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Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-05

EXAMINER COLUMNS ARE
CROWDED WITH XMAS ADS

The value of the Examiner as an
advertising medium was never more
fully demonstrated than it is this
week. The columns are rowded to
he limit with merchants advertising
who are telling the people about the
large stock of Christmas goods they
have to offer, and more advertise
ments would have appeared in this
issue had it been possible to have Sc
cured more help in the office.
There is no need of any one in Bear
Lake county to send to any mail or
der house for any of their Christ
mas needs, as the Montpelier mer-
chants offer large Sand well selected
stocks in every line. The advantage
of buying at home is that you see
what you purchase and there is no
risk of being disappointed, as is Of
ten the case when you buy from east
ern houses.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-05
FIELDING ACADEMY NOTES

For some time past Coach M. d.
Low has been working on his basket
ball team and regular practices have
now begun. Some very promising
new, as we'll as strong old players
will furnish Fielding with a fast
team this winter.
The committee which was appoint
ed recently to prepare some new
songs for the student body made it's
report Tuesday morning andspresent-
ed some snappy, new material. To
the accompaniment of a "lively
snake dance" the songs were sung for
the students acceptance. They were
received with acclaim and on We'd
nesday morning an enthusiastic prac-
tice was engaged in by the whole of
the student body.
Mrs. Hazel Sperry is at school once
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-05
Notice of Special Municipal Bond
Election

EIOCCOn
Pursuant to the laws of the State
Of Idaho, and Ordinance No. 1872 of
the City of Montpelier, in the state
of Idaho, PUBLIC NOTICE is
HEREBY GIVEN that a special
bond election will be held in the
said City of Montpelier within the
respective wards of such city at the
voting places hereinafter designated,
on the 9Th day of January, A. d.
1920, beginning at the hour of nine
o'clock a. m. and closing at the hour
of seven o'clock p. m. of said day,
for the purpose of taking a vote upon
the following questions, to-wit:
l.. Shall the Mayor and City
Council of the City of Montpelier,
Idaho, issue the negotiable coupon
bonds of said city in the aggregate
amount of 100000 to provide
moneys with which to lay out, widen
and extend South Tenth Street in
said City?
2. Shall the Mayor and City
Council of the City of Montpelier,
Idaho, issue the negotiable coupon
bonds of said city in the aggregate
amount of SO, 100000 for the purpose
of acquiring a municipal park site
in Block 16 of Burgoyne Addition
to said city?
8. Shall the Mayor and City
Council of the City of Montpelier,
Idaho, issue the negotiable coupon
bonds of said city in the aggregate
/. amount of $5,500.00 for the purpose
of acquiring municipal park site
in Block 2 Of Bagley's Extension of
said city?
Said election shall be held in said
city and the vote Upon said questions
taken within the respective wards
of said city at the following designat-
ed places, to-wit:
First Ward: City Hail.
Second Ward: Groo and Toomer
Garage.
Third Ward: Fire Station.
All persons who, at the time of
said election, are qualified electors
of the said City of Montpelier and
who are taxpayers therein, and no
others, shall be qualified to vote at
said election on said questions. The
voting at said election shall be by
ballot. The ballot to be supplied to
the voters for their use at said ell
ection shall be substantially in
the form set forth in said Ordinance
No. 1872.
DATED at Montpelier, Idaho, this
Afh dav of nacamhar n 1910
F. L. CRUIKSHANK
(SeaD City Clerk.
Section 5. The following named
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-05
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS.

The commissioners met at ten
O'Clock A. M, this 18th day of Nov.
1919, present Ezra j. Howell, Chair
man, j. T. Peterson and Silas Wright
Commissioners, d. G. Kunz, Prose-
cutting Attorney, and S. H. Rich
clerk, and the following proceed
ings had to-wit:
The United States Department of
Agriculture having filed a bill for
$229O.96 together with itemized re-
port of work completed on the Mont
pelier-Afton road and 1t appearing
to the Board that so much of the
work has been completed as contain.
ed in said report, and it also appear
ing that the above named amount
is the portion Bear Lake County
should pay on account of construc-
ton work, the County Auditor is
hereby directed to draw his warrant
on the Road and Bridge fund for the
above named amount in favor of said
United States Department of Agri-
culture.
In the matter of approving of a
certain lease of Right-of-way from
the o. s. L. r. r. Co., and
WHEREAS, the chairman and
clerk of the Board of County Com
missioners of Bear Lake County
Idaho, have executed lease, grant
ing to the said Bear Lake County
certain property at Montpelier, Ida.
for highway purposes. Said lease
being designated as ACE No. $685.
NOW, THEREFORE. be it resolv.
ed. that the action of said chairman
and said clerk, in the execution Of
said lease, is hereby ratified and con
firmed.
The bill Of the c. w. & M. Co.
for $3.50 for road supplies helt
over from last meeting was allowed
and warrant ordered drawn on thu
Road and Bridge fund to cover thu
above named amount.
Ordered that this Board do nov
stand adjourned until ten o'clocl
A. M. Monday, Dec. 18th, 1919.
Ezra J. Howell
Attest Chairman
s. H. Rich, Clerk.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-05
GEoRGETOwN ITEMS

Georgetown, Dec. 3.-The choir
gave dance Thanksgiving which was
largely attended.
W.. r. Stoddard has moved his
family into town for theSwinter. Mr..
Stoddard will leave tomorrow for
Jerome with bunch of horses to
feed for the winter.
Edgar Munk went to Soda Springs
today on business.
There will be two cars of grain
loaded here in the near future.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-05
NoUNAN

Nounan, Dec. 3.-Dr. w. l.. Lind
say was called here from Salt Lake
on account of the illness of his faith
or, 3. M. Lindsay, who has been very
i'll for the past ten days.
Rulon Lindsay and MILFORD Bart
schi, who are attending high school
at Montpelier, spent Thanksgiving at
home.
Mr. and Mrs. r. Chugg returned
last week from Rupert, where they
had been visiting with Mrs. Chugg's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Stowell.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-05
AMONG OUR CORRESPONDENTS

more after having spent a part of
last week in Salt Lake City.
The juniors held most pleasant
class party last week at the home of
Miss Celia Wooley.
On Wednesday afternoon, the stu
dents gathered in the gymnasium,
where they spent an hour in games
md dancing. A growing interest is
being shown in the social gatherings.
Owing to the holidays no frolic was
held last Wednesday.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-05
Should BE Ouarantined

Many physicians believe that any
one who has a bad cold should be
completely isolated to prevent other
members of the family and associates
from contracting the disease, as colds
are about as catching as measles.
One thing sure-the sooner one rids
himself of cold the less the dan
ger, and you will look good while
before you find a better medicine
than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
to aid you in curing cold.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-05
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank all of our friends
for the kindness they extended to us.
and to the Masonic. Eastern Star and
Woodmen Of the World lodges for
the sympathy and beautiful floral Of
ferings on the occasion of the death
OF cur beloved husband and father.
Mrs. Ellen Douglas,
Mr.. and Mrs. M. L. Douglas.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-05

Do your Christmas shopping early.
The Nielsen-Jones Furniture Co. has
a large variety of useful gifts and
will be glad to put articles away for
you until wanted.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-05
TOYS
TOYS

Come and see the largest line Of
toys ever exhibited in Montpelier al
Burrell & Thiiel's.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-12-05

Books, books, all of the latest
copyrights for sale at Ritter Bros.
Drug Co.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
The Depleted Schools

An extraordinary condition has devel-
oped in New York's school system. From
10000 to 100000 enrolled pupils are re-
ceivng no instruction, not because of
lack of buildings and deficiencies in sit
tings, but because of shortage of
teachers
This striking statement Of the Fedora
ton of Teachers Association is made in
It's brief in support of the request for
increased salaries for teachers and is
supported by the Public School Associa-
ton. Old teachers, attracted by better
compensation, have quit, and new ones
fail to come forward in sufficient num-
bers to fill vacancies. Here is no ques-
ton of part time, but of any time.
The city obviously must pay the mar
ket price for teachers. 1t must bid more
than it is bidding. The economic con-
sequences of great change in the pur-
chasing power of the dollar, first re-
Elected in a higher cost of commodities
and then in higher prices for labor and
services, are not to be avoided. If there
is to be school efficiency, if there is not
to be the confusion incident to lowering
teaching standards, the teachers, it
would seem, must get more.
Usually the appeal for larger peda-
gogic compensation is based on argu-
ments of justice and fair play, but it is
different now. No strike has occurred.
many are still hanging on to their per-
sonal disadvantage, there is a constant
leakage. Clearly such a condition can
not last. The choice is offered of made
quate instruction for the oncoming gen
GRAFTON or of hiring talent at wages tai
ent can get elsewhere. 1t is not feasible
to keep the compensation of teachers
frozen while other compensations mount
upward and the cost of living is at new
levels.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

CNT PAUL, Mimi. March S.-The world
- invaded the states of Minnesota
and North Dakota and Wisconsin last
summer with vengeance and the scars
are still to be seen. There is no use Of
minimizing the gravity of the alien problem
in these states, for it is shared in only
lesser degree by most of the states Of the
Union. The question of loyalty and dis
loyalty were fought out and won by the
patriots in Minnesota after a bitter strug
gle that necessarily involved wrongs to in
nocent non combatants. 1t has passed. The
question of -Americanism, Of assimila
ton, remains and will remain for many
years.
Is there a saturation point in the alb
sorpton Of immigration, danger mark,
rate beyond which it is unsafe for America
to receive all corners as rapidly as they
choose to arrive? The nation has rather
confidently assumed mo-; and the success
of the draft, the loyalty of the nation at
large, has confirmed us in our belief.
But the case of Minnesota and the case
of North Dakota are clear evidence to the
contrary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
Some Injustice Done

There was much violence and arrests were
frequent during the campaign. Nonpartisan
speakers were hustled out of towns. Tar
and feathers used. Several speakers
were tried and convicted under one law or
another. In such a campaign, in the atmos-
phere of loyalty and disloyalty that the name
of Lindbergh evoked, it would be strange J.
every official and community acted reason
ably and fairly. 1t seems certain that some
injustice done and some innocent speak
ers were roughly treated | do not see how
anything else could be expected OF human
nature in war time.
The wounds Of the campaign still exist
The next campaign is likely to be bitter
The issue of disloyalty in war time
will be gone. The issue of socialism, of
Americanism will remain. A hard fight is
certain The league is confident of success.
/ think it is the general opinion that it will
take a strong candidate and strong cam
paign to beat it, The treaty of peace will
have ended tho war between nations In
Minnesota, the fight between the older Amer
lean faith and the radical socialistic faith
OF newer Americans will be at its height.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

the danger of their utterances and were
not opposing either draft or loans. Incl
dentally, the first Liberty Loan went slowly
in both Minnesota and North Dakota. The
remaining loans we're greatly oversub
scrbed in both states, North Dakota max
ing an especially fine record The La Fol-
lette speech, with it's Lusitania reference,
seems to have been blunder, regretted by
Townley and unparalleled by anything ut
tered by him.
In October began a serious strike of the
street railway employees of the twin cities.
Minnesota gives Townley much of the re-
sponsiblity for this strike. Nonpartisan
League men certainly gave their active aid.
1t was the first practical result of the new
alliance between labor and the farmer,
gneered by Townley. The strike was
violent one, forty-two men being injured by
rioters. A general strike was threatened,
but the Governor stood firm, called out the
Home Guard (Which the Commission of
Public Safety had organzed), and the
strike was broken. Governor Burnquist
earned the hostility of labor by his course,
the radical end especially. The rest of the
Twin Cities regard him as a courageous,
hard hitting and highly patriotic war Gov
ernOr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
The Returned Soldier

What manner of men came back to
New York on the Leviathan and the
Mauretania? Not boastful, braggart
men, telling tales of their own prowess
Those who told us that our boys would
come back brutalized by their work of
war forgot that "the bravest are the
tenderest"
"Not in all the Journey wrote cor
respondent who made the trip with the
men of the 9th Division on the Levia-
than, "did l hear one of them say that
he had killed German. They had other
things to talk about"
1t may puzzle the folks at home to
know just how their boys are changed,
but changed they are assuredly. They
do not talk about their idealism; few
American boys are so constituted; but
the idealism is there. Only to an occa-
sional man is given the gift of express
ing what remains unuttered in most
hearts. One of these living voices is
Coningsby Dawson, Of the Canadian
army and author of Garry On" Writ
ing in McClures Magazine of the return
ing soldier and the thoughts and ideals
he is bringing back, Lieutenant Daw-
son says:
"Presenty we shall take off our khaki,
but shall not cease to be soldiers.
We shall not be soldiers in the sense
that you dread - swaggercrs, people
banded against the civilian by the pride
of military caste. You see, we never
wanted to be soldiers-the thought filed
us with horror. 1t was your need the
heroic fact that some one had to die in
your defence, that made US fighting men.
Nevertheless, though we don civilian
dress, have not done with fighting
yet. We coming back to man the
trenches of kinder social order and to
follow the barrage across No Mans
Land in pursuit of a new heaven and
new earth. Our souls will still be clad
in khaki; VIC shall be brotherhood for
righteousness"
More briefly, that is the testimony of
Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,
jr, himself of the 9th Division who
predicted that every man who went
/ through the war would be so upifted
that the whole nation would feel their
upward urge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

covenant is that there is no peace in it.
Perceiving this, it is not strange Great
Britain refuses to consider dismantling
the fleet which is her protection, that
France will not strip her borders, that
this country is unwilling to abandon the
Monroe Doctrine, and that both parties
at Washington agree there is need for
larger American fleet and a larger
American army. No one, not even Pres
ident Wilson, accepts the covenant as
anything like adequately protective.
Here is fact camouhagers will find diff
ticulty in concealing
If there was a real league of peace, if
there was return for a seeming i'm
palrment of sovereignty which will give
a plausible argument to opponents of
reasonable preparedness, Senators Borah
and Reed would probably soften their
opposition. But to be offered lath which
is painted to look like iron, and which
foolish persons will contend is iron---no
wonder men refuse to swap something
for nothing
The world is to choose. 1t can create
central power. 1t can have true Holy
Alliance, devoted, not like the old false
one, to spreading tyranny, but to guard
ing and spreading the domains of lib
erty.
Will not the President have vision
enough to see? Are his ears so stopped
he cannot hear the appeal opportunity
makes to him? Will not our people,
disregarding the present flood of cheap
abuse, recognize that if there is to be
peace we must draw closer to our demo-
cratic associates and develop a concert
of preponderant power, dedicated to
peace, which may become in no meta
phorical sense viceregent of heaven?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09

OF course, the rate varies with the ma
tionality; the German immigration, for
ample, has been particularly slow of as
similation because Of the efforts of the
German imperialsts to preserve loyalty to
the fatherland. Furthermore, new and act
i've efforts toward Americanization may in
crease our ability to absorb But the case
of Minnesota and North Dakota yield
grave warning that the American idea if
not America, can be imperiled by too
rapid immigration.
The figures of the census pointed plainly
to the weakness of "the home line" in the
Northwest We are apt to think of our
Eastern states the most alien in the
country, and they are in respect of recent
immigration. Go back ten years, twenty
years, generation, and the highest per-
centage of foreign born in the North
west.
In 1890 only % per cent of North Dakota
was "natve white of native parentagc," less
than one in three only little better than
one in four, to act as a nucleus of straight
Americanism. Even in our cosmopolitan
state of New York, at the threshold of the
nation. the percentage of "native white of
native parentage" was in 1910 80 per cent.
Perhaps our New York immigration is more
swiftly assimilated Perhaps it is not. 1t
certainly could not be more intelligent,
better educated, more honest and hard
working than the Swedes, Norwegians and
Germans who form Minnesotas and North
Dakotas alien elements This farming popu-
lation of the Northwest is as fine as any
stock we possess. The trouble is not with
the stock but with our failure as nation
to distribute and Amerlcanze it,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
That Pennsylvania Result

The esteemed "World' twits The
Tribune for failing to discuss the Penn
sylvania special election. Newspaper
tastes differ. "The World" without
waiting for information, immediately
gave vent to a partisan exultation The
Tribune preferred to ascertain the facts
first
1t now appears that the league Of
peace business entered into the cam
paign very little. The Congressional
district is composed of two counties, and
the larger one, in defiance of party Gus
tom, insisted on grabbing the nomination
when it was the other county's turn.
The unfairly treated county had it's re-
venge at the polls, according to familiar
practice in two-county districts. 1t fur
Their appears that the Republican candi-
date was an unpopular employer who
was in wrong with labor, and thus did
not run we'll in his home county, while
his opponent was a lawyer not called on
to get mixed up in industrial disputes.
Finally, proof that no active campaign
on big issue was made, the vote was
only little more than one-half Of nor
NAL.
The result was thus not Of large sig
nlhcance. Pursuing it's partisan course,
our neighbor will doubtless continue to
shout Justify, but those caring little
about politics when considering a great
international question will feel no COM
pu1SiOn to initiate If
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
Morning on the Hill

From The Ne,o Statesman
COFILY softly, the long bare boughs arc
~ rubbed together,
A dry leaf spindles down. like birds light
feather.
Still, oh still
Silence hath laid, in her woods and on her
hill,
The signing wind by the heels;
And thin mist smokes over, gently steals
Across the bare burrows and the grass and
settles down
Coiling in faint wreaths among the golden
stones Of the town.
STILL oh still! There is harm in speaking.
Speech is too hard, speech only means
waking
Into world of words where lovely things
bound by names,
Where we pursue color and call her flowers
or flames
Yet speak, if you will, or rather sing
AS softly, softly, as the bare boughs rubbed
Make no more sound than touch of leaf or
feather,
A song as vague as the mist-wreaths that
cling
Round the woods and the fields and the
bare sides Of the down
And the tall ghostly cleaning houses of
the town,
A song that shall mix with silence, faint
tenuous thing.
Then, then, we may escape in the magic of
the hour
Whittier thought is still, whittier the brain
has no power
And words have no meaning but only their
sound
EDWARD SHA%Kc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
A Poet to His Father
Fron' The Sonnet

(Front The Sorret)
IND you, in those few years before you
l. died.
Dream of the grievous dreamer / should be,
Busted with wickless lamps, and come to
see
All darkness in the star no night can hide?
Did you, from foreign sorrows, turn aside
To ways the angels pave and angels
press,
And say, "He too must know this old dis
tress,
And plough impiteous seas no ship will
ride ."
Poet in truth, whose face l never saw,
Except with childish eyes, alike for us
The sulen dawn, the cavern luminous:
Whose pictured look is all-unuttered awe,
You too had known the nameless ache,
as I;
You too had dreamed the Dream thas
cannot die!
MAHLON LEONARD FISHEE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-09
Didn't Knou 1t Was Loaded

After this background of early luke
warmednesss toward the war, to put it
mildly, followed the extraordinary cam
pagn of the Nonpartisan League in behalf
of Charles A. Lndbergh in the summer Of
1918. Again. Mr.. Townley presents an alibi;
he has claimed that he did not know of
Lindbergh's book, "Why Is Our Country at
War;" when the league picked him for
Governor. He certainly showed poor politi-
cal judgment if he did know of the book,
for it is the most amazing mass if sedl-
ton and opposition to every activity.
1t alone beat Lindbergh and the league at
the primaries. The league was we'll organ
lied, possessed over $4,000 members in the
state, and, as it was, missed defeating Gov
ernor Burnquist for the Republican nomina-
ton only by narrow margin. 1t seems
likely that a more astutely chosen candi-
date would have won.
The league then abandoned Lindbergh and
put up separate ticket with farmer Of
unquestioned patriotism as its nominee for
Governor Governor Burnquist won by a
large plurality. The league farmers stood
by their candidate. Labor split badly. The
alien vote went with the league
Among the effective campaign documents
put forward by the Republicans were
series Of letters between William D. Hay
wood, of the I. w. W., and Arthur LIE Sueur,
secretary Of the Nonpartisan League. They
showed Mr.. LIE Sueur not only as the attor-
ney of the I. w. w but as a sympathizer
with the trouble makers" of the organiza-
ton. The letters part of the record
in the Chicago trial
IL
ley and lie Sueur to put through a labor
agreement between the l. w. w and the
Nonpartisan League in the summer of 1917.
LIE Sueur is the ablest radical of the
Townley group. He was one of the heads
Of the Socialist college of Fort Scott Kan
sas, and one of the organizers of the Peo-
Piles Council that did not meet at Min
neapois