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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-25

has peen hard nit. Less than one
half the men employed three years
ago are now al work. The mine OPP
orators can not afford to pay the
wages necessary to retain them.
II these conditions affected a man
ufacturing industry there would be
an automatic increase in the sale
price which would regulate the rela-
ton of cost to the market value, but
the sale price of gold Is fixed by law or
parliament at 81 shillings per ounce,
which is s20.67. and that price rules
the world over. In former days, when
prices of commodities were much low
er, this price was so ample that GOLD
mining was profitable for low grade
ores and placer mines not rich in
color, while the high grade ores and
richer placer mines gave profits that
made the expression "a veritable mine
of wealth" mean something.
The fact that great profits were
made in those days does not alter the
present fact, that If gold production
in the United States is to continue at
anything like it's former volume the
sale price of gold must advance with
the increasing cos of production.
Economists have advocated increasing
the quantity Of gold in a dollar as a
means of equalizing values and keep
ing down prices. That would have the
effect of making a dollar purchase
more supplies and labor and thus re-
duce the cost Of production.
1t would be a remedy for high
prices for all as well as for the gold
miners, but whether desirable or not
would depend upon other considera-
tons than a desire to stimulate min
ing. The simplest remedy would be
to pay more dollars for an ounce of
gold. Congress is asked to do that
by the miners by increasing the
amount paid for an ounce Of gold at
the mint.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-25

of the island. The treaty provided:
THE Notifications, military estab-
Hshments and harbors of the island Of
Heligoland and Dune are to be de-
'stroyed under the supervision Of the
allies by German labor and at Ger
many's expense. They may not be re-
constructed or any similar fortified
tions built in the future"
Therefore, argue the lovers of void
.feathered life, Heligoland will become
unfit for further military or naval duty
and Its size will prevent its use In a
commercial way. Turn the $7,500,00O
expended to make 1t the Gil
of the North sea to waste, but
the island as a mark of peace
and refuge for birds.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-25
WHY LIBERTY LOAN BONDS ARE
BELOW PAR.

Interest on Liberty loans nov
amounts to between $500, 600, 900 and
$500, 00O. 900 per year.
The population of the United
States is estimated at something un-
der ITO, 900, 900 persons.
The United States treasury there
fore is disbursing investment profits
averaging IS each to every man, wo-
man and child in the country.
More than 20, 100000 persons were
listed at the close of the Victory loan
as holders Of war bonds, indicating an
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-25
Where Your Red Cross Dollar Went

presented to the government when the
units were mustered in. OF the total,
81 served overseas and four in this
country. In addition to this the Red
Cross enrolled 24S9 physicians and so
chaplains for service with the Ameri-
can forces, in addition to thousands of
nurses and orderlies.
Camp service in America took an
other chunk of the Red Cross dollar.
The comfort bag that was given to the
sick soldier, the hospital hut, the
CHEEKY convalescent house, the home
service that Strengthened out the SOL
dier's domestic worry, the chocolate
bars, the hot water bags, the shaving
soap, the checkers-the thousand and
one things that made the getting well
period something better than a dreary
blank-these were furnished to the
American fighter by part of the Red
Cross dollar. 1t is believed that
through it's camp service, the Red
Cross helped virtually every soldier,
sailor and marine in the service of
the United States.
At the Sign of the Red Cross.
A small slice of the Red Cross dol
lar went to Italy, to help American
and Italian soldiers there. When the
Italian army lost 100 hospitals and
two main field magazines Of medical
SlInnliaG in tho Attutc;n, nffaociun nf
1917, the Red Cross rushed large
quantities of gauze, cotton, drugs and
other medical supplies and ten COM
plete field hospitals for the relief Of
the thousands of Italian wounded
pouring in from the front. Civilians,
driven from their pleasant homes in
the Venetian plains during the fierce
enemy push in November, 1917, found
food and drink at the sign Of the Red
Cross.
Most of the remainder of the Red
Cross dollar brought food to the hun
CRY, hot drink to the famished, medi-
relief and nursing to the sick, in
thousands of towns and hamlets in
other parts of war-stricken Europe
and in Siberia.
Belgium, Rumania, Serbia, Armenia,
Siberia have drunk to the
dregs the bitter cup of starvation, dis
and death. In all these countries
Red Cross has administered the
help that is saving whole
from abject ruin.
Every ragged child and every ignor-
ant peasant father or mother who has
hot soup or clothing from the
Red Cross has a big spot in his heart
or America. To many Of them, the
Red Cross is America, for 1t is all they
Snow of that strange world across the
The effect of this in the future
history of nations is i~ncalculable.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-25

What became OF your Red Cross
dollar?
The Red Cross has just rendered its
great wartime accounting to the AM
erican people in the form of a report
by H. p. Dawson, chairman of the
war council of the American Red
Cross, covering the period from July
l, 1917, to February 2S, 1919.
A large part of your dollar went
straight to France. There it worked
for the American soldier, giving him
the cigarette he needed so sorely at
the zero hour, providing the cup Of
hot chocolate which was put to his
lips when he was carried in from the
Held broken and suffering, giving him
the warm sweater which he needed as
ali extra protection against the be-
numbing cold. A little of that money
went to help our sister republic whose
War-weary people returned to find
their homes nothing but a heap of
dust and broken bricks. But most of
it was spent ON the American dough-
boy.
Another portion of the dollar went
to the boys still here in the United
States. The larger part of the money
expended in this direction worked
hard to give food or hot meals to the
boys who left secretly on the big
transports that steamed out of Hobo
ken in the dead of night, and to the
fellows who arrived ON early morning
trains, homesick and weary, and hun
CRY from the tedium of travel. Just
before the armistice 700 canteens were
In operation, manned by $1,000 work.
ers, most of them volunteers.
Millions Of Pies and Doushnuts.
When n considers the more than
100000 cookies, pies and doughnuts
alone that the hungry khaki columns
gobbled up, one readily imagines what
the canteen grocery bill must have
been.
In the twenty months which Ne are
taking into account, the Red Cross
served free refreshments 10000, 900
In other words zach soldier,
sailor and marine In the service of
the United States was served with
Tree eats by Red Cross canteen work
ers on an average of eight times.
Part of the money spent for soldiers.
n the United States went to equip
base hospitals for the army and navy
n order that the boys the hospital
'hips brought back on stretchers
night have healing and gentle care.
fifty eight base hospitals were organ
zed, fifty for the army and eight for
he navy. Forty-seven of these were
quipped by Red Cross chapters with
omplete outfits of beds, bedding, SUR
'lcal instruments and other supplies
nd accessories, all Of which were
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-25
TOLERANCE OF ANARCHY AND
ITS RESULTS.

The Portland Oregonian recalls tina
twenty-seven years g the names O
Henry C. Frick and Alexander Berk
man were in prominence together il
the news dispatches. On July 30
1892, Berkman made his way into thu
office of Mr.. Frick, shot him twice
and stabbed him Mr.. Prick recov.
cred. Berkman was sentenced to the
~penitentiary for twenty two years
but was pardoned at the end of seven
The other day, ~coinoidentally, the
news of the death of Mr.. Prick was
published and that also of the order
for the deportation of Berhman to
Russia.
lit has been a long wait for Berk-
mans deportation twenty seven
years. He was an avowed anarchist
when he came to this country at the
age of Is. But then the immigration
laws were more lax than today. The
harm he has committed has been i'm
measurable. In 1916 he established as
editor an anarchist paper in San
Francisco known as the last. With
him We're associated Thomas j.
Mooney and other anarchists. One
OF the avowed policies of the paper
was antagonism to preparedness. 1t
openly preached direct action and it
openly defended one of the Los An
geles Times dynamiters. 1t ridiculed
the American flag and it applied
coarse epithets to the president of
the United States and suggested his
assassination.
After wal was declared Berkman
a accused Of ~obstructing the draft,
tried, found guilty and sentenced to
years in the ~penitentiary, which
served.
In the San francisco preparedness
day bomb outrage melted in Berk-
mans and Moneys Blast, ten per-
sons were killed and fifty manned or
Such is one record of American toll
france of anarchism and its failure to
properly punish crime. Berkman's
'ull sentence of twenty two years for
he attempted murder Of H. C. Frick
would doubtless have subdued him.
There would probably have been no
day murders in San
Mooney would have still
'een a plain l. w. w, scorned by la
unions, and devoting his ingenuity
o direct action against property, in
tead of lives, as he did before he be-
anne associated with Berkman. I
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-25

along the European coast for the es-
Establishment Of a wild bird reserva
tion. Although restricted in size
Heligoland is les sthan fifth of a mile
square-it Is In the center of the path
OF bird migration and at it's highest
point is 100 feet above sea level, a
lighthouse to flying birds. The size of
the island is against 1t, it is In the
shape of a mutton chop, a little short
Of a mile in length and 100 feet wide
at its greatest breadth. But it would
act as a resting home for birds on
their annual fall and spring Pilgrim
ages and no longer be a menace to the
peace of Europe.
The treaty Of peace with Germany
made no reference to the final disposal
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-25

Birds to Have Home on Former Ger.
man Gibraltar.

b'0I StpTdttdTs
II the special commission to which
the peace conference entrusted the
task Of the disposal of Heligoland. the
former German Gibraltar In the North
sea. wishes a suggestion for the solu-
ton of the problem, one is offered by
the Royal Society for the Protection
of Birds in England, and by the Per-
manent Wild Life Protective Fund of
the United States. according 70 the
New York Sun. These two societies,
acting Jointly, suggest that the island
be made an International paradise for
birds. an observation station and a
sanctuary for our feathered friends in
their migrations north and south and
vice versa along the coast Of Europe.
In this solution of Heligoland there
Is implied no suggestion that the
war" island be returned to Germany,
IN fact the bird lovers of England and
the United States much would prefer
to have II become an international
possession with the world supporting
II in the endeavor to promote the wild
life OF Europe. The movement has
been endorsed by l.. Mardiner, secre-
tary OF the Royal Society for the Pro-
lection of Birds. and also by DR.. Will
liam T. Hornaday, of New York city. a
of the Permanent Wild Life
Fund. The suggestion has
been forwarded to the peace confer
and in turn to the special COM
which is celebrating over its
ask. and also to Secretary Lansing.
The hackers of the, movement assert
hat there is perhaps no better place
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-25
THE VALUE OF GOLD.
est, Louis Globe Democracy


Gold production in the United
States has declined from s92, 600, 900 In
1916 to s6s, 900, 900 last year. This
does not mean that the mines are any
less rich in ore or that there have
arisen any physical obstacles to min
ing. The decline Is a result of the
higher prices of everything entering
into the cost of mining. by which the
cost of getting out and reducing low
grade ores has been made to exceed
the value Of the metal they contain.
Only ores having a large gold con-
tent or ores capable of reduction by
the cheapest process can be made to
pay than the cost Of getting out
the gold. The gold mining industry
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-25
The Quater
(The Citizen, Salt Lake City,

When you're lost in the wild m
scared as a child.
And Death looks you bang in the
eye,
And you're sore as a boil, it's accord
ing to Hoyle,
To cock your revolver and-die.
But the code of a man says: Fight
all you can,"
And self dissolution is barred.
In hunger and woe. Oh; 1T is easy to
blow.
It's the hell served or-breakfast
that's hard.
You're sick of the game" we'll, now
that's a shame,
You're young, you're brave and
you're bright,
you've had a raw deal!"I know,
but don't squeal,
Buck up; do your damnedest,-and
fight.
It's the plugging away that will win
you the day
So don't be a piker, old pard!
Just draw on your grit; it's easy to
quit,
It's the keeping your chin up that's
hard.
It's easy to cry that you're beaten
and die;
It's easy to crawfish Inc crawl
But to fight, and to fight when hopes
out of sight
Why, that's the best game of them
And although you come out Of each
gruelling bout
All broken and beaten and SCARED,
just lave one more try-it's lead
easy to die,
It's the keeping on living that's
hard!
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-12-25
CONDITIONS IN 1919 AND 1877
COMPARED.

preceded by conditions similar to
those which alarm us today. but In
1871 the United States was barely
saved from a panic which was being
brought ON by just such conditions,
says the Salt Lake Citizen. 1t is
rather startling % read ,ndt comllun-
lists from Europe and their recruits
On this country sla4 ed M the agita-
ton and turbulence of tnat day, for
the b~olshevists and une 1. W. w. Oh
our day are conIniunistlc in then
theories and plan oil action and aie
1ond of tracing their descent from.
those communists Wdlo wrote such a
sanguinaTy chapter in the history OF
France Immediately after the Franco
PIussian war.
I Colonel ISmnlons Clark, in his His
tory of the Seventh Regiment" pub
llshed by that organization in 1890,
gives us "a brief but Illuminating re-
INlew OF the conditions which would
have led to IL nationwide panic had
not the good sense III loyalty Of the
|peopie prevailed over the violence OF
the VICIOUS and misguided. From
|the history, volume 2, page 25l, We
iuote the following:
The imitation of the currency OF
|She country during the wal (lS61-t5)
md the consequent extraordinary
speculation and increase in nominal
prices terminated in a great financial
panic in 1873, which Frustrated BUS
ness, undermined credit and derang-
ed the channels of trade and com
~alerce.
Habits OF extravaganza had been
acquired by all classes of the people,
and none cheerfully submitted to a
reduction of income and to the en-
forced economy which were the nat
ural results OF he great change in
the financial and business affairs OF
HE country.
For many years labor had been in
t.na 1AtsNn,l n-l IAl 49,
gantly rewarded and by means of
trade societies had been able to die
tate terms to employers.
But with the prostration of bust
ness the supply of labor exceeded the
demand, the reduction in wages was
resisted, and the year 1877
Witnessed a general strike among the
employees Of the country,
which threatened to entirely ~paralyze
trade and to result in great sacrifice
Of life and property.
The idle and vicious FASTENED to
under the banners of those who
demanded higher wages, and by riot
GUS demonstrations and by acts OF
oillage and wanton destruction
brought discredit upon honest labor.
The communists, largely recruited
# late from Europe, also awaited
themselves of the opportunity to
well the excitement and in threaten
ny language to promulgate their the
ries Of liberty and equality.
In many cities the mob obtained
omplete control and successfully re-
the civil authorities and the
Military ordered to their support.
The small number Of regular
oops, the entire absence Of organic
d militia in some states and the in !
of local troops in many I
of their sympathy with. the riot t
rs left a large part of the country '
>posed to the dangers incident to
eriods of disorder. y
About the first of August peace +
as restored, in some cases by sub b
ission to the demands of the rioters, b
others by compromise, and gener- t
ly by fatigue, exhaustion and reac- s
which naturally follow a prolong- C
iStuvhonnap
Arizona republican., 1919-10-06
SENSATIONAL DRAMA
 THE MIRACLE MANI AT TIE ELks TON|GHT

An engagement extraordinary which begins at the Elks' theater tonight is the production of "The Miracle Man" by the Edler Stock company. No such intensely interesting drama has ever been seen in Phoenix as this play. which was dramatiZed by George M. Conan and played with such success at the Astor theater in New York city. The drama was thereafter taken on the road with equal success and now is being presented by only the best stock companies.
 "The Miracle Man" was the most sensational drama of it's kind ever seen in New York. George NJ. Conan in a telegram to Brandon Brothers in this city declares that the play was a great success and that all the critics were unanimous in declaring it won derful drama.
 The story of the play is that of an old man in a. little Maine village who has been making some remarkable cures, all free and for the good of the cause. A band of crooks in New York hear of him and determine to use him for their own selfish and illegal ends. They send @ young woman to the Maine village who pretends to be the grand niece of the old man. The men crooks are to follow later and to be supposed to be afflicted with various diseases.
 The story is written around the con- version of the crooks by the aged man and their rise from the underworld. | There is a fine love story in the play and sufficient comedy interspersed by Miss Bates. Miss Foster and Miss 1 Ormsby. Charles Perley as the flip per is also very interesting.
 Miss Greenwood will be seen as the grand niece. MT. Alexander will be in the role of the leader of the crooks One of the features of the drama will 1 be the appearance of William Brewer in the role of the miracle man." The staging of '"The Miracle Man" is in keeping with the importance of the
 production. The Miracle Man" will be the bill at the Elks all this week
 with matinees Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. The same popular prices will prevail.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-06
At The Lamara

Again Zane Gray and William Far mum combine to bring to the screen a smashing western story that rivals anything ever written for the silver sheet and is only matched by the sparkling Riders of the Purple Sage" which holds the attendance records at the Strand where it was offered
 "The Lone Star Ranger" which is the name of the latest Zane Gray Farnum story is typical Farnum master work, for it affords the great est exponent of out door life in the movies, chance that he has seldom had since he deserted the speaking stage for the screen. Replete with daring stunts, western atmosphere and spiced with a love story that runs through the offering it found high favor yesterday at the Lamara where 1t rivalled in numbers attenting the sparkling performance of "The Mir acle Man" which broke the attendance record of Phoenix. "The Lone Star Ranger is on again at the Lamara for tomorrow as well and to those who like Wm. Farnum in a decidedly Farnumesque picture this supurb of fering will be more than welcome for it has plenty of appeal and just suits the gifted Fox star.
Arizona republican., 1919-10-06
WONDERFUL FEATURE
 PHASES THOUSANDS

The much -heralded Miracle Man" a master picture, opened yesterday at the Strand for a weeks stay, and if the large turnout to greet the picture is to be taken as a criterion the week in Phoenix will be marked by a record for attendance.
 The Miracle Man" needs no intro- duction. It has been billed like the Barnum circus and is in reality the colossus of all the pictures that have been seen locally for several years. To try and describe the picture would be a task no critic would care to attempt as it baffles description. It contains not one big scene, not one big climax, no great ensembles, no master strokes of mob, or mass, but on the contrary it tells a simple story of a man who is left dumb and almost blind, a band of New YOrk's Chinatown crooks, and few simple village folks up in New England, but when the telling is over and the old man has passed to his fathers the great barbaric spectacle, the rousing war dramas, the social cancer scandals, the thrilling westerns, will all be forgotten and the reviewer will leave the Strand feeling better to- ward all mankind, and will be a walk ing advertisement for the picture, for this screen drama IS so human, has so many lights and shades found in every day life, it just takes hold and makes the reviewer forget for the time that he is looking at screen folks. "The Miracle Man" is q miracle Gf a picture. It is one of the few pictures that one searches for a fault and becomes a worshiper.
 It is new, so diffeernt, departs so radically from the conventional that one wonders why the ssrario writer cannot find similar material to write into other pictures for here is one that breaches without preaching, softens
Arizona republican., 1919-10-06
WRIGHT PICTURE WORTHY IF |TS AUTHOR
By A. B. B.

The wisdom of an authors supervis- ing personally the films which are based on his novels was well illustrated by the film version of Harold Bell Wright's Shepherd of the Hills" shown Tor the first time in this city yesterday afternoon and evening at the Columbia The film will be shown today, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, fortunately Tor those who stood in line for as much as half hour last night and then were told that no seats were available.
 The Shepherd of the Hills" is the best film we have ever seen. which has been taken from a novel. The reason it is the best is that there has been no butchery committed. There is no trav- esty on the original version, and the only scene we remember in the book which has been deleted by MT. Wright in the film production is the scene wherein Ollie Stewart and Sammie Lane. walking along the trail that is, nobody knows how old, are threatened by a panther. The reason for this omission, doubtless, is that the circus season is now running full blast and all the partners are busy there.
 We arrived last night just in time 10 hear the last half of "The Rosary which, although having inevitably a familiar note, was none the less enjoy able. Miss Elizabeth Hathaway, who sang it. is one of the comeliest persons it has been our fortune to see since leaving the Winter Garden where beauty is taken for granted. Her voice is clear and sweet, and anyone who is afraid to patronize Mir. Mauck's play house because of the possibility of the songs being marred by the prattle of childish voices. may go alone and un- afraid. All the children were there last night.
 The orchestra, directed by Fred B Barlow. was unusually good, although the only pieces we could recognize for sure was "In the Cleaning" and some thing by Grieg.
 As for the play itself. everybody knows about "The Shepherd of the Hills,' and it is sufficient to say thai the film version adheres closely to the book. That is the main source of the plays power, and it's success was at tested last night by the large number of women who got out their kerchief: during the pathetic scenes showing the