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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-26
MEXICANS RESENT
LANSING MESSAGE
Carranza Representatives at
Washington Object to
Interference
BRITAIN IN COMPLAINT 7
Joins Spain in Expressing Fear
Subjects Property Will
Be Confiscated

WASHINGTON, Jan 2G-Btter resent
ment throughout all Mexico is certain to
follow Secretary Lansng's objection to GER
tain parts Of the new Mexican Constitu-
tion, That resentment was very plain in
Mexican circles here today. The action OF
the Secretary in forwarding his objections
direct TO First chief Carrauaa was char
actcrzcd as "unwarranted interference in
the Internal affairs of n sovereign State"
1t was accepted generally that the future
relations between the two Governments are
certain to I've materially affected
Tho American protest deals directly In
opposition to the following provisions Of
the new ucNican Constitution adopted at
the QucretarO convention just held
The article Nesting Mexicos executive
with power to appropriate property
without judicial recourse.
The article providing that civil COM
merCial companies shall not own prop
critics Of greater area than is ncCes-
sarN to accomplish the purposes for
which they are formed and vestiuE in
tho executive power to designate such
area.
The article providing there shall he
np exemption from taxation.
The article stipulating that no special
oil lands and allowing companies now
operating only one year in which To
secure new concessions to protect rights
already acquired.
The article giving to the executive
power to cNpcl any one al will.
An Of the articles excepting tho last are
hcld by the United States state Depart
mcut to be con1scatory and tending toward
nationalism of property nj the expense of
innocent foreign holders. The expulsion
clause is said to bc in direct opposition TO
the usual practices of nations
The protests MS made by Secretary Lans-
ing followed numerous protests received
from Americans that their rights would be
iufrinEed and their property confsCated un-
der the new constitution. In addition the
Spanish aud British Embassies had the
department direct inquiries to Carranza
regarding what was termed 'conliscatttnn"
in enforcing loans from banks controlled
by British and Spanish subjects in Mexico
city
officials here declared they expected the
communication of Secretary Lansing would
arouse deep resentment in Mexico city. but
they explained that it had been necessary
nasmuch as this Government recognized
Carrnn2a only on a promise that he would
respect the rights Of foreigners. In any
event, it was pointed out, the CarrSnza
Government still has to demonstrate that
1t is able to dominate the situation now that
I villa again is very material factor in
defy this Government It is expected that
measures will be taken to show him that he
and the de- faCtO Government will be held
rectly responsible for losses to foreigners
should he finally manage to get military
control of the country.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-26
WHITE PLAGUE IN BELGIUM
u. S. Consul at Brussels, Now Here
Tells of Ravages of Disease

Widespread tuberculosis among the grow
ing generation of Belgium as the final hor-
ror of war is the prediction of Ethclbcrt
Watts, United States Consul General at
Brussels, who Is at his home 1921 Clinton
street, for a few days. lie will return to
Belgium after transactnE business with
9he Government at Washington He will
disc try to interest physicians and medical
tfocietes and charities in the danger Of
Tuberculosis in Belgium.
children are dying by the hundreds be-
cause of the lack af proper rourishment,"
said Mr.. Watts, "and those who do not die
are at such low ebb of vitality that they
easily fall prey TO the white plague
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-26
Injured Man Loses Memory

Loss OF memory was suffered by Joseph
Conway, 42Os North Fifteenth street,
team driver. vino was knocked down by
street car at Ogontz avenue near City Line.
The injured man is in st. Luke's Hospital
Physicians say his brain may have been
injured. lie cannot remember events pre-
vious to the accident they said, His condi-
tion Is serious.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-26
Abingdon Hieh Athletes Punished

Because they played 'hookey" to attend
a Philadelphia theatre performance We'd
nesday afternoon. twelve students OF the
Arlington High School have been suspended
for five days. The suspension carries with
It prohibition against playing in any Of the
school games, and as several of the sus'
pended members are players on the basket
ball team. the season game with the Jenkin-
town High School, scheduled for tonight
has been Cancelled
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-26

Nm 5 PHoNE oRDERs FILLED
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-26
Vatican Court Holds Meddlnr Valid

ROME. Jan. 26.-The Vatican court Of
cessation today decided that the marriage
Of Count Victor Moschni to Miss Olga Lulu
Davis of Fort Worth Tex. was valid The
husbands petition for annument was re-
jocted They were married in 1910 and
reside in Rome
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-26

VIENNA. Jan 26-Empcror Karl yester-
day afternoon received Frederic G. penfield,
the American Ambassador for the purpose
Of accepting MIR Penhelds new credentials.
The function was carried out with full
state ceremony.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-10-08
Shoes of an Army.

The old saw about an army moving
on its belly is all wrong. An army
horse, foot and gun-moves on it's feet,
and marching and walking-as the av-
erage civilian. not a policeman or a
postman, understands walking about
his daily vocation-are two very differ
ent things. An infantryman on his
feet carries about sixty pounds of dead
weight, forty-five pounds or so of pack,
eight pounds or so of rifle and the rest
In ammunition or separate equipment.
He cannot choose his own gait, and
he has to negotiate all kinds Of ground
winter roads corrugated with frozen
ruts, slippery trails of mud and water,
rocks, hot sand. And more than half
the time a change of shoes is for him
a luxury. He is very apt to keep the
same pair on night and day, wet or
dry. If his shoes are not right or If
his feet are not sound he cannot last
week with a moving command, and
1t is entirely possible that he will
even have trouble in trench.-World's
Work
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-10-08

Republican office to apply for a pos
sition as foreman or linotype opera
tor In stating his qualifications he
said he had worked in printing Of
fees all over the United States, both
east and west, and in the largest
establishments. He had had Is
years experience in these different
cities and offices, and felt equal to
anything there is in a small town
In fact this town was smaller than
he liked to work in. He admitted
that he had not had experience as
foreman and that he was not very
skilled operator and could not take
linotype apart and rebuild it.
That is the way with lot of our
American boys. They have been
scattering their efforts until they
don't amount to much anywhere. A
short talk with the gentleman show
ed that altho he had been pursuing
one kind of work for Is years, and
had spattered his efforts all over the
United States, a Blackfoot girl who
has been an apprentice in The Re-
publican office less than a year could
teach him quite little about press
work.
When asked why he doesn't set
tie down, he said he intends to, and
that he is tired of travelling around.
He wanted to get homestead some
where. When told that next We'd
nesday is the date for hand open
ing of 10000 acres of homestead
lands here he said he wanted a
homestead near one of the large
markets. When reminded that
homesteads are not found on the
roof gardens of the cities, he said,
ooh we'll, this homestead land here
is all covered with sage Brush
He asked if Idaho Falls was
larger than Pocatello, and when told
it was not, he said he believed he
would Jump from here to Butte. :"
He had good teeth but one of them
needed filling, and showed
neglect. He had one ,infallible sign
of shirk. When he left the office
he went up the street smoking a
cigarette, and looking along at the
show windows, probably looking for
homestead wrapped in velvet.
After taking long parting look at
him, we editor walked into the COM
posing room and looked at the ap-
prentice girl to see how they COM
pared. She was laying out type
form and looked like a person who
was working with a purpose. When
she looked up and smiled she re-
>vealed good teeth, and one of them
showed tiny gold filling-protect-
ed from the start. One individual
has a purpose in life and some
gumption along with it. The other
lacks both purpose and gumption,
and the heydeay of youth is passing
without accomplishing anything.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-10-08

calgin, and 1t is now in use on the
western and Italian fronts, and eff
forts are being made to get some
shipments of 1t to the Russian
armies. Thousands of soldiers have
been operated on without feeling
any pain after nicalgin was applied,
and instances are given of the most
frightful wounds sprayed with it and
then dressed without the patient
knowing that it was being touched,
saying nothing of being carved.
Gordon Edwards comes from San
Francisco, and altho he has made
one of the greatest discoveries yet
made to prevent suffering, he has
not made any money from the dis
covery, and there is no prospect that
he will during the war. He is CIV
ing his skill and his service and the
benefits of his discovery, and he
adds to that his persuasive ability
to get them to try it and use it,
while such persons as the daughter
of ]. Pierpont Morgan have been
using private funds to pay for its
manufacture till the slow-acting gov
ernments become sufficiently con-
WINGED, to honor the bills for It.
Slowly, steadily it is making its
way into that Niagara of blood and
anguish, and the wife of Gordon Ed
wards in their little home in Ameri-
ca gets along without an income and
waits for the day when her husband
shall return from a call to world
service that seems guided from
Above. When the world gets a
breathing spell after the war, his
name will be written along with
those of Stevenson and Howe and
Morse and Edison and the others
who have risen from the ranks and
given something valuable to man
kind.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-10-08
THEY WE'RE ALL
AMERICANS

A few weeks ago it was decided
that America must have a better
engine for its airships, in order to
match and overcome the splendid
airships of the enemy, and our board
of national defense called some of
the most eminent mechanical engin-
GERS into consultation about it. They
decided to call in the best talent in
America and to put together all
their best ideas and express them in
one new light engine, the best they
could all devise working together,
and give it to the nation regardless
of their patents or ambitions to pat
ent and to manufacture.
Accordingly men were called by
wire from all over the country, and
the committee meeting of experts
lasted day and night by relays till
the new engine was designed and
adopted. Then the drawings were
sent to dozen different machine
shops scattered from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, to have the first pieces
manufactured simultaneously by
those who could make the respective
pieces best and quickest. When all
the parts were assembled and fitted
together they were perfect, and the
machine put upon it's first trial dem
onstrated that here was an achieve
ment of vast Importance because it
brought forth a better, lighter,
stronger engine than had ever been
built before, and up to that time
the enemy of this nation had the
best in the world
Thousands of these best engines
are now being constructed in these
various machine shops in America
for propelling the airships used to
win the war for the allies, and they
will be made in an incredibly short
time because of this cooperation of
the best brains and best plants in
America uniting their powers I'M
selfishly for the nations good.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-10-08
WORK COMMENCED ON FOOD
CONSERVATION PROBLEM

The woman's committee council of
national defense is getting ready for
the big food conservation drive
which occurs October 81 to 2S. fFo1-
Lowing Observation-Disclosures of
each precinct in Bingham county,
who will work with the committees
appointed by G. F. Gagon, the food
commissioner for this county; Black
foot first ward Mrs. w. E. Chubbuck;
second ward, Mrs. F. w. Golf; third
ward, Mrs. Neil Boyle; fourth ward,
Mrs. William Marley; Aberdeen, Mrs.
Nora Lowe; Wapello, Miss Orpha
Hampton; Rose, Mrs. James John
ston; Woodville, Mrs s. A. Thomp-
son; Riverside, Mrs. Martha La
ROGUE; Groveland, Mrs. A. Yancey;
Shelley, Mrs. T. ]. Bennett; James
ton, Mrs. Francis Just; Thomas, Mrs.
Peter Felsted; Moreland, Mrs. Louis
Robbins; Sterling, Mrs. Mabe Militia
muth; Springfield, Mrs Maud D.
Snyder; Basalt, Edna Olsen; Taber,
Mrs. H. F. Siesser; Rich, Mrs w. H.
Scott; and Presto, Mrs. Agnes ].
Reid.
Committee appointed for Bingham
county by George F. Gagon, chair
man of food administration: Basalt,
Joseph H. Dye, Basalt; Jameston,
Chris Anderson, Shelley No. 1; Pres
to, James Just. Shelley No. 2; Shell
ley, l.. Ivan Jensen, Shelley; Wood
vile, Joe Bishoff, Shelley r. No. g.;
Aberdeen, Paul Winger, Aberdeen;
Blackfoot No. 1, c. A. Hoover (city)
Blackfoot; Blackfoot No. /, w. C.
Sollenberger, Co Blackfoot; Black
foot No. 2, R. N. West, Blackfoot;
Blackfoot No. 3, R. L. Archer, (city)
Blackfoot; Blackfoot No. 8, Richard
Stevens, co. Blackfoot; Blackfoot
No. 4, Stewart Parkinson (city)
Blackfoot; Blackfoot No. 4, e. A.
Doud, Country Blackfoot; Grove
land, L. w. Van Akin, Blackfoot No.
2; Rich, Chase Rich, Pingree; More
land, Lew Robbins, Keever; River
side, Jed Taylor, Blackfoot No. 2;
Rose, Louis Felt, Blackfoot No. l;
Springfield, G.. A. Line, Springfield;
sterling, W. w. Hays, Sterling;
Thomas, D. J. Murdoch, Blackfoot
No. 2; Taber, Mrs. H. r. Siesser,
Taber;; Wapello, J. D. Jensen, Black
foot No. 8.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-10-08
AND HE IS AN
AMERICAN

Gordon Edwards is somewhere in
France, and he is an American. That
much is not significant, but it is
significant that he has discovered
and perfected fluid that is far
better antiseptic (protect from de-
cay) and a far better anesthetic
preventing pain) than was ever
known before. He developed the
fluid just as the war began, and al
tho every test from the start aston
ished the physician who tried it, and
altho the wounds sprayed with it
healed without puss and the patient
felt no pain during the dressing of
the wound on which it was used, it
took him year to get the first
order for a quantity Of it, in the face
of the fact that ether and chloro-
form were scarce and had to be used
sparingly.
The name of this new fluid is nj
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-10-08
MUST VACCINATE CATTLE

Cattle owners of the state must
vaccinate their young stock between
the ages of three and IS months fol
blackleg the governor says in g
proclamation issued Wednesday.
The proclamation was issued al
the request of the state veterinarian
1t is termed war measure neces.
sary for the conservation of food
The young cattle must be vacci,
mated by the owners between the
dates of October Is and December
1.
In the event that stockmen in dis.
tricts where blackleg is prevalent
fail to vaccinate voluntarily a quar-
antine will be declared and the cat
tie will be vaccinated by the state
veterinarian at the expense of the
owners.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-10-08
CHIEF POINTS IN SECRETARY
BAKERS WAR SUMMARY

WASHINGTON, D. C.-secretary
Bakers views of the British often
sive:
Slowly, but therefore the more
irresistibly, the allied drive at the
heart of the German line in the west
is sweeping forward.
"The defeats inflicted upon them
(the Germans) during the past for
night are conclusive Indications of
allied superiority
"The full success Of these opera
lions means that the Belgian coast,
with it's numerous submarine bases,
will become untenable to the enemy.
"Zeebrugge, Ostend and the sys-
tenn of canals leading out of Bruges
are threatened.
1.-THE supreme test of the battle
strength of the contendng belliger-
ents is taking place. Allied ascend
ancy would appear decisive
"The two immediate contributing
factors of this success are:
"Air control and shell supply"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-10-08
GOVERNMENTAL IDEAS
OF A NATIONS HONOR

President Wilson on several occa.
sions, notably in his war message Of
April 2 and in his reply to the peace
note of the pope, has called atten.
ton to the fact that no peace car
be maintained with the imperial
| German government; that no auto.
cratic government such as it can be
trusted to keep faith; that only free
people can hold their purpose and
their honor steady to common
need, and prefer the interest of man.
kind to any narrow interest of Their
own.
The president was only restating
a difference between two systems OF
governmental policy, two different
governmental ideas of national
honor, that has long existed. The
quotations given below show the
American idea of nations honor
from the inception of this govern
ment down to the present day and
the idea of national honor held by
the German government since the
days of Frederick the Great.
1.-THE foundations of our national
policy will be laid in the pure and
immutable principles of private
morality. There exists in the course
of nature an indissoluble union of
virtue and happiness, between duty
and advantage, between honest
policy and public felicity. The
smiles of heaven can never be ex-
pected on government that disre-
CARDS the eternal rules of order and
right, which heaven itself has Or
dained. George Washington, presi-
dent of the United States. April,
1889.
1--WE are at the beginning of an
age in which it will be insisted that
the same standards of conduct and
of responsibility for wrong done
shall be observed among nations and
their governments that are observed
among the individual citizens Of
civilized states. Woodrow Wilson,
president of the United States. April,
1917.
eve are now in a state Of neces-
sity and necessity knows no law.
Our troops have occupied neutral
Luxembourg and perhaps already
have entered Belgium territory. This
is breach of international law. The
wrong we hereby commit we will
try to make good as soon as our
military aims have been attained.
He who is menaced as we are, and
is fighting for his highest possession,
can only consider how he is to hack
his way thru. German chancellor
addressing the reichstag, August 4,
1914.
The German chancellor was simply
following the keynote given by Fred
erick the Great speaking in 174O:
"The question of right is an affair
of ministers. Take what you can;
you are never wrong unless you are
obliged to give back"
Contrast the American and the
German standards of national honor.
The honor and good faith of the
government from Wash
ington's day to Wilson's are back
Of the Liberty loan bonds. Well
may they be called the safest invest
ment on earth-the premier security
Of the world.
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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-10-08
GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATING
THE NEWSPAPERS

The government inquiry into bust
| ness does not extend to coal anC
wheat alone, and it is matter oil
satisfaction to all publishers who
conduct their business on legitimate
lines, that there is just now being
conducted the most rigid investiga.
ton of newspaper methods that has
ever been made.
Last week all the newspapers in
the United States were required to
furnish sworn statements of how
many copies they print, how many
of these go to actual subscribers
who buy the paper and pay for it
| because they want it, and what is
done with the rest of the copies
printed. The government wants to
know whether papers are sent to
people who did not order them. 1t
wants to know whether papers are
being sent to people in clubbing
propositions gotten up between pub
fishers without consulting the pat
rons 1t wants to know whether the
postal system is being used to carry
such papers at the low rates accord
ed to publishers. The government
demands to know whether publish
ers are giving premiums with their
papers to get people to take them,
and where one person or firm has a
paper or papers sent to somebody
else as present, the government
wants to know whether the regular
price was paid and whether the per-
son addressed is taking it because
he can't get rid of it. Tons and
carloads of this kind of matter are
being sent out of some of the big
city printeries, and Uncle Sam is
putting the publishers on the carpet
to explain under oath. The publish
er must also show who owns the
paper or the property, and who are
the managers or persons controlling
it's utterances. All of these matters
contained in about rs paragraphs of
inquiry must be handed to Uncle
Sans men this week in black and
white, signed, sealed and delivered
in person, and If statements Of part
ners in working agreements in differ
ent cities or offices do not tally,
there will be further inquiry, with
possible suspensions, fines or prison
doors at the end of the inquiry.
Uncle Sam proposes to stop the
waste of paper, the waste and abuse
of the mailing privileges, the waste
of time of his postal clerks handling
useless stuff, and the loss and an
noyance to the people who receive
what they do not order or buy or
want.
The Idaho Republican has been
working for years to expose and to
stop these abuses, and its manage
ment finds much satisfaction in the
present rigorous inquiry into pub.
fishers methods.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-10-08
%S. DESTROYER WIPES OUT
V-BOAT AFTER SHARP FIGHT

WARRINGTON, D. "Details of
fight between an American destroy
er id European waters and Ger
man submarine in which the subma-
rine was destroyed by depth bombs.
was announced Saturday by the navy
department
The destroyer sighted the subma-
rine in the early morning of clear
day with calm sea. The subma-
rine was running submerged with
only the periscope showing A large
number of merchant ships were in
sight. The destroyer headed for the
submarine at full speed and opened
fire on the periscope. AS the destroy
err dashed across the line Of bubbles
left by the submarines wake, a
depth charge was dropped and the
destroyer turned and opened fire
again. The column of water showed
that the depth charge was ineffec-
tive.
Another turn of the destroyer
brought the starboard guns into &C
ton and the destroyer crossed the
wake of the submarine again and
dropped another depth charge. The
destroyer de-opened fire again with
out result and when the destroyer
again crossed the wake another
depth charge was dropped which was
followed by a wide spread of large
bubbles and heavy film Of oil on the
surface and the submarine was not
seen again.
The destroyer spent some time
looking for further traces of the u
boat but none was found and she
then continued on her course. The
engagement lasted % minutes.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-10-08

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