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Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-02-07

Mrs. Henry Kuther of Ferdin>
and is visiting with relatives
in Cottonwood this week.
Don't forget to come in Satur-
day and see our S specials. J.V.
Baker & Son. 81
Carl Killmar of Winona return
ed Saturday evening from Spo-
kane where he marketed a car
load of hogs.
Miss Myrtle Fuller and Mrs.
Robert Pr gh were Cottonwood
visitors with friends from the
county seat Monday.
VIM. R. w. Kincaid who has
been visiting here for the past
month expects to leave Saturday
for his homestead at Ashmoor,
Mont.
Pat Demsy, a soldier who has
been recently discharged from
the army, arrived in Cottonwood
Sunday morning and left for his
home on the Salmon river the
!, first of the week.
The ladies of the Rebekah lodge
will give a card party Monday
evening, February 20 in the ban
B quet room of the l. O. O. F. hall,
, Light refreshments will be served.
The public is invited to attend.
, An admission of Is cents will be
3 charged.
lie. Clausen and Mrs. B. H,
3 Bieren returned Monday evening
( from Charleston, Wn, where they
3 attended the silver wedding cele-
: bration of their brother and sister
2 Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Adams of that
s city. The Adams have many
3 friends in Cottonwood and vicin.
( ity who wish them many more
3 happy days Of welded life.
3 Mr.. and Mrs. James Blackburn
5 and daughter left Saturday
; morning for Seattle wher,
; they will spend a month
3 The trip is made on the advice 0
2 Mr.. Blackburn's physician il
3 hopes that the change of climat
3 will improve his health. Nh
s Blackburn has just recently re
8 covered from a severe attack {
8 influenza which left him in
2 very weak condition.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-02-07
COT TONWOOD
AND VICINITY
Personal Mention and Local
Happenings OF the Week

Art Rhoades was county seat
visitor Monday.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-09-26
CALDWELL POST
LENDS SUPPORT
Local Chapter Passes Resolution
Approving S. A. Home
Service Drive

That local service men are enthus-
istically behind the work of obtaining
$3OOO for the home service campaign
of the Salvation Armv is evidenced BY
the following resolutions which were
drafted as expressing the attitude of
the Loren Trotter Post Of the Ameri-
can Legion toward the drive now
being conducted here under the aus
pices OF Caldwell Elks.
The resolutions follow:
Whereas, The Salvation Army is
conducting its drive to raise funds,
September % to the 18th inclusive, as
part OF its effort to raise $l3,OOO,COO
in the United States for home service;
and whereas the Salvation Army has
stood with the American soldier on
the battle fields of The Great World
war, and by its never-ceasing labor
on said battlefields for the comfort
and aid of the American dough-boy
and now seeks fresh fields of en-
deavor in these times of peace, let us
as ex-soldiers, sailors and marines,
now civilians, return in what measure
may be possible the service The Sal
vation Army has given to US and our
comrades in arms. Therefore,
Be it resolved. That we, as MEM
bers of the American Legion, give to
the pending Salvation. Army drive, the
whole hearted endorsement of Loren
M. Trotter Post of the American
Legion of Caldwell, Idaho; that we
regret we were not organized in time
to take over the Caldwell section of
this drive and
That we give to the present effort
100 rer cent of our support as individ-
ual members and representatives Of
The American Legion.
F. M. COLE,
Acting Chairman.
M. H. GIBBONS,
Acting Secretary.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-09-26
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the probate court of Canyon
county, Idaho. In the matter of the
estate of John F. Mcclure, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un-
dersigned Administrative of the estate
of John F. Mcclure, deceased, to the
creditors of and all persons having
claims against the said deceased, to
exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers, within four months after
the first publication of this notice, to
the said Ada Mcclure, at the office of
Hill and Boone, Little block, Cald-
well, county of Canyon, state of Ida
no. said place being designated as the
place for transaction Of business of
said estate in the county of Canyon,
State of Idaho.
Dated this oath day of September,
1919.
ADA MCCLURE,
Administrative of the estate of John
F. Mcclure, Deceased.
Hill & Boone, attorneys for Admin
istratrix, Caldwell, Idaho. o-26 1917
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-09-26

Preston Mills and family of Green
leaf left last Thursday for Portland
where they will make their future
home. Their residence in Greenleaf
has been equipped for dormitory for
the students in attendance at the
Greenleaf Seminary.
Born, last Friday, to Mr.. and Mrs.
Wesley Womer, twin boys. This is
the second pair of twins reported for
last week.
Joe Erwin attended the state fair at
Boise Wednesday.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-09-26
SPECIAL SCHOOL RATE

The Caldwell Tribune will
be mailed to any address for
the entire school year for SIPS.
Subscribe now. Keep the
young folks in touch with
home events.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Holding On to Character
From The Passing Shooc, London

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: have a vito and child, and
my pay check is $40 on the I'd and 10th
of each month. Since July, 1918, my
rent has been raised from $40 to $50
month This leaves US with s6S month
TO live on.
When ! entered the Police Department
went into debt $500 to buy my equipment /
have to pay my tailor $40 month This
leaves me with $58 a month to pay run
ming expenses for myself and my wife and
child Naturally we have to fall back or
our Old friend, the Morris Plan.
You can easily see how hard it is for q
man entering this job to hold his respect
and character by not taking everything that
is not tied down. A PATROLMAN.
New York, Sept. 10, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Thoughts ON Agitators

Mayor Hylan's latest order will raise
many difficulties. City employees inclined
to be agitators are "to have their posi-
tons abolished in next years budget"
Waving the legal doubts, one comes at
olRe to the question, Who are the agita-
tors? The Mayor does not identify
them. Instead he leaves room for
thoughtful conjecture.
81 am informed that there are en-
ployes connected with the city service
who spend more time agitating and max
ing trouble than they do rendering ser
vice for which the city pays them," says
the Mayor. Possibly this means the Non
Partisan Vigilance Committee, which is
agitating in the transit realm, making
trouble for Public Service Commissioner
Nixon and uttering Hearst-like phrases
about plot to increase fares.
Some of them seem to think that the
time they are on duty should be utilized
n reading newspapers or scheming for
selfish purposes, and give little consider
alton to the work they are employed to
perform" the Mayor continues. This
may include employees stationed at City
Hall who scan the newspapers to see how
the Mayors statements "got across" so
as to be able to report promptly; or it
may refer to the Mayors chauffeur, car
ried on the P D. payroll as "confden-
tial investigator
II direct you to give immediate atten-
ton to this class of employees and have
their positions abolished in next years
budget. They should not be on the city
payrolls to stir up strife and trouble for
their employer--the people OF the city"
his honor adds. He puts all the male
factors in one class and asks not merely
that they be removed from tire payroll
but that their positions be abolished in
the 1920 budget. The only reason for
abolishing flied position is that it is
unnecessary What are these unneces-
sary positions and why are they not
abolished at once?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

Yet MT hitting says that the reproduo-
ton lacks tho vigor of the original, ~ss II
fhe artist had left a sicisbed." But, BIZ the
very nature of the instrument, how can
it? Recalling Mr.. Philip Hale's review
Of Richard Buhligs recital given at the
Copley Plaza in 1917, at which a reproduce
ing piano repeated the programme, this
paragraph is interesting:
ut was not easy to believe that there was
mechanical reproduction. Tho impression
was made on the nearer ghat the pianist
was playing then and there But there was
this paradoxical effect: There were at times
g beauty Of tone and freedom In bravura
passages that were more apparent than in
the preceding performance Of the pianist.
In other words, when the records were
taken Mr.. Buhlig was more in the vein than
he last night"
AS q further objection Mr. Whiting
argues that (and this is particularly en-
.vhasized, even iteratedj 'the dramatic eff
feet of a musical situation depends largely
the gamble in human fallibility, in the
excitement of uncertainty as to whether
the thing really can be pulled off"
One hesitates TO comment on such "gufP,"
the fatus of mental ind digestion, but what's
the use after this:
"When the evanescent subleties arc re-
produced exactly (note "exactly'), are
heard many times in absolute repetition,
they become nothing less than a uockery
OF art
Raphael, Claude, Gainsborough, Monet,
Whistler. you worked in vain.
BUCHANAN CHARLES.
Boston, Mass, Sept. Is, 1919.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
The "Scuttle" Theory

President Wilson shows signs of
weakening a little in his contention that
the Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tees reservations to the covenant are
mere surplusage. In dispatches from
San Diego he was quoted as saying that
"some of these reservations amounted to
a declaration that the United States was
unwilling to assume the same obliga-
tons as those assumed by other men,
bcrs of the league" In other dispatches
he was reported as holding that the
senate notifications seemed to aim at
upsettlng the theory of equality among
the nations and at putting the United
States III special position of privilege.
Unfortunately no specifications we're
gwen indicating the purpose of the reser-
vatlons to dodge responsibilities imposed
IN. the text of the covenant as submitted
to the Senate. In what does the special
privilege status which the reservations
confer on the United States consist? The
reservations cover four points. BY the
hrst the United States asserts the rieht
TO Withdraw from the league on giving
two years notice. 1t is to act as sole
Judge of the satisfaction of the condition.
land down IN Article J. that all it's inter
national obligations and all its oblioa-
tons under the covenant shall be full
filled at the time Of withdrawal Does
this reservation give us a privileged
status? Mr. Wilson himself has said
emphatically that it does not. He has
insisted that Article | was never intend
ed to empower the league to pass on the
fulflment or non fufilment of any men,
ber's obligations
Reservation Two provides that the
United States shall not assume, under
Article or other article, obligations
to go to war, to impose an economic
boycott or TO accept mandates, except by
action of Congress. Our Constitution
vests the right to declare war solely in
Congress. We are claiming no special
privilege in pointing cut to the other
members of the league that any recon-
mendation from the council dealing with
the aforesaid subjects must obtain the
approval of Congress before it becomes
binding on the United States. Other ma
tons declare war in other WAYS. We
make no objection to their adhering to
their own constitutions in accepting rec
concentrations from the council, Mr..
Wilson told the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee that the present draft
~f ho
ton on this country to acquiesce in a
recommendation. And he admitted that
Congress had the right to interpret the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
4 Cops Temper

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: \ policeman works under law
winch requires him to do eight hours pa
troll duty out Of every twenty-four. with
eight hours reserve duty extra time after
patrol duty) after every third tour of pa
troll, except (here is the joker in an emer-
gency when he be worked twenty-four
hours. We often work the twentv-four
hours, and most times when it Is absolutely
: unnecessary.
Every time there Is parade every man ts
on duty at it. This is the reason that
no one seems to want to be policeman
nowadays. We are at present about 600
short in New York City.
Some men work from Il midnight nm
I'll a. m, and are then sent to do Darada
duty. They have not had any rest and have
not been able to get proper meals. Thew
are cranky. Why not? They are human
and need rest and proper food
IT a patrolman is working the 4 y. m. to
midnight tour and makes an arrest he has
to be up next morning at a. H. to 20 to
court with his prisoner. He gets off about
l p. m. and reports back for dutv at An m
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Shall Patrolmen and Firemen Marry {?

or the letters received by The Tribune
from patrolmen and fremen regarding
their living conditions at the existing
salary scale almost all come from mar
ried men.
1t is an acknowledged policy of the
Police and Fire departments to encour-
age the men of both services to marry.
The policy is thoroughly sound Mar
rage brings an added sense Of respon-
slblllty, which is an aid to steadfastness
in duty, which in turn reacts to the very
great benefit of the city.
But in order to be effective this policy
needs the support Of more than verbal
encouragement. In existing conditions
the married policeman or fireman finds
that his domestic responsibilities are dis
tressng burdens. It cannot be other
wise. The salary of a patrolman or a
fireman ranges from 81 200 to 81 $50 a
year. Two per cent Of this amount is
deducted, in the case Of the police. for
pension fund expenses. In both services
mandatory expenses make discouraging
inroads upon the stated income Actu-
ally there are men in both services who
are required to support their families
upon less than $1,000 year Even the
men of the highest grades do not have
more than $1,000 year with which to
meet the cost Of maintaining their
homes.
The city cannot longer encourage
these men to accept the additional re-
sponsiblities of marriage unless it is
prepared to accept its own responsibility
to pay them wages which will support a
family. 1t is not only a question Of
policy. There is a moral obligation in
volvcd which should be still more
pressing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
The Reproducing Insirumen.

see little In the ordinary player piano
myself, but enough cannot be said in favor
OF the reproducing instrument. My special
interest in these machines originated in
dislike for concert halls, and, while | have
facility for manipulating the keyboard
like De Quincy | think that to the deep,
Voluptuous enjoyment Of music absolute pas
slvcness IN the hearer is Indispensable
Nevertheless, much of the pleasure | have
got from music has come from its as
ISOLATION with other things the glamour
with which it has bathed "reminiscences, the
flavor it has given books
But in either case, before the invention
OF the player piano, to hear music IS
wished seemed possible only at prohibtive
expense, only by employing the services
OF fine pianist. But that luxury which
only millionaires could afford was eclipsed
by this discovery Of modern SCIENCE, the
bugaboo of hyper-@ thetes.
AT public recitals the people and the
hall itself are distractions, and the pro-
gramme, which convention arranges like
a dinner menu. can seldom be satisfying.
The concert hall is a compromise at best.
wv Inc expense OF even private recltals
makes 1t necessary evil. To hear the
music one wants played as one wishes
IS an unattainablo ideal there. But the
photographic player obvates all difficulties.
Now We may hear Paderewski at his best,
or Hoffman, or Bauer, or Ornstein They
Will play whenever wish and whatever
we like even better than in person.
Doubtless every pianist has his Ideal
interpretations, but how often can he per-
form them? Seldom, except by means OF
the reproducing piano which permits cor
rccteQ rendition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

To the Editor Of The Tribune.

10 inc 1IdltOr OF Inc Tribune.
Sir: In "The Yale Review" for July
Arthur Whiting writes about "The Me-
chanical Player" predicting its doom in
oblivion. "Art is jealous and revengeful
mistress who" he explains, twill not toll
crate mechanics in any form on her do
main" To mark Mr.. Whiting as an in
competent critic it is needless to 20 fur
Their, but would it not be startling to hear
such statement from q composer Still
1t IS said in the contributors column Of
"The Review" that he is one. Writing With
that idea always in mind, / dare say
Schoenberg has little on him.
To any one who gives the matter serious
consideration, however, Writings essay is
negligible but to tho mass of unthinking
readers, probably already prejudiced, the
effect viii be decidedly harmful, confirm
ing their erroneous opinions and retard-
ing the development Of really meritorious
invention. And in spite of the slight weight
or anything can say, it at least gives salts
faction to know that such BIASED criti-
clsm has not gone unanswered
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Why?

"Why?' cries the excited Nation to
President Wilson, Governor Coolidge ct
al, who are urging policemen and others
to be loyal to the state. Why should a
soldier, why should anybody, be loyal to
the state? eXclaims this hectic radical,
thirsting for revolution.
Fortunately, most people know better
than to waste time over such nonsense.
Loyalty to the state is an instinct Of slow
growth, developed simultaneously with
the progress of modern nations, which
have alone made modern civilization and
democracy feasible. Why do we walk on
our hind legs? Why do we love our chill
dren? Why do We obey the Ten Command
ments? Because Of such is that stream
of progress in which we dwell and by
which we have reached such enlghten-
ment and conscience and far play as are
our good fortune and achievement.
OF course the world might be better
if monkeys had walked only upon their
hands, or if children were kicked into full
growth, or the Ten Commandments were
revised by the Rand School. The world
might be better if nationality had never
come into being or were now aban-
doned for the sort of cat-and-dog
competition of Royalties which The Na-
ton and sundry other reformcrs of the
guild or soviet bent Of mind would sub
stitute A return to the happy buc-
caneering days of feudalism is what
these remoulders are urging-and it is a
pity they can't 90 off by themselves and
try it for while
The rest of the world, as Boston can
assure any one who is curious to know.
prefers central state and a sufficiently
united loyalty to make our complex
dolngs run smoothly and safely. But
why rcstate what every child not q
efownup and every grownup not a child
knows?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21

duties Of the new organization, which
consolidates several bodies of a similar
purpose in the old imperial government,
will lie in the field Of trade propaganda
and espionage. 1t will publish a special
news service which will be sent to ali
German manufacturers and merchants
recommended by their local professional
associations. A series of pamphlets con-
tanning commercial information is also
being issued; a few, entitled "Jugo-
Slavia,' "The Cotton Market During the
War" italian Stock Companies in the
Second Half of 1885," are already being
circulated, while one on the War Finance
Corporation of the United States, and an
other cn "The Organization of American
Export Trade" are Forthcoming.
An interesting suggestion relating to
trade propaganda is made in the
FossSsche Zcitung by Georg Paul Men,
MANN Pointing to the extreme i'm
portance of the shaping of public opinion
for the development of commercial in
terests, he urges that the government
should organize an arplane newspaper
delivery service to Holland, Denmark and
Switzerland. The German morning
newspapers would thus reach cities like
Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Zurich on
the same day, "and could undertake the
struggle against hostile influences with
the assurance Of success" Herr Neu-
mann hOrac
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
German Trade Plans

Germany, in spite Of her domestic and
exterior difficulties, is losing no time in
preparing for the struggle from which
she expects the ultimate rehabilitation
OF her world trade. The German news.
papers, N their front-page editorials.
may wall that the peace treaty. leaves.
not hail chance to German commerce
IN the international market; but the
financial and economic sections and the
advertising pages give away the fact
that mobilization for what NAV turn ont
the greatest and most desperate COM
merclal battle of ages is in full swing.
The general assumption is that Cor
many, Handicapped in the overseas field
which before the war was the land of
promise of German industrials. viii con-
centrate with all her might on Russia
and the adjoining countries as we'll as
the Near East. There can be no doubt
that the Germans will, sooner or later
pegn an organized trade offensive
against their Eastern neighbors. For
'he time being, it would appear, the
utter dlsorganization prevailing in the
territory OF the former Russian Empiro
puts damper on German ambitions in
that direction. The search is for nearer
more immediate prizes, and there are in
dlcations that the new orientation Will
be- to considerable extent. toward
Italy.
before the war Germany occupied the
FIRST place both as importer of goods into
Italy and as absorber Of Italian exnorts
me peaceful penetration" Of Italian
finances by German capital also adj
Nanced to disquictng degree 1t seems
'la' German enterprise, trying to ex-
plot the conjunctures of the interna-
tlonal situation, is beat upon re;istah-
llshlng the prominent position held be-
lore the war by Germany in Italian
trade relations. Plenty of evidence to
tins effect is offered by The general aiti-
tude OF the German press toward ltalv.
Rather significant as an index of Ger
man plans is the fact that on a single
page of export advertising, picked at
random from among The August issues
OF the lossssche Zoitung, out of a total
Of twenty-six items thirteen referred to
Italy, while four were concerned with
Switzerland, two each with Spain, South
America and BELGIUM, and one each with
Russia, Poland and Holland
Preparations for the renewed CONNER
clal warfare are made with state encour-
agement and support characteristic
q the oc
central intelligence bureau within the
Foreign Office, charged with the double
task Of disseminating facts about Ger
man industry and gathering, through its
representatives scattered all over the
world, foreign information for the bene-
fit of German manufacturers. In other
words. to use wartime phraseology. the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-21
Where 'SNotl,ing Happens


Maple Hill, Kansas, IS the kind Of town
where nothing ever happens Its ropula-
ton is go City folk dash through such
places III their cars or glimpse them from
train windows and imagine existence us fiat
and dull and everlastingly commonplace for
those who dwell therein.
But dark tale OF death comes now fror,
Maple Hill. Three skeletons have been found
and damnng evidence is brought up against
a man who lived there. The village historian
bestirs his memory and revives the legend Of
an Indian battle on the site of tho town be-
fore white men took possession; Of killings
in later days when Maple Hill was boom
town, wide open, and then ranching centre.
Maple Hill has not been so peaceful. after
all. Tragedy has stalked there in the past
and black passions have held sway
four-corners is not merely the setting
for cheap vaudeville jokes Wherever hu-
man souls are clustered all emotions are in
action the heights and the depths are
reached
The rural hamlet has its underworld, as
sinful and shadowy as that Of Paris. II has
Its saints, its heroes and its monsters.
Humanity in large groups or in small is
anything and everything but du]l