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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07

was a conspicuous figure on Import
ant committees although representing
a more or less inconspicuous state.
The Idaho statesman was an exam
pie of what is best In American pub
lie life. Born in humble circumstances
he rose by his own efforts to the gov
ernorship Of the state Of his adoption,
and finally was elected and reelected
to the senate of the United States TO
represent that state whose interests
were always nearest his heart.
Particularly does the woman SUI
frage movement lose friend In Sen
ator Brady, who as long ago as 1910
publicly advocated the enfranchise-
ment of women, and at the time OF
his death was chairman Of the Ma
tional Council of Women Voters.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07
Useless Mail Matter,
mining and Scientific Press)

(Mining and Scientific Press)
In these days Of freight congestion
1t is worth while to draw attention to
the large amount of useless printed
matter issued under an official frank
from Washington. For instance, we
have been receiving reports from the
department of agriculture and from
the board Of temperance. In both
cases the printed matter went into the
waste paper basket, together with
much similar stuff, because 1t did not
bear remotely upon the subjects COM
ing within our purview, as the send
ers ought to have known. And what
of the hundreds Of tons of piffle sent
broadcast over the country by mem
bers of congress? The abuse of mail
ing privileges by our legislators is a
national scandal, and without humor
in this hour of crisis
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07
A MOSCOW VIEW OF GRAY.
moscow STAR Mirror)


John p. Gray of Occur d'Alene has
ali incipient boom for senator. 1t is
launched by the Miner of Wallace,
paper that is nothing in politics if not
standpat republican.
Gray would be factor in the re-
publican camp were he to throw his
hat into the senatorial ring. He is a
corporation lawyer of recognized abil-
h ty; he is still young man, born in
Boise; he halls from the north end OF
the state, and he is a clean, aggressive
champion Of the material interests OF
his state.
There is one complication likely to
arise in this connection. Gray lives in
Occur d'Alene. There also lives Judge
James F. Ailshie, perennial candi-
date for the senate, and of course two
candidates for the senate could be
chosen from no other town in Idaho
except Boise.
Still the present Is a good time for
the younger men to try their wings
and If John p. Gray decides to sail in
he will be heartily welcomed by many,
At the same time he and all other re-
publican aspirants will do well to hold
cases on Frank r. Gooding. He has
taken out citizenship papers since the
last senatorial roundup.
Above all, it will be well to remem-
Der that the game is young and the
field is open. with party lines badly
shattered.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07
FARMERS AND THE RAILROADS.
Chicago Tribune.)


There is significant protest in the
current issue Of the American Agri-
culturist.
Farmers warmly approve of gov
this journal says, but even moer
warmly do they oppose further in
creases in wages Of railway employees.
Those workers already receive much
higher pay than many farmer re-
ceives for longer hours of toll.
Any further increase in railroad wages
would be an excuse for a double in
crease in freight and passenger rates.
Much of the burden Of any higher
rate must be borne by agriculture.
Hence its protest"
! Well, the farmers are not mistaken
in their apprehensions. They have
good reason to suspect that govern
ment paternalism, whether voluntarily
or not may work out not merely to
the immediate advantage Of the rail-
road wage Garner now ward of the
government, but to the disadvantage
of themselves The apprehensions
thus aroused might well suggest to the
farmers the necessity of overhauling
their previous conceptions Of the rail-
road problem.
Without any disposition to rattle the
skeleton merely to hear the rattle,
it may be recorded that the farmers
perhaps more than any other one class
have inspired that restrictive policy
which made the appointment of rail-
road dictator practically inevitable.
They have bitterly opposed any policy
savoring of liberality, either in rates
or legislation, not realizing that such
a policy would in the long run be the
one genuinely conservative policy not
only with respect to transportation in
terests, but with respect to their own
interests.
There need be no condemnation in
the observation that organized labor
will try to get all it can And there
need be no concealment of the fact
that organized labor commonly finds
II easier to get what it wants from
politicians, always thinking of votes,
than from private employers. We
have an illustration right here in Chi
cago. Go over to the city hall and
talk privately to any one of the alder
men; 1t is ten to one he will tell you
that the city hall unions are making
exhorbitant and unjustifiable demands,
though they are already getting better
hours and better pay than men out
side, but that he does not dare. to OPP
pose them for fear of what might hap
pen at the next election.
The rumored candidacy of the
director general Of railroads for a
high Office certainly will not reassure
the farmers. How far 1t may smooth
the path Of the brotherhoods can, OF
course, be only a matter Of specula-
ton. If. however, the farmers be-
come aroused, II they gain clear
Of past mistakes and future
perils, we may hope they will exer-
Else truly conservative force that
ian not but be advantageous in pro-
noting the general welfare.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07
JOHN p. GRAY AND THE U. S.
SENAToRSHlP.

Much favorable comment has been
drawn out by the announcement in the
Miner two weeks ago that John p.
Gray might be drafted as a candidate
for United States senator to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Sem
ator Brady, and 1t is conceded that II
he should enter the race he would
prove a formidable candidate for the
republican nomination. Mr. Gray has
much to commend him to the people
Of the state as a senatorial candidate.
He is a native son of Idaho, having
been born in Boise. He is just en-
tering the prime of life, that period in
which study and experience merge in
to mature judgment and mans men
tai faculties are at their best. Mr..
Gray is lawyer and in the practice
of his profession he has advanced to
a position second to none in his ma
tive state nor in the northwest Par
ticularly in the practice Of mining law
he has reached distinguished posi-
ton, and his services are sought in
the most important litigation that has
occupied the attention of courts of the
west. He is a student of political and
economic questions which with his
fine legal attachments combine to
qualify him admirably to deal with
the great questions now confronting
the government and the numerous
other problems that will follow the
conclusion of the war and which call
for the brightest minds and the high
est order Of craftsmanship in their
solution.
Politically Mr.. Gray has always been
a consistent republican, and while
taking an active interest in party af-
fairs, he has never held nor sought
public office Should he enter the race
for United States senator it will be
due to the earnest solicitation Of his
friends who recognize. his eminent fit
ness for the position, rather than to a
desire to crafty his own political am
bition.
North Idaho will demand represen-
tation in the senate as. matter OF
to this section. of the state. |
The Miner fully shares this feeling,
but in order to enforce our geogra-
phical right we must have a candi-
date whose personality and command
ing ability will attract support in the
south as we'll as in the north. The
geographical contention will not win
and should not unless it is backed by
. candidate whose qualifications
measure up to the high standard re-
CURED to creditably fill the high posi-
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07
LINCOLN.
(ReY. D. NJ. Helmickl

(Rev. ID. M. Helmick)
The greatest of the great, today
He stands alone.
Among the lofty pines that grace the
sylvan plain
This towering form is seen to rise
far, far above the rest,
And as the cleaning rays Of future,
brighter suns
Shall work their shadows of the great,
More heightened will his shadow
grow
TIL seen around the world,
Which makes of fame complete.
And then when final history has writ
the volume of its greatest men,
All nations then will claim his birth
and life with them.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07

ton No one can question Mr. Gray's
qualifications, and the fact that he
was born and reared In south Idaho
and has for many years made north
Idaho his home, and that he has a
wide acquaintance in all parts of the
state, places him in most advantage
eous position as a primary candidate
and gives ample assurance that he
would be elected If nominated.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07
Aas Of Birds.

An English investigator says the av-
erage ages to which some Of the more
familiar birds live are as follows.
Grow, eagle raven and swan, each 100
years; heron, SO; parrot, go; goose and
pelican, each so; sparrowhawk, 40;
skylark. 80; canary, crane and pea
cock, each "a pigeon. 20; nightingale,
49,; goldfinch. peasant and partridge,
each Is; lark. 13; robin and blackbird,
each 70; thrush and common fowl each
10; wren, 3.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07

1t is expected that the call for the
next Liberty loan will be made some
time in March and that 1t will be not
less than $4,000. 900, 900. This means
heavier subscriptions than we have
yet been called upon to make. Make
your calculations accordingly and be
prepared to subscribe to the limit of
your ability.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07
In the Trenches
(By J. B. Fagan.)

Can you not hear me. young man in
the street?
Is 1t nothing to you who pass by?
who down the dim lit ways in thous-
ands roam?
From here watch you through the
driving sleet.
Under the evening sky,
Hurrying home.
bell I!
/ wonder can you know, as l know
well,
That in this trench
OF death and stencil
l stand between your home and hell.
the weather,
| am the gate that keeps the brigand
back,
When pillage fire and murder come to-
gether.
| am the wall that saves your home
from sack.
Man, when you look upon the girl you
prize,
Can you imagine horror in those eyes?
You have not seen, you can not un-
derstand
This trench in England, all this ruined
land
Is where you wander. street, or field,
or strand,
Save for Gods grace, and for the guns
that rest
Upon this dripping mudbank of the
west
Our blood has stained your thresh-
old--will you stain
Your soul, give nothing and take all
our gain?
why did come? I ask not, nor re-
pent;
Something blazed up inside me, and
went.
The khaki fringe is frayed, and now
a rent
Needs men-needs men, and am al
most spent.
Night, and the Ready" -. so sleep
WELL. my friend -.
The guns again are going !
must stick it to the end.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07
In War Service.
(Capper's Weekly

OF $4,000 graduate nurses in this
country, 1000 already are in active war
service. The Red Cross carefully card
indexes every nurse as librarians do
book, and the whereabouts and SER
vice Of each one can be found in a
moment by referring to this index.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07
SENATOR BRADY.
New York Evening SUM

New York Evening SUM
The United States and particularly
the state Of Idaho suffered distinct
loss in the death Of Senator James H.
Brady, who died In Washington on
Like the late Senator New
ands Of Nevada, who predeceased
lim short time ago, Senator Brady
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07

The United States, importing before
the war as much as $10,000,O00 worth
of aniline dyes year. in 10 months
of last year exported dyes valued at
s12,5o0, 900.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07

Port Sunlight, the English village
noted as the seat of the soap making
industry, has furnished $500 men to
the British military service.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-02-07

There are $50 war charities register
ed In London.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-10
Maid Is Suffocated in Early Morning
Fire that Destroys Residence of Whole
sale Grocer; Harris Brothers Heroes
DROP CHILDREN FROM WINDOW G
WHEN STAIRWAY IS CUT OFF
Inside of Home Nearly Destroyed When
Smoke A1vakens Members of the
Family in Nick of Time

One woman was suffocated
and five members of the Wit
man family averted death only
by a hairs breadth in the fire
which early this morning par
TALLY destroyed the home of H.
NJ. Whitman, 2101 North Second
street. A stove in the. cellar is
thought to have started the
fire. .''....-.
Two of the three children of
Mr.. Whitman were saved when
neighbors standing on the lawn
beside the house caught them as
they dropped to the ground. Mr..
Whitman and the nurse were
saved by neighbors who hoisted
a ladder TO the second floor win
dow. A third child had to crawl
partially out of the window while
she awaited rescue in order to
avoid smothering by the smoke
which poured in sdense volumes
from the window. All escaped
in their nightclothes after being
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-10
Pennsy Veterans Meet
Here With a Curtailed
Program Because of War

Between three and four hundred
members of the Veterans Association
of the Philadelphia Division of the
Pennsylvania railroad attended the
fourteenth annual meeting of the or
ganization held this afternoon In the
p. r. r. Y. M. G. A. War time con-
ditions caused a number of changes
in this annual session, the most i'm
portant of which was the changing
of the place of meeting from Colum-
bia to this city. The banquet, al
ways a feature for the vets was also
lacking to-day, in order to conserve
food. N. w. Smith, Jr, superintend-
ent of the division will probably be
elected president of the association,
to succeed William b. McCaleb. who
is now superintendent of water COM
panies for the Pennsylvania system.
Prof. Francis II. Green, a member
of the faculty of the State Normal
School at West Chester lectured on
War Conditions in France" A trib-
ute was paid to the twenty-seven
members who died during the last
year. After the business session the
veterans enjoyed an old-fashioned
smoker.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-10
GREAT Y. M. C. A.
WAR DRIVE TOBE
LAUNCHED HERE
Workers to Be Enlisted Tues
day Under Mrs. Jennings
Leadership

Harrisburg will he one of the first
stopping points for the Flying
Wedge" of organizers who will tour
the state for the eastern department
of the Young Women's Christian AS
sociation under the direction of the
War Work Council.
Miss Helen Steel, of Oil City, who
is awaiting her passports to go to
France, with the Overseas Theatrical
League, will arrive in Harrisburg
Tuesday where she will hold con-
ferences with Mrs. William Jennings,
who has been named as chairman of
district No. 6, by the War Work
Council of the national board. The
counties included are Mifflin, Juniata.
Perry, Franklin, Cumberland, York,
Adams, Lancaster, Lebanon and
Dauphin.
The plan of organization will i'm
mediately enlist hundreds of women
in the active war program which the
Y. w. c. A. has planned for this
section. There will be county and
district chairmen appointed, a chair
man will be named for each town
and city, and a large
will be delegated to traverse the
rural districts.
Miss Steel will explain how the Y.
w. G. A. has made the azure en-
blem the insignia of war work which
has been carried everywhere in
America and France. and has almost
penetrated into No Mans Land from
the first line trenches. She will tell
how the Y. w. C. A. is doing for the
women of this country and France,
what the Y. w. c. A. is doing for the
men. 1t is caring for the women of
the industrial armies of both coun-
tries at the request of the two gov
ernments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-10
SCORES OF SALOONS
WILL NOT APPLY FOR
LICENSES NEXT YEAR
of Harrsburgs Hoelmen Expected TO Quit
Business in February Because of Brewery Shutdown;
Reduced Revenue From Whisky Not Sufficiest

Three-fourths of Harrisburg's bar
rooms will not apply for licenses for
next year, it was estimated to-day.
The Federal regulation prohibiting
the manufacture of beer after De-
cember l and the absolute prohibi-
ton after July l is responsible.
With the expiration of the Ii
censes next February, only the larger
of the hotels will seek new licenses,
it was said in hotel circles to-day.
Counting the fees and Federal Ii
cense, the cost is about $500. The
smaller bars would not, with the
loss of the beer revenue, make
enough profit to warrant the eX-
penditure, it was said.
According to the opinion of many
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-10
SUGAR ADVANCES
CENT.AND A HALF
BY FOOD ORDER
Old Stock on Hand Must Be
Sold at Former
Price

The price of sugar has been ad-
vanced one-and-a half cents a pound
retail on stock received after last
Monday morning. The price 20
householders will probably be eleven
cents. Some grocers will sell it for
ten-and-a-half The present price is
nine and nine-and- "a half cents.
The increase was fixed by the Fed
eral Food Administrator. 1t affects
only the sugar delivered to whole
salers in the city after last MJn-
day.
The sugar held by wholesalers
prior to Monday must be sold to re-
tailers and thence to the trade at
the old price. This means that
grocers must charge only the old
price on sugar bought from whol3-
salers who had it in stock before
Monday.
To Keep Tabs
The food administration has the
amount of sugar held by both whole
salers and retailers registered all the
time, so that it is known at the food
administration offices which grocers
may charge the advanced price, and
which wholesalers are selling old
stocks of sugar.
1t is understood that only one of
the three large wholesale houses has
any stock of sugar left on hand
from that held prior to Monday.
Other houses receiving sugar since
then will sell it at the new price.
Stocks of sugar are automatically
registered with the Food Admins
traitor through the medium of re-
turned certificates from grocers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-10
WORLD SERIES
PLAYERS STRIKE
AT GAME TIME
Refuse to Go on Boston Field
Until Grievance Is
Answered
By Associated Press

Fcnway Park, Boston. Sept. TO-
The Red SoX and Chicago Cubs
touched off a bombshell toward game
time to-day by refusing to go on the
field unless the national commission
rendered an immediate decision to
their demand for a readjustment of
the worlds series division of the
money receipts apportioned to the
players.
A committee of the players had
met the national commission earlier
in the day The players then came to
the park and held a meeting in their
they decided to call the commission
at once and say that they would not
go upon the field until a decision was
rendered. At 1.55 o'clock not u play
er had appeared upon the field, and
there were reports that If the COM
missions decision was against a re.
adjustment of the players share in
the game that the SoX and the Cubs
would not go on with to-day's game.
The commission had promised to
take the matter under advisement,
but insisted that there had been no
formal guarantee and that any
change in the division of the proceeds
would have to be submitted to the
club owners for ratification.
The commission gave out figures
of the probable division of the play
ers pool of 69,527.70 as follows:
Winners share, $23,152.72: losers
share, $15,435.15; teams finishing
second in the respective leagues to
get SIS, ,469.91; those finishing third,
$9,2S1.95, and those finishing fourth,
$6,1S7.97.
The commission told the players
over the telephone that the rate of
apportionment had been suggested
by the commission to the two major
leagues, was adopted by the two
leagues and, therefore, the commits
sion had no authority to make any
changes. Chairman Hermann told
the players that if they decided to
strike under the circumstances they
should at once go to the gates of the
park and ask the management to
stop the sale of tickets. This the
players had not done at 2.15, when
Continued OH Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-10
Jitneymen to Permit
Soldiers to Ride Free

The Harrisburg Telegraph's "Give
EN- Lift" plan got a big boost to-
day, when Edward Brubaker, presi-
dent of the Harrisburg Jitneurs' Asso-
citation, secured twenty membership
cards and announced they would be
placed on all jitneys operated by as
sociation members.
The cards, which are displayed on
the windshields, announce that any
soldier Is entitled to a free ride, by
merely holding his hand. At a meet
ing of the Jitneurs last evening, 1t
was also decided to retain the five
cent fare, despite the new tariff
which goes into effect on the lines
of the Harrisburg Railways Company.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-10
By Associated Press

London, Sept. 1O.-"We have
passed through many dark days
Please God these never will re-
turn" says Field Marshal Haig
commander-in-chief of the Brit
ish forces in France, in an order
of the day. The commander
then says: "The enemy now
has spent his effort"
The text reads:
"One month now has passed since
the British armies, having success
fully withstood all the attacks OF
the enemy once more took the Of
fensive in their turn. In that short
space of time by a series of bril-
liant and skilfully executed actions
we have repeatedly defeated the
same German armies whose vastly
superior numbers compelled our re-
treat last spring. What has hap
pened on the British front has hap
pened also on the front of our allies.
Everywhere Advancing
LESS than six months after the
launching of the great German of
fensive which was to have cut the
allied front in two, the allied armies
everywhere to-day are advancing vic
toriously side by side over the same
battlefield on which, by the courage
and steadfastness of their defense
they broke the enemy's assaults.
Yet more has been done AL
ready we have pressed beyond our
old battle lines of 1917 and have
made a wide breach in the enemy's
strongest defenses.'
Glorious Accomplishment
I'm this glorious accomplishment
all ranks, arms and services of the
British armies in France have borne
their part in the most worthy anG
honorable manner.
The capture of $4,000 prisoners
and $50 guns in the course of foul
weeks fighting speaks for the mag.
nitude of your efforts and the mag
nificence of your achievement.
Thanks All Ranks
my thanks are due to all rank:
of the fighting forces for their in.
domitable spirit in defense and theil
boldness in attack, to all comman
ders and their staff officers under
whose able direction such great re
suits have been attained, and also t.
all those whose unsparing labors be-
hind the actual lighting line have
contributed essentially to the com
mon cause. To have commanded
this splendid army which at tim'
of grave crisis has so nobly done it!
duty fills me with pride.
Dark Days Gone
1--WE have passed through many
dark days together. Please Goo
these never will return. The enem,
has now spent his effort and we rel.
confidently upon each one of you t.
turn to full advantage the oppor
tunity your skill, courage and reso
luton have created"