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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-13
Come to
Undoubtedly the failure of the enor-

| Undoubtedly the failure of the enor-
mously costly German intelligence sys-
! tenn had much to do with the ultimate
defeat of Germany They were beaten
at their own game. Brig. Gen. Z. *.
Cockerill, who has been director OF
special intelligence, has just disclosed
some secrets in a farewell message
to the staff, which numbers more than
5000 persons.
1.-THE detection and conviction OF
enemy SPIES" he says, "has been your
primary business. 1t is satisfactory
to note that in most cases the arrest
of the spy has followed quickly on his
entry into this country. You have
been, in point of fact, the chief agency
in preventing the leakage of naval and
military information. To mention but
few instances of your success, the
withdrawal from ffalliDOlf, the con-
struction of tanks the preparations
for the offensive at Cambria, and also
for the recent counter-offensiyes which
destroyed the German armies, were
all known 10 numbers of people in this
country but were concealed from the
enemy. There is, |. am informed on
the best authority, no evidence that
enemy submarines have ever received
information of the departure of ship
ping from British ports. Thanks large
ly to your efforts, no act of destruction
or incendiarism has been committed
by enemy agents in this country. This
is the more remarkable when the num-
Der of enemy aliens at large is con-
sidered. You have obtained informa-
tion of incalculable value to the naval
intelligence the military intelligence,
and the war trade intelligence depart
mentS.
Piled Up Contrsband Evidence.
sit will interest you to know that
in practically every case of contra
band which has been brought before
the prize court, the evidence on which
tie crown relies has been furnished
by you. The significance of this state
ment will be better appreciated when
it is added that the estimated value
of prize cargOes, exclusive of ships, is
oyer f30,0OO,O00. You have, moreover,
stopped enemy remittances to the
value of about f70,000,0C0, and you
have completely destroyed the enemy's
oversee communications, so far as they
were vulnerable. l am conscious that
there are many other activities of the
that / have not touched
upon. Important decisions have been
given in the realm of military inter-
law, much trouble has been
taken in the selection of intelligence
personnel for the field, and investiga
lions demanding technical qualifica
lions of a high order bcve been con-
Quoted.
''As typical examples I may mention
the highly skilled work of tire staff OF
the chemical laboratory in conne' ton
with secret inks; of the Photographic
INC coee experts, and of the professors
Of uncommon languages. Much of the
work has been so secret that no ref
erence to it is as yet permissible"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-13


find of Saturday
prices an but
Of Ladies' and MensW
Oxfords, $4 $3.50
' ~ onoes anu oAous 4.os $3.50
One 10 Ladies Fines value
Hghcuts o SO, $695
$780, sale. 1896
Shoes
' anN i~' --''' "o1u4 $595
$780, sale $3.50
Nen's$ Mackin vssale$7
Black
,sale8 - 4 80 ~Ao
Blankets o
sale and Mems Black Hose,
Mems Work Shoes Mems
sa for
to to
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-13
MAKING A NEW FACE FOR BOY
Canadian Lads Pfysiognomy, Mashe d
in Sleigh Wreck, Being
Restored.

Winnipeg, Winnipeg hospital
physicians are making a new face for
9-year-old Edgar Forbes of Rathwell
Man. The boys face was reduced to
pulp when he was run over by q
sleigh. Every bone was broken.
The experiment will be a success,
according to the physicians. The bones
were reset and viii mold, they say.
-Four dentists, after days of expert
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-13

Mr.. Benjamin Marcy and Miss EN-
ma Rooster of Uniontown were unit
ed in marriage Tuesday at 10 o'clock
a. m. at the Catholic church, Rev
Father Pecoul officiating. The wit
nesses were Mrs. O. w. Beardsley and
Miss Amanda Hegstrom. Mr.. and
Mrs. Macy left yesterday for Spo-
kane, on their way to the coast, where
they will remain.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-13

scarced the jobbers and retailers into
buying at ridiculous prices
Wooden serges and other cloth, such
as used in the manufacture of mems
womens and children's suits, as well as
work clothes and overalls has been spec
ulated upon in the New York market
the same as stocks on the board of
trade.
In regard to shoes, it is the wave of
prosperity that went through the
country in the retail business before
the influenza checked it, 1t is the gen.
eral agreement of the shoe manufacture
ers that meet in monthly and semi
monthly convention that make shoe
prices hold up as they are today.
Hides in many places are drug on the
market. Vici kid, that is so necessary
in the manufacture Of shoes, will again
be imported plentifully, at much lower
prices. But no matter how hard they
try they will fall, the same as we all
have to fall before the great equalizer,
competition. Small manufacturers,
not heretofore consulted, will grow
strong and the large ones can keep
their shoes for future reference.
Unloadl Don't wait until you are
forced to unload, instead Of whining
and crying about the decline, remember
we own little or no merchandise on the
high market.
Remember now is our chance, my
ideal is, beat the market to it, and beat
everybody to it. Unload and get quick
results.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-13
Cider LIS 1t.

Albany, N. Y.-Old ). B. gets body
blow in the new prohibition bill in the
legislature. Cider one month old Iii
made nondrinkable.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-13

Mrs.. Oscar Haig, formerly Miss
Alma Hopkins, arrived today in Mos
COW to visit friends.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-13

The following is extracted from Mr..
Brier's address, Ito his managers of
the Hub Stores" during the convention
of managers at Lewiston, Idaho Mr..
Brier, our general manager and eastern
buyer, is as we'll acquainted with the
market conditions of the east as any
man in the northwest We can rely
on his judgment.
| predict from now on, a heavy de-
cline in all line of merchandise, al
through trade journals and manufacture
ers claim that prices will remain stiff
during 1919, and show no break until
Spring, 1920, on account of labor condi-
tons and the high prices of raw ma
terials. | don't believe that the price
of raw material or the price of labor
had anything whatsoever to do with the
price of merchandise. If cotton should
have been $1.00 per pound and labor
three times as high as it has been, work
shirts and overalls should have never
climbed to the price that they are now.
Overall manufacturers that own all
their denim at 22c or less, have figured
their Overalls on the basis of 48c denim.
I've known manufacturers to @buy a
merchants and the government that
they had paid as high as 48c for denim.
All these conditions you will see are
based only on the cry of scarcity, or pre-
tense OF scarcity of merchandise, and
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-13

Read The Daily Star Mirror want
Ads"
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ONE ACHIEVEMENT
sNTNHERE is ground here" said

HTHERE is ground here" said Presi-
l. dent Wilson in his message to the
American people after the signing of the
peace treaty, "for confident hope"
In that Sentence Mr.. Wilson has sug-
gested the principal achievement of the
Peace Conference and the one advantage
that falls to mankind through almost five
years of devastation and slaughter. Ger
tainly the world could have never even
hoped for peace under the old order.
The treaty is not perfect. Miracles of
virtue are not for men to accomplish
Europe is left struggling not only with
the confusion following war but also
with the accumulated consequences of
centuries of bad government, false stand
ards, inherited hatreds, suspicious and
prejudices. Could any group of states
men untangle the immense complication
at a stroke? That is unlikely. The
league of nations does represent a begin
ming and way out of the wilderness of
trouble.
But it is no more than beginning, and
for that reason Mr.. Wilson will have to
change the minds of great many liberal
minded Americans before he can convince
them that he is altogether wise in his ad-
vocacy of triple alliance between Eng
land, France and the United States to
ward off further possible attacks from
Germany upon France.
The proposal may represent, in the
Presidents scheme, merely a form of
words intended to be comforting and re-
assuring to the French people in the in
terval before Germany reforms and be-
comes eligible to new association of
nations. Even at that it is superf1uous
and dangerous. We may be willing to go
to war again on behalf of the French
people or the present French Govern
ment. But are we willing to pledge our
undivided support to unknown and uni
Identified groups who so often obtain con-
troll of foreign policies in European coun-
tries?
Every great alliance of European. ma
| tions has drifted almost unconsciously
| into habits of aggression unless all its
! energies were required to maintain a
status quo. War invariably follows or
aggression. That is why America should
have no part in the sort of alliance that
always has been and always must be dan.
! gerous to the peace of the world.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30

DLANS are already afoot to test the
constitutionality of the gag law, mis-
called an anti-sedtion law. Just how the
issues will be framed in order to get the
question before the courts has not yet
been decided. Lawyers can be trusted to
find a way to do it, even if they have to
incite some one to slap the wrist of
sheriff and thus run the risk of convic
ton for sedition with punishment by i'm
prisonment for twenty years and fine
of $4,000.
The validity of the statute cannot be
tested too soon. The bill is crudely drawn
and makes a crime of acts done with no
criminal intent. 1t apparently is also in
direct violation of the eighth section in
the declaration of rights in the constitu-
ion, which provides that mo conviction
hall be had in any prosecution for the
ublication of papers relating to the Off
ial conduct of officers or men in public
capacity, q any other matter proper for
public investigation or information, -
where such publication was not made with
malicious intent.
Any publication, according to the gag
law, which brings the government of the
state into contempt is seditious, even
though it be made with the highest mo-
tives. There are judges in this state who
believe in free speech. We shall see what
we shall see if they get an opportunity to
pass on the validity of this pernicious
statute
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30
LABOR AND IMMIGRATION

IN THE resolution which was presented
l. to the Federation of Labor convention
for the establishment of trades union
information bureau for immigrants at
Ellis Island there is the germ of a big
idea.
No one can deny that immigration has
worked economic benefits. 1t has pro-
vided men for the big work of growing
country.
No one can deny that immigration has
worked economic evils. 1t has provided
more men than there were good jobs and
American wage earners have suffered.
Unrestricted immigration, moreover,
crowded the melting pot beyond capacity.
Hosts of immigrants failed to become
Americans-remained strangers in a
strange land. Prosperity made them
arrogant; adversely made them bitter;
ignorance made them suspicious. All
such undigested masses became a menace
to the body polite.
There have been efforts in the past to
regulate the inpouring of strangers.
One of these, the literacy test, came in
for much criticism because it was pointed
out, ana WIN reason, tndL some QeSlFdDle
immigrants could neither read nor write,
while many undesirables were we'll edu-
Gated. The literacy test was an attempt
to reduce the bulk of immigration.
In the suggestion presented to the
Federation of Labor there is possibility
of wiser discrimination. Whether a
man may enter this country will depend
not only on his fitness for citizenship
(which should be proved beyond perad-
venture), but on the country's economic
need of him. There is no more reason for
a country stocking up with unnecessary
labor than for private firm to do So
| There is no more reason for importing
watchmakers when we need farmers, OF
| for importing farmers when we need
| textile workers or road builders.
The time may come when government
agency will notify a European waiting
list of an opening for men of various
trades; and that such men will only be
admitted when formally advised.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30
A REVERSE VIEW

In all the cities and towns of Burmah
extensive and costly preparations were
made by the people to celebrate the last
hours in which, because of the restrictions
OF the national prohibition act. betel nut
might be chewed in public
Great crowds gathered in the public
places and paid huge sums for seats in
which they could see and be seen and chew
betel in excessive quantities to the sound
of music. OverindugenCe in the stimulant
was deliberate and fondly premeditated.
All classes seemed eager to participate in
q ceremonial of national scope which, ap-
peared to be inspired by a strange mngling
of sorrow and rejoicing.
IF, WHENEVER a national law deprive:
I the East Indian of his betel nut, we
read something like this from the cables
how the eyebrows of America will rise il
pity and contempt for the misguided
heathen A great many persons will fee
that all of the money spent on foreign
missions has been wasted
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30
RUBBER HEELS

He refused to believe that there was Phil
adelphia Pomander Walk so near by. But as
we started up Summer street we met
white cat. with friendly eyes like translucent
amber. She came condescendingly to meet
us, purring. Now in all the fairy tales
white cat is always a princess in disguise.
As soon as our friend-who is an imagina-
tive Celt-saw her, he admitted that the
Village is an outpost of fairyland.
A little farther up the alley is small
Italian statuary shop, a dim white place
where the little busts and figures CLEAN
pallidly in the dusk. Some of them are
tinted in fiat pastel colors. 1t is all a haze
of soft tints, with a bright green glimpse
through back door into little yard where
ailanthus leaves are Pickering. We have
long kept an eye open in shops of this sort
for little bust of Socrates. We asked the
Italian in charge if he had such a thing.
At first he was puzzled. Then he said, ooh,
you mean Socrat', the philosoph'? No. But
l got some nice busts of Pershing."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30
UNITE THE ClTY'S HANDS

IF THE Court of Common Pleas can
= find way under the law to order that
in computing the city debt running
tion the water bonds shall be omitted, it
should do so.
The debt-contracting powers of the
cities of the state are limited in order that
the municipalities may not be tempted
to incur debt larger than can be safely
carried out of the tax revenues. But this
limit applies to all forms of debt, whether
incurred for general improvements to be
paid for in the long run out of the tax
levy or whether incurred for improve
ments which will themselves yield reve-
nue. enough to pay the interest and pro-
vide sinking fund for redemption.
1t is evident after a moments con-
sideration that debt incurred for self
sustaining public work ought not to be
included within the debt on which the
constitution fixes limit. When the con-
stitution was amended so as to permit
this city to borrow per cent of its as
sessed valuation in order to raise money
for rapid transit and port improvements,
~ Was SpeSlllCdily pIONlueu IHdI "Heli Int
piers and the subway and elevated sys-
TEN earned enough to carry the bonds and
provide sinking fund for their redemp-
ton, such bonds should cease to be a part
of the general debt of the city on which
limit is put
The principle thus recognized is admit
ted by municipal financiers to be sound
In these days, when public money is fire.
quently invested in revenue-producing
public works, this principle must be ap-
piled more widely or the limit on the size
of city debt must be raised.
Philadelphia, needing money for street
4 improvements, for sewers and for new
buildings, is confronted by the narrow
margin between the existing debt and the
constitutional limit on the amount which
. Il may borrow. But it has outstanding
$4,000, 900 in bonds issued to pay for the
5 Wster-supply system. The revenues Of
the Water Bureau are more than enough
to carry the water bonds. If they were
oxcluded from the constitutional debt il
I ,1onld be possible to borrow $29 ,00O, ,00(
xor public improvements which do MOI
YI4ld direct revenue.
Il the Court of Common Pleas cannot
~ ang warrant in law for putting the
efSr debt in the same class with the
Ibid transit debt, then steps should be
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30
Answers to Saturdays Quiz

Answers to Saturdays Quiz
1. wieringen is an island in the Zuyder
Zee. nine miles southeast of the Island
of Helder.
2. Three American musical composers OF
distinction are George W. Chadwick,
Henry Hadley and Victor Herbert
8. The alphabet is SO called from ''alpha"
and "beta," the first two letters Of the
Greek alphabet.
A.. Vatel was the celebrated French chef and
steward for the great Conde. He COM
mitted suicide because he feared GER
tain kind of fish would not arrive in
time for the dinner his master was Civ
ing Louis XIV.
8. Five thousand six hundred and twenty
two British ships were sunk by Ger
man submarines in the war.
6. The ''Hunkers' were the conservative
wing of the Democratic party in New
York state around 1850.
7. The earth revolves east
8. General Grant was a native of Ohio.
9. Schiller wrote the drama, william
Tell"
10. The United States acquired the Danish
West Indies IN 1916.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30

taken to amend the constitution. In
these days, when cities are not only own
ing their own water-suppiy systems, but
are considering the wisdom of using pub
lie money for improvement in rapid
transit and for the maintenance of light
ing systems, there ought to be a general
provision in the constitution which
would remove from the general debt on
which limits are placed all bonds issued
for such improvements as soon as the en-
terprise for which they have been issued
earns money enough to carry them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30
CLAY

HVEIE ARE but clay" the preacher saith ;
w 1.-The heart is clay and clay the brain
And soon or late there cometh death
To mingle us with earth again"
Well let the preacher have 1t so,
And clay we are, and clay shall be -
Why iterate te?-for this know,
That clay does very well for me.
When clay has such red mouths to kiss,
Firm hands to grasp, it is enough:
How can take 1t aught amiss
We are not made of rarer stuff?
And II one tempt you to believe
His choice would be immortal gold,
Question him, can you then conceive
A warmer heart than clay can hold?
Or richer joys than clay can feel?
And when perforce he falters nay,
Bid him renounce his wish and kneel
In thanks for this same kindly clay.
e. V. Lucas.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30
What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

1. On what kind of paper was the treaty
signing done?
2. Name the two German signatories?
8. What was a rebeck?
4. What is "mare clausum"?
5. What kind of a carriage is landau?
6. What American state has the smallest
population?
Z. Distinguish between llama and lama.
s. Who wrote the short novel, mo
Thoroughfare"?
8. What was the original meaning of the
word rap in the expression mot worth
rap?
TO- Who was the most noted exponent of
the principle of the single tax?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30

They say that Mr.. Lansing, Henry
White. Colonel House and General Bliss
also signed the treaty. 1t seems as if we
had heard these names before.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30

The politicians are planning to elect q
Council made up Of men who will play poll
tics. The rest of the people are still to be
heard from. g..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30
An Old Salts PIalnt

0H, I'VE sailed the blue Pacific and I've
~ walloped round the Horn,
And I've swallowed more than twice my
share of green Atlantic brine;
But the days of sails are over since the first
steel ship was born,
And the gallant wooden boats Of old are
fading cross the Line.
have paced pitching quarterback in south
ern seas typhoons
When the waves ran high as mountains,
leaving terror in their wake;
But where metal ships would founder and
collapse like pricked balloons,
Why, the gallant craft with oaken sides
would hardly even quake.
Once, when sailors really earned the name,
twas fun to play with Death
As we trod the good old wooden decks,
with iron men for crew;
Til the steamers-more's the pity-came,
disdaining heavens breath,
Driving sailing men before them til they'd
cleared the pillows blue.
Yes, we mixed commands with curses, while
the bucko mates of yore
Used their fists and iron Delaying pins on
half rebellious crews;
But our men were men for all O. that-they
proved it when ashore
(Though more often drunk than sober, what
with rot gut brands of booze).
Ah, the good old days back yonder, when a
man could hoist his sails
With the old Blue Peter Hying-destina-
tion, parts unknown"
And slip out into the briny with a crew as
hard as nails,
While the sheets strained at their halyards,
and the bow picked up bone.
Ave, the good old days are over, leaving
stranded high and dry
All the relics of past decade, with yawn-
ing, open seams;
And they seem for but one purpose-that's
to bring to such as
/ The remembrance that all sails are gone,
save those within my dreams.
ROBERT LESLIE BELLEM.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30

Although they acted in the Hall Of
Mirrors, the real mirror in which the Ger
man delegates will see their country is the
treaty itself.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30

Only four days to the great battle In
Toledo. And the other war is settled, 80
that the new one has a chance of getting
on the front page of the newspapers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30

If Congress is merciful it will behave
itself SO the President may have vaca
tion when he gets home.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30

The former kaiser thinks he can't be
tried, but the men who are going to try him
think otherwise.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30

When the War Department awarded
the Distinguished Service Medal to Evan
geline Booth it merely recognized the kind
~ service which she gave.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30

Acceptable candidates
They Always Are for the presidency are
even scarcer than ac-
ceptable candidates for the mayoralty in
Philadelphia.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30

If things go on at their present rate
people will begin to demand that the police
men and special officers be forbidden 10 carry
pistols. 4
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Thrills

that tourist travel to the battlefelds will not
be permitted for at least year. The NOR
bidly curious will have to go tripping to
Washingtop while Congress is in session.