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The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-12-08
American
Presidents
Go to Church

From the Boston Transcript.
The churches and church affiliation
of the twenty-five presidents, exclud'
ing Jefferson and Johnson, were:
Episcopalian- Washington, Madi,
son, Monroe, William H. Harrison,
Tyler, Taylor, Pierce, Arthur.
Unitarian-John Adams, John Quin-
cy Adams, Fillmore, Taft.
Presbyterian-Ja Polk, Buch-
anan,4 Lincoln, Cleveland, Benjamin
Harrison, Wilson.
Reformed Dutch Van Buren,
Roosevelt
Methodist-Grant, Hayes, McKin-
ley
Disciples Garfield.
"All Of our presidents of late years
have been religious men and devoted
churchmen," said a venerable minister
cf a prominent Washington church
"This is because it is inconceivable
that either of the great parties would
put forward man as candidate VINO
would not be acceptable because OF
nonreligious connection People or
the Christian faith in the United
States by the census of 1910 number
ed 75.100,0O0, of whom II million
were Roman Catholics. The member
ship Of the Episcopal church, with
which eight presidents were connect
ed, was at the last census 1,O26,O0O.
OF the Presbyterian church, OF which
seven presidents we're members, it
was 2,0S3, 900; of the Methodist church
with three presidents, 7,328,829; OF
the Unitarian, with four presidents,
70,542; of the Reformed Dutch, with
two presidents, 47S,951; of the Dis
ciples, with one president, 1863 163. +"
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-12-08
A CHRISTMAS LETTER TO
DrSCONTENTED WIVES
BY Kathleen NorrI
fQuoted from Pictorial Review fol

QUOTED from Pictorial Review for
December, 1861
Ninety-nine women out Of hun
dred fret, rebel, envy, and complain
without advancing the cause OF wo
men one iota, or gaining happiness
for any one concerned. The Aund
redth woman busies herself with the
beauty and richness thct falls natur
ally in her way, makes good men and
women of bad little boys and girls
makes a tired and Respondent man
eel that he is king of the world, makes
flowers grow where baroness was, and
cleanliness reign where there was
dirt. And then, when her hands and
heart are full, suddenly the world
wants her. 1t may be that she has
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-12-08
ATTRIBUTE
HIGH COST TO
CROP FAILURE
High Prices Have Struck
the Farmer in Whatever
He Buys at This Time.

Washington defense Of thu
farmers, the National Grange, in an
nual session here, issued a statement
Friday night analyzing the high cost
of living and attributing the rising
prices of farm products to poor crops
and the increasing cost of what the
farmer has to buy.
If any embargoes are to be placed
to help the situation, the statement
says, they should go on manufactured
products, particularly munitions OF
war Prohibition of gambling in food
stuffs and provision of more storage
houses under control Of the farmers
themselves, also are suggested.
"In many countries with cheap la
Dor and high priced lands. the yield
per acre exceeds that of the United
States The American farmer, with
cheap lands and high priced labor,
produces many times as much per
man as does the farmer of any coun-
try in the world.
'sThe high price of farm products is
due to several causes. Some Of the
more important ones are: the eli.
matte conditions Of this country dur
ing the past year were perhaps one
of the leading causes Of crop short
age.
ut must be borne in mind that the
high prices have struck the farmer in
whatever he buys, as much as it has
the city consumer. Farm labor is
scarcer and higher than ever. What
ever the farmer buys, whether ma
chinery, fertilizer, fencing, clothing
or the necessities of life, have increas-
ed in price by leaps and bounds. This
is also true of taxation.
I'm former days everything the
farmer needed was produced on his
farm or in his Immediate neighbor-
hood. This is all changed, and the
farmer of today is the largest con-
sumer of manufactured products.
Our city cousins have changed
their method of living quite as much
as we have. Instead of buying IN
quantities, as formerly they live out
of cartons and cans. With this can
be coupled expensive methods Of dis
tribution, which is not the fault of
the farmer
1.-The fact that nearly one-half OF
the civilized world has left the field
If product On and entered upon the
work of destruction has increased the
demand for all kinds Of products and
goods. AS to the products of the
farm, the fixing of prices is mainly |
by the law of supply and demand in
the markets of the world.
"When the farmer sells some Of his
products at less than cost, he gets no
no reduction in taxes nor In |
anything he buys, and it would be un-
fair that when he is getting fair
price for some Of his products to
place an embargo on what he pro-
duces to lower the price and ulti-
mately reduce the supply. So that an
on wheat and other cereals
would in the long run mean decreased
acreage. But if embargoes are to be
placed to help the situation, it should
be on manufactured goods, particu-
arly munitions of war. This would
give the farmer more laborcrs an
reduce the prices of what he buys.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-12-08

University men are prominently
identified with these various organi-
cations. o. D. Center, Director Of
Extension, is Secretary of the Seed
Growers association; E. J. Iddings,
of the College of Agriculture, is Presi-
dent of the Idaho Live Stock associa-
ton; W. T. Mccall, County Agrieul-
turist of Canyon county, is Secretary
of the Swine Breeders association and
E. j. Fjeldsted, Field Animal Hus-
bandman, is Secretary of the Live
Stock association and assistant secre-
tary of both the Dairy and Swine
Breeders organizations. Plans are
being made at Pocatello to entertain
a very large crowd expected to take
part in the various meetings.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1916-12-08

some little secret in the management
of children, or in growing roses, or
in baking gingerbread, or perhaps a
little story of her has caught the pub
lie fancy, or she can patent the button
she invented for a small romper, or
sell the sketches she made to amuse
sick child Then come the money
and the fame, and everything else for
which we ALL quite naturally, long.
But the point is, that this hundredth
woman was busy and happy first.
She did not jump from ildcness and
discomfort and envy to this. She
grew in the dark, pushing cut feelers,
pushing down roots, and she was
ready for the sunshine when it came.
The life of tie average husband
and father must be a supremely mo-
notonous existence. But men seem
to be so made that they can do the
same things over and over and over
again endlessly without complaint.
Perhaps it is their nature, perhaps
the result of long generations of pa
tient bread-winning.
Women are different. l suppose
most women would like everything
in their lives changed once a year,
and l know some who would tear up
all roots oftener thanthat. One thing
that holds us so tenderly to the chill
dren is they change so constantly;
last years camera pictures are not
this years, and the pictures of few
years ago already give US a little
pang at the heart. They were babies
they are boys and girls-and soon
they will be men and women, and
bottles and cribs and skates and
school-books gone forever.
SO the children are safe in our
hearts, and, for the houses-well
we move and shift and replace as
much as the family temper and in
come will permit.
But the man Of the house comes in
under the general rule. Being a man,
he never changes, nor sees the need
for change. Being woman, his wife
eyes him patiently, or morosely, or
Indignantly, as her nature DEGREES,
and looks forward with a sort of
terror to the long, unaltering years
to come. He has no further surprises
for her, and as the years go by, his
virtues are taken more and more for
granted, and his faults are more and
more evident. He is good, of course;
he is kind and true, but he tells jokes
she has heard twenty times, he never
touches fish, and he is fussy when
his feet get wet! She feels that she
could endure violence and neglect for
a while, anything for a change
This would be funny If it were not
30 tragic The tragedy comes in be-
cause, 1T the last census. one couple
out of every twelve were divorced,
and statistics already indicate that at
the next census the proportion will be
even more serious. So that we know
that hundreds of thousands of men
and women who loved each other
once have come to coldness, and bit
terness, and the end. And, from what
know Of divorce l truly believe that
ten Of every one Of these twelve cases
could have been saved, could have
been turned into dignified and con-
structive, and sometimes an actually
happy, marriage
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-06-22
WHAT'S the Matter with Our
Public Schools?
ROmaniSt Foes Inside Our
Amer1 c an "Nurs cries
OF Patriotism

THE national platforms of the Democratic
and Republican parties formerly con-
tanned a plank declaring for the Public
Schools, and calling them "the Nunneries of
Patriotism"
In favor of Public Schools?
No! Why not?
Because Archbishop Ireland and Cardinal
Pussy-foot Gibbons decided, some years ago,
that such declaration would be an "insult'i
to the Roman Catholics.
The Romanist prelates protested against
the repetition of the Public School declara-
tlon, and the Party Bosses surrendered
Hating the secular schools with wolfsh
anmosity, the priests never fail to get their
emlssarles into those schools, where the CITY,
or the State or the Republic pays.
When the teacher employed by the
Civil power is nun, or Sister, the money!
passes through her hands, and goes stra ght
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-06-22
THE JEFFERSONIAN

Three hundred million pounds year, and
the quantity increasing by leaps and
bounds!
At 2 cents pound that amount Of paper
would yield postal revenue of six million
dollars year, certain. whereas Mr.. Moon
thinks the new law will save four.
Then again, the Government could easilv
save many more millions, if it required it's
busy inspectors to overhaul lot of fake
farm papers, and compelled the denomina-
tional papers to obey the law
A man was here last week who offered to
sell me a 3-year subscription to one Of these
fake EARN papers" for so cents
I guess he keeps the so cents, and the
paper looks to the buncoed advertiser for it's
income.
The Atlanta Journal gives its solicitors
nearly all they get, and couldn't keep cir
culation otherwise.
Many UNCONVENTIONAL and 'farm" papers
allow the subs. to hang on, year after year,
when the subs. are yelling "stop my paper!"
They can't stop, they need fake sub. list,
to fool the advertiser with.
Inspector A. j. Knight swore that he came
to Thomson and took a copy of Watson's
Magazine, out of the mail-sacks, in order that
he might show himself diligent tool Of
Foreign Footkissery
That book belonged either to The Jeffer-
sonian Publishing Company, or it belonged
to one of our subscribers.
He privately took it, and carried it away,
without the knowledge and consent of the
owner.
If the Government is so tied to popery that
it virtually makes sneak-thieves out of it's
inspectors, why is it not sufficiently loyal to
common honesty, to compel soloried officials
to pay postage?
And why not openly, and legally inspect
the business methods of bunco-steering per-
iodcals?
Time and again, the Government has sent
Inspectors to overhaul our business, and every
time the verdict is, "absolutely legal, honest,
observant of all rules and regulations"
Yet, it is our business that the Government
has been trying to ruin, during the last five
years.
If the meao zaD goes through, then its
"GOODBVE"' to the Jeff. Pub. Go.
Il had not received and read Mr. Moons
letter, at the time my note of last week was
written.)
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-06-22
THOMSON, GA, JUNE %, 1916.
The Truth About the Press
Gag Law.

T HERE is so much uneasness felt among
periodical publishers, on account of
Section T., of the proposed new law, that it is
now laid before you, for consideration:
Section 7. That SO much Of cection one of the
"Act making appropriations for the service of the
Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending
June thirtieth nineteen hundred and thirteen,
and for other purposes" approved August
twenty-fourth nineteen hundred and twelve
which provides that the Post Office Department
shall not extend enlarge it's present policy Of
hereby repealed
Naturally The Jeffersonian felt disturbed
by the editorials appearing in the Washing
ton POST, and, later, In other papers.
Letters were written to several members of
the Georgia delegation; and, in response to
their inquiries, Chairman John A. Moon, of
Tennessee, wrote Congressman Frank Park a
lengthy explanation.
In brief, Mr.. Moon states that the Gov
eminent has saved more than million dol
lars by using the freight trains, and that the
contemplated extension will probably save
$4,000,OOO
Mr.. Moon says that the Government is
under obligation to deliver this End class mail
"by specific time, that is, by the date Of
issue of the magazine, as shown on its face
TO illustrates magazine bearing the date
July, 1916, must be delivered to the dealers
and subscribers during July, 1915, not July
1917.
Well, that's encouraging, but I am bound
to say that, if the Government didn't Nve up
to obligation" we periodical publishers
would be ruined.
Suppose Tumulty ordered President Will
son to behave extensively to Burleson, whose
wife is said to be a Catholic, and that B.
should resign, and that the Jesuit should Sc
lect Fitzgerald, for Burleson's place.
With that 4th Degree Knight of Foreign
Footkissery in control, a0hen do you suppose
the freight train loaded with Watson'E
Magazine would reach San Francisco and
and Seattle?
What redress would our Company have, if
a Papal p. NJ G. bossed our circulation, and
Disseminated against US?
We wouldn't have any, He would kill our
magazine, and then let us do what bowling
we pleased.
Before the law, or the Congress could
come to our relief, our business would be
dead; and the very idea of the law and the
Congress doing anything for us, when Rome
is fighting us, is absurd.
AS to the weekly papers, they could not
survive the freight-train chloroform single
month. .'
Chairman Moon admits that the Post
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-06-22

T HERE is so much uneasiness felt among
periodical publishers, on account Of
Section T., of the proposed new law, that it is
now laid before you, for consideration:
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-06-22

master General could select, at his discretion,
those periodicals that are to become passen-
gers on freight trains.
The admission does not lessen the uneasi-
ness caused by the new law.
Discretion of that despotic sort is sure to
be abused, and the victims of it will have no.
redress.
At a time when the Government is giving
$20,000,O0O to the Mussel Shoals grabbers,
and spending other millions for the noble
purpose of precipitating Catholic-Capi-
talist war on Mexico, it seems a queer thing
that the Democratic party should be furnish-
ing to the Romanists club TO BEAT THE
LIFE OUT OF ANERICANIST PER-
IODLCALS.
In justice to Mr.. Moon, I will quote his
o,,,,, fn4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

and if he is successful. he VIII then
set about and try to capture the mid
dleweiSht crown. There was some talk
Of Bob going to Australia for a meet
ing with Les Darcy. but it seems that
Robert. after he heard that Australia
was 1900 miles away, made up his
mind that he would never be able to
get back again and for the present he
has declared all bets off as far as the
AntipodeS are concerned.
Snowy Baker. the Australian boxing
promoter. has no hesitancy in stating
that he considers Les Darcy the mid
dleweight champion of the world. Mr..
Baker is anxious to have the best
class of American middleweightS go
over to Australia and try conclusions
with Darcy. stating that he Will pay
them well for their trouble and at
the same time give them an opportu-
nifty to win the title. In letter to
the writer Mr.. Baker says:
According to some of the American
sporting papers the critics are not
champion. Well you may take it
from me that this boy Darcy is the real
middleweight champion of the world
if there is such being. | am not
trying to boost the boy for any self
ish motive. but have reached this con-
clusion after watching him closely and
critically in all his contests in Aus
tralia since the day he first started.
Can you point any one out to me who
ever gave Eddie McGoorty a thrash
ing in every round that he stood be-
fore him and then knocked him out.
as Darcy did? Will you name any
middleweight who has made Jimmy
Clabby look cheap through twenty
round contest? Clabby has fought
practically all of the good men in that
division and you must admit that he
is clever and game: still Clabby was
beaten decisively in every round by
Darcy. jeff Smith is clever boxer.
but he never had a chance to stay
which was his long suit George
Brown went through twenty rounds
with Darcy. but the Greek demon took
an awful heating to do 50.
Il have the greatest respect for Mike
Gibbons and think he is wonderful
boxer. and his defeat of Young Ahern
in one round shows that he also has
the punch. but to my knowledge, or to
books: Nike Gibbons has never trav-
eled the marathon route. Darcy goes
the entire route every time he gets
into the ring-that is. provided the
other fellow is good enough to stand
the journey.
Il wish you would get in touch with
the best class of middleweights in
America and get them to come over
mere and meet Darcy, If Mike Gibbons
makes the trip over here he can gather
in more money than he will get in
[tiitei va anu 50 VIII Young Ahern,
George chip or any middleweight who
looks like real champion viii
guarantee that they will get good
money for their trouble but I will
not guarantee that they will be able
TO defeat Darcy. 1t will he up to them
to deliver Darcy cannot get awav
during the war. He is a blacksmith
and Will III all likelihood be held here
for service in the munition plants
However. he is open to meet any man
in the world and am now authorizing
you to get the best in America to come
over here and meet him. Tf they think
they have chance. let them come
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05
GIANTS SETTLE CLAIM.
Send schang to Indianapolis in Pay.
ment for Kauff.

INpIAEAPOLIS. March 4.-The shift
of Catcher Bobby Schang by the New
York Giants to indianapolis is said to
be in settlement of the claim that the
Hoosier club put in for Benny kauff.
President Jimmy McGill will take
Schang and later something else in
the way of talent from the Giants and
drop his threatened suit Possibly by
the Fourth of July he may even be
offered kauf himself. indianapolis
also has settled with the Pittsburgh
Pirates for Outfielder Jimmy Kelley.
who was purchased from the Pitts
hurgh Feds only to be claimed by the
Pirates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05
Case of Grover Lowdermilk,

4 great many pitchers who lack con
troll seek an alibi for their failure to
re, the ball over the plate The easiest
ALI of all IL to tlam- II on the umpire
That IL one reason why the of'oial IN
charge comes "a tor much rcnsurc from
many quarters when a pitcher ~ unHh-
Ia got III" bail over narcastic ~ he, q
word az protest som. uuutiHlb q tblv
action whl'h u"rtrH,r disgust a." hist u
few of the nihuN NtNH w witch = pitcher
can runN", the mrHuiug that utt't hllud
n"Hr on ~, ptrt "t thr umpire frth'r
than isck 81 ,uuirni ~ the cause ~ htH
idn~s- uudt'H wehs Wir,ht'R ~
alilns bnih and HiritFr. hpt uur' ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05
THIS KID" A WISE ONE.
Tom Reilly Balks on Contract Of
fered by Brooklyn.

NEW YORK, March 4.-Brooklyn
club officials have seemed much put out
because Tom Reilly, the 20, hgster
from New Orleans, has baked on the
contract rendered him. Tom says he
Will retire before he Will accept the
terms offered. II might be remarked
that Tom, though described as a young
ster. has been in the game long enough
to know what he is about. The records
SHOW this kid pickup of Charley Eb
bets to be past thirty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

part of the pitcher.
A couple of bases
on balls in success
sion causes much
disgust on the part
of the manager,
who sen d s the
hurry call to some
relief pitcher to
warm up. 1nvari-
ably a Su d d e n
streak of wildneSS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05
BY BILLY EVANS.

-Four balls. take your base" Such a
verdict by the umpire is sweet music to
the batsman. In great many cases it
is the cause of much peevishness on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

Sporting Editor Star:
What is the idea of the infeId hv
rule? / ~
To prevent felders trapping base
runners into sure DEATH and thus
making more chances for action in the
game.
Sporting Editor Star.
Who will manage the Tulsa team in
the western Association, and what is
the salary limit II
Norman Price Will manage the team
Salary limit is $1,000 month. or about
sl2J to the man.
Sporting Editor Star:
What sort of contract did Honey
have with the Pittsburgh Federalso
B.. A.
Understand it was a three-yea con
tract entered into at the beginning of
1918 which would run il through 1916
and 1917, and that it called for $500
a year.
Sporting Editor Star:
Runner on third and none out: bat
ter hits to third baseman who had
plenty OF time to get man going home,
but threw man out at first instead.
Nould tins he charged as an error?
EVANS.
No; even admitting it was a bone
play. errors cannot be recorded for
mere bone.
Sporting Editor Star.
Will you tell US again if a catcher
can maxi a balkr MACK
We VIII. and say that he cannot. ac-
cording to our way of reading the
rules. The pitcher makes a balk under
| section of the balk rule if he de-
lIVers the ball when the catcher is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

Following is the victory of Chajes in
the final round OF the Rice tournament
which gave him third prize.
,u-Er>rS pAuN nprNIN,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

tnderstand IT was a three year CON
tract entered INTO at the beginning of
1913. which would run il through 1916
and 1917, and that it called for $500
a year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05
lnquisitiue Fans.

Sporting Editor Star:
What is the idea of the infield hv
rule? / ~
To prevent felders trapping la Sc
runners INTO sure death. and thus
making more chances for action in the
game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

Sporting Editor star.
Who Will manage the Tulsa team in
the Western Association, and what is
the salary limit II
Norman Price will manage the team
Salary limit is 81 800 a month. or about
S 10 to the man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

What sort of contract did Honey
have with the Pittsburgh Federals?
T. A.