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New-York tribune., 1917-06-12

.
priations for the army, for shipbulld-
ing and for aeroplane construction
wait. Congress is in snarl over iand
bobbing scheme. The delay over the
war deficiency bill is the most depress-
ing spectacle the capital has witnessed
since the declaration of War
The plan to purchase the jamestown
Exposition site for the navy has poll
tics written all over it. The town IS
full OF Virginia petty bosses working
for the proposed appropriation. The
Senate machine is a Virginia machine.
The Democratic leader of the Senate is
the senior Senator from Virginia. The
chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs
Committee is the junior Senator from
Virginia.
All the power of these two men IS
being used in favor of the jamestown
appropriation. The Secretary Of the
Navy is a Southerner noted for doing
what he can to put money in the pock-
cts of the South. Moreover, the Secre-
tary of the Navy generally doesn II
cross the chairman of the Senate Naval
Affairs Committee and the majority
leaders if he can help it. That hasn't
been the way Mr.. Daniels has obtained
appropriations from Congress for his
department.
The Secretary is for the jamestown
site. The navy needs such site, and
needs it badly. The only real question
is whether the country is to be made
TO nav too much for the property or
not.
Protecting the Nations Pocket
The House of Representatives, not
being dominated by Virginia, mildly
suggested that the nations pocket be
protected. The Senate yesterday de-
cided TO seem TO protect the nations
pocket while not really protecting 1t.
That is the issue which is holding
up war measures is the country TO pay
fair price or an exorbitsnt price for
this naval site? 1t is a nice little bit OF
ward politics stopping the machinery
of war. 1t is just as If some Tammany
scheme for selling a few acres OF park
land TO New York City should get be
tween US and our successful entrance
into this struggle.
Il does not look as If the country
pocket would be protected when this
jamestown property passes over 20 the
use of the Navy Department. Inc last |
thing any one thinks Of here IS econ
omv. This war is going to be the most
extensive war ever fought. Every one
here charged with appropriating or
spending money is billions crazy. Inc
hinge appropriations have upset all
sense OF proportion.
So able Senator as Mr. Underwood
defending the jamestown appropria-
ton. drifted unconsciously into such
an argument as this: Suppose the
pr;ee for this land is pretty high. What
az il? We are paying high price Tor
ships. We are paying high price for
stool We must expect to pay hign
prices for everything in connection
with this war.
No one rebuked him. On the con-
trarv. others repeated the argument
against scrutinizins this expenditure
TOO closely. One of them said we must
expect waste.
Mental Imitation
There is always waste IN war a
tremendous mental imitation has taken
place since those s7,00o,0oO,OoO were
budgetted. The idea that the cost IS
.. ho ,crr;fc possesses every one.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-12
Mental Imitation

There is always waste in war a
.ror,erdous mental imitation has taken
place since those s7,OOo,ooO,OoO were
budpetted. The idea that the cost IS
cc;nc 70 be terrific possesses every one.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26
PREDICTS EMPLOYMENT
OF WOMEN ON ROADS

PARSONS, KAS., June 26.-If the
war continues three years more many
ofthe railroads of the United States
will be operated largely by women, in
the opinion of H.. f. Anderson, gener-
al manager of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas railway. The "Katy' has es-
tablished a railroad training school for
women in Dallas.
Several hundred young men employ
ed IN the general offices of the road at
Parsons, Dallas and st. Louis already
have enlisted inthe army, while many
more, it is expected, will be drafted. it
is the plan of the company to fill their
places with women
Mr.. Anderson said that, in a pinch.
he believes women could sell tickets,
look after routine work in railroad sta
tons act as clerks in freight offices
and ever collect fares.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26

Henry j. Failing, formerly vice
president of the Twin Falls Bank e
Trust company and president of the
Twin Falls Commercial club, and lat
er vice president of the Lumberman's
National Bank, of Portland, died 1T
his home in the last named city, Sun
day afternoon at 1 o'clock of apoplexy.
Two kilograms were received stimuli
taneously by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H.
Robbins, Sunday afternoon, the first
announcing the fact that Mr.. Failing
had been stricken and the second that
he was dead.
While he had been painfully i'll with
muscular rheumatism for three weeks
prior to his death, it was not thought
by anyone that his condition was seri-
Gus. Mr.. Robbins. who was a close
friend of the family for many years
left at once for Portland. A telegram
received by Mrs. Robbins yesterday
stated that the body would be ship
ped last night for Randolph. Iowa. for
interment.
The news of the sudden death of Mr..
Failing shocked this community where
he lived for many years and the uni
versal sentiment of the people was
voiced by the Red Cross committees
at their luncheon Tuesday in the fol-
IOWihs IeleBIdm addressed TO Mrs.
Failing: zone hundred citizens as
sembled and expressing the senti-
lnents of Twin Falls county. send to
you and Willard. our deepest sympathy
for a loss in which we share.-Red
Cross"
Mr.. Failing was born in Rock Is
land county. Illinois, April 20, 1871,
but for a number of years before com
ing to the Gem state, was a resident
of Iowa. He received his first educa-
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26

Continued From Page -
NJ. Simpson, Mr.. Arlington. Enoch Wall. Mr.. Wilson.
Team Number g.
w. R. Prebe, Prof. Bowman. F. w. Bronaugh, Irwin Clay. Phil
Grow, G. r. Bryant, A. r. Ostrander. Leonard Smith. w. A. Perck,
r. c. Letsch.
Team Number 10
Il. F. Allen. Frank Magel, d. c. Watson, T. J. Woods, c. A. Rob
lnson, Geo. Easely, w. b. Son, Mr.. Moore, James Mcmillan.
Where each and every one has done so superatvely we'll. it
seems invidious to single any participant. But at the last luncheon,
had at the Rogerson yesterday, the country districts were especially
given 10 Dr. j. L. White and his cOadjutors in that work. Mrs. White
and the Farm Bureau Secretary, Mr. w. T. Edwards. Called to the
floor, DIR. White stated that the county was divided into 45 districts,
each with a Captain and crew. This put about 400 workers in the
field altogether; the territory was sub-divided by sections. and every
section Systematically canvassed. In this connection it should be said
that five of the country districts, namely. Castleford, Berger. Poplar
Grove, South Bull and part of Rock Greek, had not reported up to
last night, and that the country total will be raised a couple of thou
sand when they are heard from.
The little hamlet of Hansen, with its almost three thousand dol
lars, also received attention at the luncheon, and a vote Of thanks,
especially including the venerable Judge Lawrence Hansen, was pass
ed by standing vote. What Mr.. La Cook, representing Hansen, said
when asked how they did it, is characteristic Of all the workers and all
the work. He said: Owe got into the collar and never quit till we
got to the end of the road"
Speaking of these daily lunches, at which reports were made and
enthusiasm renewed, it should be understood that each luncher paid
for his own meal. Neither here nor elsewhere is anything to be de-
Quoted for expenses. but the full amount collected will be turned over
intact. If any poor soul has been mean and measly enough to say,
or to think graft in connection with this work, let him put that in
his pipe and smoke it. And we shall still hope
THAT the devil will surely get him
And on his hottest gridiron set him,
Till his poor soul so lank and lean
BE, like a pipestem, burned out clean. ~
cess. Idaho, over 100000 Twin Falls county, over $4,000. 1t shows
what is possible when a good cause, perfect organization and boundless
Falls with some $4,000. Then comes Ada county with but a trife
less, if any. At such a time as this, one should not cast reflections
but the small type and inconspicuous position uniformly given to the
reports from this county IN the Boise papers impels us to call aten-
of Twin Falls and includes the capital city for which alone a popu-
laton is claimed greater than that of this entire county.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26
CAN'T TELL KISS BY
SOUND, COURT RULES

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Beacon, N. Y, June 26-You cant
tell whether it's a kiss or not by the
sound alone. A momentous decision,
truly, but one easily reached by Judge
Willard B~rockway when Herbert Jor-
dan attempted to justify his leaving
his wife because she kissed a grocery
clerk.
How do you know she did ?" asked
the judge.
Jordan brought forward a neighbor
who said she had heard the Sound of
kissing through the keyhole." 1--WE
nave to go by fact, not by sound" re
marked Judge Brockway. 1T might
have been some other noise with a
kissing sound"
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26

ton in the public schools of his ma
tive county, but afterwards took a
business course in Davenport, Iowa,
and a course in the Valparaiso Uni
versity, of Valparaiso, Indiana. He
worked on his fathers farm in Iowa as
a boy. and in 1892 took a position IS
clerk in a mercantile establishment in
Randolph, Iowa, which he resigned six
months later to accept a clerical po-
sition in a bank there. Four years
afterwards he became the owner of
the bank, which in 1903 was merged
into the First National Bank of Ran
dolph. In 1907 he was elected presi-
dent of a new bank at Anderson, Iowa,
which position he held for two years,
when he sold out his interests there
and came to this city, where he be-
came identified with the Twin Falls
Bank & Trust company and was al
most Immediately elected it's vice
president. This position he retained
for seven years until September, 1916,
when he sold his interests in the
above institution and moved to Port
land to become the vice president Of
the Lumberman's National bank. Mr..
Failing is survived by a widow and
one son. Willard H. Failing.
In his business methods he was safe
but progressive. He was affiliated
with the blue lodge, chapter and COM
mandery of the A. F. & A. M. and was
at M time master of the local lodge
il Iowa. He was a member of the
Methodist church and actively iden-
titled with its ~upbuilding. His work
in behalf of the interests of the city
and county of Twin Falls and his ION
esty and urbanity earned for him a
warm place in the hearts of all our cit
liens.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26
ATTEMPTS TO KILL
SELF BY IMAGINATION
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Los ANGELES, June 26-Record
keen -imaginations were shattered IN
the case of Edward Corrigan. who
almost succeeded in killing himself
with thought.
Corrigan is a young engineer and
had been going with a girl with whom
he quarrelled. THE end will come in
a couple of hours" he said in sepuI-
chral tones. Shortly after he was
found in bed in a comatose condition
and when folks entered his room he
asked for a priest to administer the
last rites.
Police Surgeon zorb made a minute
examination and thought Corrigan
had taken poison. His eyes were
dilated and his outward condition in
Dictated poisonous symptoms. Treat
ment applied caused Dr.. Zorb and
other experts called in to believe the
case was one of self-hypnotism caused
by mental depression. When Corrfgan
returned to his senses in the hospital
he broke out in tears. saying he was
respondent owe his broken love
affair.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26
R. c.. CAMPAIGN CONCLUDES THIS COUNTY

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The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26

"Young men of Twin Falls county,
You can surely see and appreciate what
members Of the Red Cross have done,
and are still doing for soldiers on the
great European battle field, and how
the people of every state and county
in the United States; especially your
county, are helping members of this
great organization in their preparation
to take care of American soldiers. And
although the value of their service will
be far beyond estimation. they will
need help. Have you ever stopped to
think how you can save them money,
time, work, and worry by being pre-
pared to take care of yourself? Uncle
Sam will prepare you and as it will
take time for preparation, he wants you
to enlist now, for the army, so as to
have you as well trained as possible
when troops are sent to France. En-
list now, for the L. $. army.
Contributed.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26
JOHN D. REALIZES THE
DREAM OF HIS YOUTH
Decides When Poor Boy That He VIII
Buy Hill and Give 1t To New York
City-WiH Do 1t.
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NEW YORK, June 26-Back in the
days when job d. Rockefeller, Jr-,
was only a boy and didn't have any
troubles aside from speculation as to
whether he was to have more than
n plate of ice cream for dessert, he
was wont to jump on his pony and
gallop up along the banks of the Hud-
son river.
When he had reached a high knoll
almost at the end of Manhattan, from
which he could view the Palisades for
many miles, he would stop and say:
Some day I'm going to buy all this
and around here and give it to the
city, so that everybody can enjoy it.
This is a view everybody ought TO
see
Queer dreams for a boy to have, but
it is soon to become a reality. Mr..
Rockefeller has bought a strip run
ming about two-thirds Of a mile along
the river for $4,000 900 and has Of
fered it to the City of New York. Ac-
tual acceptance by city officials is
all that prevents the contamination
of the dream whereby the public will
be enabled to enjoy the view every
body out to see."
1t is, at that, a view to be remem-
bered, with a broad sweep on the
north along the Hudson to the crest
of Storm King mountain and south
ward for many miles. The fifty-odd
acres purchased by Mr.. Rockefeller
are about the highest in New York
and form a link hat will make al
most complete the strip along the
Hudson River from Seventy-second
street on, now used for park
On the lot that Mr.. Rockefeller is
to turn over the city are magnifi-
cent buildings. One of the estates
included in the fifty acres bought by
him some time g is that c. K. @.
Billings, noted horseman, whose house
has long been regarded as one of the
most beautiful in the city. There is
a possibility that the house may be
used as a museum, while the big
stables n garage will be for public
use.
There appears at present to be no
obstacles to the acceptance of Mr..
Rockefeller's magnificent gift by the
city. The young millionaire philan-
thrOpist made no conditions with his
announcement, except that the city
buy ground so that the entire river
front from Seventy-second street
north would be a public playground.
City officials are willing to do this
and it is expected that but a short
time will elapse before the boyhood
dream of John d.. Rockefeller, Jr., be-
comes a reality.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26

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MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR
ONE IN NAME ONLY
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MINNEAPOLIS, June 2S-Mayor
Van Lear at last admits there's moth
ing in a name, for although he was
elected Mayor last fall on the Socialist
ticket, he does nothing but draw his
salary. Since the outbreak Of war,
there has been formed a Safety Com
mission, whose orders in regard to
war problems the Mayor is bound TO
enforce. They have been gradually
extending the scope of their authority
until there is little for the Mayor to
do on his own initiative.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26
HISTORis EVENTS

The s%ubjoined article frcm the latest
Golfers Weekly, calls attention to
some of the great possibilities of the
great events that are now transporting.
1t is probable that during all the
ages nc decade has seen maps changed
and history made so much and 50
rapidly as the one in which we are
now living:
1t is possible that a future McMas-
ter, writing a history of the United
States, may point to these very weeks
as one in which fundamental changes in
the governmental structure of our coun-
try were terminated. Such q historian
may see what the journalist Of the
present fails to see.
Certainly the proceedings of Con-
gress and the Senate, which are re-
ported daily, are for the present less
striking than the unrecorded activities
of the Council of National Defense, its
Advisory Commission, and its allied
committees. This group has acquired a
control over the economic life of the
country which no one ever dreamed the
Government would assume, and is max
ing changes which will not cease with
the ending of the war. Many of the
things accomplished will never be un-
done-some because they ought to have
been done before, others because they
will be even more necessary in the pc
Rod of after-war competition than they
are now.
Here is an example indicating the
scope of the commission IS power over
our railroads. power that may ex-
tend to the point of disseminating GER
tain trains and adding others, or di-
recting shipments of freight over one
railroad as against another. The com
mission can even shift freight cars
owned by one railroad, but not at the
moment needed by it, to another rail
road where the immediate need is great
or. 1t can take a hundred locomotives
from the Pennsylvania, where coal
shipments may be slack, and put them
on the Missouri Pacific railroad, where
grain shipments may be active. This
as not merely n power over railroads.
1t is a power over every industry hat
depends on railrOads-which means all
industries.
Incidentally, the commission does
not get its power over all Industries
merely by indirect use of its power over
railroads. 1t has direct power over all
industries, either by statute or by in
ference from statute. 1t can decree
that some industries must be curtailed.
or stopped entirely, in favor of others
more essential to the conduct of the
war. The men working out the details
of this coordination of a nation IS
energies are the picked men of com
merce. They are doing it, not auto
~eratically, but by friendly cooperation
with the leaders of industry throughout
the country. They are accomplishing
&c with such speed that we are now
Iarther advanced in this respect than
England was after a year. In some
lines we are farther ahead Than Eng
land is yet. Not all this cooperation
will end with the war; out of it we
shall achieve for times of peace most
of what was valuable and right in Ger
many's organization of industry.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26
CHAUTAUQUA CLOSES TONIGHT

The Ellison-White chautauqua clos
ed a successful season here tonight,
with the closing concert of James God
dar The season has been successful
in every way. Last evening Montaville
Flowers in an address of rare elo-
quence pictured the rebuilding of the
temple of civilization after the war.
He insisted that neither treaties, nor
disarmament would result in abolish
ment of war unless humanity took a
different viewpoint and carried high
er principles into effect.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-06-26
SOCIETY FOR GERMAN
REPUBLIC Is ACTIVE
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NEW YORK. June 26-With Down
with the HOhenzollernsl' as their slo-
gam, subjects of the Kaiser here have
organized a society called the Friends
of the German Republic, and are active
ly campaigning among Germans in the
United States.
The members OF the society declare
in a statement that sentiment for a re-
public is growing rapidly in Germany.
The statement reads, in part;
The sooner the German people re-
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move their autocrats and junkers, the
sooner peace will come. The Russians
have shown us the way. The German
people are longing for peace. They
did not max the war. Freed from the
incubus of an arrogant militaristic
clique and organized ina democratic re-
public, they would at once be in a po-
sition TO conclude honorable and sta
bic peace.
Travellers tell US that the %republi-
can movement is spreading rapidly. We
hear of men and women being arrest
ed for spreading this propaganda
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Piano Instruction

Marion Elizabeth Etter will open
her studio owe Varney's in July and
will give instruction in Piano, Violin
and Harmony. Graduate of American
Conservatory of Chicago. Telephone
436.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-06-28
Stolen Auto Found.

Old John Barleycorn is respon-
sible for another episode in Bax-
ter Springs that has made a man
a fugitive from justice and de-
prived a woman and small
children OF the protection and
support OF a husband and father.
Last week the Ford car belong
ing to Sam West, rural mail
carrier, was stolen from the side
Of the postofiice bnilding. The
act was committed in mid day
and the daring of the theft
astonished the people.
A search was begun and the
following day the car was found
in the bottom near Lincolnville,
where it had been run a short
distance from the road and left
uninjured.
Later it developed that a
plumber who had been on a
drunk the night before was
probably the man who ran of
with the car. All the circum-
stances point to the fact that the
man was in a crazed condition
from drink and when he took the
car did uot realize what he had
done until he had had time to
sober up little. Then, fearing
the consequences, he left the
country. The man came here
recently from Tllsa and went to
work for l.. A. Smith, who says
that he was a steady man and a
good worker. Friends say that
he has always been a good hus-
band and a good provider except
on rare occasions when he would
get under the influence of liquor;
then he would act like a crazy
man.