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American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-08-29
DAVIS. PLAN RESULTS
PUBLISHED in PRESS
Beginning Sept 5, Readers will Be Civ
en- Three-Installment Review OF
Success of Famed Cabinet Govern
ment Of IdahO's Governor.

Beginning Sept.5, the Press will give
it's readers three-installment, de-
tailed account OF the first three
months workings of Idaho's novel
scheme of state government, the Da-
Wis bill
Known originally as Senate Bill No.
10, but now known throughout the
country by the name of its executive
sponsor, the Idaho plan of state ad-
ministration has attracted widespread
interest. Hundreds of letters inquir-
ing as to the salient features Of this
complete departure from trodden
paths of state government have been
received at the governors office from
all parts of the country.
1t is largely for the purpose OF an
swering questions which may have
arisen in the minds of Idaho citizens
that the coming articles on the sub
ject have been prepared. Many per-
sons know in a general way what the
Davis bill contains, but information
touching upon the details OF its sue
cess or failure TO date have not been
I widely disseminated. Not only Will
[ the functions Of the nine departments
I created by the measure be thoroughly
explained, but the philosophy Of eff
cheney which inspired Governor Da'
/ Wis roposal and what 1t has done tC
I date will be clearly outlined.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-08-29
WARD THREE DEFEATS
CITY BOND ELECTION
$4,000 Street Improvement Issue Falls
to Secure Necessary Two-Thirds
Vote; Final Count 81 for and 81
Against.

The $4,000 bond issue for street
Improvements in American Falls vot-
ed upon Tuesday failed to carry by
10 votes the final count being 81 for
and 81 against. The voting was light
and interest was not evidenced in the
city during the election. Wards one
and two voted strongly for the bonds
and it seemed that few who favored
the bonds were interested In the vot-
ing. On the other hand those who op-
posed the bonds in nearly every case
were at the polls to cast a negative
vote.
Ward three voted heavily against
the bonds and towards the close OF
the day rushed voters over to vote
no" The main argument used against
the bonds was the fact that in case
reclamation interests so centered here
that dam might be built, the increase
in valuation due to improved streets
would act as a deterring factor to the
government and decrease the likli-
hood of the dam for American Falls
In addition it was argued by the op-
position that so much money voted al
this time would only be a waste tc
the taxpayers as full value for the
money expended could never be re.
allied.
Mayor Hanson, chairman of the city
council which initiated the bond pro
posal had little to say this morning
regarding the result of the election
81 was hopeful that the bond would
carry" he said, " but now it seems thai
we will have to continue to live in {
town with dirty, muddy streets"
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-08-29
WALLIS ANNOUNCES
CITY TEACHERS AND
REQUIRED SUBJECTS
HIGH SCHOOL WILL HAVE ATH-
LETlC DIRECTOR TO SUPERVISE
INTERSCHOLASTIC SPORTS-AL-
FRED McCONAUGH.
NO MIDYEAR BEGINNING CLASS
Public School Opening Date Set for
September g; No Beginning Pupils
Accepted After Second Week Of
School.

The public schools of district No. l
will open Monday, September Sth ac-
cording to the announcement today
of the board of trustees. Beginning
pupils will be received IL they are six
years of age or will be six by De-
cember S0th, 1919. No beginning pu-
pills will be accepted after the sec
ond week OF scshool and there will be
no beginning class at the middle OF
the school term this winter.
The teachers for the American Falls
schools for the year are announced
by Professor H. r. Wallis as follows:
Washington Building.
Miss Mabel Schilling Lewiston nor
NAL, first grade; Miss Winifred Haul
ey, Lewiston normal, second grade;
Mrs. Rosa Brown, principal fourth
grade; Miss Grace Bingham, Albion
normal, third and fifth grades; Esther
Dawson. Mankato normal, sixth grade
Miss Alice Denny, Albion normal sew
enth grade.
Lincoln Building.
Miss Gillett, Chicago university
first grade; Miss Inez Gillett. Albion
normal, second grade; Miss Margaret
Gilbreath, Albion normal. third grade
Miss Sara Bissell Albion normal
fourth grade; Miss Leona Burreston
Albion normal, fifth grade; Miss
Gladys Trout. Lewiston normal. eighth
grade.
High School.
Miss Helen MCGEE. Indiana univer'
sity, principal. English; Miss Corf
If1nfu of
| Spanish and history; Miss Letitit
| Hewlett, Stout Institute, domestic
arts; Miss Grace HERE, Parsons bus
! mess college, commercial subjects
Misy Nell Wright, Lincoln university
music and art; Richard Warwas, man
ual training; Alfred McConaugh, VIII
liamette university, mathematics ant
athletics.
Miss Alice Beach, Greasy school
Miss Mabel Edholm, Igo school; Mis-
Jessie Sperry, Horse Island school
High school courses of study are a
follows: (Studies marked are re
quired)
Freshman Year-*English, +algebre
*ancient history, physiography, Latin
penmanship, commercial arithmetic
commercial geography, FdOmesti
science, *manual training.
Sophomore Year-*English, *geome
try, medium and modern history, bo
tany, Latin, typewriting, business Law
business correspondence. +domesti
science, manual training.
Junior Year-*English, SOCIOLOGY
Latin. Spanish. agriculture. typewrit
ing, stenography, domestic science
manual training.
Senior Year. English, america
history and government, chemistr,
Latin, agriculture, Spanish. stenC
} graphy, office practice, domesti
science, manual training
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-08-29
LARGE CROWD ATTEND
MRS. DAHLEN'S FUNERAL
Two Hundred Friends Pay Last Re-
spects to Memory Of Popular Young
Woman at Services In Catholic
Church Last Saturday.

Two hundred people were present
at the funeral services and heard holy
mass Saturday morning for Mrs. G.
+. Dahlen, who died unexpectedly last
Wednesday in the Bethany Deaconess
hospital, American Falls. The beau
tiful service at the Catholic church
was very impressive and fitting mem
orial service for one held 80 dear by
her friends and neighbors in Ameri-
can Falls.
The floral decorations were elab-
crate and represented some twenty
families in American Falls. A large
floral wreath from the American Falls
Gun club of which Mr.. Dahlen is g
member. was particularly beautiful
Pail bearers for the occasion we're F
A. Ziek, Frank Kluck, Henry Lang
Frank Cunningham. Nick ClaasseI
and Frank Wueld.
Father Wagner, the regular pasto
OF the Catholic church here conduct
ed holy mass and all the funeral ser
vices. Reverend Wander Donckt o
Pocatello preached the eulogy. Tn
singing was conducted by Howar'
| Devrind OF Aberdeen, formerly or
ganist for the Pocatello church. Nj
and Mrs. Henry Lang, l.. w. Schwar
and Miss Lulu Prankett partook u
| the song service.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-08-29
U. S. GOVERNMENT SELLS
ARMY STORES AT COST
TO LOWER H. c. OF |.
100 PER CENT SAVING ON RICE
AND a3 PER CENT ON BACON ARE
NOTEWORTHY PRICES OF Gov
ERNMENT SALES.
POSTOFFlCE AFTER PROFITEERS
Press Gathers Survey of Prices as Is
sued by Postmaster Laird and Com
pares Them to Local Prevailing
Markets.

The efforts of the government to re-
duce the cost of living may be realiz-
ed II one is to judge by the prices
charged by the American Falls post
office for commodities being sold from
the army stores direct to the consum-
er, and the manner in which the bar
gains are being snapped up. The
Press has made a survey of the local
charges with those of the government
and finds that in all but one case the
government is underselling local gro
GERS all the way from 25 to 100 per
cent in every case with the exception
of flour. Two of the best buys on the
list are bacon in 12-pound cans at a
cost of SO cents, compared to 48 and
SO cents on local markets, and a 100
pound sack of rice for $7.72 whereas
local merchants declare rice is going
sky high and is now 16 cents a pound.
On top of this sale at cost prices
comes the announcement from Wash
ington that retail stores for the sale
of household commodities included in
the surplus stocks of the war depart
ment will be established on Septem-
Der 25th. The stores will be located
at depot centers and other large cit
les and will fill mail orders. Contin-
ued purchases by the department of
certain necessities so that the stores
may be continued indefinitely as part
of the government campaign against
the high cost of living, is understood
to be under consideration.
The Press found that in many cases
local merchants had no equivalent for
the size product which the postoffice
is offering, making it impossible to
make comparison of those prices, but
outside of these exceptions, has tried
to present fair list of both. The fol
lowing are the prices on the goods
ffered for sale by the postoffice de-
at American Falls. (First col.
umn gives the unit and article, second
column the price per single units
can or sack delivered at American
Falls, and the third column, the price
per unit, case, etc. Fractions have
been eliminated from these prices.)
12-pound cans, bacon--~$4.32 $25.9'
48-No 1 cans beef corn
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-08-29

Miss Cornelia Winters. daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Winters left yester-
day morning for Waverly, Iowa, where
she will attend the teachers seminary
academy during the coming school
year.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-08-29
PRACTICAL THRIFT
TAUGHT in SCHOOLS
County Superintendent Reviews In
structl0ns for Teaching of Saw
ings Habit; Gold Certificates Held
Out as Prizes.

Miss Goldie Drake, county superin-
tendent of public instruction, has re-
ceived the material for the teaching
of the subject of thrift in the county
schools beginning this year. This 10
one Of the three new compulsory sub
jects added by the state this fall the
other two being modern hygiene and
sanitation and Red Cross work. Illus
trative of the reason for establishing
thrift as a permanent subject to be
taught in the public schools, these are
the resolutions adopted by the depart
ment of superintendent of the Nation
al Educational association, March /,
1872
"As essential to character forma-
tion, to the welfare of the American
people, and TO the promotion OF a ma
tional habit, we urge that the present
national program of thrift instruction,
and the sale OF thrift and war savings
stamps become a permanent part OF
the public school procedure"
The outline book for instruction In
the course gives a course OF study for
all the grades from one to eight, an
example OF which may be taken from
the instruction laid out for the eighth
grade:
81. Direct instructions: Discus
sion topics: a principle Of thrift
| learning how to invest money intelll'
gently. Meaning of parsimony. Am
| erican extravaganza; nations bill fol
luxuries; comparison with European
countries, principles OF goods and ser
vices, advantages OF cash buying, sal
vaging useful articles, fire prevention
III. Correlated Study: Arithmetic
commercial arithmetic, compound In
terest in relation TO savings bank de
| posits. the earning power Of money
insurance, preferred stock and bonds
iii. Practice: City Schools. q.
Earning money after school hours ant
during vacation period. Regularity
j OF saving In definite amounts. Sav
iDgs for definite purpose. (2) Pur
chase OF Thrift Stamps and War Sav
ings Stamps. Keeping savings BAN
account. Personal budgets for tim
and money. Bank account with pass
book and check-book (3) Shop wor
70 rboys; practice OF housekeeping 70
: girls, home chores.
Practical Thrift.
Rural Schools. % Larger farr
= projects for boys corn clubs, potat
!, clubs, marketing Of produce, bulge
, maxim gfor the farm, farm planning
, (2) Wider domestic activities for girl
, canning clubs, skill and taste in pui
chasing materials and In dress mak
:. ing, keeping household budgets.
/, According TO the plan, each schoC
! room Will fill out a postcard, whic
reads as follows: "In complianc
r with the school thrift plan | am n
= porting herewith the organization {
= the (name OF grade and SCHOOL, Wa
I Savings Society OF American Fall
e county OF Power, Idaho Number I
d pupils In grade or roOm-15. IN
: name and address Of the secretary
:. as follows: (bIank)." This is Bigne
z by the teacher. The pupils elect the
n own officers, and the little society
Issued an elaborate certificate mark'
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-08-29

Mr.. and Mrs. X. NJ. Crowley, cou-
sins of o. F. Crowley. stopped here
Tuesday and Wednesday for a short
visit and o. F. Crowley drove them
over to Rockland Tuesday where the
cousins parents live. X. NJ. Crow
ley is just a newlywed on his return
trip TO Twin Falls, where he is in
charge of the recruiting service.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-08-29

Continued on page ~
The Washington times., 1919-03-03

sion had sprung up in him for his
sister-in-law, Olga Molitor, and that
he had been drawn back to her BY
this impulsion. He did not dare 10
visit the house of his mother -in-law, +,
from which he had so recently de-
parted with his wife, so he had re-
turned incognito. to lay in wait Tor
the Young woman. When she indig-
nantly denied the existence Of any
love between her and her bfother-iH-
law he plausibly explained that tho
chance to declare himself to her had
never been given him, and that this
very fact had lured him back and
forced the disguise upon him.
The sensation created by such a
revelation and its concomitant sus-
picions can best be imagined. The
peopIe of Baden, where the snobb:sh
and close-fsted Frau Molitor was far
from popular, accepted the statement
of the professor with eager belief,
and the family linen was washed both
in court and gossip.
Saw Two Bearded Men.
Finally, a titled woman neighbor
of the MoIitors testified that on the
evening Of the shooting she had left
her villa to mail an important letter.
AS she was standing at the post box,
she said, a man wearing q palpah;e
false beard had passed her. Despite
the disguise she had recognized Or.
Han. She had wondered about tho
incident, but was aware Of the fam
Ilv's troubles and merely asked her
self what was happening. As she
The Washington times., 1919-03-03

walked back to her home, she said,
she passed Frau Molitor and her
daughter, Olga, going in the direction
taken by the disguised Hau. This
seemed natural but interesting to her.
But, she said, she had also noticed a
second bearded man, wearing an lion
R-av natural beard, instead OF the
bIN k disguise of Hau, skulking after
the Molitors. 1t was probably this
man, she said, who had shot the
widow in the back few moments
later.
Theoretical Explanation.
The defense then set up a theo-
retical explanation of the murder.
The claim was made that either this
second bearded man or Fraulein Olga
Molitor had fired the fatal bullet.
The widow had been killed by a ball
From a fevolver held close to her body.
Likely enough, said the defense,
Fraulein Olga had noticed the man
skuIking behind her mother and had
drawn a revolver to defend herself.
In her nervousness she had acct-
dentally fired the fatal shot. The
young woman passiOnately denied this
story. Nevertheless, 1t was a posi-
bility which the friendly public as-
cepted.
But the jury made short work OF
cOnvicting Hau, and the court fmme-
diately imposed the death penalty.
A riot followed. the reserves had 70
Be called, and the capital city Of
Baden was in an uproar for a night.
Petitions began to pour in, demand
The Washington times., 1919-03-03

was dead Of an assassin's ball; the
son-in-Iaw was a lifelong prisoner
for the crime; the unmarried daugh-
ter, Olga, had been sadly besmirched
IN the trial. And. to crown the eatas-
trophe. AIRS. Lena Hau, the girl whose
elopement had been the seed Of all
this malfortune, had found the burden
too heavy and thrown herself into a
Swiss lake
Now, Il appears. fresh evidence has
been found which may upset the ra-
The Washington times., 1919-03-03

tionale OF all this misery. Perchancs
Il VIII be shown that a brilliant young.
professor hassbeen branded murderer
and spent twelve years In prison 81
vain. that a woman's name and honor
have been needlessly questioned, ard
another been driven 70 self destrne
tion By errors.
The Washington times., 1919-03-03

II your nostrils are cIogged and
your head Is stuffed and you can't
breathe freely because Of a cold or
cataTrh, just get q small bottle OF
Ely's Cream Balm Mt any drugstore.
Apply a little OF this fragrant, anti
septic cream into your nostrils, and
Ilet Il penetrate through every air
passage OF your head. soothing and
healing the inflamed, swollen muc-
GUS membrane and you get instant
lrelief.
| An! how good IL feels. Your nos
ltrils are open, your head Is Gear, no
more hawking, snuffling. blowing;
no more headache, dryness or strug-
lRlinG for breath. Ely's Cream Balm
lis Just what sufferers from head
colds and catarrh need. It's a de-
Hight.
The Washington times., 1919-03-03

Dou't try 90 fOOI yOuF coincidence
~ cheering the returning soldiers and
AoFEetting to pay your income tax
An ineOEne tax evadeF hasn't much On
any of the other PrO-GermaRs.
The Washington times., 1919-03-03

II Il waanpt fer the lneonle tax
maybe We VsOuidn'a BE hasIag . Peaes
COafeFeaee. Have zee paid yours fSs
The Washington times., 1919-03-03

ing a retriaI for Hau. But the state
went ahead with orderly arrange
ments for the execution
Was to he Beheaded.
In Baden and some others OF the
South German states the penalty of
death was at that time ard may still
be imposed in the oIdSeudaI manDer.
The condemned were beheaded with
the ak, like many better men in the
spacious past. This was to be the
fate of Karl Han The fact that the
man was an American citizen gave
this country q particularly gruesors
shiver at the idea. for -beheading has
never been In order here save among
the autochthonous red men. Whether
Hau would have preferred the
languors Of the Sing Sing death house
and the electric chair is in doubt.
But, as things happened, the man
and the public were spared this hoT-
ror. The throne OF Baden was vacant
ct the moment, and the incumbent
duke, accepting the coronet during
Hau's imprisonment, included the con-
victed murderer In the customary am
nesty. Prof. Hau was thereby eonl-
mitted to prison for life.
Disaster Had. Indeed, COme.
The tragedy predicted by Frau MoIi-
tors friends at the time Of her daugh-
ter's eIopment had been direly accom-
sometimes misally. How fully the
needs to be remarked. The widow
The Washington times., 1919-09-11
MIKE'SBANA AGAIN;
WANTS A U. S. MA
selgian Waif, Foad of Craps,
Arrives In New York
for Fourth Time.

@NEw YORK Sept 11.-If anybody
wants to adopt a Belgian by the name
O. Mike Gilhooley, the same is at Ellis
Island, clothed in slop-chest garments
and A receptive mood.
mike, though a little unconventional,
might prove an asset to some family,
for he has swatted- the high cost of
living and travel
In fact, this-js the fourth time the
lad has been across"
He came first just after the armis-
tice, picked 'up collection Of $50
with mis- sad tale Of an orphans loni-
ness and was sent back to France.
Mike came right back, got another
collection and waited a second good-by
kiss to Miss Liberty Of Bedloe's Island.
The third time he slowed away a
sympathetic woman. touched)~by the
plight OF a boy whose Irish father had
died years ago and whose Belgian
mother had been killed in the war,
adopted him. Nike lost his foster
mother, however, when he was caught
in a craps game and was again sent
back across the sea.
Yesterday he arrived as a stowaway
on the KroOnland and was taken once
more TO Ellis Island, which is begin
ming to seem like home to him.
On one trip over he picked up a
sympathy fund Of $500.
The Washington times., 1919-09-11
WHAT! MECLIMB?
NIX! SAY STENOGS
And So Girls in Fifty-eight
Story Building Go on
Strike.

NEW YORK, Sept. 11.-"walk up
hfty-eight flights? Not me, honey.
Shoe leather and silk stockings are
too costly. Think Of the wear and
tear on knees that means. Why, you'd
have to bend them a million times to
get up that high.
Besides the supply Of chewing gum
and nice novels, with handsome he
roes and heroines, was large.
And so some thousands OF little
stenographers employed up in the fif-
ty-eight-story Metropolitan Life
Building rested comfortably on the
stairs in the lower lobby, reading Of
the good old days OF love and ro-
nance, after telephoning friend boss
that the elevators weren't running
this morning.
1t was all because the coal beavers
way down in the third or fourth
subbasement refused to work when
they were refused an increase Of IS
a week. They were being paid 81 q
day.
Some there were who walked up,
but they were mostly the male popu-
lation of the building.
And some OF the girls thought more
Of work than Of romance and chew
ing gum and giggled their way up.
But most of those were from the
floors that seem to be the basement
when compared to the top Of the
building.
Vitality and enthusiasm carried
some as high as the tenth floor or
so, but ambition wsned as the height
progressed. And so the great lobby
Of the building appeared as a mass
i've reading room, where the girls
reveled in the tales Of lavender and
old lace.
''Bll" Sewall. formerly guide to
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, undaunted
by the wilds of many trails in the
Maine woods, looked somewhat aghast
at this array when he entered the
lobby on his way to a meeting of che
Roosevelt Memorial Association on
the twenty-ninth floor. But ''BiI"-
he's seventy-four years old-regained
composure and announced his inten-
tion OF climbing up those many
flights.
I've often walked over forty miles
a day in the Maine woods, and this
The Washington times., 1919-09-11

his task ends at the police station.
He'll get a bad certificate and no
passport.
From the police station he is sent
to the tax collector. That gentleman
will take a week or two to look into
the applicants record. Perhaps he
will make a secret investigation of
his income, and IL the tax return
filed is too low no passport will be
granted. Nor will any passport be
Issued unless the taxes are paid in
advance.
If. however. the applicant succeeds
in getting the police certificate of
good conduct and the tax collectors
permission to go abroad, he may ap-
ply to the registrar of dwellings for
a statement officially certifying that
the address given the police and tax
collector is correct. Thus equipped
he proceeds to the passport office at
police heaquarters,
II thesWoUId-be traveller has no ur-
gent reason for going abroad his ap-
plication is rejected on the spot. Ill
health is not considered a good rea-
son. It must be urgent business.
Furthermore, after he ultimately
has obtained his German passport he
must proceed to the legation of the
country he intends to visit and ap-
ply for permission to enter, an under
taking that requires additional exam
nations, telegraphing and other in
conveniences.
Some German newspapers have late
ly protested against the passport OBJ
stacles thrown into the path of Ger
man business men by their own gov
ernment, but all appeals have been in
vain.
The Washington times., 1919-09-11
GERMAN PASSPORTS
ON WARTIME BASIS

BERLIN, Sept. 1.-THE camel try
ing a squeeze through the eye Of a
needle had an easy assignment COM
pared to the German who would get
by the passport officials and allied
authorities to spend a holiday abroad.
The camel and needle trick might
be possible, provided the camel were
small enough and the needle big
enough. But the German. traveller
who would cross the frontier throws
his hands up in despair and mutters:
1T can't be done"
During the war, while Germany
was still a monarchy, IL was difficult
to obtain a passport. The republican
government has made il impossible
Passport regulations that in their
severity surpass anything ever
known in darkest Russia, have been
prescribed as a link in the one great
idea that today engrosses official
Germany-to catch the tax dodger.
Good Conduct Essential.
The first step Of the passport aB-
plicant is TO obtain a certificate of
good conduct from his local police
station. If he is unknown to the po-
lice that is a comparatively easy mat
ter. II the cops know him too well