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The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
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CONTROL OF TREES IN CITY
Los Angeles Newspaper Advocates
Commission Which Should Weld
Absolute Power.

What we need. and need badly
right now. Is a tree commission haV-
ing absolute control OF all street
planting. The trees should be taken
away from the owners of abutting
property. He should neither be held
responsible for them nor allowed TO
touch them, any further than any
other resident of the city. Why has
the city taken over street, curb and
sidewalk, and allowed a narrow strip
Of private property TO interyene7 Why
does the city partially control lit Is
divided interest and responsibility
conducive to the best results7 A
study of our street planting will quick
ly bring an answer. Not one in a
hundred is competent TO choose the
right tree for a street. The same per
centage will care for them properly,
and about the same number will agree
on the same tree. No resident of Los
Angeles need be told of the outcome
Of such laxity of control, or, rather
| such absence OF control. The need for
change is great. and the problem
cries to high heaven for relief. When
will 1t be solved, and solved Alright
How long are we to continue under
| present conditions? All know a
| change must come-why delay? Our
charter trainers may help us out by
| providing for a tree commission In
full control, with a corps Of trained
| experts, to give us a city in the near
future OF which our residents for all
time may be proud as the really city
| beautiful.-LOs Angeles Times.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
Landseape GARDENING

Landscape gardening has not re.
eeived the attention that it deserves.
We have not studied the kinds OF rose
that thrive best here. nor have we ex.
ercised care In preparing the soil for
thrifty growth and blooming, Most
people have merely dug holes in the
ground and planted rose bushes with
out adding the elements on which rus-
es thrive Then we wonder in the
blooming season why they do not pro
duee fine flowers.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
His Limit

Il understand. Mr. Rasp.7 began the
suave stranger. that you once voted
for the Hon"
Yes" admitted old Rupus Rasp. Il
voted for him a good many years ago.
Also once applied my youthful tongue
TO an ice-cOld sledge hammer. Like
wise, ! once paid tuition 10 CORE
spondence school OF growing tall by
mail and thereby becoming irresistible
TO the ladies. But 1t won't do you any
good 20 produce that fiat package which
observe outlined through your coat
and which l suspect is a simple vol
ume OF Great Flights OF Oratory by
American Blatherskites. for while !
own up To having been fool I'm my
time II infuriates me To he called, even
by implication, a hopeless durn fool
Kansas City Star.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
He Must Have Bun Them.

DIR. J. p. Naylor. head OF the ply
sizes department of De Paul univer-
sity. was walking down a slippery
sidewalk and hitting a particularly Icy
place, fell down.
ii. NJ. GorrelI. Doctor MAYORS assist
ant, was following him. You are
somewhat OF an architect, aren't you,
dOctorT asked GOrrell.
Flows thatf" asked the professor.
you are making blue prints. In
dianapOlis News
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
BOSCHEE's GERMAN SYRUP

win quiet your cough, sOothe the in
hammation Of sore throat and lungs,
stop irritation In the bronchial tubes,
insuring a good nights rest. free from
coughing and with easy expeeioratlon
In the morning. Made and sold In
America for fify-two years. A won
derful prescription, assisting Nature In
building up your general health and
throwing on the disease. Especially
useful in lung trouble. asthma. Group,
bronchitis, etc. For sale in all civil.
ICED eouGtries.-Adv.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
Harold a Patriot.

Harold Irby eleven years old, $40
West Thirty-ninth street. has the kind
of patriotism that is willing q make
the sacrifice of treasured belonging.
Harold decided to sell his electric
Christmas tree illumination system and
give the proceeds 70 "A patriotic cause.
The equipment WAS sold through aa ad-
vertiSement Tor one-half of it's cost and
the money will be divided between the
Red Cross society. nf which be il n
member. and the Y. NJ c. A--Indlan-
apolis News.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
PUTTING YARD TO BEST USE
Bulletin Of Department Of Agriculture
Gives Some Valuable Information
to Those Interested.

The best methods to follow and the
a small area like a back yard produce
the maximum amount Of food for the
family are discussed in a publication
of the United States department OF
agriculture, Farmers Bulletin S1S,
THE Small Vegetable Garden" In
addition to furnishing information in
regard to the fundamental principles
of gardening. this bulletin describes in
detail the culture OF all Of the common
garden plants, and also furnishes a ia
BILE showing in a concise form the
quantity OF seed needed for each kind
Of vegetable, the proper way and times
to plant, and the material required to
produce the crop.
To make a small area produce a
large amount of food, the bulletin
points out that not only every foot OF
available space must be utilized. but
that late or succession crops must be
planted as soon as the earlier plants
have been removed. To carry on gar
dening in this intensive way requires
careful planning In advance, and 1t is
recommended that a detailed diagram
of the garden be drawn up and the va
riouS uses that II is planned to put
each portion to, throughout the grow
ing season, be clearly indicated. On
this plan the success or failure OF the
various enterprises should be noted
and the plan itself kept as a guide for
the following year.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
: Re War by Preparing the Land
vine the Seed and Producing Bigger CrOps

1em Effort the Soil Of the United States and Canada
COOPERATIVE IN
TO WIN
kd Controllers of the United States and Canada
o production Scarcely 100 900 bushels avail
mi to the allies before the Upon the
kAe United States and Canada the burden of supply
NAable Tlahls Acre Must Contribute; Every Available
Farmer and Farm Hand Must Assist
Canada has be seeded, but power
appeal to the United States allies for for seed
[krN1n
heat Production Last Year was 225 900 Bushels; the
From Canada Alone fer 1915 Is 400 900 Bushels
this she have assistance She has the land
he Government of the United States every
p to do farm work this 1t the land the United
pped hTN OF courses but also help Canada When
~ man Canadas fields after supplied
m % kirect him there
Employment Service, and viii tell you you can
~Fe - Combined Interests
en Canadas help will be required later than April Sth Wages
- help $4,000 month and up, board and lodging.
ho respond this appeal viii get welcome good wages
md ind comfortable homes They VIII
eM Canadian boundary points destination and
and places where employment nav be had
s. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE DEPARTMENT OF uB0R
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
Novel Street Construction.

In one Of the larger Michigan cities
they are trying a novel type of street
construction. Pavements IS feet wids
are being laid. confined between head
ers Of concrete built as a part Of ths
concrete foundation along the center
OF the street. A strip along each sids
Of the pavement and the curb Is buil
II earth and gravel. as are the shoul
oers Of the paved country highway.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
ma Relieved
Cough E1r..l
Ebhardt, 21s East First

Ebhardt, 21s East First
B. Illinois writes:
ken six bottles of your
> cough, and I am all
nt over 10 see a neigh
and I had a terrible
my eyes were sore She
a bottle of Peruna last
md 1t did me SO much
Bought a bottle, and then
finished that got an
on until / have taken
BOTTLES and / feel like a
I am fifty-nine year5
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
A Sucker.

Banker Henry 4. payi,ou said at an.
artists banquet:
"Gcntlcmen, I once went IN for paine-
ing myself. rnamrled n 6athtub.
Ms friends sought 10 discourage me
In my artistic aims. They said Its
No Use going in for painting unless you.
stick Ia your work
"GrntIcmeu / did So" "a
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15

a rocking chair which reyolves oH
circular base has been iuygnted foE
railroad cars.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15

Bobby would Kiss you II thought
40 one would see me.
Flossy- Shall | close my eyes1
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
| Feel as
Did
Twenty
Years Ago.

old, and since have taken the Pc
runa, 1 feel AZ did twenty years
ago. viii always keep Psruna In
my house"
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15

are one thing. but a false
them is another.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15

out the body and CON
3 ~.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15

Il haven't seen q miIEmHid In must
cal comedy fer long time"
Evidently you haven't followed the
trend 81 girl shows"
"No?"
a mlikmald II supposed 90 wear
some clothes. even on the Stage -
Birmingham Age-Iieraid.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15

Those who object to liquid medi.
eines can secure Peruna tablets.
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15
Positive Proof.

"Ferdy, do you really love met"
Didn't it take 30 cents to send that
last letter l wroteT'
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15

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The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-03-15

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-15
HAVE AN ALERT EAR.

La Crosse Tribune: Occasionally
people possessed of an active type OF
patriotic zeal cause annoyance and do
harm by exceeding the authority OF
a citizen in dealing with individuals
whose attitude toward the war Is any
where from bad to worse, and crit-
cism of such officiousness has had a
tendency to close the mouths OF men
and women who come into contact
with disloyalty. But, however one ap-
proves the suppression of the amat-
eur detective amuck,, his efface1nent
may have resulted in an overdose of
discretion. The department Of justice
wants information. for often the re-
porting of loose talk leads to the ap-
prehension of dangerous enemies OF
the country. True there are very few
of them at large, but such as there are
the government wants to locate. Tip
ping the officials to individuals whose
conversation creates suspicion is oft
en- valuable service. Recently, Mr..
Parker, head of the federal secret ser
vice in this stote, wrote letter to a
citizen of La Crosse in which he ex-
pressed the hope that all cases of IN
American talking would be given in
confidence to the department of JUS
tice officials. It isn't wise to exag-
gerate the importance of such utter
community, nor is it necessary to
wear an air of mystery and go sleuth-
ing all about the place, but should enc
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-15
HOOVER AND THE PRESIDENCY

Sac City Bulletin, dem: The wort
is being spread around that HerbeS
Hoover, national food administering
may be found the logical man 70
head the republican ticket in the ne1
presidential election We want to say
right now that if he is nominated
we won't say one word to his detrt
ment and unless the war is still CON
tinuing and it appears best not 70
change the national organization, we
won't care a whit II he's elected For
Herbert Hoover is a republican who
is achieving prominence in politics
as he did in his own profession-no'
by kicking and opposing, but by TAX
ing off his coat and really doing big
things in big way. We believe thai
today the only difference between
the democratic and republican partie;
is in their leadership, and wheneyel
a man like Herbert Hoover Is PLACED
at the head of the G. o. P. wert
willing to hoist the white flag. AND
in so doing it we can at least have
the consolation that the democrat
discovered him and gave him his op
portunity to secure a permanen
place in the hearts of the America
people. But to be honest we mus
admit that we don't deserve an!
more credit than that-we didn
make him a success: Hoover Oil
that himself.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-15
NONSENSE ABocT COAL.

Christian Science Monitor: What
ever may be the purpose of the
United States fuel commission in
continually issuing warnings to the
effect that there is going to be a
shortage of coal next winter, it must
be pardonable for an impartial OBJ
server of the situation to doubt the
expediency of such a course, unless
il can be fully justified. If there is
going to be a shortage of coal next
winter, then the fuel commission will
evidently be largely responsible for
it, and, by warning and alarming the
public in advance on this score, it
is simply anticipating the criticism
and condemnation that will inevi-
tably come to it in case its predic-
lions shall be verified.
The fuel commission viii, next win
ter, have had practically an entire
year in which to provide against the
possibility of the calamity which it
would have the public believe is al
most unpreventable. There was
some, but not much, excuse for last
years shortage. The railroads had
been allowed to run down. Tens of
thousands of cars were either in a
wretched state of disrepair or en-
tirely out of commission There was
a great congestion and great rush
ing of war freight on all principal
lines The confusion attending the
first year of war was at its height
These conditions are practically all
reversed now. The mines continue
to hold inexhaustible supplies OF
coal. Labor is more generally and
more skfllfully employed, and better
com pensated; vast sums of money
have been appropriated for and spent
upon the improvement of railroad
equipment; there is a great increase
in locomotives and cars; there are
more coal barges; the weather has
been, is, and for months will con-
tinue to be, favorable to coal distri-
button: everybody in the coal trade
is assured large profit.
In view of these circumstances, the
constant talk of a coal shortage next
winter is nonsensical. 1t is not what
the public wants to hear It is not
the kind of talk to inspire the nation
with confidence in the future. If
there is any real ground for il, no
time should be lost by the president
in discovering why the fuel commits
sion insists on preparing the public
for its own failure. Neither should
time be lost in forestalling the fail
ure which the commission seems to
anticipate
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-15
WARS PERSONAL DANGERS.

It may comfort anxious parents and friends
of our soldiers to read some figures compiled
by the federal bureau of statistics Based on
the mortality data of the allied armies a sol
der has twenty-nine chances of escaping un-
hurt to one of being killed in battle. Ii wound
ed, he has forty-nine chances OF recovery to one
of death In other wars fifteen men have died
from disease to one from bullets; IN this war
one man dies from disease to ten from bullets.
Added to these reassuring facts is the compu-
tation made by British medical experts that the
physical betterment afforded by military train
ing will add five to six years to the life of the
men who survive unframed. Our government
through it's education bureau is making we'll
timed and promising provision to care for the
future usefulness of soldiers physically dis
abled in the war. So far wars dangers and
disabling effects can be met by skill and fore
sight, this is being done.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-15
The wretched business of warfare must
finally become obsolete all over the globe
John Fiske.
A POSSIBLE INJUSTICE.

Clarence OuSiey, assistant secretary OF atgr1-
culture, issues statement defending the cler
ical force of the department from the charge of
slackerism. There has been a tendency by GER
tain congressman to single out the department
of agriculture as a target for criticism. If the
alleged facts they present are true, the accusa-
ton is well grounded. But Mr.. Ousley says
they are not true; he says that the impression
prevailing that some two thousand men have
been sheltered from military service by employ
ment in the agricultural department has no
Foundation in fact; that two hundred and five
men of draft age are employed in Washington,
and throughout the country not more than
seventeen hundred men in all have been placed
in deferred classification at the request of his
department. These men are chemists, veterin.
aries, experts whose work is of such special
sort that it demands training and experience
, hard to find. If Mr.. Ousley's facts are accurate
j and presumably they are-it is manifest in
justice to stigmatize workers in the agricultur
I. al department. for doing the work the govern
;, ment selects them to do. The whole scheme O
il the selective draft had this sort of selection i
view and it is probable that there will be NOR
], Of it necessary before we get far in the wa
1t is not sackerism to remain at home and d
Il necessary work and it will not help the natio
n % get the right man In the right place to ca
q, t this.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-15
Letter Jack London Repudiafed

New York sun: One OF the publ
cations issued by the Brooklyn group
of disloyal persons recently convict
ed of conspiring to cause insubordi-
nation in the army contained a quota
ton which was attributed to the late
Jack London. A news article on the
trial, mentioning the offering of the
quotation as evidence, has reached
Mr. London's widow, who writes to
the Sun as follows:
To the Editor of the Sun-Sir:
The enclosed folder explains it
self VIII you not, please, in JUS
tice to the memory of Jack Lam
don, who denied this canard
broadcast, give my enclosure
some publicity? You will notice
that the folder is used by the
navy recruiting stations.
CHARMION K. LONDON,
(Mrs. Jack London),
Glen Ellen, Cal, June 90
On the cover of the navy recruit
ing station folder is an announce
ment to the effect that the letter
used by the Brooklyn conspirators
has been falsely attributed to Jack
London for year: "and widespread
publicity has been given to the let
ter by many so-called socialist pub
locations and by others whose prac-
tice is to misrepresent the army and
navy of the United States" The
counterfeit letter itself, as it appears
in the folder, is as follows:
Young Men: The lowest aim
in your life is to become sol
der The good soldier never
tries to distinguish right from
wrong. He never thinks; never
reasons; he only obeys. If he is
ordered to fire on his fellow
citizens, on his friends, on his
neighbors, on his relatives, he
obeys without hesitation. If he
is ordered to fire down crowd
ed street when the poor are
clamoring for bread, he obeys,
and sees the gray hairs of age
stained with red and the life
tide gushing from the breasts
of women, feeling neither re-
morse nor sympathy. If he is or
dered off as firing squad to
execute a hero or benefactor he
fires without hesitation, though
he knows the bullet will pierce
the noblest heart that ever beat
in human breast
A good soldier is blind, heart
less, soulless, murderous ma
chine. He is not man. He is
not brute, for brutes only kill
in self-defense. All that is hui
man in him, all that is divine in
him, all that constitutes the man
has been sworn away when he
took the enlistment roll. His
mind, his conscience, aye, his
very soul, are in the keeping of
his officer.
No man can fall lower than
soldier-it is a depth beneath
| which we cannot go. Keep the
boys ont of the army. 1t is hell.
Down with the army and navy.
! We don't need killing instftu-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-15
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE
The BETTER SELF.

THE BETTER SELF.
Out meath the starry heavens my Other Self and l.
We sit by the stream
and dream
While Yesterdays things by
The pleas and the cries Of fear
We should have heard but did not hear
The calls for help that did not heed
In all hurry and rush and greed
Before they go drifting by
My 9th er a chidins eye!
These things you failed in" Other Sell
to
1.-The cries of need
That did not heed
The suffering you would not
The and and the calls for aid,
The weak appeals of the afraid
The cries of pain and distress unheard
You might helped with friendly word,
help" And bow and sigh
AS Yesterdays poor mistakes go By.
Out meath starry alone the silent earth
With nigh,
Myself and
each others worth
And each may know, drift along
How is weak and the other strong!
All, wished that it might have been
That might live In the world OF men
Instead of me, and I often sigh
And wish that my Other Self were I!
John D. Wells
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-15
FAREWELL TO GARABED

New York Tribune: There were
solemn and intelligent folk who
thought the great Garabed had some
thing worth investigating that might
win the war in no time. So congress
very sensibiy investigated
In finding that the marvellous
scheme of summoning free energy
from the atmosphere was unsound
and without practical value the con-
gressional investigators hit very
timely blow at a great deal besides
Garabedianism- 1t has been a weak
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-15

ness of good many Americans, some
of them in high places, that. they
have insisted upon believing that the
war could be won by some hocus
pocus, without the hard years of
fighting and sacrifice. Russia would
do it, or airplanes would do 1t, or the
socialists would do it, or Austria
would do it. Garabedians all!
Let us all give up the moonbeam
chasing henceforth and get down to
work. Luck may win the. war yet.
But 1t will never come to the side
that sits around and wishes for it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-15

Frank Crane: The gentleman avoids anything that
might offend with whom he is cast, be little
mental He guards against topics
that rrtate He is respectful toward the prejudice OF
He calls attention to anothers defects He
the basfuI He does not shame the inesper
enced. shields the awkward He is considerable to the
absurd He respectfuI all He will not take
with any except it be worth while He does
threaten, hard. He is anxious to Sc
his self respect than the respect OF others He
10 Man. And he is Gentle.