The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-10-27

All rights of republication Of
special dispatches herein are also re-
verved.
For every dallar's worth of WOO
lsed in a suit of clothes the consum-
er is taxed $40 and 1T would be in
Eeresting to know just where the 9th
er SO goes" writes DIR. r. T. Baker
bf Moscow, in an able article on sheep
We are told that the high price OF
wool is responsible for the increased
POST of suit of clothes, yet DR.. Bak-
Er shows that at the present prices
or wool only about S. to 81 worth
If wool is used in a suit that sells fer
40 to sos. When wool was worth 20
tents a pound DR.. Baker tells us
bout 1910 worth of wool was used in
suit of clothes, and now, with So
Worth of wool used (the excuse for
he increased cost being the high
rice of WOOL the buyer of a suit CT
lothes pays from $40 to $50 more
han for the same suit when the wool
n it was worth $2.70. IN other words,
br the increase of $3.50 in the cost of
kool used in the suit, the buyer of a
uit of clothes pays $40 to $50 be-
ause of "the increased cost of wool"
md some people believe these fairy
hles, of the clothing manufacturer
nd drummer.
~ ~ -
The proposition to call for volun-
Pers to work in the coal mines if the
MON miners quit work next Satur-
hy as they say they will do, unless
ranted siX-hour day, five-dayweek
nd 60 per cent increase in wages, is
pod one. The proposal is to furnish
OCULAR army troops to protect the vol |
nteers at work in the coal mines and |
pay the volunteers the wages now
hing paid to the miners who propose
strike. This will give employment |
many man who might otherwise
Pill provide coal for industry and for
$e homes of Americans, and will show
+e strikers that the people of the
|hited States are running the govern
|ent and law making has not yet
ben delegated to labor unions, COM
sed largely of foreigners.
What are the newspapers going
do for news, now that the war is
psed?" was asked by many persons
Ter the armistice was signed almost '
year ago. The answer has been
yen by the newspapers. There is
old saying, expressing real optim- j..
d among newspapermen that 1.-THE +
I'd will provide" and whether the +
rvs is provided by the Lord or a I
ser power, it is always provided. I.
hat with United States senate, which p
|ls, the strikes, the baseball and C
Rtball games, bank robberies and
[chings, there is always plenty of r
)Sational and interesting news. d.
~ newspapers have any difficulty t.
filling their columns. The great a.
difficulty usually is to find space y
the real, live news of the day.
"a n ~ p p
fhe Appeal to Reason, leading So a
list paper of the United States is, Sc
fourse, advocating the claims of the p
! miners for so per cent increase Is
|pay, six-hour day and five days
TX week. The appeal to Treas
says the extra day is needed for
miners to do their shopping and
|nd to business. AS they would ~
b Is hours out of every "a for this -
pose, if their demands were adopt r
| it is supposed the socialist paper
Tres they will make 50 much money e.
five six-hour days with a so per NJ.
! increase in wages that they will ~,
r to have a full day to spend it.
IA "a - zee
Il ! had only worked six hours H.,
five days in the week since COM
to Idaho l would be out at the $50
hty poor farm and Joe Meek
I'D be feeding me at county ex- -,
Pe," said an old farmer who has r
e a success of farming in LataI
lty, not by working six or eight Ma
10 hours a day, but by working m.
10 to 16 hours a day when it was ~ ,,t !
ssary. The west would never pia
been subdued and conquered c
made fit for white people if no one s4S
worked more than six or eight = r
day Sic