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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-04
Eight, Nine and
Ten Cent Car Fares

Since the public took over opera
ton of the Boston street railway
system deficit of $2,083,700 for the
first year is faced. The public
trustees have appeared before the
state authorities with an announce
ment that to cover deficits in opera
ton cost it will be necessary to
charge 8 cent ticket, 9 cent ticket
and 10 cent cash fares, based on the
zone system. A loss respectively of
I per cent, IL per cent and Is per
cent in passengers is estimated as
likely to take place, and that the
net increased revenue will barely
cover the expected operating costs.
This is concrete illustration of
the general position of all public util-
tiles such as water, gas, telephone,
light, power and street railways.
Their operating costs have doubled
while corresponding increases in
rates, as in other lines of industry
from farming to merchandising, have
been denied by utility commissions.
Municipal operation in Boston has
proved claims of private company
that increased rates were necessary
long ago and the taxpayers under
first year of municipal management
face a deficit of millions. and the city
has found it necessary to make great
increases in rates. On top Of this,
if municipal ownership be complete,
the taxpayers must make up the mil
lions paid in taxes by private COM
panies.
The Boston rate case and the u.
S. railroad administration increases
in railroad rates, should prove to any
sane and just man that private COM
panies must be granted increases
sufficient to meet present day condi-
tions.
There is no use figuring from past
conditions, we must now look to the
future
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-04
RAILWAY RATES
/ TO Be ADVANCED
Public Treasury will Be Relieved
| of Burden of Meeting Deficits
| in Earnings.
EDITORS POLL IN CONGRESS.
Heavy Vote for Return of Roads
Arouses Interest at the Ma
tionaI Capital.

Washington.-The national poll on
the railroad question by 5000 news
paper editors throughout the country
has aroused great interest at the ma
Itional capital. With 50 per cent. OF
the editors giving it as their impartial
opinion that the public favors an early
return Of the railroads to their own
Iers and only IL per cent. favoring Gov
ernment ownership or operation, the
members of Congress Of both poHt-
tcal parties propose to provide. speed
lily for the legislation to make it pos
Sible to restore the roads to private
management before the end Of the
year.
In Congress there is general agree
ment that the following steps will have
TO be taken before the roads are re-
turned to their owners:
l. An advance in rates to meet the
greatly increased cost of labor and
materials in order that the Public
Treasury may be relieved Of the bur-
den Of meeting monthly deficits and
the roads made self-supporting. The
Director General of Railroads states
that the increase in rates thus far is
about Is per cent. as compared with
m increase In operating costs Of from
30 to 80 per cent.
2. Greater naturalization of public
control Of transportation-a single
public control in the Federal Govern
ment in place of 40 masters in the diff
ferent States, with conflicting laws
and regulations.
3. Legalization of consultations and
common use Of lines and facilities
whenever in the public interest.
4. Assurance through an act of Con-
gress that in the future the Go ern-
ment will approve of rates for freight
and passengers that will not only be
fair to the public, but fair TO the roads,
and that will yield sufficient income
on capital to attract the $3.50, O00 900
to 1000, 100000 of new capital need
Cd every year for the expansion of rail-
road facilities
How the States voted in the nation
al poll of editors on the question of
the return of the railroads to private
management Is shown by the following
chart. That the railroad question is a
nOn-partisan issue is plain from a
study of the table:
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-04
FIRTH

William Hutchinson and family
have returned from a very delight
full trip thru the Yellowstone park.
Miss Hazel Vickery is the new as.
sistant post master.
e. L. Mastin of the o. 8. L. depot
Is taking much needed vacation;
the first in three years.
Everybody help us get the new
high school!
M. S. Lockyer and Albert Johnson
and their wives are touring tho Ma
tional park this week.
Most Of the farmers have started
to cut their first crop Of hay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wardell Ginger have
returned from Kemmerer, Wyo.
Bertha and Lucille Womack spent
Friday in Blackfoot, doing some
shopping.
Mrs. Fred Knudsen is spending the
week with Mrs. Ray Chaplin at Black
foot.
o. L. Andrus and family are spend
ing the week at Lava Hot Springs.
Miss Lena Brewington spent Satur-
day in Blackfoot.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-04
Stupendous Task
For Idaho Firm

BOISE, Idaho.-The most stupen-
dous job ever undertaken by an or
ganization in Idaho confronts the
Mountain States Telephone & Tele-
graph Co. Within four months from
about the first Of August 1t will have
to make complete inventory of all
its property, not only in idaho, but
in several other states in which the
institution operates,
This is required as the means Of
establishing rates. Both branches
of congress unanimously recognized
the justice of the claim of the COM
pany for increased rates, which, until
Postmaster General Burleson made
his order raising them, had remained
stationary notwithstanding the enor-
nous increase in the cost of ma
terials and in wages developing dur
ing the war and still in force.
The only difference between the
senate and the house was as to the
duration of time for continuance of
the Burleson rates. The senate said
three months, the house said six
months. The disagreement was
finally settled in conference on the
basis of four months.
Now every item of the company's
property-every pole, every fnsula-
tor, every bit of wire, every phone,
all the innumerable pieces of mechan-
ism in and out of the exchanges, will
have to be inventoried and itemized.
When this work shall be completed
the state commission of Idaho will
use the facts to establish rates.
When it is considered that the
items run into the millions for the
territory of the Mountain States
company, and that each item must
be recorded, the scope of the under
taking becomes better visualized.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-04
Rehabilitation of
Our Disabled Yanks

WASHINGTON, D. C.-United
States soldiers, sailors and marines
who are injured in the service of
their country are receiving special
consideration at the hands of the
United States Civil Service commits
sion and the federal board for voca-
tional education, working in CO.
operation.
When the civil service commission
receives an application for eXamina-
tion from a discharged Yank, whose
physical condition is such that he
would not ordinarily be accepted, his
case is referred to the federal board
for vocational education. The fed
eral board turns the matter over to
a field officer who promptly goes out
after the man and offers him the
services of the boards organization
for special training to fit him for the
work for which he has applied, or for
some other employment if it does not
seem practicable to train him for the
work for which he made application
to the civil service, commission. Hun
dreds of such cases have been re-
ferred to the federal board by the
civil service commission.
Under a recent amendment of the
civil service rules, made on the re-
commentator of the civil service
commission, the commission may
waive the established physical re-
quirements in favor of disabled and
honorably discharged soldier, sailor,
or marine, upon the certification Of
the federal board for vocational edu-
cation that he has been specially
trained for and has passed practical
test demonstrating his physical abil-
lty to perform the duties of the class
of positions in which employment is
sought.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-04
THREE TwIsTERs STRIKE CITY
Minnesota Windstorm Exacts Toll OF
a. Dead and Many Injured.


a. Dead and Many Injured.
Fergus Falls, Minn.-The death list
as result of Sundays tornado is
now estimated at A, with Is missing,
while 1900 people were made home
less.
About 500 stores and residences
were demolished. The property loss
is estimated at more than a million
dollars. Virtually the entire north
western section of the city is in ruins.
Public buildings and churches were
destroyed. Hospitals are crowded
with victims, but city officials said
they believed Fergus Falls would be
able to provide relief for its sufferers.
Citizens said they believe that three
storms struck the city in quick sue
cession. Several persons corroborated
statements that three funnel-shaped
clouds were seen.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-04
GERMANS AGREE To
SIGN ALLIES TERMS
,EAcE PACT is ACCEPTED AFTER
PLEA FOR FURTHER TIME
HAD BEEN REFUSED.
Neimar Cabinet Notifies Allies OF
Purpose to Yield to Demands But
Insists That Peace Conditions
Are "A Peace of Violence"

)een accepted by Germany. Inc Ter
man government at Weimar has for
nally communicated it's willingness to
sign the. peace terms Internationally,
lit was announced.sby the French for
eign office on June %.
Haniel Won Haimhausen will sign the
peace treaty for the Germans, 1t ap-
peared likely from all information at
the headquarters of the American del
egation. A plea for further time made
by the Germans was fatty refused.
In declaring its intention to accept
and sign the peace terms, the govern
ment of the German republic has sent
the following note to NJ. Clemenceau,
president Of the peace conference,
through DR.. Haniel Won Halmhausen
'The minister of foreign affairs has
instructed me to communicate to your
excellency the following
at appears to the government OF the
German republic, in CONSERVATION at
the last communication of the allied
and associated governments, that these
governments have decided to Wrest
from Germany by force acceptance OF
the peace conditions, even those which,
without presenting any material sig
nificance, aim at divesting the German
people of their honor.
mo act of violence can touch the
honor of the German people. The
German people, after frightful suffer-
ing in these last years, have no means
of defending themselves by external
action.
"Yielding to superior force, and with
out renouncing in the meantime It's
own view of the unheard-0f injustice
of the peace conditions, the govern
ment of the German republic declares
that it is ready to accept and sign the
peace conditions imposed.
please accept, Mr.. President, as
surances of my high consideration.
(Signed) "VON HANIEL."
The Italian delegates at present in
Paris have been authorized to sign
the treaty on behalf of Italy. This an
nouncement removed one question
which it was feared might delay the
signing.
The German note of acceptance, 1t is
said, is couched in such language that
the peace conditions are "a peace OF
violence"
Terms Germany Accepts.
Here are the high spots of the treaty
of peace which Germany will officially
acce, Germany loses Alsace-Lor.
faine, the Saar basin Cat least for 10
years., strip of upper Silesia, the
district of Memel, Danzig, most Of
Posen and portions of West Prussia
and Pomerania, part of Schleswig (if
a plebicite so decides), all her colonies
and extra European rights and pos
sessions, certain small districts to Bel
gium, her entire navy (now sunk), and
all her military and naval air forces.
She cannot incorporate German
Austria in her empire.
She must reduce her army within
three months to 100000 and by March
81, 1920, to 100000. She must abolish
CONSUMPTION.
She must dismantle all forts 30 kilo-
meters east of the Rhine within six
months, agreeing to allied occupation
for Is years or until the reparation
sum, not yet fixed is paid.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-04
More German Ships Sunk.

Weimar.- The German warships
which were not surrendered to the
allies and which have been anchored
at Kiel, Wilhelmshafen and other
points have been sunk by German
sailors manning them.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-04
AirpIane Kills Two Children.

Boston.-A bombing airplane piloted
by Lieutenant Colonel FL. B. Claggett
struck and killed two children and in
jured another in landing at Franklin
field. The observer Of the machine
was slightly injured.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-07-04
Polk Named as Undersecretary.

Washington. Frank L. Polk, of New
York, counselor Of the state depart
ment, and now acting secretary Of
state, was nominated June %, by Pres
ident Wilson to be undersecretary Of
state, new office recently created.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-06

government, Involving huge SINS
Of money and the completely Of
high ofi-ial1-
The State Department warned tie
Russian Soviet government not 70
harm Americans as q reprisal for
the pretended arrest Of I. c. A. X.
Martens, ths eo-called BolsneTik
ambassador 10 the United States.
LeniDe vas Informed Martens had
not been arrested Attorney Cen
eral Newton, counsel TO the Lusk
committee investigating seditious
activities IN New York State. de-
elared the Soviet Bureau Of which
Martens was the head was the
clearing house for the forces Of
destruction IN Russia and the rro-
Eot<rs Of discomfort IN America.
State Department oficisls said the
Mezican government had COM
miited sn overt act of confscation
IN preventing work by American oil
veil driIleTs on lands owned by
American individuals or companies.
Complaint was made 10 the Next
can government on April against
the refusal 10 grant permits 70
the oil companies 10 drill.
Dr.. Anna Howard Shaw. honorary
president Of the National Woman's
Suffrage Association, died ut her
New-York tribune., 1919-07-06

worlds history. There are more who
see only black despair in the future
and are experiencing it in the present.
"They are hungry, they are cold
many thousands Of human beings, and
they know not where they will lay
their heads. A man hungry and cold is
not reasoning creature. Logic does
not appeal to him, economic laws have
no meaning. A wild, uncomfortable
anger surges up in his soul and domi'
mates him.
Tf revolutionary Socialism will help
he is for it. If Bolshevism, with all OF
its blood and lust and pillage, is the
remedy, be is ready to embrace it.
at should not be so, but it is. The
exceptions are for the most part trose
who have not experienced the stres:
that the war has brought to million:
Of men and women"
"The recent elections mean that
North Dakota's experiment will con-
.inue,' asserts "The Boston Globe
which paper goes on to say:
"One reason the project has four
ished 50 remarkably in the Dakotas
New-York tribune., 1919-07-06
AT Home

.HE big event Of The week vas
the arrival Of wartime pro-
hibition-only IT did not
prohibit. II merely caused
slight hesitation. Instead Of
closing forever ut midnigft Nm
dag, practically all New Yorxs sa~
unns opened Tuesdey bright and
early for the sale OF 2-76 beer aud
light wine. and the general report
was that "hard liquor" could be
readily obtatned by those who
knew Tho bartcnders weu enough
TO call thcn by their FIRST namcs.
Attorney General Palmer announced
that no action would be takcu
against dealers selling 2.7b boer
and vino until tho courts had de-
cided whether they wers to DO
clessoh ~ Intoxicating liquors.
Commissioners Enrigitt ordered tho
police to arrcst any ono selling
whiskey or spirituous Liquors. The
drys announced that they would
nght he. lifting OF war time prohL
bition before tho constitutional
amendment gocs into effect. Con-
grcss adjourned for u week with
out passing tho bills for enforcing
p1uhibbion.
New-York tribune., 1919-07-06

ell Of i've, consisting Of Sec
tary Lansing, NJ Pichon, French
Foreign Minister; Arthur
Balfour, British Foreign Minis
ter; Signor Tittoni, Italian For
eign Minister, and Baron Maxine,
head Of the japanese peace dele
cation. Ae a result Of the scut-
tling Of the German fleet at Scapa
Flow it was officially announced
that admission Of Germany to the
league of nations would be de-
ferred indefinitely If .urther acts
designed to delay or frustrate the
fulfilment Of the treaty terms are
committed.
Germany has fixed July 6 as the
day Of mourning for the signing
Of the treaty. Germsn papers an
nouncing the signing appeared
with black borders.
Former Chancellor Won Beth
mann-Hollweg asked the Allies to
place him on trial instead Of the
former Kaiser for causing the war.
Berlin thinks both Wilhelm and
Bethmann will be tried.
The former German Crown Prince
was again reported to have es-
capped from wieringsn and Il vas
again denied that he had left the
island u Sas oaid As hsA ~
New-York tribune., 1919-07-06
Our Oil and MexicO's
covert Act'

in their fulflment, and It is not to be
wondered at if Mexican officials have
underestimated our power or been
tomnted to stretch our patience too far.
II there has been tone of menace IN
the more recent communications OF the
State Department to the Carranza gov
ernment in reference to the attempte1
snoliation of the American oil fields IN
Mexico the occasion has fully justified
it."
"How much more delay" asks
"The Philadelphia Inquirer" Is
there to be before the United States
government adopts some effective
measures for the protection OF
American rights in Mexico?" The
paper then goes on to say:
ale (Carranza) has been trying 1or
long time to coorce the foreign own
ers into complying with his demands
and thereby to facilitate the execution
of the confscatory programme "hlch
be has formulated, but as they do not
care to assist in the robbery Of which
thew would be the victims and the Car
rama government the beneficiaries'
thew have steadfastly refused to do So
and the bewhiskered President, who IS
indebted for the position which he oc-
cupies to the moral support which he
has received from Washington, has
found it necessary for the attainment
of his purpose to resort 10 1orce'
Troops have been sent by his orders to
exnel Americans from their property
and to compel an abandonment of their
operations. and in reply to a note OF
protest sent by the Department OF
State three months ago, we are in
formed that permits would not be
granted to companies which had not
complied with the laws that is, had
not surrendered their legal rights.
"Not until he has been convinced
that our protests mean business will
Carranza pay any attention to them,
and it must be admitted that there are
good reasons for the incredulity which
his defiance Displays
New-York tribune., 1919-07-06
but the better he Is treated the more

but the better he Is treated the more
dissatisfied he becomes.
"Carranza seems impervious to every
argument thus far used. Generous
treatment does not affect him. He is
gratitude proof. He does not, appar-
emily, care what happens to Mexico.
But one argument has not thus far
been used. 1t is simple and direct
statement that the open season for
foolishness is over and that American
rights must and shall be respected"
"The Philadelphia Public Ledger"
is one of many other newspapers OF
this country to evince intolerance
with the persistent Mexican prob
lem. Says this paper:
evidence multiplies that the Mexl-
can situation, so far as concerns our
own relations with that republic, Is
rapidly going from bad to worse. And
President Wilson will face the impera-
tive necessity upon his return, when he
can find time to turn from his presen-
tation of the case for the treaty and
the league of nations, or even before
that, If formulating definite policy for
dealirg with Carranza and his studied
attitude of hostility to this country arc
lis apparent determination to destroy
every vestige of property rights by for
eigners in the Mexican oil lands. Our
own immediate interest, of course, is
the protection of the property and
rights of those Americans who have
acquired by legitimate purchase and
painful and costly development large
oil producing properties in Mexico.
But the American interests are not the
only ones that are threatened with
arbitrary confscation under the pre-
tence of taxation and regulation, and
the other nations are looking to US for
the protection of their rights. There
is not great deal to commend in the
past handling of the Mexican situation
by our own government. There have
been far too many alterations of policy,
frmness and aggression have been sue
ceeded by 'watchful waiting we have
undertaken tasks without perseverinS
New-York tribune., 1919-07-06

newed his lease on the wierinsen
parsonage for another three
months.
The former Kaiser has paid $500
in local taxes at Amerongen. This
his first experience as q tax.
payer.
The American Army Of Occupation
technically ceased to exist June 2,
when the removal Of troops from
the Rhineland began, but Genersl
Pershing said American soldiers
<ould do their part until there u
indisputable evidence that the JOB
has been completed.
The treaty between the Entents
Powers and the United States ard
Poland has been forwarded to tie
Polish government II provides
for the protection Of the minori-
ties, especially the Jews. - Ps-
land.
Italy brought the Fiume cues
tion to the front again by the d.
mand that all territory ..ken
from Austria be definitely disposed
of in the Austrian treaty.
Dispatches from Paris said the
United States would be . party to
both the Bulgarian and Turkish
peace treaties bccae3s Of the In
clusion in them Of ere league o.
nations covenant.
Il was said in Paris that the
American convention pro-
viding for the defence OF Frtnes
against attack by Germany was
signed BY President Wilson the
same day the peace treaty VA
signed.
London dispatches said ne
Lloyd George coalition gown
ment would probably come 80 -
end this summer.
More than 100 persons W"
killed and several thousand We"
injured or rendered homeless ~
IN earthquake In Tuscany. vEk'
destroyed the towns Of visess
and Ulivste and caused sssc
damage 70 ether tsvss - =
~--.xs-u6uu>srrnuo
New-York tribune., 1919-07-06
~ Our O American Domestic and Wor'd1d
North DakOta'S ''NOn-Par
tisan" Experiment

and neighboring states has been sAas
the farmers relationships with The
business men Of the cities who virtu.
oily controlled their product have lefs
something to be desired. The pslitr
cal battles against the league nave
been Of q bitterness and often Of Z
violence which is the unmistakable sisa
that economic interests are involveds
zone thing is certain" says "Ths
New York Sum-" and ut is that the
Nonpartisan League, chief expo.
nent of state ownership and opera.
ton of everything in sight, is not
as strong as it once was. and the
effect of prosperity on the voters
mas been strikingly demonstrated"
"The New York Times" says ''ths
resi- of the country will watch with
interes. to see who wins the bet
North Dakota or economic laws"
at row is for North Dakota 10
show the country what it can do ia
establishing genuine economic de-
mocracy," observes "The Boston
Herald" Meantime the trial Of
Townley may prove worth watching.
especially il, as has been stated.
Senator Bcrah, Miss Rankin, George
Creel ard others are brought into
it."
That the experiment chiefly is one
New-York tribune., 1919-07-06
Abroad

"HE British dirigible R-34,
the largest airship of
it's kind in the world,
started its voyage across
the Atlantic Ocean st 1:4S a. m.
Greenwich time) "Wednesday.
Commander Zachary Lansdowne,
U, S. ~, is on board es a guest Of
the British Admiralty.
A new Rhenish Republic has been
formed from the provinces of
Rhenish Hesse, Upper Hesse, Phalz
and Hesse-Nassau. Herr Ulrch,
the president Of the new republic,
says there is no intention to break
away from the German federation.
The council Of four notified Ger
many that the blockade will not
be raised until the peace treaty is
ratified by Germany. In acknowl-
edging the receipt OF the blockade
stipulation, the Germans said they
expected to ratify tho treaty this
week. The direction Of peace
conference Affairs has now been
placed IN. the hands Of y seun-