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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-10-11
GOOD ROADS BULLETIN

water working thru 1t for ages. The
last mentioned gravel seems to be
almost anywhere along the east foot
hills OF Snake river valley, particu-
larly in Bannock county and the
county has taken advantage Of it and
made conditions Of their roads far
better than in any other county in
the state.
Numerous citizens OF Bingham
rock crushed or a coarse sand and
gravel mixed which has had lime
county have asked various officers
and members of Bingham County
Civic league what the plan Of the
league" is regarding the roads In a
general way. This matter has had
considerable discussion both In open
league meeting and in the directors
meetings and our plans are not fully
developed, but we have good roads
in mind and are determined to get
them, because we know that the cit
liens of the county cannot afford to
travel on the roads as they are, par
ticularlly while war is on and labor
lis scarce. 1t requires almost double
the energy to convey products to
market on roads like those OF this
county than it otherwise would. We
can far better spend q few weeks
making roads which will tide us over
until after war than we can put up
with the handicap Of bad roads
while labor is hard to get.
In general way our plan Is to
first fix Prominently the approaches
to the several market towns, then
decide on the best method and ma
terials to Ak the main trunk roads
thru the county and upon which our
heavy traffic condenses. To date we
believe the best material obtainable
for the main trunk roads last men,
toned is the gravel lately obtained
by the county and for which It has
acquired considerable, machinery.
This Is too far away from some parts
of the county, however, unless ar
rangements can be made with the
railroads to haul 1t at rates within
our reach from the point of view Of
money. Such arrangements under
all normal conditions can be made,
but we need the roads now, and
therefore we suggest to the people
in the central and southern. parts Of
Bingham county that you look
sharply around you and locate q good
place where gravel is obtainable and
see that the county gets possession
and ownership OF it. It might be
necessary to locate a pit from which
common gravel can be obtained. In
such case the county would put a
rock crusher there and thus break
the gravel up into fine material.
Crushed and broken stone properly
put into road is just as good as the
gravel the county has obtained in the
east end thereof.
Everything cannot be done at once.
Let us therefore get ourselves pre-
pared to undertake with our support
the roads lately applied for from our
county commissioners. We need
them and in getting them we will
learn lots about roads and thus pre-
pare ourselves for a campaign of road
building which will not be expert
mental.
ITO be continued)
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-10-11

to put the language into disuse so
far as influence may apply.
II This would be crushing blow to
our good, loyal Germans who love
and use their method of speech ex-
clusively, but no one may protect
them entirely from the result of sin
committed SO grossly. The right to
German name, citizenry and han
guage has been forfeited and here
after the term Hun should be the
sobriQuet applied. The privilege of
conversation should be extended for
term Of years because older tongues
well grounded in traditional
method could not master new one
with any degree of confidence.
Mr.. Trego has military plan for
demonstrating devastated territory
with which the writer has had no
quarrel and the larger matters Of
| finance and indemnity are left to
those disposed and fitted to handle
them.
The works of art and fine old
structures would pass into other
hands by this method and would
effect division OF all large estates,
share all personal property Including
food, furniture and clothing; with
those who have been robbed, giving
them the lions share. The proceeds
of private works OF art and jewels
would be of assistance In rebuilding
treasure houses destroyed and SO on.
1t would seem wise to be a bit
cautious of Bulgaria who entered
the war for no good reason or desires
to leave it for any other than that
she did not select the winning side
after all. No one knows what Bull
garia is going to do in the future,
allowing for her present spasm Of
sincerity.
Turkey should be given over to
the much disputed, discussed and
abused Jews who have been without
a country quite long enough. It is
high time they were forgiven for past
offences; given credit for many COM
mendable qualities and reinstalled
into a permanent home.
Russia is among us truly. Great
big, rich, clumsy, over-exhausted, un-
lettered Russia, quarrelsome, brutal,
full of purpose soon exhausted, I'M
trammeled and much tramped upon
Russia, you big, grand old sinner, I
love you for what you are now and
the fine thing YOU are going to be.
Suppose we established a protec-
torate over Russia for an indefinite
term Of years, and in the interim
select perhaps one or two thousand
Of her promising young men and wo-
men from all ranks and diversified
territory. place them in the best
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-10-11
(By F. N. Parkinson)

The past Few weeks we have haC
several days in which our roads have
had opportunity to show themselves
under the best conditions possible
Rain settled the dust and made the
surfaces soft 80 that the graders and
Jewelers., had they been employed
could have made them fairly smooth
Only very few miles of the roads
came under the Jewelers. and so ia,
as we have been able to learn, the
graders have never left their places
OF safety.
One Of the county road overseers
with all the good intentions possible
to large good natured fellow, at
tempted as best he could to make
good roads out of the material at
hand along the portion OF the Vel
lowstOne Highway passing the Black
foot sugar factory. The surface had
become so very broken that it was
impossible to pass over it with safety
at more than five to eight miles per
hour. The road man hauled doz-
ems Of loads Of gravel, fine gravel
and some soil and packed the holes
and rough places full, then, with the
aid Of water tanks, hauled water and
wet the surfa.ces, after which he used
the steam roller for several days.
During the work the gravel, which
had not been packed with the roller,
would splash like water when a
wheel plowed thru it, The roller
made 1t much better, but even now
one finds the surface giving way and
the gravel coming out and making
the balance of the road rough,
Heavy hauling of beets and grain Ia
about to concentrate on this road
and under it all Of the fall work will
go to naght.
Gentlemen, you who pay, lets
think this matter out together.
Where nature has prepared the roads
and made the mixture of gravel plen-
.tiful please notice that the under
soil is gravel. Where the under soil
lis clay. sand or silt or loan, gravel
surface will not hold unless it is put
on under the specifications of a ma
cadam road, which means simply that
bed Is prepared by rolling the foun-
dation soil until 1t Is hard, upon
which is placed about three inches
of large crushed stone. Over this
is placed several coats Of broken or
crushed stone in layers of first one
size slightly smaller than the last
and then crushed stone so fine that
1t is almost sand. With this last
sort the road is crowned. The life
of such road depends on the sort
Of traffic passing over it. If the traf-
fic is principally steel wheeled, it will
get better with useage. If 1t is fairly
we'll divided between steel wheeled
and rubber wheeled traffic the road
will last shorter time, due to the
fact that the rubber traffic sucks the
dust (fine particles OF stone which
have become fine thru contact with
wheels) from the surface and leaves
it in the ali to be blown away. I'm
der such trafficesholes soon form in
the road and it requires CONTINUED
repair, and a repaired road il never
as good as new. The best sort of
stone for such roads is lime and shale
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-10-11
.ere and Dhere
BY Mrs. Byrd Trego.

How wildly those of us who heard
DR.. Driser deliver his matchless lee
ture on the war subject as it then
(perhaps three years ago. appeared
on the horizon, recall his rather
sweeping statement that at the ter
minating Of the war the entire map
Of Europe would be subjected to re-
construction.
At this time many of us may be
found tilted back comfortably in our
rockers, enjoying the warmth of a
bit Of fire these cool evenings, oc-
cupied in smoking pipe or knitting
sock and thinking or speaking
deeply on what we will do with the
Prussians and their territory in the
near future.
Many Of us conclude, without par
ley, that we would divide it among
the Allies, which is a very general,
broad statement, quite in accord with
what those disposed will find here
connected with the suggestions that
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-10-11
schools and ESPECIALLY industries Of

schools and especially industries Of
the Allied world, educate them
thoroughly in government and when
they have completed this study, made
the knowledge absorbed, their own,
send them back to govern and de-
velop wonderful Russia, their own
beloved country.
/ you'd not attempt to influence
their art, literature or music which
they have already succeeded in pro-
ducing to q limited extent, coming as
the outpouring from burdened souls
largely.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20
WEDNESDAY, MARCH goth, 1918.
STACKER. THINK 1T OVER!

Stacker, you sit in your easy chair,
Thanking the Lord you're not over there,
Where the cannons roar and the brave men die,
And, dying, perhaps unburied lie;
You may have purchased bond or two
And imagine that is enough to do
But some day. after the war is done
And victory by the brave is won,
You'll see men sheer as they pass you by,
And you'll wish you had not been afraid to ole,
For what is the life of a coward worth
When he hasn't friend on the lonely earth?
But the world may consent to forget some day,
And when it has done so, what will you say
To the grandson sitting upon your knee,
AS he shows you his book, saying: "Grandpa, see!
Here is where, in the great world war
We lost a thousand soldiers more"
And when he turns and looks up at you,
Saying: "Tell me, grandpa, what did you do?"
Stacker, you'll sit in your big arm chair,
Wishing that you had been over there,
And you'd give your life for the right to say:
81 fought for God and the U. S. A."
Palmer Kiser,
332nd Infantry, Camp Sherman.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20
THE REDWOOD cAzErrE, REDWOOD FAILS. MINNEsorA

Perhaps, thought /, can get from Jimmy
some message for these soft people who are left
behind. But l knew better than to ask for it
outright, for Jimmy would have blushed and new
er spoken again.
ssWhat do the folks out home think of the
war;" I asked.
Jimmy's smile faded, and his blue eyes were
very serious.
.sThey want to know when it will be over" he
said. "Thats been their one question ever since
we got into it--and they make me sick. That's
a fine way to go into fght-shouting over your
shoulder every two seconds to ask If anybody
knows how soon it will end It's all right for
the poor devils who have been suffering for three
wears to wonder about the finish, but for us who
haven't begun to suffer
"I tell you we need this war. II we'd stood
aside and not got into it, we'd have become the
greatest nation of softies that ever sat down to
hearty meal. We were heading that way. Who
read books any more? Nobody-we crowded IN
to the movie theatres and dulled our wits with
the childish stuff. Who stayed at home and
talked things over? Nobody-we piled into the
war just as they came out of movie theatre
and were about to step into an automobile to
dash off somewhere for foxtrot And soon
as they decided that the thing was inevitable,
Will it end before we have to make any sacri-
fces-before we lose profits, before we know
hunger and unhappiness and pain?' That was
their first reaction, and they're just beginning
to get over it.
CPL tell them when it will end-it will end
when the men who trampled down Belgium and
France, who murdered people like cattle, who
ruined the fruit trees and burned the homes
it will end when those feel the grip Of the
world at their threats. It will end when the
crowd who started this Of lust and loot are
in full retreat, when Willie down at Verdun is
shouting to papa at Berlin: Come, for Gods
sake!' and papa up at Berlin is screaming to
to Willie at Verdun: Run, for Gods sakep 1t
will end with the siege of the Rhine!
"That's when it will end if it's left to fell
lows who are going over. We're ready to stand
in ice water up to waists, to live with the
rats in rain of German shells, to go over the
top and be finished Nobody need worry about
our boys over there. But how about the bunch
left over here-the crowd that want to know
how soon it will end? Are they going to queer
us? Will they fall for the German tricks? Will
the pacifists turn their blood to water? Only
one thing can do for us-and that isn't the Ger
man army It's our people at home May
be some guy in Terre Haute will get tired put
ting three-cent stamps on his letters. Maybe
some fellow in Cleveland will get sick OF the
graham bread. Maybe some fat little soul IN
Denver will get to worrying about his prohts.
And they'll come together and decide that It's
no use fighting it to a finish-and where will we
be Done for, licked, fnished thousands of dead
for nothing-al because the people at home
hadn't the CUTS to stick it out'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20
JIMMIE'S MESSAGE HOME.
(From Golfers Weekly

(From Golfers Weekly
"HEY'VE got to be smashed" said Jimmy,
referring to the Germans. 81 made up
my mind to that long ago. Of course
want to help. That's all.'
Yes-that was all. I wondered what Jmmy's
old German grandfather, who could neither read
nor speak English would say if he could see his
grandson now. wondered what the people back
home thought of Jimmy. He had given up his
career, thrown aside all his hopes of success, to
90 abroad and offer his life for them. And while
he went they could remain close by their warm
fires, counting their profits, eating their food,
living their lives as it pleased them to.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

81 WANT TO SAY" SAID GENERAL
PERSHING, THAT NO ORGANIZATION
SINCE THE WORLD BEGAN HAS EVER
DONE SUCH GREAT CONSTRUCTIVE
WORK WITH THE EFFICIENCY. DIS
PATCH AND UNDERSTANDING, OFTEN
UNDER ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES,
THAT HAS BEEN DONE IN FRANCE BY
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS IN THE
LAST SIX MONTHS
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

Washington has learned that Germany, not sat
isfied with deporting the old men from Belgium,
is now deporting the boys in their early teens,
three hundred between the ages of fourteen and
fifteen having already been dragged into Ger
many to work for the enemy and against the land
of their birth One more thing which cries out
for vengeance! For Belgian mothers to give up
the older sons for fighting is bad enough-to give
up the younger forever is insufferable.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20
WHAT THE WAR WILL Do TO YOUR BOY

w yHETHER your boy is private or officer,
w you can rest assured that he will come
w out of the war manier man. He Will
have more self-reliance, be more courageous dis
play a greater quality of fair play and justice
and know better how to obey as we'll as to lead
The army is wonderful leveler. The socalled
"highbrow,' the "roughneck" the wise and the
foolish ones all on the same plane. Every
one fights for the same cause. The coal-heaver's
son, the bankers boy, the farmer lad, the mil
lionaire all march side by side, sharing the same
hardships, discomforts and dangers at times and
enjoying the identical. pleasures, athletics and
ioys incident to a soldiers life. There is no
better school in the world for teaching young
man the lesson of life than the army, and we
shall, before the war is over, owe it debt never
to be forgotten.-Red Cross Magazine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20
GOSSIP OF THE PRESS.

The rural districts of Minnesota are being
flooded with socialistic drival in the guise Of
nonpartisan literature. The stuff is dished up
in way to create discomfort among the farm
ers. The usual song and dance about farmers
being mulcted by everybody else is played up to
the limit In the face of conditions they real
ly are this campaign Of SANDER looks suspicious
ly like an organized propaganda by the kaiser.
The debacle in Russia appears to be lost on
some of our American farmers who apparently
are permitting false prophets to lead them into
the path of revolution. The fact that these prop
agandists have picked this time for their mis-
chievious activities shows the nature of the
beasts.-Sherburn Advance.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

The Stars and Stripes now float above the
bandstand in Glencoe's beauty spot-Lincoln
park. Whoever raised the flag could not have
done in more appropriate place, because
the stand is the "local home" of "the band which
refused to play for the kaiser" This emblem
of liberty again consecrates the grounds stained
last summer by meeting held within its con-
fines which brought universal shame upon this
city.-Glencoe Enterprise
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

A red flag Socialist at Akeley blew his head
off with dynamite when he learned his activi-
ties in opposition to the war were, being inves-
tigated. If he had waited, he might have been
nominated7for Office along with Mr.. Bentall and
Mr. Sugarman.- Minneapolis Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

Immediately under the casualty list printed in
the Minneapolis Journal of Thursday the
significant w. S. S. in tiny letters. Surely no
better argument for the purchase of War Saw
ing Stamps could possibly be found than lay in
that very list Of names.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

Give the soldier your latest war book; you
will probably not read it again. He will. and
his friends will. Reading it will prepare him
for conditions cover there Mortified News.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

When the minister has right to use his pull
pit to satisfy personal grievance, or teacher
is justified in teaching his pupils that which sat
isles his sense of personal revenge, then the
editor will have right to edit his paper with
the same end Of view. All three are servants
of the public, and are in justice bound to serve
broadly and without prejudice. A lower service
than that is unworthy Of any one of the three
callings.
In the name of that Patriotism which you so
haughtily parade, take the trouble to verify ru-
mors derogatory to the government in its man
agement of the business of war before you re-
peat them. The most subtle and effective of
pro-German work is done through the spreading
of these tales which are very seldom anything
but tales and have their origin in the kaiser's
own stronghold, either directly or indirectly. II
you are AMERICAN you will know thing is
absolutely and unquestioningly true before you
permit it to be passed along through your lips.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

We were recently asked if it is possible for
US to get out one issue of the Gazette and not
'lambast' (isn't that vulgar word?) somebody
because he or she isn't showing quite enough pep
in this war game. We repeat our answer-lt
amt!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

1t isn't altogether just how you think or feel
on certain vital questions which makes you valu-
able or useless as a citizen. Whether you are
willing to concede something to the other fellow
and to cooperate with him is question which
must be settled before any valution can be put
on your services. You may be altogether wise
and wonderful but if you can't sometimes see
your neighbours viewpoint and the necessity of
accepting it you are anything but helpful factor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

Thrift Stamps are good but they were never
intended to serve as an excuse for not buying a
Liberty Bond.-Madelia News
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20
ola Toilette Breaks Silence headline. Why
in the world couldn't it have been his neck!

Finally it has been conceded by officials that
newspapers are real factor in the winning Of
the war; We have waited long time for that
and it sounds mighty good.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

When pleasure interferes with giving, cut out
the pleasure.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

Editor Hughes Of Echo says that barring a
few untruths he found Townley's speech at Echo
very uninteresting and void of anything vital
or virie Twas ever thus!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

Tom Davis says he believes in permitting
speeches of all organizations. Tom might also
have said that he believes in making them.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

The day of the Third Liberty Loan is rapidly
approaching. Begin to make your preparations
to meet the solicitors now. They probably will
not feel badly if you do the approaching instead
of waiting for them to do it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

An Iowa newspaper man suggests that the
women of the nation inaugurate a speeches.
day. What's the use! The men wouldn't let
them put it over if they did. If you don't be-
lieve it just spend about fifteen minutes in the
lobby of the postoffice and see. If that doesn't
convince you, nothing can-you are Of the un-
convincible breed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

"Uncle Sam can have everything I've got"
says Henry Ford. How does that sound to
the female crouch who won't give few hours
work in the afternoons to the Red Cross?
Morton Enterprise.
We can't say! But it started to wondering
how it would effect the hearing of the man worth
several thousands of dollars who growls every
time he is asked to give few dollars. Women
may have to face the burden of the work but it
takes money to oil the sewing machines.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-03-20

New Ulm is certainly taking very effective
means to get rid of the loyal Americans she has
in her borders. All she needs to do to justify
her nickname of Little Germany" is to elect
Fritsche mayor at her city election April 2.
Some day the citizens of Brown County met
ropols are due to be among those present at
very unpleasant awakening. Brown County is
in America and portion of her territory can
hope to ultimately and everlastingly perpetuate
the ideals and ideas of the German au-
tocracy. Whatever Fritsches personal char
acter may be-and since we do not know
him personally are in no position to comment
on the made, in the eyes of his government,
a serious mistake last summer. 1t would show
a much more American spirit now if he were to
abide by the decision Of his government instead
of trying to "vindcate" himself as the paper
which is sponsoring his candidacy says he is.