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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-10

Od1l INO6ClO VI VhOoSOW, WIZ hoN
been at Camp Lewis about a month, is
on his way to Linda Vista, Cal, with
500 other boys. His wife is also on
her way to California, where she will
visit relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Freese and three
yeaT-Old son are visiting at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F.
Freese. They arrived last Friday in
a Maxwell touring a from Spokane
by way of Colfax. The roads were
very muddy and they had no little
trouble to get through. H. E. Mat
ernes accompanied them. He is Mrs.
Presses brother and expects to go
to American Lake soon. .
Miss Nettie Erickson left for SpO-
kane this morning after spending the
holidays with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. B. O. Erickson. Miss Erickson
is a voice pupil of Mdme Pearl Hut
ton Shredder.
w. Steffe, a mining man from
Pierce, Idaho, is in Moscow today on
business.
The Zeta Chi Alpha team assumed
the lead in the university intra-cOl-
legiate basketball league yesterday
afternoon by defeating the Sigma Nus
16 to Is in a warmly contested affray.
Pat Perrine carried the brunt of his
teams offensive. Kenneth Hunter did
most of the Sigma NJ scoring.
Herbert Fowler, head of the depart
ment If English at the Lewiston nor
NAL school, was the speaker at a
meeting of the university Commerce
and Economics club held at the Beta
Theta Pi house last night. His sub
ject was Social Tendencies Revealed
by Modern Fiction"
At the regular annual meeting of
the First National bank of Moscow
Tuesday evening Charles w. Shields,
William Hunter, w. L. Payne, ]. K.
Mccormack and J. S. Heckathorn
were reelected directors and the old
officers were reelected without CHANGE.
w. L. Payne, president; Charles w.
Shields, vice president; j. S. Hecka-
thorn, cashier.
G.. G. Prestrud, for the past three
years assistant cashier at the Moscow
State bank, slipped quietly over to Sc
attic for.the holidays. While there he
and Miss Jean Porter were married at
the home of the brides parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. w. Porter, in Seattle, De-
cember 20. The bride is a graduate of
the University of Washington and
taught for two years in the public
schools of North Yakima. After a
wedding trip to Victoria, Vancouver
and other points of interest, Mr.. and
Mrs. Prestrud have established their
home at 22O North Jefferson street in
this city where they are at home to
their friends.
Miss Alma I. Wilson, after several
months spent in Moscow, left today
for her home in Spokane.
The third payment of 40 per cent on
the second Liberty Bonds will be due
and payable January 10.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-10

If you have a talent as asalesman
sell your services to best advantage
through classified advertising.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-10
MOSCOW MOUNTAIN

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed PETER and two
young sons of Canada have returned
to Moscow for an extended visit.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-10

visiting their daughter in Boise. They
expect to spend several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Humphreys and
little son of Oregon are visiting with
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Dewitt.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-10
Card Of Thanks

We wish to express our thanks for
the kindess and sympathy extended
to us in our recent bereavement.
ANDERSON FAMILY.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-10
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Boise-Oregon Short Line in 1917
paid upwards of $1,OO0,0O0 taxes in
Idaho.
Grangeville-Idaho county spruce to
be used for airplane construction.
ST. Anthony may have a sugar fac
tory.
Pocatello-Oregon Short Line auth
orizes construction of scrap reclaim
ing plant here consisting Of building
33x66 feet, equipped with water and
air lines, platform, transmission lines,
and Ajax A-12 inch scrap retaining
roll, cost $4,000.
Preston-For year 1918 Utah-Idaho
Central Railroad company will ex-
pend approximately 100000 in pur-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
The Dear, Kind German

1t has always been hard to get the
German point of view precisely. Doing
our best, we have had to put down much
of the German way in Belgium, in
France, to an unknown factor--let US
say the product ry, in which represents
an incomprehensible brutality and y
represents an incomprehensble stupid
ity.
In the present eruption of the German
idea upon our waters we find ourselves
face to face with a similarly surprising
factor. There arc certain military
aspects of the sinkings which are COM
prehensible. But they are overshadowcd
by such amazing details as the silk UNI
brella of Captain Gilmore, master of the
three-masted schooner Edna, sunk by a
submarine off Winter Quarter Light
ship, and all on board saved amid the
utmost politeness.
The umbrella was new one and the
captains pet and he had forgotten it in
the haste of departure to the U-boat.
lie mentioned it to the thoughtful Ger
mans, and when they returned in a small
boat from blowing up the three-masted
schooner Edna they brought along the
new silk umbrella and handed it to Cap
tain Gilmore, with their compliments.
Courtesy is hobby, a fetch, with these
dear, kind Germans, who are regrettably
compelled by the vicissitudes of war to
iCl< Oh.
cigars! Nothing is too good for a capt
ured American. Let him have what he
will, even life ITSELF
But why, why? The obvious sugges-
tion by way Of explanation is that here
shows an effort to convince Americans
that Germans are not as black as they
have been painted-that they are really
polite and tender-hearted and can scut
tie ship with the most gentlemany of
pirates. But could any human mind be
so stupid as to think Americans so stupid
as to fall for such stuff and nonsense
after the Lusitania? One new silk UNI
brella against Surely, no!
There is more subtle explanation we
lean toward-in which stupidity is some
what modified by at least hint of bru-
tality. 1t is the fable of the crane and
the fox. The crane removed bone from
the choking fox, and then asked for a
reward. "Your reward is that | didn't
crunch you to death when your head was
in my mouth" said the fox. The Ger
man showed us what he could do when
he sank our women and children on the
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Right Idea, Wrong Method

Senator Calder meant we'll when he
got an amendment tackled on the post
Office appropriation bill giving all parts
Of this city the benefit of the two-cent
drop letter rate. But he chose the wrong
method. The conference committee was
right in throwing his amendment out.
He sought to set up an exception to a
general law for this city's benefit. If
we had only one postal district here The
intra-city drop rate would fall auto
matically to two cents. But we have
now something like dozen separate dis
tricts-survivals of the postal organiza-
ton of the days before consolidation.
Independent postoffices still linger on in
Staten Island which are postoffices only
in name.
Why not unity our local machinery?
That is the logical way to relieve New
Workers of the artificial burden of three
cent drop letter rates between Manhattan
Island and the other parts of the city.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05

peril to the whole Verdun position. 1t
would create the same dangerous salient
which existed at the time of the Battle
of the Marne. and it might compel the
evacuation of Ncrdun and of the Mcusc
heights as far south as the line Of The
Marine, eastward to Bar-le- Due, and then
Of the Ornain, and thence to the Toul
positions now occupied by a section of thc
American army.
Foch's strategy in the same period is
and probably will remain to avoid any
counter offensive Of large dimensions
while the German still possesses q great
striking reserve. He may hope by
superior economy to find himself at the
close of the campaign with a sufficient
striking force but he must preserve an
equality of reserves against the hour
when the. German stakes all. He must
content himself with meeting and parry
ing each thrust at the cost of valuable
territory until either German exhaustion
or a situation Of too great peril on the
Allied side compels him to attack, as
Joffre was finally compelled to attack in
The Marne campaign when the French
had reached the last line on which it was
possible to defend Paris, Verdun and the
eastern frontier
This brings us back again to the fact
that this great campaign is going to turn
get over from America helps to alleviate
the present situation and goes to insure
our final success These men can be
made fit to take their part in the present
campaign only by being trained in the
formations Of the war-tricd French and
British divisions. To do anything else
is to waste time, to waste effort and, more
important still, to waste lives. This is
not altogether the opinion of our Ameri-
can military authorities, but it is essen
tial that the public should recognize the
truth at this time.
There is no doubt in any mind that we
shall have more calls made on American
man power this year, and public opinion
must be prepared for this and for the
sacrifices which it will entail And in
the broader aspect there is tbs further
advantage: With Americans, French and
British fighting together in the ranks,
there will be an opportunity Of getting
to know each othe, in days cf hardship
and adversely, such as will 90 far toward
cenenting an understanding that will
keep the peace in The world in the fut-
ure. This is an opportunity that will
never occur again and it would be eolly
not to make the fullest possible use of it.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
What's Law?

Germany has long since discarded inter
out that the Carolina was her way to
Porto Eco, and that she was in the nosi
ton, therefore, of a railroad train nassino
through Switzerland The attack on this
ship is thus as if beligcrent aircraft
dropped bombs on the Swiss railways.
In Europe it is generally expected that
Germany will make offers of peace. The
visit by these U-boats is strange intro
ductlon to the proposed negotiations.
America is to-day the least exhausted of
all the fighting nations. No country Is more
determined than the United States To fpbt
the war out to its bitter end. If, then. Ger
many wants peace, her greatest difficulty
Will be American opinion Yet she
threatens America with a peril which is
ridlculously inadequate if it is intended 70
compel high spirited country to surren-
der, while it is just sufficiently ser;ons ~
stlmuiate American enthusiasm. The T.
boat menace does not become greater be-
cause 1t crosses the ocean. but it does come
nearer home to the American Republic and
the knowledge that Germany is quite
capable of bombarding the Woolwortb
building or of Smelling the Statue of I;h-
er'y does not tend to tranqullize American
hostility against autocracy. IF uodor,
science can be used in this way, then. obvi.
ously' 1t is all the more prudent to mal.
an Immediate end of Germanv's canac;tr
for injuring the world.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05

of local interest any state was to harbor
dangerous contagion, the rest Of the
nation would not be content to set up
mere quarantine against it, if that was
clearly inadequate 1t would invade any
right and ruthlessly abrogate any local
custom to stamp out an epidemic that
might threaten the nations welfare. In
less radical way such is the purpose
of the proposed amendment for the ma
tlon-wide suppression Of alcohol. That
is as clear an invasion of state rights
and state customs as any law could be.
But if nation decides upon it it will
be the law of the land and no court
will stand against it,
All of which means that our Consti-
tuition is not the rigid coat Of mail re-
straining all change of freedom of ac-
ton, as it has long been held and feared
by many to be.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Charles w. Fairbanks

There was a striking difference be-
tween Charles w. Fairbanks as he was
and Charles w. Fairbanks as the public
imagined him to be. This duality handi-
capped him in politics. He passed as
man Of much solemnty and rigidity, of
extreme caution in utterance and extreme
conventionality in ideas.
This view of him was purely impress
slcnlstic. 1t was based on externals Mr.
Fairbanks was not temperamental. He
was not eXcitable. He was active in ma
tlonal politics at time Of great effcr-
instrumentation the muckraker was in
the heyday of popularity With the
muckraker's impulses and artifces he
had no sympathy. He belonged in mental
tendencies to the generation which had
built up the Middle West, and he didn't
share the passion Of those who were bent
on showing that the whole American
structure, or any part Of it, had been
built wrong
lie had been q successful lawyer, in
touch with constructive enterprises, and
he rever yielded his point of view But
ne was man of genuine intelligence and
sterling character He rose to leadership
IN his own state---a state which has pro-
duced many able politicians and many
leaders of national distncton--by virtue
OF certain constancy in thought and
solidity in attainments
He was not gifted as an orator. He
could not rival men like Hendricks or
Harrison, or even Voorhees,, on the
stump. He was not vehement partisan,
as they were. But he won the respect of
his own people to a marked degree. Ind
lanians never underrated him. Thev
knew him and appreciated his steady de-
velopment as public man.
Harrison had an extraordinary felicity
as speaker-both on the stump and on
informal occasions. Fairbanks had a
reputation for verbosity on the platform.
There he seldom did himself justice. But
at gatherings like those of the Gridiron
Club in Washington no one exceled him
IN wit, geniality and appropriateness.
Here was another puzzling contradiction
between the real man and the man whom
the public judged, necessarily, on his
public performances.
AS Senator from Indiana, Vice-Presi-
dent tor one term and candidate for Vice
PRESIDENT for another term, Mr., Fair
banks attained enviable distinction in
politics. But these honors were all with
IN his deserts. He wore them discreetlv
and modestly And he would have re-
NAMED discreet, modest and capable
Whatever other vistas fortune might have
opened to him before the close of his po-
ltical career.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
The Unfortunate
Coincidence

Ihese delays, runners Of which got to
the pubhc at the same time Gutzon Bor-
slum was doing cubistic feat in inyesti
gatlon under the shelter of Presidential
authority, and "The Providence Journal"
was hintlng pro-German conspiracy in
nigh places, and "The New York Timesn
was actually enunciating charges of an
other sort of conspiracy, aroused a pen-
eral feeling in the public mind that tho
whole aircraft programme was a total 1oss
and no insurance
All this time the men who were moL;,.
the motor and the responsible officials
knew that the worst thing that had h.n
pened was an official publicity. bathed -
rosy pigments, that insisted on keen;,o -,
'he notion of everything going ACCORDING
TO hectic programme and at Tho So
Time preventing any authentic u,ofso;.,
publicity. Had the War Department 49,.
mitted the aircraft board and the av;a
.oh oihciais to grant that splendid froo
ooih OF access to the facts that the sh;n
ping BOARD grants in regard to tho oood
fleet, there would not have boo -, Ia"
commotion. ' 'his
through 1t all production was aa,,.
III Aprii the motors began to cow. 20
al the rate of fifteen or twenty dav D.
duction-now fifty day-;ncraas fo-
volume weekly. sases In
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Costlier Frightfulness

And consider what she loses The trans
atlantic U-boat is larger more expensive in
construction and maintenance, and it re-
quires a more numerous crew than the u
boat designed for home waters Moreover.
cruising around This later warfare is thus
much costller in every way than the old
and original frightfulness to which we have
been accustomed in the Mediterranean. off
the coast of France, in the North Sea and
st. Georges Channel Time will show
whether the risk to the long distance u
boat is not prohibitive The U-53. which
visited Nantucket in October, 1916, NAV
have escaped, but America was not at war
and it is significant that the boat never
came back again. We do not know what
happened to her.
But the general belief is that Germany
lost both the Deutschland and the Bremen.
this on first OR second voyage, which
means risk of over so per cent per trim:
yet the American navy was not then in the
held, with its vast development of anti
submarine appliances. while the British
navy is more experienced to-dav in such
warfare than it was at that time
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
When Borglur,
Arrived

But presently troubles began to deyelop.
There were rumors of disappointing tests
ana wnisperngs that the Liberty motor
was failure after all Gutzon Borglum
was permitted to run amuck, and in the
mean time Secretary Baker, doubtless car
ried away by the enthusiasm that infected
everybody associated with the motor, be-
gan to anticipate the schedule in his de-
llverances to the press. What the cnthu-
siasts, after being driven into advancing
their own confident schedules by two
months, said about what they would, do was
taken literally. Every bit of goal news
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Rewriting the Constitution

In many respects the vote in the Su-
preme Court on the constitutionaltv of
the Federal child labor law is one of the
most remarkable and most interesting
IN generation. -Four of the ablest
Jurists Of the court, including Justice
Holmes and Justice Brandeis, said in
effect that no state possesses any vested
rights which the nation as a whole. as
represented by Congress, is bound to
respect. This came as near as anything
could to vote for the abolition of the
old doctrine of State Rights.
In this regard the four members of
the Supreme Bench put forward no
startling innovation. They simply fol-
lowed, and assented to, the action of
Congress IN passing the child labor law,
which was in effect exactly what we have
described, the foreshadowed end of the
glorious old fortress of state powers. It
is evident enough that when four of the
more progressive type of judges unite in
an opinion against 'he more old-fash-
Toned law-and- precedent jurists, it is
only question of time when the pres
ont majority will be ovcrruled.
1t is extremely interesting to observe
how thoroughly what may be regarded
as public interest always dominates the
interpretation Of a law, no matter how
Hat and unequivocal the language of
tho law or statute may be. In the old
slave days the save-holding oligarchy
OF the South endcavored practically to
abrogate their own Calhoun made doc
trne of state rights when it came to
hunting the slaves across the Mason and
Dixon line. And the Supreme Court.
in the famous Dred Scott decision, up
held that raid
In the present instance the case used
to test the constitutionalty of the child
labor law originated in North Carolina
ana grew out OF an order restraining a
cotton mill OF that state from discharg-
ing the little children in its employ on
account of the new Federal law.
In effect, this law was an imposition
of Northern ideas upon Southern state
We say this statistically, and in no other
sense. All the states except those of
the South now have child labor laws
10 resist this invasion of their state
rights the Southern communities invoke
IN effect the same prohibitions as the
North invoked against slave hunting.
and the nation as whole sets up in
effect the same plea as the slave holders
dld three-quarters of century ago.
The plea of the South is that its cot
ton mills cannot compete with the mills
OF the North without the employment of
little children; and majority of the
Supreme Court protects them in pro-
cedure which violates the national SEN
tlment of humanity. 1t is improbable
that such decision will stand. Whether
we may regret it or welcome it, it is
clear that the old state rights bogv is
dying. The exigencies of national life
and organization practically demand
homogeneity of law and custom. It
is clear enough that if for any reason
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
Where Is the Nest?

We do not know whether the raiders de-
pend for their secret supply of fuel and
food on some base in Mexico or other
American country. Stocks may be replen
ished from passing ships, as captured and
sunk, but in the end the U-boat must re-
turn to a friendly port for refit, and this
means running the gantlet back to Ger
many. The Allied navies seem to have SINK
one such ship already, and there will bc a
sharp lookout for others.
The raiders carry guns, but are as totally
unprotected by armor as the smaller sinh
marine. Evidently they are conscious Of
their weakness, for they have avoided
routes where they might encounter troon-
ships which are conveyed. When we read
of nine ships sunk it looks serious, but the
total tonnage of these vessels is not verv
great. AS an experiment the raid NAV be
important, but not as an achievement; the
results hitherto have been meagre COM
pared with the expenditure involved.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05
A Tenfafiue
Miracle

Then, on July 3, twenty-eight days later,
occurred the miracle that upset all con-
servatism. The parts were brought to-
gether from far and near and assembled
into a motor that worked like a charm.
However, on foreign advice, it was de-
clded to increase the motors power and
make it twelve-cylinder type 1t was
originally intended to make the motor in
four, six, eight and twelve cylinders, but
in the end all other forms were abandoned
in favor of coVcentration of production on
the twclve-cylinder. More power was the cry
from the Allies. They had exhausted the
possibilities of low-power engines. The
big engine-big in power and light in
welght-was to be the peculiar American
contribution
The twelve-cylinder model passed all tests
with flying colors on August 25. trip
TO Plke's Peak gave it an altitude expert
ence. There were more drawings and more
consultations and more changes. and finally.
after August 25, the motor was ordered
INTO quantity production On October %
the first motor that could be roughly called
the result of quantity production was tried
IN a De Haviland A, at Dayton, Ohio. The
result was so satisfactory that everybody
thought 1t was all over but the shouting
Tor both plane and engine
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05

motor now except history, but his
tory may still be interesting.
The natal days were most exciting.
Messrs. Vincent and Hall, locked up to-
gcther in a hotel, were incubating the Lib
erty motor. Engineers and officials and
British and French officers came and went
from the sacred suite almost on tiptoe.
AT the bidding of the two aircraft consuls
great engineers and manufacturers arrived
and departed Drawings, tracings and blue
prints piled up on the beds and tables and
dressers
1T was on or about May 25 that the idea
OF an American motor was born On The
2Sth Messrs. Hall and Vincent began their
historic session. On June the draft of
the general design was complete and was
submitted to joint meeting of the air.
craft board and the army and navy tech
nical board. 1t was for an eight-cvlinder
engine that was to develop somewhere
around 300 horsepower. 1t looked good on
paper and everybody was jubilant. The
whole affair dramatically staged and
chronicled. The superheated air was pro-
vided at the start.
The joint board approved the design. and
forthwith orders were teegraphed to vari-
Gus shops to make the different parts in
stanter. Craftsmen worked fevershlv over
drawings, and there was much rushing
back and forth.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-05

was magnfied. At length came the day
when fifty motors had been completed
Somebody told Secretary Baker they were
to De shipped to France He said So They
were shipped, but only one of them ever
got to France The rest were diverted.
Quantity production on large scale was
due to begin in December We were to have
threc thousand motors in March. December
came and there was quantity produc-
tlon Howard Coffin, chairman of the air-
craft board, then appointed a committee of
engineers to find out what the trouble was
inns committee soon found that various
pai's OF the motor were not strong enough
ana mat others were not we'll adapted To II
Inc connecting rods were found to be
weak. The fabrication system worked
splendidly on the ground, but was ;nef;
clent in the air. The crankshaft u.,
not strong enough, and so on.