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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-03-15
SAVE MORE WHEAT
Fifty-Fifty. Rule in Effect
In Idaho.

Boise, March 9.--There is an abso
lutte necessity for further conserva-
tion of wheat and wheat products
and Idaho, along with the rest OF the
country, must adopt the SO so plan,
using only the substitutes officially
authorized, according to teleRraphic
advices received Friday morning by
Food Administrator Bicknell from
United States Food Administrator
Hoover.
Mr.. Bicknell Friday said that he
had no other alternative but to en- i
force the rule and be will make il
effective 10 Idaho beginning Monday,
March IL.
In Mr. HOover's wire he states he
appreciates that some states will have
difficulty To find substitutes, but this
simply means that wheat
or wheat products should be
only sold to the extent that there are
available substitutes of equal weight
thus resulting in conservation OF
wheat for the allies.
The wire emphasized our more
abundant meats should be substitute
ed for our less abundant breadstuffs.
In this connection Idaho's food
dministrator said that the people of
this state can serve themselves and
the government 10 three-fold way
by practically ceasing to use both
| wheat -four and the cereal substitutes
and instead use potatoes in increased
proportions along with meat,
81 regret that completion of the
I wheat census by the national admin
| istratiou renders necessary the revo.
cation of my ruling OF a few days ago
permitting -four to be sold in the
ratiu of one part substitutes to three
of wheat flour thus causing the people
of this state To b. put absolutely ON
the original $3.50 plan but circum
stances over which neither the
national administration or my admin
istratlon had any control has decreed
otherwise.
ut is, therefore, incumbent upon
me to call upon all citizens of this
state, both consumers and dealers, to
comply with both the letter and
spirit Of the law aud that with every
purchase of wheat flour there be a
purchase of equal amount of substi-
tutes and that 90 attempts be made
to purchase flour otherwise.
In addition. l appeal to all our
citizens that they contlne their con-
sumption of white wheat flour to the
mentS."
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-03-15
Potatoes as Substitute.

Regarding the $3.50 rule. states
Thos. w. Neill, county food adminis-
traitor, as much as half of forty-eight
pounds required amount of substitutes
with forty eight pound sack of flour
can be bought Of potatoes at the
ratio of four to one.
This means twenty four pounds of
substitutes and ninety six pounds of
potatoes must be sold with every
forty eight pounds of flour. Beans
may be used as substitutes. This is
effective March 12.-Press.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-03-15
Idaho State News Items.

Standpoint is to have an election
about April % to vote $14O. 900 bonds
to buy the waterworks system.
Thirty-fve thousand automobile
license plates have been purchased for
sale to car owners 10 Idaho this year,
Secretary of State Dougherty an
nounced Saturday.
The secretary of states otfice col
lected $4,000 on automobile licenses
10 1917, according to figures which.
have just been complied. Plates were
sold for total OF "a, 76S cars.
A bootlegger, named John
Hendrckson, was shot and mortally
wounded by George Bell, special
deputy, while carrying liquor across
the Montana line into Idaho near
Larson last Sunday night. Heudrick-
son aud three others did not halt at
Bells command, it is said.
Idaho will get $4,000 from the
| federal government for boys and girls
lCONTINUED ON LAST PAGE)
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-03-15
Want Increased Production.

The planting of an increased
acreage to spring wheat and the
production of an increased supply of
other food products and of livestock,
especially hogs, is recommended Ia
its supplementary food production
program issued by the United States
department of agriculture. Taken
in connection with the recommends
tlons previously made, 1t suggests in
full the proposals which the depart
ment thinks desirable to offer with a
view to secure enough meat and dairy
products, cereals. sugar and other
staple and perishable foods. wool, and
cotton for the nation, its armies and
the allies.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-03-15
Help In Farm Labor Survey

The department of labor announces
that an agreement has been reached
with the post office department
whereby all third and fourth class
postmasters and rural carriers are to
be appointed labor agents of the
United States employment service of
the department of labor. They will
be used for the ascertainment OF the
labor needs of the farmers of the
country and for the bringing of
farmers and farm labor together. By
this plan pproximately $4,000 en-
ployes will be made use of.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-03-15
CEUR D'ALENE

A. V. Chamberlin, vice president
of the American Trust company, was
on Monday appointed chairman Of
the third Liberty loan drive to be
handled by the Kootena county
defense council.
The council adopted a resolution
calling upon every citizen to get
behind the government in the
conservation OF food. Any person
not doing SO will be called to account.
Loyal citizens are asked to report any
Instances that come to their atten.
tion.
The council instructed County
Superintendent r. c. Egbers to
prepare a report showing whether
Kootenai county teachers were back
ing the government in the war.
William Ashley, formerly of this
city, now of Standpoint, was business
visitor here last Friday.
Miss Lillian Pennington, who brok e
her hip few weeks ago when she fell
on the icy sidewalk. Is i'll at the
hospital with pneumonia, but her
condition is not regarded as serious
The Winton Lumber company had
the first boom Of logs sent down til e
J Spokane river to the mill last Friday
morning.. The boom totaled 1,000,-
900 feet which was taken from
up-river points. The mill expects to
be 10 operation by April l.
The local exemption board sent
out SO cards calling men for Friday
for the final examinations under the
draft. These men, either did not
receive their first notices to report OF
else refuse to report. The local board
is also checking over the names of the
men aud all slackers will be placed
subject to arrest.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-03-15
FROM OVER THE COUNTY
POST FALLS

Up to this week the pupils of Post
Falls schools had purchased $42S.5 so
worth Of thrift stamps.
The Post Falls basket ball team by
defeating Warduer- Kellogg, claims
The championship of northern Idaho.
With the shooting at Davenport,
Wash, by the town marshal, OF two
meD, Lucas and Lea, the authorities
believe they have part of the gang
who robbed the postotfice here and at
several other towns.
Clay Nogle has bought the Club
lunch.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-03-15
SPIRIT LAKE

ID. j. Wright and family are at
Santa Monica. California, and expect
to make the home trip 10 April.
Bert Berrier and Miss Maude Coe
were united in marriage March ]
They reside on farm west Of Athol.
The groom is the sou of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. w. Berrier.
Spirit Lake citizens who have
refused to join the patriotic leagL c
are being classed as slackers and
threatened with investigation.
Mrs, r. +. Dyer was hostess to the
G. T. Card club honoring Mrs. Hewitt
of Neilsville, Wis.
The patriotic league by resolution
urges the merchants to keep on haDd
a full line of food substitutes fol
patriotic citizens desiring, TO fully
conform to the food regulations.
Milk is being sold 10 Spirit Lake al
IL quarts for ST..
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-03-15
ALIENS In IDAHO
National AmeriCanizatiOn CON-
mittee Gives Figures.

Boise, Idaho. The report OF
the National Americanization COM
nittee gives some figures on
Idaho's alien population which
may surprise many citizens, par
ticularly those who have been in
the habit of saying that the state
has no foreign population worth
mentioning.
The report says that there is
total of 4o,425 foreign-born in the
state, an increase of 81. 2 per cent
over that of 1900. OF these there
are 25,844 males of voting age and
52I5 of these are not naturalized.
Only 49.6 per cent are naturalized
while 10 years before 67.7 per cent
were naturalized.
The Good Citizenship club OF
Boise, which has been doing
Americanization work among the
foreigners for three years, realizes
that this is not the time to urge
naturalization. since aliens who
have only taken out their first
papers, and are not yet entitled 10
vote, are subject to draft, and it
would be, therefore, difficult to
persuade them to take out citizen
ship papers under these conditions
since the great majority are Of
draft age.
But the club realizes that some
thing can be done in the matter Of
night schools. The national report
has the following to say on this
subject of education:
"Foreign born whites 10 years
of age and over, 3o,6Io; unable to
speak English, 58o5; illiterate,
274a. OF the 819 who were at
tending school only 81 were I'll
years and over; only one city,
Boise, reported evening schools,
but no classes for immigrants, yet
It had 2283 foreign born. State aid
is not given to evening schools"
The Boise public schools an
nounced evening classes in any
subject last fall and had no appli-
cants, but the club is determined
to prepare for this work next fall
by personally soliciting foreigners
to attend night school.
The government required the
city of Pocatello to furnish a night
school also, but the bulletin does
not mention this.
The analysis of the report shows
that 81 7 per cent of the aliens en-
gagged in the states manufacturing
industries in 1914 were wage
earners. There are no large alien
employment industries.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-03-15

The state farm markets bureau at
Boise now has several jobs I open for
men on farms, Dick Donovan. chief
deputy, announced Saturday. lie is
anxious that individuals wanting
work, register with the department
at once. Experienced irrigators,
general farm hands, dairy hands and
women TO cook. are needed.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-03-15

hereby make application for member
ship in the Rathdrum Patriotic
League. In doing so l hereby renew
and pledge my unqualified LOYALTY
and allegiance to the Government of
the United States and promise that
will stand ready, at all times, TO
answer the call of duty as citizen 10
whatever capacity the occasion may
require.
I also hereby solemnly pledge my
self not To tolerate any disloyal act or
utterance and that my sympathy in
this war is undoubtedly with the
United States and her Allies.
Slgned--
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1918-03-15

war savings stamps or Liberty bonds,
the best invest ment in the world
These, te sahl. had not reached the
magnitude of being sacrifices. but
when they w. we must he willing In
supporting those who are at the front
and are offering TO make the supreme
sacrifice II need be.
He quoted the kaissrs own words
Claiming divine right to rule and to
crush any nation that opposes his
ambitious schemes 0f.empire.
Geo +. Weeks, who has gained a
reputation In this county as a war
time speaker, made many hits with
the audience by his jovality and his
denuGciation of the brutal methods
of Prussian mllitarism. Using The
flag a2d the map, he named each
state as represented by star and
spoke eloQuently of the United States
as the best country having a popular
government which gives to the
individual the greatest liberty
together with the most rights,
privileges, possibilities and opportuni
ties to he found under any govern
nent on earth. In return for these
possibilities and opportunities, he
declared, every citizen owes his love
and undivided allegiance to his
country and his hearty support to his
country when it is fighting an auto
cratic ruler who has openly threatened
to crush out rights and liberties of
free peoples wherever they oppose his
ambition for world domination. He
sait America was in this war for the
noblest and most unselfish purpose
for which a nation ever went to war
Mr.. Weeks spoke of the wonderful
record made by Scotland, which with
population of five million has sent
900, 900 men into the war. To do as
we'll proportlonately, he said the
United States would have to furnish
nearly 20, 900, 900 men.
referring back to the revolution,
Mr.. Weeks said the American
c1lonists fought for the same
principles then as now, and that they
fought not against the English people
but against a German king on a
British throne.
Speaking of loyal citizenship, he
branded the disloyal citizens as
traitors and said no community is
large enough to hold its loyal people
and one traitor, and he advocated
that the enemies and traitors be put
upon boat and started across the
sea to Germany. Whether they
reached Europe or went down in the
sea, he said, would not matter.
Germany, he said, does not care how
many of the allied people her sub
marines sink.
He congratulated the Rathdrum
patriotic league movement as great
help in uniting the people for work OF
every kind to help in the great cause.
Following Is the form of the
| Application for Membership in the
Rathdrum Patriotic League.
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-12-31

weather. and there was plnty OF
grass u fho breaks and on the pra-
r.a among the sage brush so they
- through nicely
Miss Eua Vaughn is tho new
.n.rnpher and hookkeeper az the
.u g. kgs.e.I wholesale dry goods
.rHr. -05 Polk street
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-12-31

ing FOO action T. Total I..
N... or wounds Buru.a g.
Turner Elmwood. Okla
Wounded severely Pr.vares NH.
t..m = Gurter D. kalh Tex HaI
3 Thomas Pennington. s. 81
Present for dats. > ,-,ousH r.-urt.
i died of w0unde-pEt ben z Tur
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-12-31
THE WAY n USE VAPORUB
FOR SPANISH INFLUENZA

The Influenza Germs Attack the ming of the Air Passages When
VapoRub Applied Over T-oat and Chest the Medicated Va
por Inhaled Loosen tn Pacsm Open the Air Passages and
Stimulate he Mucous Membrane % Throw OFF the Germs
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1918-12-31

No.I auI1 ~ Nv -I--- \
The Washington times., 1918-05-28
An Angelus for the War
Further Suggestion That We Stop and ORer Prayer
Day for the Help Of Our Cause.
By EARL GOODWIN.

few days ago printed in this column a suggestion
that Washington should establish the custom Of ringing the
church bells daily at O'Clock D. m and that everyons
should stop for minute two and offer short prayer for
the country at
Since then have learned the suggestion fell upon fruit
full soil
Several splendid gentlemen and several splendid women
have taken the matter serious business and within
day believe there will be real development along
this line
If your church has bell, write talk to your pastor
priest about the practcabty of ringing that bell for
few seconds at O'Clock each evening.
you belong to social religious organization intro
duce the subject and obtain Endorsement You viii have
opportunity very to join dozens Of other organSa
tions which are about to indorse this project
There is nothing which so heartens man a woman
as thoroughly quiet moment Nothing so clean and Won
derful as the prayerful atmosphere Of devotion.
For all of to step from the rush Of the days work
offer quiet prayer God to preserve army and
navy and our leaders and ideals would hearten
we had upon a cooling spring by hot roadside.
Here is suggestion which costs only organization and
determination to simple and beautiful thing the same
time every day.
The Washington times., 1918-05-28

Of her own, and a strong sense Of
her own individuality.
And that settles it.
She'll never be happy IN mar
riage-never In the wide, wide
world.
Her husband won't allow her
to be.
Oh, yes, I've seen clever women
happily married, but they were the
sort who never let their husbands
suspect they knew a thing-not a
thing in the world. They were
just timid and dependent, and big
eyed and trusting, and they fooled
everybody-but the other women
who watched them play the game
the old, old game of camouflRge
between men and women.
This girl isn't that sort-she's
too honest and too sincere and too
clear sighted. She knows more
than her husband and 1t won't Be
long till she begins to perceive
that fact.
VIII He Understand
II she could only keep it to her
self all might yet be well, but Pm
afraid she can't, and the minute
that Husband suspects that he
really isn't the superior member
Of the partnership he will sudden
ly wake up and find that he has
made a great mistake and that his
wife never has understood him and
never will, and I would be willing
to wager, we'll
Some day clever women will be
able to marry clever men and be
happy-that's when men have
grown more generous, more toler-
ant and bigger-minded than they
are now. Until then, whenever
see an unusually clever woman
thinking she's going to be happy
as the wife Of any man on earth
l tremble-for her-and for the
man.
That's why Pm sorry about the
wedding.
The Washington times., 1918-05-28
To the Editors of Mississippi and
Other States
CONTINUED from First Column

united for the benefit of all They lack union absolutely
Conventions in every State attended by editors Of an
newspapers in the State should protect local interests and
devise methods Of making business profitable to the adVer
tser and the publisher.
addressed by the most important in the nation and
looked upon the most important gatherings in the
socations of the different States touch with each other
The smaller newspapers of the country suggest .
pile Of bricks thrown loosely and carelessy upon the
ground-you have seen such pile
The different journalistic bricks should be cemented
into solid wall great structure Of public opinion public
power, industrial commercial promotion giving to every
editor Of power and character the prosperity the rank to
which he is entitled-and eliminating the others.
Local editors united organized would control the buy
ing power political power and the educational power Of
the country ARTHUR BRISBANE.
The Washington times., 1918-05-28
Inspiration Described
From Real Life
By eatrice Fairfax,

what one great quality It was that
showed how remarkable she is.
Some said "self-control," and
some said Concentration" and one
said "the power Of making up her
mind quickly and keeping it made
up the same way" and q little girl
who was there spoke up and said:
"One day the Mother Superior
was taking me down to the apple
orchard for q walk, and when we
went out Of the convent we passed
one Of the lay sisters, and she was
down on her knees BcrIbbinR the
floor.
A Tiny Straw.
"She had a great pail Of water
and some heavy brushes with her,
and just as we passed she got up
and carried the brushes and the
heavy nail across the hall.
Mother stood still and watched
her.
"'ohp she said, how often
have wished had the strong arms
that sister has! How proud /
would be II l were able to do such
work as thatl'
"And sister looked up and smiled
at mother as II she fairly wor-
shipped her, and somehow I al
ways felt as If I knew them both
better after that"
When the little girl had finished
speaking, we four who were SO
wise and so worldly and knew 30
much. looked at each other, and
I'M glad to say we had the grace
to laugh, and we weren't laughing
at the little girl, either.
! believe / know that Mother
Superior better now, after that lit
tie story, than l did after years Of
superficial acquaintance.
Straws are not the only things
that show which way the wind
blows, are they?
The Washington times., 1918-05-28
Brilliant Woman and
Wedding Regrets
By Winifred Black

CHE's going to be married, the
y pretty girl with the clear
mind and the broad, toler-
ant love pf humanity in
her heart
I'm sorry.
suppose ought not to be.
but am.
No, l haven't seen the man, and
/ haven't heard a word against
him.
He belongs to the same social
set as the pretty girl, he seems to
be fairly we'll to do, and they say
he's q good fellow in the best
sense Of the phrase.
He's even bought q pretty little
house and has laid out q pretty
little garden, and there's 4 coy
Little roadster in q neat little ga
rage, and all the wedding presents
have arrived, and the brides going
to wear simple white, and there
Isn't going to be any wedding trip.
VIII She Be Happy7
The flowers are going to be
fruit blossoms, just great branches
Of peaches and plums and cher
ries, and the refreshments will be
very sfmple-oh, yes, it's ideal,
the whole affair, and yet, and
still, and nevertheless, and not
withstanding-I'm sorry.
Sorry for the man, and sorry
for the girl, because I'm afraid Of
trouble ahead for both Of them.
She's sweet and gentle and home
loving. She's good and loyal and
true.
He's honest and faithful, and
good-humored and kindly, and he
worships the ground she walks on.
and loves the air she breathes and
thinks her voice is the sweetest
music on earth, and he couldn't
live twenty-four hours away from
her to save his life-but she's
clever, brilliantly clever, and,
worse than that, she has a mind
The Washington times., 1918-05-28

WE were all talking about
wv the Mother Superior the
other day.
Four Of US. We all knew her,
we all liked her, we all admired
her-but none Of US could under
stand why she became 50 power
full and influential, not only at the
head Of her own order-which
happens to be a considerable one
but outside the realms Of her
own vocation, too.
She's q little, plain, simple, un-
assuming woman, not particularly
brilliant, and without any exter-
nal evidences Of any particularly
strong personality.
She isn't witty, she's not par
ticularly well read, she has no un-
usually .markable manney, and
yet she controls a school full Of
girls at the age when Mysteries are
the fashion, Q convent fuN Of nuns
who can't go to the movies
when they feel blue, or run down.
town and get a box of fudge and a
new society novel when they don't
know what else TO do with them
selves.
Besides this, she's bought farms
and built dai.-ies and sold cream
and sterilized milk, and established
a butter store and dried and
canned and sold thousands Of
pounds Of fruit, and she knows
just exactly what every pound Of
butter costs when it's made, and
how much it's sold for, and why
the cream is richer on one pan Of
milk than the other, and who's to
blame when the fruit doesn't dry
right, and she's always calm and
even-tempered and agreeable; so
I think she's rather a remarkable
woman myself, don't you?
What a Child Heard.
That's what We were talking
about, and we were wondering
The Washington times., 1918-05-28
Ie. Companr,s Hirh Hand.


At $3.50 a. N. every morning the
ice man brings me q piece Of ice;
Said piece costs 10 cents. Also said
piece will not go into my cooler
One-half Of it has to melt IN the
sink. Ice man says cannot sell
less than 10 cents worth. The lin
tied amount Of the makings used
for ice will make it scarce this sum
mer. Now, Mr.. Goodwin, tell me
what in the name Of heaven l am
going to do. The poor need this ex-
ira piece Of ice going to waste, and
I have it, all because the American
Ice Company say that they cannot
afford to sling a scent piece Of ice
across my pavement. Forgot to say
that the merchants on all sides take
10 cents worth because they need
it. or we might work on the COM
munity basis. II you know Of any
poor family or hospital or any other
person who can send to get this
overage, am sure it will be appre-
ciated. o
1913 F street northwest.
The Washington times., 1918-05-28

Fourth Precinct Police, Take Note!
I have the occasion TO drive
through E street southwest, between
South Capitol street and Delaware
avenue. / find it q great difficulty
to dodge glass, bricks, wooden
boxes, and all kinds Of debris. The
other day went through this street
about 9 a. m, and the sweepers had
cleaned up. At 8 p. m. the street
was in the same condition as It was
before 8 a. m. / think the District
Of Columbia should have q lot out in
the country for the people Of this
neighborhood to battle on. / think
the police Of the Fourth precinct
should take hand in the battles.
G. F.