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Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22
IDAHO SHOW HERD TO
LEWISTON AND PORTLAND

The University of Idaho show
herd of steers will be shown at the
Northwest Livestock Show, Lewis
ton, November 28-December 4, and
at the Pacific International Show,
Portland. Oregon, December 9-14.
The 1918 steer herd consists of 2
two-year olds, yearlings, and 8
calves. Included among the steers
is the Shorthorn yearling Roam Lad
that was grand champion steer in
September at the Interstate Fair at
Spokane.
The University will also show a
limited number of Shorthorns and
Herefords in the breeding classes at
the Pacific International Included
among them will be the Shorthorn
herd bull and the Hereford herd
bull.
For the first time in several years
the University will not have flock
of show wethers. The entire show
flock of 81 head were burned in a
fire August 18th.
The University has exhibited both
steers and wethers annually at Port
land, beginning in 1912. In that
period grand champion steer has
been won 5 out of 6 times by steers
shown under the banner of the U.
of l. In fat wethers the University
has always won grand champion or
reserve to grand champion includ-
ing out of 6 grand champion
wethers.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22
IDAHO SHEEP TO FAR EAST
Massachusetts, Prefers Gem State
Shrops.

The following item from the
Springfield Republican. Springfield
Massachusetts,, will naturally be OF
interest to Idaho stockmen;
"The carload of sheep for Hamp-
den County farmers which was or
dered from an Idaho ranch recently
is already on the way and is expec-
ted to reach Springfield Wednesday
or Thursday Of this week. There
are 125 high grade Shrophires in
the lot and most of them will be
taken direct to farms in this Sec
tion. Any farmers who are inter-
ested in sheep or contemplating buy
ing are urged to look these sheep
over when they arrive. Other or
ders will be placed If enough far
mers make known their wants. Not
only is there a material saving in
buying these sheep from the West.
but they are of a better quality
than can be secured in New Eng
land"
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22
MENTAL DISORDER
HERITAGE OF WAR

War has left the civilized world a
sinister heritage of nervous and
mental disorder which affects not
only the fighters but the civilian
population as we'll.
One of the great scientific prob
lens of reconstruction is to under
stand and cure these disturbances,
which have in some degree affected
the minds and nerves of millions,
and the Office of surgeon general is
now engaged in a study of the prob
lem.
The nervous and mental damage
done by war ranges all the way
from the specific shock of noise and
suffering in the soldier to the sub
tie effects which an atmosphere
filled with hatred, fear and carnage
has upon the minds of whole nations.
The shell shock" Of which one
reads SO much is a small phase of
the matter. Some of the larger and
more important psychic effects of
war are to be seen in Germany,
where the German populace. famous
as the most peaceful and docile in
the world. has engaged in a carni-
val Of loot and murder. as a result
OF the strain to which it has been
subjected.
The point is that war generates
great discontents. stirs emotions
that have laid unused through the
years of civilized peace. Many OF
these discontents and emotions are
healthy; they are the yeast of pro-
gress. But they are too strong for
all but the strongest. Ill balanced
minds give way under them: weak
and diseased nervous systems col
lapse. All sorts of criminal tenden-
cies. most of which are caused by
nervous and mental troubles. break
loose from the bonds of habit and
circumstance that have held them
in check.
This problem has a special signif-
icance for America. Some scientists
have claimed that this country has
psycopathic heredity by reason of
the greatest number. Of criminals
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22

A government veterinarian has been
in Orofino this week testing the dairy
herd OF stock at the sanitarium.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22

and detectives sent here in colonial
times. Furthermore. it is far behind
the leading countries of Europe in
the handling of its criminal insane
(Which includes nearly all GRIMM
als). Whereas other nations have
learned to identify and isolate pys-
copathic cases. American cites and
states have allowed them to go at
large and multiply. After our civil
war we had period Of crime and
brigandage that lasted quarter of
a century-the heyday Of the James
and Younger brothers-and the psy-
chic effects that are still apparent
in parts of the south. The problem
faced by American physicians ana
psychologists. then. is to prevent.
as far as possible. the recurrence of
such an area of insanity and crime
by intelligent handling of psychic
cases in the army and out of it,
And this study should form the bas-
Is of more intelligent handling of
all crime and insanity in America.
1t is stated that more than 80 per
cent of Canada's returned soldiers
suffer from some form or other of
mental disorder. Fortunately. most
of the cases are durable. but all are
serious If not taken Immediately in
hand.
The State of Michigan has adopt
ed a very useful regulation which
provides that "it shall be unlawful
to move any traction engine or sim
liar heavy machinery over the pub
lie highways. by its own power or
otherwise. during the months of
March. April and May. or at any
other time. il by reason Of the
thawing of frosts. or rains. or any
other cause. the roads are in soft
condition rendering them unfit for
the passage over them Of such
heavy machinery without damage to
the highways. or II the engines are
equipped with lugs which seriously
damage the highways, except by
written permission from the COM
missioners having jurisdiction over
said highway or highways.
A government veterinarian has been
in Orofino this week testing the dairy
herd OF stock at the sanitarium.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22
FARM AGENT GREAT HELP
TO GRAIN GROWERS.

We publish the following from
the University Of Idaho BIZ Weekly
News Letter to show how a live
Farm Agent helps the farmers Of q
county:
Il am happy to report a 100 per
cent result in poisoning squirrels
this year." writes P. H. Miller oe
Council. Secretary-Treasurer of the
Cuddy Mountain Cattle and Horse
Growers Association. This letter
comes to w. e. Crouch OF the Bu-
reau of Biological Survey. who has
been cooperating with the Exten-
sion Division through various Farm
Bureaus in the Idaho rodent exter-
mination campaign of 1918.
''The thorough team work accom-
plished while you were here on May
last. continues Mr.. Miller. "practi-
cally cleaned them up, but we kept
putting out poisoned grain accord
ing to your formula with 100 per
cent. results. lost not one spear
of grain or anything else this sea-
son. while other years my loss was
as heavy as 25 per cent and closely
approximated this several years. It
was like mortgage on our farms.
1t is hard to estimate the good ac-
complished by your initiating the
special poison methods last spring.
More than 500 ounces of poison
were used in the locality OF Csun-
cil and 1t is safe estimate that
each ounce of poison saved 25 bush
els of grain; in my case twice that
much"
Il trust your Bureau will be. sue
cessful in securing the much-needed
legislation, both national and in the
state, so that more ground can be
covered in detail. should also like
it very much if this section could
get aid in controlling grasshhoppers
next year"
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22
oROFINo, CLEARWATER COUNTY, IDAHO

A. }. Sweeney, druggist from Nez-
perce, came to Orofino and assisted in
the care Of the patients at the influenza
hospital Monday night. Other Nez-
perce citizens have kindly reciprocated
in assisting Orotino since the outbreak
of the malady in this section.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Cohun and little
son have been influenza patients at the
hospital. One day some one had gen
erously supplied the hospital with
chicken broth, and nurse asked the
youngster il he would like some chicken
soup. The little fellow replied: "No,
but will take leg."
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22

Carl Perrin has requested the Re-
publican to change the address from
Fraser to Orofino. =.
The Misses Elsie Dickinson and Phil
lips of Fraser are assisting at the hos
pital in Orofino.
Mrs. Reta Rutherford died Tuesday
at Whites hospital in Lewiston. Mrs.
Rutherford came from Missouri about
year ago and was well known in Oro-
fino, where she was employed by the
Trading Company. She was 20 years
of age, and leaves son II years old;
also two sisters residing in Orofino,
Mesdames Arthur and Andrew Shaw.
Her mother, brother and sister live
in Missouri.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22
Of Interest to Farmers

the fact that we have had extremely
late falls without the usual early
killing frosts. Nevertheless. vari-
ETY. of corn that will ripen early
in September should produce a good
crop in nearly any season. At least
q good quality Of corn should be
obtained and on the higher areas
well matured ears should nearly al
ways be secured.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22
CORN PRODUCTION In
NORTH IDAHO.
Demonstrated to be Successful Crop
for Both Grain and Silage.

THAT field corn is a successful
crop for both grain and silage in
Northern Idaho has been demon
strated this season in the Universi-
ty of Idaho experiment work with
corn" said H. w. Hubert, Of the
Farm Crops Department in discus
sing the results of the work at Mos
cow This work was started in
1917 when a number of the earliest
dent varieties were tested out both
for production Of grain and silage.
In 1917, one variety stood out
above all of the rest in production
of grain. This variety. White Dent,
came originally from Minnesota and
was the only one of the numerous
varieties tritd out that produced
ears fully matured and of good quail
ity. Then too its yield Of silage
compared favorably with any Of the
others, besides producing silage
OF better quality than any of the
later maturing varihties.
This season some 81 acres Of this
variety were planted on the Univer-
sity farm for silage purposes alone.
This area was made ready for the
silo on September 10. 1t made an
average yield of seven tons per acre
and the silage produced was pro-
nounced by Dean E. J. Iddings to
be the best that had ever been en-
siled on the college farm.
Besides the field planted for sill
age a seed plot to furnish the seed
for the 1917 planting was grown.
This was a plot consisting of nearly
a hundred rows, each row being
planted from part of the seed from
an individual ear. This seed plot
was planted in hills three feet each
way on May 20. and later it was
thinned down to three stalks per
hill. The land on which it was
grown was that of the typical Pa
louise country. 1t was fall plowed
double disced and narrowed in the
spring and the crop received one
cultivation during the growing sea-
son.
The average yield of the whole
seed plot was "a bushels of ear corn
per acre. The yields on each indi-
yidual row were also secured, seven
different rows giving yield of ov-
er 100 bushels per acre and one row
yielding 123 bushels per acre. A
number of the rows yielded over 80
bushels to the acre.
Next season other ears will be Sc
lected from this years seed for the
breeding plot and the remnants Of
the seven high yielding ears will be
planted in plot for the production
of seed for future use. In the Sc
lection of the ears for the seed plot,
early maturing. high yielding ears
were taken, insofar as they could
be determined.
1t is unquestionably true that the
last two years have been especially
favorable ones for the production of
corn in Northern Idaho. because OF
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22

taken and the school house had been
put in readiness to comfortably receive
patients needing hospital attention.
After there were no more accommoda-
tons at the school house the Methodist
church was utilized for hospital pur-
poses. At this writing all the patients
are reported as not dangerously i'll,
and few have been discharged.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22
THANKSGIVING DAY

The influenza ban prohibits public
meetings. Be sure and remember the
day at home with earnest thanksgiving
to Almighty God for peace, prosperity
and the multiplied blessings we enjoy.
F. L. Moore, Pastor.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22
Over so Cases of Influenza
In Orofino and No Deaths.

While Orofino has for the last ten
days been sorely offlicted with an epi-
demic of the influenza, over fifty cases
having developed, the community has
been very fortunate in that there has
not been death up to this date. In a
measure this can be accounted for by
prompt medical attention and good
nursing. Ample precaution had been
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22

Friends and parents of men Of the
University of daho who hay e fallen
in the service of their country. are
urged to communicate with w. H.
Bridge. at the council of defense Of
fee. Moscow. Idaho. The council of
defense is desirous of keeping an
exact record.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22

The Orofino Mercantile Company
has just unloaded car of Pataha
Xxx Flour
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-11-22

Miss Ruth Blake came home from
Lewiston Saturday evening for week
end visit, returning Monday.
Miss Nellie Roberts returned from
Lewiston Saturday and has been assist
ing at the hospital.
The Rochdale Company IS again in
the market for wheat at the old price
set by the government.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Pataha xxx Flour is again in
this market. We have already re-
ceived our first car.
OROFINO MERCANTILE co.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-04-17
Enemy Quickly Disappeared.

An official Of a railway which passes
through Philadelphia. am told, was in
the habit of expressing his war senti-
ments without restraint to his private
secretary, Girard writes in the Phila-
delphia Ledger. These sentiments were
derogatory to the allies and favorable
to Germany. One day at the end of a
particularly vehement TRADE the Sec
rotary said: II trust, sir, that what
you have said does not represent your
real feelings on the subject" II mean
every word of It," said his employer. 1t
was Just after fire had taken place
in nearby city and the responsibility
had been laid ut the doors Of German
hirelings whose enterprise the railway
man extolled. ''Then shall be obliged
to arrest you," said the secretary,
throwing open his coat and showing
the badge of secret service agent
The indiscreet official is now supposed
to be in a place where what he may
have to say in praise Of kultur will
reach severely limited audience.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-04-17
ITALY HAS COUNCIL
TO Speed UP war
Premier Is Determined to Follow
Energetic Policy in PUSH
ing the War.

Now that the Italian cabinet has
working majority sufficiently numer-
Gus and powerful to combat antiwar
intrigue both inside and outside par
lament Premier Orlando is, deter
mined to follow an energetic war pol
icy. In fact war council has been
formed in Italy composed Of the pre-
mier, the ministers Of foreign affairs,
war, navy, arms and munitions, treas
ury and another member of the cab
met chosen by the premier, besides the
two chiefs of STAFF of the army and
navy.
Executive measures connected with
the war and having an urgent charac-
ter will be decided in future by the
war council instead of the cabinet, and
considerable loss of time will thus Dc
saved with great advantage to the sue
cess Of military operations heretofore
delayed, as their approval depended
on long discussions in cabinet coun-
ellis.
Premier Orlando recently confirmed
III Tic SCudlC AlS uCNlulut1OA LII lAC
house that no compromise was possible
with those who opposed the war, as
any attempt to weaken the resistance
of the country amounted to treason
and antiwar activity exclusively bene'
flied the enemy.
An energetic war policy would be
impossible in a country like Italy un
less the government were backed BY
the people. So long as the provision
ing of the country is assured and the
encouraging announcement made ir
the senate by the minister of food, Sig
nor Crespi, who said that special agree
ments had been concluded with tn,
United States and the Argentine Re
public whereby they placed at the al
lies disposal considerable portion O
their wheat crops, affords the bes
proof that the question of food short
age has been satisfactorily solved
there is no danger of Italy's elimina
ton, from among the, allies. The re
cent insidious Austre-German peac
proposals have not deceived Italians
who realize that their acceptanc
would be worse than defeat.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-04-17

1--WE must fight on till the Gerll'un,
see how absurd their aspirations are,
said James w. Gerard in New io'"
the other day. ,,
Eyes, we must show up 'he uo''h
neering German militarists thorous"
ly. We must act like the prolessv ,,.
who visited loan shark to oori0"'
500. An,
"'YOu want 500 for one year, ~.
loan shark said. well. sir, mere Wv
are. My terms are $ per cent ,o .
month. That leaves just $40 eo'N .oo
to you. Here you are-four CRISP w.
spots ;. ont
"But the professor mildly ZOOS, "a ~, a
his own pocketbook and eA'r"e'"N
couple Of bills from 1t. =, =
"'You're mistaken, sir, ne S''1" nat
want the money for two Ie"h'' ANN.
one. How much, then, is llers ''
ing to your"
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-04-17
Cavite Flashes Time Over Pacific.

Since October l the radio station at
Cavite, cooperating with the Philip
pine bureau Of posts and the Manila
observatory, has been sending out
time signals Of the 10th meridian
east Of Greenwich Mt II a. IN. and ~
p. m. every day, says Science.
For the purpose of sending time sig
nails, the transmitting clock OF the
Manila observatory is connected WIN
the Cavite wireless station through
the bureau of posts. Manila obserVa'
tory time signals begin at 1929 a. ILL.,
and 9:55 p. M, standard time OF the
120th meridian east Of Greenwich anu
continue for five minutes. During tms
interval every tick Of the CLOCK Is
transmitted, except the 2Sth' -s'n'
54th, 55th, seth, 57th. 5sth ana o''n
Of each minute.
The situation Of Manila in the ra'
cific makes this service of the srea',
est Importance to the mercantiie "''u
naval fleets that ply upon that oce"l'
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-04-17
BY Twists Teachers Words.

A Greencastle young woman teacher
in the Peru (Ind.) high school few
days ago had vision of her job leav-
ing because of violent protest lodged
against her by a patron. The teachers
were ut a meeting when the protest
came up. The patron accused the teach
er of calling her boy "a scurvy ele-
phant." The teacher was dumfounded
when she heard the charge, and could
not recall making any such remark
The corps of teachers went to work to
attempt to unravel the mystery. Final
IL it was solved. The teacher had tolc
the boy "He was a disturbing element
and the boy mistook what she said FOL
"A scurvy acknowledgements
News.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-04-17

incendiarism amounted to $77O,OOO;
foundries, machine shops and car shops
worth S5OO,OOO went up In flames, while
the loss to the coal and coke industry
totaled 100000.
In MAY the total loss as shown IN
the table showed falling off of nearly
$1,000. 900, the audited figures for that
month giving a total of $3,693,OOO, and
of this amount $1,2OOOOO represented
the grain and grain elevator loss' or
$4,000, 900 for the first eight weeks or
the war. 1t was in May that the lum-
Der incendiary first got to work, ana
the report for the month shows that
the damage he accomplished totaled
S1,1OO,OOO. May also introduced the
chemical incendiary, and the total loss
to the chemical industry in the second
month of the war was 100000.
Heavy Loss in Montana.
The loss in June was $3,SOO,OOO, and
of this amount $1,OOO,OOO represented
mine property losses in Montana. The
lumber loss in June was $65O,OOO, the
grain total was 100000, gasoline to
the total value of $35OOOO was burned
up, and the chemical industry's loss
was increased by another 100000. The
automobile figures for the first time In
the June report when an automobile
factory in Reading, Pa, valued at
$25O,OOO was destroyed.
In July the figures began to climb,
and the total loss due to incendiarism
or suspicious causes was $4,14O,OOO.
The July losses include oil properties
valued at 100000, 100000 cotton
compress plant, wooden mill worth
$5OO,OOO elevators and warehouses val
ued at 100000, a $25O,OO0 sugar mill,
and shell and shipbuilding properties
Of total value of $4,000, and dye
works worth $15O,OOO and $25O,OOO In
tanneries.
August was one of the enemy incen-
diarys best months, his total destruc-
ton that month entailing loss of 3d.
1O1 900, $2,55O,OOO of which was suffered
by the oil industry. The enemy also de-
stroyed his first guncotton plant in Au-
gust, when a factory valued at $780,.
600 at Gary, Ind, was destroyed. There
also occurred in August fire which
destroyed ships and piers in Brooklyn
worth $1,OOOOO0.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-04-17

There is not a great industry, the
continuance Of which is essential to
the war efficiency Of the United States
and their allies, which has not suffered
as a result of the activities Of the
enemy agent or his hireling. Included
in the long list are tanneries, flour
mills, leather factories, coal pockets,
car and machine shops, iron mills,
navy yard structures, chemical works
of all kinds, automobile manufacturing
plants, gasoline tanks, food ware
houses, wooden mills, stock yards, sugar
mills, guncotton plants, railroad equip
ment, arsenals, munition plants, to-
baccO warehouses, cotton gins, cotton
warehouses, drydocks, Ocean-going
shipping, steel mills, army storage
warehouses, stables, horses, coke ovens
and mine properties.
Cover Whole Country.
The national board Of fire underwrit-
ers was, at the outbreak Of war, asked
by the government to cooperate In the
effort that the government is making
to combat the fire menace. The result
has been that the national board has
devoted the entire work of majority
of it's officials and fire experts to the
government service, and it's inspectors
cover every part Of the country, inves'
tigating all fires, regardless Of whether
the properties, damaged or destroyed
are insured or not. These investiga
tons, made in every instance by mer
expert in fire Investigation, show thai
the loss due 10 fires of incendiary OIL
suspicious origin which have involved
the loss of 100000 or more in war mu
nitions or equipment has totaled, sinc'
April 1, $43, 55S,OOO.
In April, the first month of the war
the destruction or damage, due to fire
involving a loss of 100000 or more
amounted to $685. 900. In that mont
there were "a great fires in the coun
try, and these fires occurred in IA dill
ferent states. The fire which entaile
the heaviest loss was when grain elt
vators In Chicago, valued at $7OO,OO(
were destroyed. The value of the graf
elevators destroyed in that one mont
totaled $1.7oO,oOO. The oil loss due