The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-10
EVENTUALLY, WHY NOT ON
TIME?


TIME?
In every war drive which has eve
been conducted in Moscow, the citi
xens have been slower than any othel
place in the county to respond. Either
the community is afflicted with ap-
athy or it is unusually reluctant te
part with dollar at the time desig-
mated. Our theory is that Moscow
has never learned the trick of getting
move on itself until the game is al
most over and time is called 1t
seems as if this place were afflicted
with more inertia to the square inch
than any other place we ever heard
of. 1t is safe enough to bank on Mos
cows finishing the race, but she
never gets under the wire until all the
others in the race have passed the
judges stand and had their blankets
put on for return to their stalls.
What is your theory about this lack
of "pep" in Moscow? We should like
to hear. What is your theory about
Moscow's not coming through until
every committee has sweat blood and
fairly dropped exhausted from the eff
fort of making the Moscow people
see their duty and making them do it?
How much would you like to bet
the editor of the Star-Mirror that in
the Red Cross Christmas roll call for
membership, every place in the county
will achieve universal membership be-
fore this town does?
Just stop to think. Is there any
particular reason on the face of this
good green earth why any person in
Moscow should pass and pass and re-
pass those Red Cross booths next
week and never pay for membership
until a week from Monday night just
as the posters are being hauled down |
off the walls?
Just what is the psychology of the
Moscow mind that permits people to
wait from the 10Th until the 23rd to
pay instead of paying on the 18th?
1t is a safe gamble that the people
will pay BY the 23rd. Why not ON
the 10th? Since every person in
-S~O'NO"
every day next week, just what is
the explanation of that curious phe-
nomenon which is always shown here
in drive-Moscow holding on to its
dollar till the last hour of the last
day?
Wouldn't it be interesting now |
that our football hoodoo has been
slain, to Stay this other dragon also,
Moscow's failure to come through on
time? Let US all pull together and
pay our dollars on Monday, the 10th, t
and not wait until Monday, the 23rd. f
~ r. re-
TOWNLEY'S GREAT GRAFT {
The account of A C. Townley's !
scheme to open a string of stores in I
Idaho with money furnished by the t
farmers who give him $40 out Of t
every 500 for taking the remaining r
500, and $40 per year for using their t
money is interesting to the farmers i
md every one in Idaho. Yet Mr.. t
rownley is said to have started I
lumber of stores in North Dakota in t
his way and he is now going a
through bankruptcy with liabilities of t
bout 100000 and assets of practic- n
lily nothing. t
Ai1 Townley is evidently planning s
bankruptcy case in Idaho for he h
rovides in the contracts with the a
1en who furnish the money that Sin Fl
ase Of failure" they are to receive 81
My pro rata of the assets of the tt
tore, but if the store runs 10 years b.
hey get back none Of their money. fl
ownley is to have $40 per year out CT
f each 500 invested by the farmers ol
nd 10 per cent net profit above all st
kpenses, for selling the goods. The la
My privileges the farmers get for al
leir 500 is that Of trading with the di
ore, a privilege which any one else tie
N have. liz
No one would believe that this l.;
uld be done-that farmers would wi
1t up their money to man with di
,wnley's reputation as crook, and
.rmit him to take $40 out of the
rst 500 as soon as it reached his
Inds, and $40 out of the remainder
r each year he operated a store w
we did not know that Townley and La