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The Washington herald., 1919-12-14
ROCK SPRING INN
TO BE EEoPENED

Prof. Cain. having purchased the Rock SPRING
property on the Conduit Road, after extensive
and decorating will give an
OPENING DANCE MONDAY, DEC. Is.
Informal Select Orchestra.
The Washington herald., 1919-12-14
Give Flowers

Give Flowers
or a lovely potted plant. Gude's
specimens are uRexcelled. 1914 F.
Adv.
The Washington herald., 1919-12-14

ne M..'. ss.re-osasia, we.tAer
Repert-Raln today
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28

lost They had completed twothirds
of the flight when the machine broke
down and they we're picked up by a
tramp ship in mid-Atlantic. On
May 25 they were transferred to
British warship off the Orkney
Islands, and the news of their rescue
was flashed around the world.
A Nonstop Flight
The nonstop flight was accom-
plished by Captain John Alcock and
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28

Lieutenant Arthur w. Brown, OF the
British Air Service, in June. They
took off from Newfoundland on
June Ia and landed at Clifden, Ire
land, at 9 $40 a. m. on June Is, after
sixteen hours Of terrible suffering
from cold and storms. After hav-
ing completed this trip safely, it was
Alcock's fate to be killed by a fall
recently.
Crossing the Atlantic by air end
ed for the year with the trip of
the British dirigible R-34, which
started from East Fortune, Scot
land, on July 2, and reached the Min
cola flying field on July 6. She
started on the return trip at mid
night on July 8 and landed in Eng
land in the morning Of July 13.
There were transcontinental
flights by American army aviators,
and there was also flight from
England to Australia. This was for
a prize Of $4,000 offered by the
Australian government. The sue
cessful flyer was Captain Ross Smith,
an Australian aviator, who left Eng
land on November 12 and reached
Australia on December 10. His
route was by way Of Cairo, Delhi,
the Malay Peninsula and the islands
of Oceanica.
The long fight to get woman's
suffrage amendment to the Consti-
tuition through Congress was also
won in 1919. On May 21 the House
Of Representatives passed the Susan
B. Anthony amendment, and on June
a the Senate capitulated. Twenty
two states have already ratified the
amendment, and suffragists predict
that their work will be finished and
woman suffrage part Of the Consti-
tuition by February 1.
There are other reasons why 1919
will stick in the minds Of many per-
sons. So recent as to be still fresh
in the mind, there is the high cost
OF Christmas presents, which has
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28
[ Nonstop Flight

Zion, and they renamed the beau
tful canyon Little Zion.
Their descendants are still there.
fine, outstanding, honest folk who
till the tiny farms. Wheat, vege-
tables and berries, alfalfa and sugar
cane provide the necessaries of life.
and a sorghum mill earns dividends
IN rich syrup. Far up on the top of
a forested plateau overlooking Zion
Canyon is a mill which provides
them with lumber. Worked in CO.
operative manner, it's product is
lowered by cable over a sheer cliff
to the canyon floor three thousand
feet below and is taken out bv road.
For years Zion Canyon practically
was unknown. Then an occasional
tourist, hearing of the rainbow of
the desert, would come in. Their
enthusiasm was a source of sincere
amazement to the folk who had
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28
The Things for Which 1919 Will Be Remember
Labor Troubles and sSRed" Agita.
ton Almost COntinuous---Liv.
ing Cost Never Higher

mounted to an altitude this vear
where the atmosphere is too rarefsa
for many Of the bourgeois to er,st
One example will do for the fam,lv
man. Doll perambulators that ]ast
year cost SIT are this year priced
at $23 for exactly the same article
only not quite as well made. The
fellow who fingered the price tay
ON that affair will remember 1919
for many long year to come.
This is only in line with the cen.
eral scheme Of mounting costs, how
ever. Housewives will recall 1910
for that hopeful pronunciamento Of
President Wilson, in August, when
he assured the country that prices
were going to begin to drop right
away, almost, and that within thres
months the cost of living would he
notably less. They will then COM
pare the cheerful Presidential gen
eralities with the cold blooded facts
of the November bulletin Of the
Bureau Of Statistics Of the Depart
ment Of Labor, which said that the
cost Of living was per cent higher
in November than in October. And
housewives will remember 1919 for
quite a little while.
A good deal might be written
about the cost Of living in 1919 if
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28
Having Seen Only Beauty Beauty Means Nothing TO Them

blue and yellow. Jagged peaks of
cream white come into view, rising
out Of pink cliffs until, at Spring
dale, the entire panorama of the
Zion Canyon entrance lies spread
cut in rainbow hues, pinks, deep
blood reds, dazzling whites, all con-
trasting with the vivid green of the
little farms in the valley and the
gray-blue Of faraway mountains.
Up the huge gorge the triplet-
crags of the Three Patriarchs
stand as though on guard at the
canyons mouth Further up, the
top of Angels Landing can be
seen, Gibraltar Of solid red, and
the sheer white precipice Of Ell
Gobernador breaks up above the
encircling, multi-colored cliffs.
The Powell expedition discovered
Mukuntuweap, as it was then called
by the Indians, shortly after their
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28
" n ERE Is a new kind Of work
for some one.
- We have had uplifters

galore. Artists have de-
voted their lives to depicting the
beauties Of nature for the benefit Of
the people. Educating them up to
full appreciation Of wonderful seen
cry and beautiful things has been
the mission Of countless civic up
lift clubs and similar organizations
Now it is "downlifters" that are
needed for people who have been
born and reared in the midst Of
scenic wonders which almost defy
description. Most Of them have
never seen anything else, and they
prove the old assertion that beauty
is comparative by failure to real
sze that this magnificence is even
out of the ordinary.
They do not need to know Of ma
ture's marvels, having them on
every side. But to benefit by them
as others do they have to learn of
drab, smoky cities; fiat, unbroken
plains; swarming slums, and the
thousand and one features of a
lesser outside world.
They need education do,t7,avartl
to the appreciation of their own
surroundings.
The place is Zion Canyon, the
Utah wonderland, which has Just
been made a national park. The
people are those Of the little Nor
mon set dement's near its entrance
which, until the tourists began to
come, were far off the beaten
track.
Leaving the railroad at Lund,
Utah, the automobile stage cuts off
across a typical Western desert on
the way to Zion Canyon. Then,
suddenly topping rise, the road
drops down into the fertile valley
surrounding Cedar City. Out again
across stretches of desert, through
gorges between lava mountains, it
winds until, over the crest of an
other rise. the little village of To-
querville is seen in a cuplike valley
of green foliage and farms.
The Dixie country this is called,
and on up the Rio Virgin it's tiny
settlements are like emeralds in
desert setting. Up the Virgin the
skyline becomes more vividly col
orful. At Rockdale the pink and
red commences to mingle with the
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28
Troubles of Labor

This also is fruitful Of discussion
and seems inextricably tangled with
radlcallsm. The two principal strikes
were the steel strike and the miners
strike. The first was born with a
great blare of trumpets and petered
out almost unnoticed. The second
was ushered in with threats of a
national calamity and ended in
compromise after a great deal Of
suffering that turned sentiment
against the miners and forced sey-
eral states to take possession of tie
coal mines and work them as a pub
lie necessity. In each of these great
strikes the radical element was IN
control at first and made big noise
but the conservatives among the
labor leaders were ultimately abls
to swing the majority with them.
Speaking generally, the radicals
figured 1919 as the beginning OF
their particular millennium. Many
Of them now regret that they did net
check up their figures more care
fully and verify the date by COM
paratlve research Among this
number are several hundred "Reds'
who were deported to their native
Russia. The radicals made an aw-
tul lot of noise during the year, but
the net result at the end was TO
show that they formed only very
small percentage of the population
of the country, while their method
CT warfare was built on the ancient
Chinese system of mounting devils
On stills, beating drums with great
vigor and burning stinkpots.
January 6, 1919, .sx-President
Theodore Roosevelt died at his home
on Sycamore Hill, Oyster Bay. His
physicians said that the immediate
cause of death was clot Of blood
which detached itself from a vein
and entered the lungs. One of the
contributory causes of his death was
the fever he contracted during his
explorations in Brazil, when he dis
covered the River of Doubt, early in
1914. This fever left a poison in
the blood, which had been a con-
tributory cause of several attacks
of illness he had suffered since that
time
The death Of Colonel Roosevelt
removed the most forceful and
picturesque figure there was in
American public life. His place az .
leader still remains to be filed.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28

never known anything else, and this
IN turn astounded the newcomers.
They left to tell Of what they had
seen, and more came. They were
received with characteristic hospi-
tality, but with the query:
I'VE are glad to see you; but tell
us, why do you Gomez"
Artists told them of "color
schemes and tourists raved over
'vlstas' and magnificent heights "
Scientists spoke of "stratas" and
the half dozen ages represented bv
them and left the settlers as puz-
zled as before.
A modern camp was established
by W. W. Wylie to accommodate
the tourists, and the movement
started to set Zion Canyon aside as
a national park. Wylie knew the
settlers we'll and understood them
In the little meeting house at
Sprlngdale he became the worlds
first "downlifter' and in easilv
understood language told them of
the unusual character Of the region.
how it was so different from any,
thing else in the world and whv
thousands of people from the cities
ana other parts Of the country
would come to see it.
Zion Canyon is now Americas
newest national playground, and
thousands undoubtedly will come to
new the region, with its half-mile
hlgh preclpices, its cliff dwellings, the
huge rock amphitheaters and un-
climbed peaks. Ell Gobernador is
said to rival, if not surpass, the ia
nous I'll Captain Of the Yosemite.
as it rises sheer white to 5000 feet
above the red of the CANYON walls
The Temple of Sinawava is
circular amphitheater whose sheer
'NA' oui Ouiu JWO MASSIVE rock
pillars, once worshiped as idols bv
early savages. The red cliffs are in
urn surmounted by white ones. and
mountain peaks Of this white rise
out Of the deeper colors. untouched
by the foot of man.
AT present only the main canvon
IS accessible, but with lions reser-
'a1ion as national park roads and
trails Will be built to parts of even
greater beauty.
And as the tourists come the
downll1tlng' process goes on, a
study Tor an artist or psycholo-
glst' until some day the settlers at
llon,s gate will realize the feelings
OF the outsider who comes, looks
and flnds himself without fit words
to describe his sentiments.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28

HERE are several good ways
to remember 1919. Any one
can think Of at least ten off
hand. Try 1t. But the
question Is, why should 1919 have
place in history7 The answer to
hat comes in smaller compass. In
act, should 1t be remembered? But,
es. Sure. Well, why7
PROHIBITION
That's right Anything else?
Jm-m-m--oh, yes.
The first transatlantic flight.
Right again. Next.
Suffrage.
Cheero! But that Is surely all.
Yes, unless-well, just what is the
about peace?
But there Is no doubt about pro-
libition, is there7 January 16, 1919,
Frank L. Polk, Acting Secretary of
State In tho absence Of Secretary
Lansing with tho Peace Mission in
Paris, issued a proclamation declar-
no the Prohibition amandren% +o
he Constitution adopted through the
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28

as tho ar1nistice ended hostilities
British aviators turned their atten-
tion to the Atlantic flight and sew
eral flying teams crossed to New
foundland to wait for q propitious
day for the attempt.
Meanwhile, the American navy,
declining to compete for "The Daily
Mail" prize, set about the job of
being the first to cross the Atlantic
by air. On May the naval sea-
plane, NC-4, piloted by Lieutenant
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28

Commander Albert @. Read, left
Rockaway for the attempt, and on
May 81 arrived in the harbor of
Plymouth, England, having COM
pleted the first crossing of the At
lantic by air. The route was from
Rockaway to Newfoundland, to the
Azores, to Portugal, to England.
Harry G. Hawker, the Australian
aviator, and his observer, Lieutenant
Commander Mackenzie Grieve, see
ing that America was about to win
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28
|Captain Alcock, since killed,
made the first nonstop
flight across the atlantic

action Of the Legislatures Of thirty
six states in ratifying It. And ever
since large number Of Mortified and
'scandalized people have been trying
to prove that he was wrong. But so
far Mr.. Folks statement has with
s,ood all attacks.
Mr.. Polk noted in his proclamation
that the Prohibition amendment
would go into effect as part of the
law of the land January 16, 1920.
That statement is also questioned,
and Rhode Island, which refused to
ratify the amendment, has asked the
Supreme Court to declare the whole
proposition illegal and unconstitu-
tional. Rhode Island feels that she
has a peculiar right to demand that
her wishes shall be deferred to in
what shall or shall not be the law for
America. But taking no stand on
the rights or wrongs Of the question,
it may be noted that January 1e,
1920, abuts abruptly, and Mr.. Polk's
proclamation still retains it's pristine
vgor, while In the interval since his
dictum was issued the prohibition
experiment has had a trial.
This has been done through the
medium Of wartime prohibition.
which went into effect July /, and
while the problem of whether prohi
tion prohibits cannot be said to be
definitely settled by the experiment,
there are some things it has accom-
plished. For one thing, it has
changed the name of whisky to
"hooch" and it has put the price up
from the old standard of value of
Is cents a drink or two for quarter
to 80 cents drink as minimum
and $1.25 as the present maximum,
with no discount for quantity. The
prepondcrance Of evidence, however,
is to the effect that the man who
really wants drink can always
get it.
There have been many attempts to
break wartime prohibition. On nu-
nerous occasions optimistic "wets"
rave been up on their toes ready to
i've into the food of liquor they were
ure was about to be lot loose, but |
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28

the honor OF the first transatlantic
flight, decided to make the attempt
for a nonstop flight without waiting
longer on the weather. They had
already been camped several weeks
on Newfoundland, watching the
skies and the wind, when the Ameri-
cans came and went with business
like lack Of fuss. May Is Hawker
and Grieve took off from St. Johns,
and thereafter we're not heard of
for q week and were given up for
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28
Commander OF the NC.4, the
first flying craft to cross
the atlantic

this we're not the season Of good
will toward men. Therefore, it is
better to turn away from tnat sub
ject. And there presents itself the
topic Of labor.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28
Prohibition, Suffrage, the Trans
Atlantic Flights and the Peace
Conference Are High Lights

tho Supreme Court killed their last
hope when on December 15 it de-
clared the law constitutional.
And still one can get drink.
One last hope remains to the
"wets," that the war will end Off
cially before January 16. In that
event there would be day or two
with the lid off between wartime
prohibition and constitutional pro-
hibition. Hope springs eternal in
the human breast.
What about Peace?
And that brings up the question
of what is the situation about peace.
Setting that aside for the moment
to bring it up again later in it's
chronological order, 1t may be noted
that in all future histories and en-
cyclop@dias 1919 will occupy large
amount Of space, for 1t was on Jan
uary 10, 1919, that the Peace Con-
ference met In Paris, since when a
great deal Of printers ink has flowed
under the bridge.
The treaty was signed 1t Yer
sailles June 28, presented to the
Senate by President Wilson for rati-
flcation on July 10 and rejected by
the Senate on November 10. Hence,
America is technically at war with
Germany nearly fourteen months
after the cessation Of hostilities and
is preparing to conclude peace trea-
ties with Bulgaria and Turkey, with
whom she has never been at war.
Peace seems to be singularly like
prohibition. One doesn't know
where one gets off, does one2 Ex-
cept, of course, that it happened in
1919.
The year was also notable for the
first fight across the ocean. Some
time before the war "The London
Daily Mail" to increase the interest
in aviation and hasten the develop
ment Of the art, had offered a prize
of $4,000 for the first nonstop
flight across the Atlantic. AS soon
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28

garded the valley Of the Virgin at
its entrance as good place for set
tlement and led part of his people
there. To them Salt Lake was then
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28

famous trip down the Grand Can
yon. They found it a place Of awe
and superstition among the savages.
Brigham Young, coming later, re-
New-York tribune., 1919-12-28

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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-24
HUN SHIPS CARRY
u. S. TROOPS HOME
EIGHT GERMAN STEAMSHIPS
ALLOTTED TO U. S. TO
BHING SOLDIERS

Washington-The war department
announced today that eight German
steamships, including the Imperator
had been allocated to the U. S.
for transportation of troops from
France. They will provide accom-
modations for from $4,000 to 10000
additional troops monthly.
Sufficient tonnage now is avail
able or in sight, it was stated Off
cially today, to return every Ameri-
can soldier from Europe before the
end of the coming summer, if such
policy were decided upon by the
government.
Embarkations from overseas up to
March 1 will total 100000, leaving ap-
proximately 100000 men in France
and Germany, according to these Of
ficial estimates. March embarkations
are expected to reach minimum of
100000 and April at least 225,000. The
monthly rate for May, June, July and
August is expected to exceed 100000.
cat present 10 cargo ships have
been converted into transports and
sailed from France" war depart
ment statement, issued today, said.
Twenty nine are under conversion,
and Is more will be converted as they
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-24
TARDY JUSTICE
FOR H0MESTEADDERS
CONGRESSMAN FRENCH SECUR-
ES LAND IN LIEU OF THAT
LOST BY BLUNDER

WASHINGTON, D. C-Congress-
man Burton L. French obtained fav-
orable action in the house today on
two bills correcting injustice done
homesteaders on the Nez Perce In
dian reservation.
Clarence Hazelbaker was granted
80 acres of land in lieu of 80 acres
that he was permitted to acquire as
a homestead, spend hundreds or
thousands of dollars upon in making
improvements and receive patent only
to discover later that the land had
been patented to an Indian years be-
fore.
Oliver P. Pring, of Lewiston, was
granted 160 acres of land in lieu of a
similar error of the Interior depart
ment in that the department had pre-
viously patented the land to an In
dian under allotment
Major Herbert c. Fooks, formerly
commandant at the University of
Idaho, and who in November was re-
ported as having been killed in battle,
has just reached Walter Reed hos
pital, Washington, D. c., and called
Congressman French informing him
that the report of his death was much
exaggerated.
When, Mr.. French saw Major Fooks
little later, he discovered that he
is very much alive and while he was
badly wounded, he is now well on the
road to recovery and is in excellent
health. His wounds consisted of a
bullet wound on the back of the hand
and several days later bullet wound
on the lower jaw.
Among the other Idaho boys who
are convalescents at the Walter Reed
hospital are Cameron McEachren of
Occur d'Alene, Private McMurty, of
Idaho Falls and Dewey Huggard, of
Boise.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-24
MACKENSEN'S ARMY
ROBBED ON WAY HOME
ONCE VICTORIOUS GERMAN SOL
DIERS SNEAK BACK HOME ,
IN VARIOUS DISCUSSES

BERNE. Correspondence of Tht
Associated ess.)-Seldom has {
victorious army come to so miserable
an end as that of the 100000 Germans
commanded by Field Marshal vor
Mackensen who were driven out OF
Rumania after the signing of the
armistice.
On their way home through Hun
gary the redoubtable divisions which
had accompanied Won Mackensen in
triumphal march through Transyl-
vania and Rumania lost, sold or were
robbed of virtually all their belong
ings. One division, the Eighty ninth,
which had fought VIGOROUSLY in Po-
land and Lithuania escaped into Ger
many without as much as a horse
shoe nail of it's property and clad in
ridiculous disguises of shabbiest
civilian clothing and Austrian uni
forms sold to them at Raab, they said,
at monstrous prices. The story of
their inglorious homeward journey as
told by a member of one of the Ger
man divisions to the Schlesische lei
tung follows:
"Orders had been given that blood
shed should be avoided so the victors
of Hermastadt and Rimniku turned
their faces towards Hungary, and,
leaving incalculable supplies of flour,
sugar, wine, hospital stores, and agri-
cultural implements behind them,
made their way, pursued by the Ru
manians, over the wintry Carpathians.
There were no Hungarian troops
waiting to intern the German legions,
and the few entente soldiers in Buda-
pest did not count We were told that
the entente would impose still harder
conditions in the west, so we were
ordered to allow ourselves to be dis
armed by a ridiculous minority.
"Then began a second march over
the snowy steppes. Thousands of old
Landsturm men did not face this trial
and were taken prisoners by the Wal
lachians, who sent them back over the
into Rumania. Several
divisions succeeded in buying loco
motives, cars, and Goals at Klausen-
burg, and thus finished their journey
by train. A great mass of material
was sold. Hundreds of transport and
other wagons We're simply left in the
road or broken up for firewood.
s'The trains were allowed to go to
Raab. whence, by order of the entente,
The Hungarian government sent them
to the old internment camp for Rus
sian prisoners at Papa.
"Small things of value that we had
saved were taken from us by Magyars
on the way from Raab to Vienna.
With the divisional money chest
,lundered of it's contents by Magyars,
he 89th Infantry Division reached
soil, through the
asst remaining gap near Pressburg,
which the Czechs closed a few days
ater, undoubtedly at the behest of
he entente"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-02-24
DROUTH MAY EXTEND
INTO OLD MEXICO

MEXICO CITY. President Car
rama is considering a plan submitted
by the national board of health for
the enactment of legislation that will
gradually result in the complete abo-
lition of the alcoholic liquor traffic
in Mexico. He recently signed de-
cree increasing from % to SO per cent
the tax on pulque and other alco-
holic beverages in Mexico City.
The. constitution, according to the
officials of the board of health, gives
that body powers to dictate health
regulations that will result in the abo-
lition of the liquor traffic. The boards
program, as submitted to the presi-
dent, provides for an elaborate cam
paign to suppress the liquor traffic
gradually. High duties, early clos
ing hours for saloons, temperance lee
lures, organization of temperance So
cieties and various other means would
be resorted to before the prohibitory
regulations became fully effective.