Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-08-22
DOLLAR PLANTING TIME.

JULIAN L Lam 41NU AXE.
DO you know that this is a
mighty good time to put away dol
lars that are to be called for by you
at some future time?
From Washington, d. c. there
comes an estimate to the effect that
dollar now is worth only about
Csc. of what it was back in the
halcyon days of 1914 And back
about half as much as 1t was in
1899. Looks like those dollars OF
ours have been shrinking. AS a
matter of fact dollars come and go
in purchasing power.
Right now anybody and every
body knows that the times are up
set; these are abnormal times.
And everybody knows that they can
not remain so indefinitely. One OF
these days there is going to be a
change. That change will greatly
affect the buying power OIL a dollar
Prices are going to come down If
there is anything in the law of aver
ages and that same old law OF
averages has held good from the be-
ginning of times.
They will be getting back to
something like normal level one
of these days and when they do,
what will your War Savings Stamps
be worth then? That is something
to be thinking about these summer
evenings.
For all this means that your dol
lars. that you are putting into War
Savings Stamps today. are going to
be q whole lot more useful to you
some time in the future than they
are right now, for the simple reason
that they will buy whole lot more
of any commodity that you may
name.
There never was a better time to
take few dollars in loose change
that may be lying around and salt
them away. That means that they
should be put away in War Savings
Stamps. 1t is the best place in the
world for few dollars or few
hundred dollars or thousand dol
lars of this 1919 money.
Five years from now when your
Savings Certificates mature, the
$3.50 which you would pay this
month for your 500 Savings Ger
tificate would be worth not only the
500, but the additional amount
represented by the greater buying
power of that 500 when we are
more nearly back to the normal
pre-war conditions.
The Rhodes Scholarship Trust
has announced that the selection OF
American college men for Scholar
ships at Oxford University, which !
has been suspended during the war,
will be resumed in OCTOBER of this
year. Idaho has the privilege of |
selecting the scholars who will en-
ter Oxford as follows: one in Jan
uay, 1920, one in January, 1921, |
L.
Branch, The American Legion |
strongly urges all eligible members
to apply for Rhodes Scholarships /
McKeen F. Morrow OF Jonn Regain |
Post Boise, former Rhodes Scholar
is Secretary of the Idaho committee !
and will be glad to give information
of interest to c ,ndidateS
There will be no competitive ex-
aminations. Beginning this year.
selections will be made each October 7
on the basis of the candidates col /
lege rec I'd. To be eligible can
didate must be citizen of the T
United states, single, passed his
18th birthday anu not passed his
25th birthday, and to have COM !
pleted at least two years or college |
work at some degree-grantIng col |
lege of the United States. Before |
q candidate can compete he must
be selected by his own scnool, the t
method CT choice beng left to such
institution. Candidates who are |
graduates or under graduates from I
colleges in other states who now re-
side in Idaho may become candi-
dates III this state upon receiving
the necessary designation from their
institutions.
Inquiries for further informa ton T
should be addressed to McKeen F. /
Morrow, care OF Richards & Haga.
Boise. Idaho
Threshing prices are being ad- T
justed in different ways in different
parts Of the state. Under direction
of the Payette county farm bureau,
farmers in District No. 6 signed up
more than 10000 bushes Of grain
in community unit, agreeing to {
have it all threahod by the same
thresherman. They obtained a price
of cents for oats. for barley and F
z fer wheat, which wus 4 cent less