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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29
May as Well Draft Him

The physical director at Harvard
finds that every great athlete in
herits his physical perfection from
his mother. Father seems to be get
ting less necessary every year.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29
Charity Out of a Pure Heart

Now the end of the commandment
is charity out of a pure heart, and
of a good conscience, and of faith
unfeigned.-I Timothy, I, 5.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29
EDITORIAL COMMENT
By Briggs

Kultur is materialisms reductio
ad absurdum.-Chicago Daily News.
The Yankee idea of holding a line
Is to advance it.-Chicago Tribune.
AS watchful walters the marines
seem to be a failure.-Philadelp
North American.
This is a solemn thought. If
Hindenburg's army bites off more
than it can chew it may choke to
death.-Detroit Journal.
Wouln't 1t be awful il the war
expert" industry should be classed
as non-essential? New York Morn
ing Telegraph.
When our boys sing Yankee
Doodle" the Huns are the ones that
stick a white feather in their caps.
st. Louis Star.
1t seems to have escaped the at
tention of striking workmen that
the men who are fighting for them
get no raise.-Philadelph North
American.
1t will cost more to travel this
year than it has in many years, but
then it will also cost more to stay
at home.-F'lorida Times-Union.
Germany is already talking about
"the next war" That is reasonable,
as 1t seems to have musSed up this
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29
BULLY FOR LYNCH!

" HOSE contractors and indi-
viduals who vainly imagine that
they can put anything over
City Commissioner Lynch should
pinch themselves and get awake to
the fact that the head of the Depart
ment of Public Works has been on
earth few years and knows most
of the curves which have relation to
his big job.
He is inclined to be lenient most
of the time-too lenient some of the
time-but it must not be thought
that there is any lack of backbone in
this particular official.
The other day certain individual
deliberately disregarded the orders
of Commissioner Lynch's department
in the matter of cutting through pri-
vate property for service pipe con-
nection. This particular offender will
think twice before he tries that sort
of game again. inasmuch as he found
1t quite expensive.
In another case one of the public
utilities treated with indifference
certain street regulations and Com
!. missioner Lynch used the big stick
with promptness and efficiency. In
-still another case. just after a con-
siderable section of street had been
nicely covered with sheet asphalt,
a certain corporation ripped open
the street without permit and with
no decent regard for the rights of
the people. Again Commissioner
Lynch bore down heavily and it is
not considered likely that this same
corporation will soon invite the de-
partment's righteous wrath.
These instances of a growing in
difference to legitimate and neces-
sary municipal regulation illustrate
what the Telegraph has so frequent
ly discussed-a growing disposition
to assume the attitude of a certain
famous New Yorker who on one oc-
casion observed THE public be
damned"
Mr.. Lynch will have the approval
of every good citizen in his deter
mination to insist upon a decent OBJ
servance of proper rules and regu-
lations for the protection of the
property of the taxpayer. More
power to his good right arm. Har-
risburg is not going into the discard
IL all the officials will pursue the
same course.
1t is quite common remark that
: the present form of commission gov
ernment leads to a tendency to court
public favor by failure to enforce
proper ordinances or to insist upon
observance of the rights of all the
people. Officials will always do well
to remember that votes are never
made in this way; that for every
vote thus acquired hundreds are lost
When Captain Thompson goes t.
New York to study traffic regulation!
let us hope that he will come bacl
with a definite determination to us,
the semaphore signals at the i'm
portant street intersections. 1t is al
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

Anyway. Mr.. Hoover didn't put his
antibeef regulations into force until
steak had become so expensive few
of us could afford 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

sly sympathizer with Germany gets
in his work Fortunately for the Ameri-
can soldier he is not easily deceived.
Word comes from the other side that
German airplanes among American SOL
diers are treated as silly jokes and
never taken seriously. Letters from
the boys at the fighting front all in
dicate a desire to crush the Hun. and
it is not at all likely the propaganda
inspired at Berlin will have any ef-
feet upon the fighting forces.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

Ten Thousand dollars for a Fourth
of July demonstration! And somebody
thought we hadn't money enough for
our Liberty Loan quota.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29
THEY DON'T MIX

WYE can appreciate the thought
wv which prompted the writing
of the following, clipped from
The Stars and Stripes in France. the
official newspaper of the American
Army abroad:
Somehow or other, we'd appre-
ciate the sight of the papers and
magazines from home a lot more
If they weren't so full of adys
saying soon somebody higher i'm
than you are will be called away
to war. FIT YOURSELF TO
TAKE HIS PLACEw
Commercial advertising and the war
don't mix well. Occasionally some
happy thinker combines the two in a
pleasing and convincing manner, but
usually the wise advertiser keeps his
copy out of the trenches.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

Well stand lot from Food Ad-
ministrator Mccormick. but we don't
want him to come fooling around our
huckleberry pie ration.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29
Song Of A Thousand Years

Lift up your eyes, desponding free
men!
Fling to the winds your needless
fears.
He who unfurled your beauteous
banner
Said it shall wave thousand
years.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

Gabriel II. Meyer is proving to pro-
Germans that he is some little propo-
gandist himself.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29
Hero are two Lid Stories:

Among visitors to the city was
Robert M. Ginter, managing editor
of the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times,
who stopped here on his way to
Pittsburgh from New York. He was
formerly Washington correspondent
for the Gazette-Times and has wide
acquaintance among prominent men.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

Popular topic of conversation
Has your coal order been filled?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg steel bilIets
have passed the highest chemi-
cal tests for munitions?
HISTORIC HARRISBURG
In old times South street used to
run through Capitol Park.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

1t is beginning to dawn upon the
-four hoarder that your Uncle Sam
means just what he says.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

Germany is already talking about
"the next war" That is reasonable,
as it seems to have mussed up this
one beyond repair.-Chicago Daily
News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29
1T MAKES A
DIFFERENCE.

She: Do you
think 1t is wrong
to gamble?
He: If you lose,
yes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

Member of the Associated Press-The
Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled TO the use for republication of
all news dispatches credited to 1t or
not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herein.
All rights of republication of special
dispatches herein are also reserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29
HIS AUTO.

HIS AUTO.
Did Jones lose
control of his
auto?
Completely; the
cook uses 1t all
the time.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

When Captain Thompson goes to
New York to study traffic regulations
let us hope that he will come back
with a definite determination to use
the semaphore signals at the i'm
portant street intersections. 1t is an
outrage to expect a policeman to wave
his arms from morning until night
like an animated scarecrow, when he
could be giving proper attention to
the traffic by use of go" and stop"
signals.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

DID SHE MEAN
1T.
Husband L
have a bad head
this morning.
Wife--I'm very
sorry, dear, but I
do hope you will
be able to shake
it off.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

E.y. sTAcKPoLE,P Press s. ESisor-in. Chief
F. r. OYSTER. Basinsss Manager.
GUS M. STEINMETZ. Managing Editor.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29
h=SARn0
THE MODERN
APARTMENT.

Are children
allowed where
you live7
oh, my mol But
each tenant Is
permitted to keep
a dog.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

Published evenings except Sunday by
THE TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO..
Telegraph Building, Federal Square.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

Pittsburgh. Pa, firemen ask an
increase of $3.50 a year.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

Firemen at Calf, Canada, demand
800 a year increase in pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

VrYITH the lifting of the cloud
wv that has hung for more than
eight months over the Italian
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

Thousands of railroad shopmen
have been lured by high shipyard
nav
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-29

Dublin. Ireland, master builders
have conceded their employees in
creased wages.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1918-02-19
PROCLAMATION REGARDING
SEEMING OF FISH

In response to numerous re-
quests the following extracts
from the proclamation issued by
Governor Alexander in regard to
the SEEMING of fish in Idaho
waters are published
White fish, carp, sturgeon,
mullet, salmon and perch are
among the species of fish that
may be seined. Trout or bass
cannot be caught in this man
ner and if they are they must be
put back in the streams or lakes.
The proclamation permits the
seining in all of the big and small
streams in the state, including
the Snake, Payette, Weiser, Bear,
Occur d'Alene, Clearwater and
other rivers and in such lakes as
the Occur d'Alene, Red Fish, AL
turas, etc. Only those fish that
are not classified as game may
be seined.
1t is claimed by those who have
given the matter study that the
proclamation will release for To-
cal consumption within the state
of Idaho a grand total of 1,OOO,-
600 pounds of fish which will be
put on the market at price that
is within reason and will permit
the average person to buy it.
Because of the suspension OF
the game laws with regard tC
seining, it is likely that many
fishermen will organize into COM
panies and attempt to sein the
fish in such quantities that they
can make a margin of profit b!
placing the fish caught on thu
market.
The proclamation of the COVER
nor is the result of joint con
ference between Food Admin
istrator Bicknell and State Gam
Warden Jones.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1918-02-19

tain the four-year course for
those who for any reason are not
subject to draft or who are sufn-
ciently calm minded to plan for
two years of college, followed by
an indefinite number of years of
war with two more years Of col
lege after the end of the war if
they survive, it is my opinion that
the number of men in this class
Will be small A second line of
service is to assist the war de-
partment in training selected
men from the national army for
special service of one kind or an
other, and the School of Mines
has already pledged itself to this
work. We feel, however, that in
the main the situation will best
be met by the maintenance of
technical vocational courses of
six to ~ months duration
planned to prepare young fellows
just out of high school for a year
or so of service as substitutes in
industry, i'm place of the young
technical men, practically all of
whom are i'm France or on their
way there.
1--WE propose therefore to give
these men and to any other high
school graduates who may care
to enter, an intensive course il
geology, mineralogy, fire and we
assaying and zinc surveying We
shall have to waive some prere-
quisites but at the same time
subjects taken will count TOWARD
the degree course when the wa
is over or if peace should unex.
pectedly come. The work to som'
extent will have to be empirica
and the course will be entirel
unconventional But what of tina
il by this means we can be o
service to the state, to the nation
and to the cause Of democracy
| Il is frankly a war emergenc,
measure and like many war emer
Igency measures will doubles
furnish partial precedent 70
procedure i'm peace"
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1918-02-19
BUILD BIG PLANT
FOR POTATO FLOUR

MERIDIAN, Idaho, Feb. 49,
A potato flour mill with a daily
output of five carloads is to be
installed here at once by the Ida
no Products company Of Boise,
and the machinery for the plant
has already been purchased at an
approximate cost of $4,000, and
is now in transit. The industry
is to be in active operation by
March 1 and in all probability
earlier.
Through the establishment of
the industry an additional pay
roll of proportions is assured
this place and it is generally con-
ceded that its effect will be a
material expansion of all bust
ness in the town. 1t is also be-
lieved that the industry will serve
to give impetus to the potato in
dustry, which is fast assuming
large proportions throughout the
entire valley and particularly in
the Deer Flat community in Can
yen county.
All sizes of sound potatoes are
TO be manufactured into flour by
the plant and through their utili-
cation an abundant market viii
lbe created for the potatoes Of the
valley grown last year which have
not yet been marketed.
It is contemplated by the Off
icers Of the company that the mil
will be in operation for a perio'
of 90 days this spring, it beinI
estimated that that time will b
required to manufacture tina
portion of last years potato GRO
which has not yet been sold, int
flour.
The fruit evaporating plant in
stalled here last year by thi
company cost it $4,000 and tn
: additional investment Of $1,000
for the mill raises the total COS
p of its industries here to a sum
excess of $4,000.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1918-02-19
HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO
WORK WITH GOVERNMENT

In its road policy for 1918 the
state highway commission will
work hand-in-hand with the gov
eminent. This was decided at a
joint conference between mem
bcrs of the commission and the
governor. Secretary of State
Dougherty was instructed to draft
resolutions outlining the position
of the commission as decided up
on. They will be given out for
publication later.
Some of the radical planks in
this policy include the following
Work on the state highways
will not be done during the plant
ing and harvesting seasons. Men
and teams will therefore be able
To assist in the harvesting and
planting of crops.
Farmers will be used where
ever possible in road districts tc
assist in highway construction
and there will be no competition
so far as they are concerned.
No more dirt roads will be
built on strictly volcanic soil and
left with nothing more substan-
tial than a dirt finish. Where
such roads are built they will be
given z gravel surfacing to pro-
vide more substantial construc-
ton and to cut down the cost OF
maintenance.
Counties will be required to pu
up their share of road money fol
construction before road work i,
started. Those counties now de
lnquent to the state i'm pro rat;
share of cost will be required t.
make good the amount due tn,
state.
Securities will not be issuel
for road work in any manner tina
will conflict with the federal pro
gram, when by so doing fund
can be diverted for more timel
Use in winning the present war
Nothing will be done by tn
state to interfere with the labo
plans of the government, thereb
making available for call at an
time the man power of Idaho fO
use in various ways to push TN
war to a successful conclusion
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1918-02-19

ton OF punch boarls, slot
machines, keno pool and other
games of chance in Shoshone
county, are before members of
the council and were the inspira-
ton for the determination of the
council to act.
The resolutions will call upon
ALI authorities of the county and
municipalities to cooperate in
enforcing the statutes against all
forms of gambling and all loyal
and patriotic citizens will be
urged to give their moral sup
port to back up the authorities
in the crusade.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1918-02-19
WAR IS TAKING
UNIVERSITY MEN

The war is hitting the UniVer-
sity of Idaho hard, the state de-
partment of education has been
informed. 1t has already taken
most of its young men. 70 meet
the situation thus brought about
the school Of mines has been
authorized by the faculty to
change its curriculum SO that the
freshmen may be available for
industrial service this coming
summer.
The problem of the School of
Mines in relation to war service
is far from being a simple one,
says Dean Francis A. Thompson
of the Idaho School of Mines.
"Au of our sOphomOres and
juniors are off to the war and
we have but one senior left and
he has already enlisted and
awaits his call TO the aviation
training camp. We have large
and vigorous freshman class anc
the problem is how shall we train
these men that they may be Of
greatest possible SerNlceE
ION the basis Of a long war
and this is absolutely the onl.
basis to plan for, the presen
freshman will be drafted befor'
he has been two years in college
if indeed in the meantime con
gress does not lower the con
scription age. 1t is PRACTICAL
out of the question to expect hin
therefore Hhink in terms of tn
Average r-year academic o
fechnicaf course, and if this is tn
only choice the college can affor
him then he is likely either
enlist in the army or navy q
once, or to go to work for a yea
or so, with the view of gettin
together a little money before b
is called to national service.
while it is necessary to mai1
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1918-02-19
sHosHoNE COUNTY COUNCIL
SHOWS ACTIVITY


Reports from Wallace are that
the Shoshone county council Of
defense will back up the state,
county and municipal authorities
in clamping the lid down tight on
all forms of gambling, Stacking,
idling and illegitimate activities.
This step was taken as a war
measure at a meeting of the
council and a special committee
was appointed to draft resolu-
tions expressing the stand taken
by the council.
The resolutions will consider
complaints that have been lodged
relative to various forms OF
gambling alleged to exist
throughout the county, pointing
out the necessity for the legally
constituted authorities to prose
cute the guilty of such violation;
of the law in the end that thu
morality of the community ma!
be safeguarded; that the unne-
cessary expenditure Of none!
NAV be minimized and that tn
breeding places Of idlers, slack
lers and disloyalists may be swep
from existence and the maj
power of the county be conserved
Reports of wide open opera
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1918-02-19
INTERMoUNTAIN TERRITORY
WINS FREIGHT RATE VICTORY

A signal victory was gained by
the neople of the Intermountain
totrjt&y in the recent decision
of The Interstate Commerce Com
mission compelling the railroads
to eVualize the Pacific Coast and
interior freight rates.
Almost from the completion of
our transcontinental railroads,
freight rates TO destinations east
of Pacific Coast points have been
made by adding to the rate from
the point of origin to the coast.
the rate from the coast to the
interior destination, inhibiting
what is known as back hauling
of freight. In other words, it was
cheaper to haul freight from
New York to Portland, Oregon.
thence to an Idaho destination,
than by shipping direct from
New York to said Idaho point.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission has said that this prac-
tice must be stopped for the
present, due to the fact that there
is no reason at present that will
SXcuse the railroads from max
ing fair and Observation-Disclosures
rates on west-bOund traffic. The
excuse in the past for making
lower rates to the Pacific Coast
than to Idaho points, has been
the competition of the railroads
with water carriers operating
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Coast around the southern coast
Of South America, and more re
Gently, through the Panama
Canal. The war has diverted the
ships into foreign trade, and we,
at present, have no ships en-
gagged in coast to coast traffic.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission has said on the return
of water competition, they would
again permit rates that are less
to the Pacific Coast than to the
interior. Organized effort is now
being made to stay the hand of
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission from againn sanctiOning
this discrimination.
A bill has been introduced in
Congress prohibiting lower
charge for a long than for a
short haul, which is q, most inn
pOrtant legislative act for future
development i'm Idaho. If this act
becomes a law, our State viii
then develop upon fair anC
equal footing with our neighbor-
Oregon and Washington. II
will estop the railroads from
giving lower rates To the Pacific
Cs0asj~ people than to the people
Il the interior west. These rate
determinations are evident OF
both east and west bound freight
Nearly everything consumed il
this state pays a higher rate
from the east than is paid by the
people on the Pacific Coast
Many commodities are assessed
higher rates to Chicago and othel
eastern points from Idaho than
from Oregon and Washington.
Freight rate discrimination
has retarded the growth and de
VeTopment of Idaho more THAI
any other factor, and the time i
now come when her voice SHOULD
be heard in the councils of tn
nation.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1918-02-19

same upon the records of his
Office.
Dated this 18th day of Febru-
airy, A. D., 1913.
j. II. MORAN,
Chairman Board of
County Commission
ers of Benewah Coun-
ty, Idaho.
ORDER NO. 10.
At this time the matter of the
application of Mrs. Addie WeOm
of Plummer, for a tax refund
coming up for consideration and
it appearing to the satisfaction
of this Board of County Com
lmissioners that the applicant is a
widow, and as such is entitled to
a Widows exemption Of 100000
assessed valuation on taxes and
it is also appearing that the ap-
plicant is the owner of the fol-
lowing described property to-wit:
Lots one CD and two (2),
Block i6, Plummer, assessed
valuation $4,000 and that she
paid one half of the 1917 taxes
in the sum of 5000 under pro-
test as evidenced by Tax Collect
or's receipt No. 1885, it is there
fore
ORDERED. ADJUDGFD AND
lDECREED, that tax refund of
$1,000 be made TO Mrs. Addie
lWeom, the above named appli-
cant, said sum being the amount
SO paid under protest. and it is
further ordered that the second
half extension of taxes made
against this property he can
celled and the Auditor it hereby
authorized to credit the charge
account of the Tax Collector with
the amount of this cancellation.
Dated this 18th day of Febru-
larry, A. D., 1918.
J. ~. MORAN.
Chairman Board of
County Commission
ers of Benewah Coun-
ty, Idaho.
At this time the Board ad-
jOurned.
J. II. MORAN, Chairman.
Attest: Warren r. Shepherd,
Clerk.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1918-02-19
ITo be continuedJ
900 Will "a GIVEM

u each Of several schOOlbOys who
will deliver copies of the Curtis
publications to customers. Only
clean, gentlemanly
and ambitiOus-need apply. The
$40 is in addition to liberal cash
profits and many other advan-
lages. Apply to Red Cross Drug
Co., clio A. B. Annis, Prop, st.
MarieS, Idaho.