SIGHT
CHURCHILL URGES PARLIAMENT
TO ORGANIZE COUNTRY TO
MEET CONFLICT.
DAVID LLOYD-GEORGE TALKS
German Armies More Numerous and
Better Equipped-Others Better
Equipped Than Russia-Sees
Bright Future for Allies.

London, Aug. 22.-On the presenta-
ton of the motion today for adjourn
ment of the house of commons for
the summer vacation Col. Winston
Spencer Churchill, formerly first lord
of the admiralty, initiated a debate
on the conduct of the war He said
there was no certainty of a speedy
ending to the conflict. German ar
mics were more numerous and better
equipped than ever, but what re-
serves they had was another matter,
he said
Colonel Churchill urged the coun-
try to organize for a long war and
to put food supplies and prices on a
war basis. He also recommended the
chartering of all shipping at admir-
atty rates to end the rise in freights,
which he called a national scandal
He urged the chancellor of the ex-
chequer to permit no financial con.
sideration to stand in the way OF
providing Russia to her utmost needs
with munitions and equipment, upon
which, he said, everything now de
pended.
LIoyd-George Defends Strategy.
David Lloyd-George, secretary fol
war, contrasted what he termed the
extraordinary change in a couple o
months in the relative positions o
the entente allies and the centra
powers on all the fronts except Me
sopotamia, where climatic condition.
, had kept the British forces quies
cent. He denounced as unjustifie,
criticisms of the British operations Of
{ the Somme front, on the ground o
! their failure to break through tn
German lines. The Germans, havin
two alternatives, said Mr.. Lloyc
George, chose the alternative O
bringing troops and guns from Vel
= dun to prevent the British fror
2 breaking through.
2 "That suited our purpose" he col
= tinued. ct relieved the pressure o
a Verdun and prevented the enem
e from pouring his forces into the Rus
= sian theater to support the Austrian
against General Brussiloff's thrust
See Frightening Future.
:, 1.-The German accounts of our losse
! on the Somme are ludicrously exai
p gerated. The losses, although deplo
i able, have been relatively low a
! compared with those of the German
a The French and ourselves have cal
a tured positions on the Somme froI
, whence the course of the campaig
! is visible, and L think in the dim di
lance we can see the end.
France is equipped and Russia
rapidly becoming equipped. Italy
L equipment amazes her best friend
e Germany has missed her chance, ar
j. she knows it. 1t would be a mi
d take to underrate the nature of OF
1t task, which requires all of our T
If sources"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25
CHILD LABOR BILL NOW
GOES TO PRES. WILSON
His Signature Will Make Law of the
Measure Bitterly Fought in Con-
qress-Prohibition Aigid.

Washington.-With debate or
record vote the child labor bill was
accepted by the house Friday with
the senate amendments and put on
it's way to become law with Presi-
dent Wilson's signature.
1t represents the result of years of
struggle in congress between forces
urging the conservation of child life
and those opposing it on many
grounds, chiefly that it was a ques-
ton for the states and not for the
federal government.
1t would not have become a law at
this session of congress had not the
president, after the democratic eau
administration program, visited the
capitol and insisted upon its inclu-
sion.
AS it originally passed the house it
proposed to bar from interstate COM
merce products on which child labor
actually had been employed. AS
amended by the senate and now per-
fected it prohibits shipment between
the states Of all products of any es-
adjustment which employs child Ia
Dor. 1t bars products of any mine or
quarry employing children under 16
and products of any mill, cannery,
workshop, factory or manufacturing
establishment employing children un.
der IA, or which employs children be-
tween IA and 16 more than eight
hours a day, more than six days a
week, or earlier than 6 o'colck in the
morning or later than Z o'clock in
the evening. 1t becomes effective
one year after the date of the presi
dents approval.
Opposition to the bill was led by
southern congressman and it's spon
sors charged cotton mill owners with
being the principal DIRECTORS.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25
RAIL STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS
IN APPARENT DEADLOCK
Indicated Road Heads Will Reject the
Presidents ProsopaIs-Men Ac-
cept Plans.

Washington, Aug 1S.-President
Wilson's plan for settlement of the
threatened nationwide railroad strike
was accepted today by the represent
atives of the employees and taken I'M
der consideration by the officials of
the roads. The word came from the
managers, however, that they had
reached no definite decision.
Hope Still Entertained.
With the situation thus apparently
at deadlock the only hope in the
situation lies in the reports that the
railroad officials may suggest coun-
ter proposals forming the basis of
settlement, or that one side or the
other may recede from its present po-
sition.
Thirty-one presidents and ranking
officials of the great railroads receiv-
ed from the president this afternoon
his plan for the adoption of an eight
hour day, regular pro rata pay for
overtime and creation of a federal
commission to investigate collateral
issues. They told him they would
like to consider the question and
would report back with the commit
tee of managers which has been con-
Quoting negotiations.
Workers Approve Plan.
At the same time the general COM
mittee of $40 representatives of the
employees were approving the presi-
dents plan by a large majority, and
soon after the railroad officials left
the White House the four heads of
the railroad brotherhoods delivered
to the president a letter notifying
him of the vote. The employees com
mittee will remain here at the presi-
dents call.
While the railroad officials would
make no formal statement, they re-
vealed clearly their objection to Mr.
Wilson's plan, and indicated that they
will press further their offer to ar
bitrate all the points at issue.
Saturday President Wilson appeal
ed to the railroad officials to aban
don their insistence on arbitration OF
the dispute threatening a nationwide
strike and to accept his plan of set
Element, already agreed to by the
employees, because in his opinion the
railroads are contending for prin
ciple which it seemingly is impossi
BILE to apply to the present situation
The president declared the strike
, responsibility was no longer his anC
said the public will fix the blame
The transportation men insist the
hour day will not work.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25
England Bars Non-BritIshers.

London.-By a new order in coun-
Gil the government is empowered I'M
der the defense of the realm act to
prohibit from entering Ireland any
person not a British subject, or who,
being British subject, has since
March 1, 1916, come or may here
after come to the united kingdom
from parts beyond the seas"
Any such persons as described in
the order, embarking for or found In
Ireland will be regarded as guilty of
a summary offense, says the order.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25
Farmers Hold 1916 Crop.

Portland, Ore. Aug. 22.-Farmers
in the wheat centers of Oregon today
manifested an inclination to hold the
1916 crop. At Pendleton club wheat
reached SLIP, the highest Of the sea-
son, and at Baker s119 was being
offered. Most OF the farmers refuse
to sell, however, having disposed of
two crops held over from previous
years. They say they are holding the
1916 crop for speculation. Barley is
being sought at $50 ton and oats at
S25 with little result.
In Portland bids averaged 2 cents
over last weeks top, with bluestem
at s1.22 and $1.2S, fortyfold and fife
at s1.2O, and club at s1.18 and s1.19.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25
Philippines Soon to Be Free.

Washington.-Final action on the
Philippine bill promising independ-
ence to the islands as soon as a sta
BILE government is established was
taken in the house Saturday when the
conference report was adopted and
the measure prepared for President
Wilson's signature, which is the only
action remaining to make it a law.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25
MILITIA WILL STAY
ON THE BORDER
SECRETARY BAKER SAYS COST
AND HARDSHIPS JUSTIFY
THIS ACTION.
PROTESTS ARE ANSWERED
Service Will Continue Until Frontier
is Safe-Praises and Admiration
for the Spirit Shown by the
Militia on the Border.

Washington, Aug. 22.-The national
guard will be retained on the Next
can border until it can be withdrawn
without again endangering American
lives and property. Secretary Baker
so declared the administrations pol
icy yesterday in answering a score of
letters from many parts of the coun-
try complaining that the state troops
are being held in service after the
emergency for which they were call
ed out apparently has passed.
In general the compliments, whose
names are withheld, alleged that Dor
der service is entailing loss financial
ly on militiamen and hardship on
their families. The secretary replied
to all those seeming to merit atten-
ton. By it's presence on the border,
he wrote in one, the guard is win
ming bloodless victories daily" He
declared the Americans resident on
the international line are enjoying a
peace and security they could not
know without the military forces to
protect them.
Says Hardship Inevitable.
The department appreciates, Mr..
Baker said in another letter, the fact
that call for military service upon
militia organizations must inevitably
present cases of hardship" He add
ed:
1.-The emergency, however, which
required this call for the militia was
= one of a grave chartcter, affecting
| fof Of off Of he
United Statesmen, women and chill
dren. The presence of the militia OF
the Mexican border has restored or
der and given higher regree of safe
8 ty and security to the lives of ou
t people in that troubled country thai
4 they have had for long time. Thu
= militia is, therefore, performing
r valuable SERVICE and the fact tina
+ this service is being performed with
: out active military operations entail
: ing loss of life to our soldiers is
}. cause of congratulation and happ
: ness"
/ Benefit to Men and Nation.
L Referring to the elaborate and e1
= tensive training the militiamen ar
/ receiving under supervision of regt
: lar army officers, the secretary e1
pressed the opinion that it would fl
them to act in times of war or othe
: emergency as a supporting arm, o
second line for the regular army, ful
nishing an asset to national prepared
ness that could not have been oil
: tanned otherwise.
In another letter he called after
l. ton to steps taken to relieve guards
l. men where there is unusual hardshi
Il resulting from their being called int
v the service.
Il am filled with admiration fc
=. the spirit with which the militia ha
. met this CALL" the secretary SAT-
:, "and with which they are performin
= an important and necessary servic
to their country"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25
ASK CONGRESS TO MAKE
LAWS TO PROTECT CANAL

Observation-Disclosures of persons
suspected of being spies employed by
foreign governments to acquire infor-
nation regarding the nature and ex-
tent of the defenses of the Panama
canal have made the administration
decide to request congress to supple
ment the existing laws against the
military and naval plans and forti-
mications.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25

GrocerSThat careless clerk of mine
left the tap Of the vinegar barrel open
and when l went to it there wasn't a
drop left
Friend-What did you do?
Grocer-Fired him and charged the
loss to running expenses.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25

The United States annually pro.
duces 100000 chickens.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-08-25

The grist of knowledge is ground
at the mill of experience.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-22
WILSON AND SPOIIlS

TIME scathing arraignment of the
! "spoils system" in James Albert
Woodburn's book on Political
Parties and Party Problems" together
with Professor Woodburn's prediction
that the merit system would not suffer
under President Wilson, must make
rather embarrassing reading among
Democrats, in view of the record of
this administration.
Woodburn is. and for years has been.
professor of American history in the
University of Indiana. He is the author
of a number of books on the Ameri-
can government, which are classics of
their kind. One of the most illunni-
mating works from his pen is the vol
ume mentioned above. The introduce
ton to the revised edition was written
February 26. 1914, so the edition must
have made its appearance about one
year after the present administration
came into power. The author was an
ardent admirer of President Wilson.
Chapter 8 of this book deals with
the "spoils system" i'm American poll
ties and closes with these words: THE
classified service has been steadily ex-
tended. the reform has come into great
popular favor, and it is safe to say 1t
win suffer no defeat nor detriment
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-22
"GOOD ROADS DAY"

TIME Motor Club of Harrisburg,
/ the Millersburg Automobile
club and the Camp Hill motorists are
actively engaged in preparations for
Good Roads Day" which, according
to the proclamation OF Governor
Brumbaugh, falls on Thursday of this
week. Every apostle of goodA roads
who can get away from business on
that day should take to the open with
pick and shovel.
The results of Good Roads Day
last year are almost beyond belief.
The State received free a full days
work by $4,000 men and 1t is esti-
mated that $500 miles of roads
were worked, 1900 teams, S7S trac-
tion engines and road machines add
ing to the efficiency of the working
force.
But much more beneficial, even
than that, was the stimulation of pub
lie interest in good roads and the
closer and more friendly relations es-
tablished between the people and the
State Highway Department.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-22
MOTHERS BY PROXY

.NToTHERs by proxy appears to
Wl be the motto of the s15, 10000
cooperative hotel soon to be
built in the Times Square district OF
New York. This hotel will not only
absolutely relieve the mother of three
OF the primitive industries of women
care OF the house, care of clothes and
care of food-but will care for her
children. 1t will take the usual duties
of a mother and ''functionize" them.
Special BARRIERS will bob the children's
hair. A hospital has wards where they
will be sent post haste when they
suffer from baby ailments. Even the
dentals chairs will have small inner
seats for children. Laundresses will
do up the small garments. Seam
stresses will mend them. Maids will
pick up the litter and do the tidying.
The food, under the supervision of a
dietitian. will be prepared in a chill
dren's kitchen and served in a chill
dren's dining room. And even the
most extreme demands of the fernin-
lists will be met by it. Nurseries,
Montessori schoolrooms, personally
conducted tours and story tellers for
the children's hour are all to be pro
Vided
Now If the management were only
able to find a chemist sufficiently far
enough advanced in scientific research
to produce life by the test-tube method,
the babies might be able to get along
entirely without mothers and fathers
could go there and pick out hand
some heir without the expense of sup
porting such parasites as women who
prefer lolling at ease to loving, cud-
ding and looking after the welfare of
their own offspring.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-22
THE MAN AND THE JOB
BY Frederic ]. Haskin

7 UNTIL a short time ago, the pret-
u ty town of Glenwood Springs,
Col, suffered from a veritable
plague of tramps. Located upon
branches of two transcontinental lines,
and just about half way between Dem
yer and Salt Lake City, it had become
a summer Mecca for all varieties of
the great fraternity that travels with
out funds. They gathered about its
water tanks and coal chutes, which
were carved and marked with the
strange symbols Of their fraternity:
they committed petty crimes, and
frightened women and children, and
above all, they begged. Glenwood
Springs was famous among them for
| its generosity. The housewives of the
town fed almost all comers, and ever
their numbers grew. At last the nui-
sance and burden became intolerable.
Two powerful organizations of Glen
wood Springs, the board of Aldermen
and the Business Mems League, con-
Icentrated their combined intellects and
talents on the problem, and this is
the way they solved 1t.
When the next hobo hit GlenWood
Springs he found posted on the water
tank a great placard informing him
that If he would apply to the city
clerk or the chief of police, he would
be given work to do for the city. and
that for two hours work he could
have either a 25-cent meal or a lodg-
ing for the night. Now when the
typical and professional knight errant
of the boXcar saw this legend. He
snorted and boarded another freight.
Or perhaps he went about his usual
solicitation of refreshments. If so,
he found on the back fences of homes
that had long been famous for gem
erous handouts other big placards
which stated that the inmates were
prohibited by the city authorities
from feeding vagrants, and repeating
that suggestion about working for the
city.
1t was a painful experience for the
professional wearies, especially since
GlenwOod Springs is the only stop
worth while between Denver and Salt
Lake. But not all of the drifters who
pass through Glenwood Springs Cor
any other town. are or that class
which makes idleness a religion and
work a crime. There are also num-
erous men who want work, and are
hoboing across the country in search
! of 1t. When these saw the Glen
wood signs. they hailed with joy the
chance to earn a square meal. Often
they applied for permanent employ
ment, and places have been found for
many of them on ranches in the vi
cinity of the town. The city clerk
has become an employment bureau
and the tramp nuisance is no more.
Thus Glenwood Springs solved its
unemployed problem, and in so doing,
! it unconsciously applied three princi-
pies which students or the question say
are absolutely necessary to success
In the first place, the men who want
ed to work were separated from those
who either couldn't or wouldn't work,
In the second place, a bureau was es-
tablished to bring the applicants for
work together and find them jobs. In
the third place, city work was pro
vided for those who could not be 9TH
erwise employed.
The experience of the winter OF
1914-15 has shown all thoughtful