The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-09-27
ADMISSION TWO BITS

ing puDucduOnS, Inc Denver GOSl ana
the Kansas City Post with their vast
number of spell-bound readers of live
scandal and incidentally proprietors
of a cracking good circus, have spotted
something bigger than the latest di-
vorce sensation, the ferocious rhinoc-
erous or the African lion. They have
seen the man who flayed the demon Of
marital infelicity, took the rind off
of the rhinocerous and threw the lie
into the lion. roaming whittier he
would. from Timbuctoo to the River
of Doubt" except on the European
battle front. and learned that the only
reason he did not wander there was
because of a fence, bull strong, horse
high and hog tight" erected under the
direction of the general war staff
A great light came to these willy
journalistic showmen. If they could
only cage this chatting specimen and
display him before the admiring and
subscription-paying multitude in the
act of chewing up the general war
staff it would bring plenty shekels to
their Golfers. To think was to act, for
their familiarity with actors is noted,
and here is what they did, as describ-
ed in the International News Service
dispatches yesterday:
KANSAS CITY, MOI. C. Bon
fills and II. H. Tammen, proprietors of
the Denver Post and the Kansas City
Post today published an open letter
to Col. Theodore Roosevelt offering to
pay the colonel two dollars for every
one promised him by the Kansas City
Star. newspaper which has employ
ed Roosevelt as a special writer, if
the colonel will sever his connection
with that paper and devote his ene--
gies to a campaign through the Den
yer and Kansas City Posts to stir the
government to a reorganization of its
war staffs and an efficient conduct
OF the war preparations. Roosevelt
has not yet signified whether he will
accent the Offer
Used to buying the untamed at so
much per- it naturally occurred to
them that the only way to catch this
partner of the nut eating bird" was to
buy him. Once they had him, they
felt that they could make him roar at
suitable intervals, that is every few
minutes. at the general staff by hold
ing up picture Of the war scenes in
Europe from which he had been sep
arated by the attitude of the war coun-
Gil They figured, no doubt that the
noise resulting, would reduce to the
cadence of darkey lullaby, the roars
Of the British lion when American
politicians twisted his tail.
The quest will be futile The colonel
will not be a party to the Posts en-
terprising subscription campaign. He
will not enter into a rivalry for first
place in the Post audiences with Flos-
sic Dewdrop, the winsome variety
actress who inveiglled Billie Billions.
the wealthy scion of the New York
Billions house, into a costly matri-
llOllidl tntdDdQ llt NOlOlltl may
= have tarried in spirit on the troublous
/ shores of the River of Doubt" be-
, fore he ever saw the stream. while
- the matchmaking Easy Boss wooed
and won him into wedding a vice pres
p idential nomination in 1900, but he
isn't there now for the purposes OF
b Bonfils and Tammen.
The confiding urchin who goes
forth on the advice of his mother to
ensnare the wary and elusive swallow
by sprinkling salt on his tail will
have a bird show collected before
these enterprising journalists and
showmen get their prey.
Still the advertising feature is
worth the trial The two Posts are
brought to popular attention. The old
er Bennett of the New York Herald
sent an expedition to seek the north
! pole 1t did not bring back the pole
but left it where it didn't find it, in
p order that it might later be bone
4 less bone CT contention lctween Ad-
q miral Peary and Captain Cook. The
effort paid the Herald well. The
s Posts will lose nothing in this ven
t ture They are not in the habit OF
. suffering financial loss, and their
present improperly, for obvious reas-
10 ons, will not lose them the respect OF
q the best people of the country You
d can't lose what you haven't got.
Z WISE MOVE