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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-28

and probably will not as long as I
am in France
| will close for this time and wait
or work until lam called.
Yours,
PVT. C. w. WELLS.
Co. F. 31S Engineers, A p. O. 1877.
The following letter was written
to Mrs. L j. Porter by her grand
son, Raymond D. Wolfe:
Co. B 317 Infantry, A. E. F., France
February IA, 1919
Dear Grandma:
Just word from one of YOUR
grandsOns overseas to inform YOU
that | am still alive despite reports
to the contrary.
Am well but desperately homesick
for the land where the people don't
wear wooden shoes, live in barns,
rob you of every cent you draw on
pay day (if so fortunate as to re-
ceive a pay day. l have been in
France since May and received one
months pay, and that for the month
OF April, so am not enjoying the lux
uries which our American tourists
find in Europe. Am just now billeted
in stall recently evacuated for the
soldiers by the cows, but this is
heaven compared with the billets or
prisons | was in while a prisoner of
war in Germany.
For three months I thought l
would starve to death before the
week was over and was rather
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-28
RETURNS FROM SALT LAKE
TAKES DOWN WITH THE FIJI

Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. Rich returned
from Salt Lake City, Saturday, with
their two children. Mrs. Rich has
been there with the kiddies for sew
eral weeks having them doctored by
a specialist. On the day after her
return, Mrs. Rich was taken i'll with
the flu, and is laid up with it.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-28
DELCO MAN TOOK COURSE

M. }. Hammond returned Wednes-
DAY evening from convention of
Delco light statesmen at Dayton, o.
he was gone three weeks and visited
good many cities, besides taking a
course of instruction at the Delco
factory.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-28
Coming From Honolulu

A card from Everett Faulkner,
who has been with the marines in
the tropics for four years, says that
he would leave Honolulu immedi-
ately for home. The card was dated
March 13 land his father s. J. Faux
ner Is expecting him to arrive very
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-28
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Incoming Yanks
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Artilleryman Stops Over

w. A. Ludtke, of Monteview, near
Dubois stopped in Blackfoot for a
brief visit Tuesday on his way home.
He came directly from Camp Lewis.
where he was a member of the
Thirty-eighth F. A. of the Thirteenth
division. Ludtke has farm and
while in Blackfoot he attended to
land business in that connection at
the land office.
Thru War With the First
Cpl. Charles H. Farnworth of
Groveland, who fought from the be-
ginning in France with the First
army, has landed safely .at New
York, according to telegram re-
ceived by his mother, Mrs. C. II.
Farnworth, Tuesday. Cpl. Farm
worth went to Camp Lewis in o.
tober, 1917, and by December of
the same year he was in France
with the first army. He was twice
wounded, but has recovered fully
and seems in good condition. He
was member of the Twenty-eighth
infantry.
From War to Cattle
L. J. Miller of the Twenty-first in
fantry, who returned home to Black
foot Saturday after getting his dis
charge at the Cheyenne post, has
taken work at Moore with the Idaho
Land & Livestock company.
From the Border
Cpl. A. l.. Letham, of Salt Lake
City, formerly member of the First
cavalry, doing border duty at Doug
las, Arlz., but now an ordinary citi- /
zen with job, went up to Leslie
wednesday morning to go to work.
Held in Virginia
Cpl. John Ingemanson of the
infantry, after putting
in good healthy period of army SER
vice, and getting stuck in Camp Lee,
Va, returned Wednesday to the
home folks at Mackay.
Landed at New York
Ershel Lindsay has safely arrived
at New York from overseas, accord
ing to word received Tuesday by his
brother-in-law, ben Lyons.
Home to Help Dad
Roche Wheeler, sergeant-major in
headquarters company, First infan-
Try, came in from Camp Lewis Mon
lay morning and went out to River
side where he will be with his father,
Brig Wheeler, on the farm, in time
or the busy season.
Cpl. Harry E. Wheeler is at Brest
n motor truck company 54S, and
Toes not know when he will get
lone.
Sailor Returns from France
G. E. Jackson, from the convoy
ru1ser Columbia, has just been re-
eased from the naval service at New
lork, and arrived in Blackfoot Mon
lay on his way to see his father at
lackay. Until the signing of the
rmistice this cruiser took American
transport flotillas across the sea as
ar as the point where they met the
British escort on the other side.
1AANo DdCh TTOIn lSlC
John R. Robinson, formerly of the t
45th F. A., who has a ranch at
-rco, returned Monday morning 6
rom visit with his friends in Salt
AXE City. ,
Pingree Boy at Home =
Hugo Johnson, who was a cor
oral in the 1920 infantry, of the
orty-first division (Sunset) re-
lrned to his home with Mr.. and
[rs. John Josephson, at Pingree, his
unit and uncle. Johnson put in six
lonths in France with the famous
vision.
Coming From Honolulu
A card from Everett Faulkner.
no has been with the marines in
le tropics for four years, says that
e would leave Honolulu immedi-
ely for home. The card was dated
arch 3 land his father S. J. Faulk-
Or Is expecting him to arrive very
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-28

soon. Everett has not been at home
for about six years. He enlisted
after being away at school for two
years.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-03-28

Hugo Johnson, who was a cor
poral in the 1921 infantry, of the
Forty-first division (Sunset) re-
turned to his home with Mr.. and
Mrs. John Josephson, at Pingree, his
aunt and uncle. Johnson put in six
months in France with the famous
division.
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the other evening made me con-
slider my own case. and whether
my troubles are not after all
blessings in disguise. This is the
family plot: / never dreamed OF
working away from home till after
the war began, but as my children
were all in their teens and | boast
ed a servant who is more a member
of the family than anything else, /
took job paying me $1,400 year.
The understanding being that |
was to use the money that the two
older children might be able to so
to college.
My husband and l have "A joint
bank account from which we both
check, but since have had my job,
he is so worried that ! will not be
sufficiently nourished, or get wet,
or tired, or something else, that he
spends far more for extras and
Injuries than we can afford, some
times cutting into the holy and
sacred funds. | wish, without be-
ing positively brutal, that | could
make him realize that l don't need
flowers and cabs and candy.
He has a salary of 1880 a year.
so you see we have not enough for
luxuries and college too. Apart
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THE SELF-sUPPORTING HOME MAKER

classic miser amply illustrates.
Through a long and ideally happy
married life, the Scroggs of Wall
Street kept his wife with practi-
cally no spending money. But at
his death, he left her a head-reel-
ing number Of millions to dispose
OF as she thought best. He loved
her, he trusted her, he relied ab-
solutely on. her ability to handle
vast sums of mOney-but he could
not bring himself to give her a
twenty dollar bill,
1t would seem that ScrOoge and
Barkis cannot make themselves
over whether they are financiers
OF such magnitude that four
sneeZes, within earshot Of a re-
porter, is likely to produce a panic
in Wall Street, or Of the class
whose wife goes out with a mop
and pail, because himself doesn't
give up easy.
Some self-suppOrtiEg hOme-mak-
erS have troubles OF another sort
as the following letter will show.
A Reasonable Amount of "Barkis"
Desirable.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
Poor Sally's letter in the paper
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Beatrice Fairfax Writes the Problems Pitfalls of the War Workers
Especially for Washington Women

THE problem of the self-sup-
porting home maker prom
ises to be as popular a sub
ject for discussion, in this column,
as that of kissing, which for the
present, we have done with
heaven be praised
The war has showed ahead, by
a good many decades, our various
timepieces, and in no instance Is
this more true than in the case of
the woman question. Let anti-suf-
fragists and other reactiOnaries
wiring their hands and call on high
heaven as dramatically as they
will, the war did what patience,
labor, self-deniaT failed TO dot
gave woman her chance.
Every other household boasts a
woman wage-earner who year or
two ago could not have imagined
herself in the class of bread
winners. Women took up war
work from a variety of reasons;
some from pure patriotism that
had TO have a medium of self-eX-
preston. Some because their hus-
bands and sweethearts were over
seas and the suspense could be
lived through better, with every
moment employed. Others entered
the fields of industry for that age
old reason, they needed the money.
But whatever the cause, the
problem remains, we have at the
present time an army Of women
carrying double" And everyone
is curious to know how they man
age, what results they achieve,
does the family fare as well as
it did formerly, when mother gave
her whole time to it. and how well
does she run her job?
In this connection, nothing is too
trivial or unimpOTtant to be in
teresting, we are only less curious
about the self-supporting home
maker than we are about the Mar
tians, OF the white ESkimos Stef-
fanson discovered some years ago,
or those four millions of Chinese
that, on the authority OF a newly
returned missionary, did not know
a world war was raging.
Two women have written to this
column rather melancholy expert
ences of their dual roles as home
makers and job-holders but from
other letters that have come in,
we do not feel justified in con-
Guiding that stingy husbands are
more prevalent in this walk of life,
than elsewhere Dickens wrote of
Mr.. Barllis and his proverbial
"nearness" long before women
thought Of seeking employment
outside of the home.
Abnormal clOseness, even in the
multi-miIlionaire class, is not uD-
known. pc the case Of a certain
The Washington times., 1919-02-04
Today.

I0u@N.
Address-Gen. Samuel r. AnSel "Psr-
Ional Observations Of Our Army Uni-cd
Service Club. Dupont Circle .. %.
Dropping Death Bombs" photogra phei
from airplanes. will be shown.
Addrsss-Edward p. COstigan. OF Unitad
states Tariff Commission, Some Problems
OF ReadjustmEnt," Commercial Club. ESQ
y. m.
Aeeting-Wss shington AIumnae Associa-
tlon OF chi Omega. George Washington
University, 2O24 q street northwest, D. m
MeetIng-Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp Nc.
], United Spanish War Veterans. Perpetual
building Association Hall, Eleventh and
streets northwest, p. m.
Addrcss-Dr W. l. Darby, OF Y. VI. ..
A, Takoma Park Civic Study Club, Publ:c
Library, D. m.
Entertainment - Program by Christian
Endeavor Conference representing Chris
tan Endeavor societies OF coIored churches.
Metropolitan a. NJ. +. Church, p m.
Address-Miss Laura Rowe. Of Ne"
YORK; Work OF an Educational Director IN
a Department Store. Business WOmens
streets northwest, 1880 D. m.
Annual meeting and banouet-BroWn
Alumni Association Of Washington, Cush-
mans. 6O7 Fourteenth street northwest.
p. m
Meeting-Conduit Road Citizens Asso-
ciation. St David's Parish Hall, Conduit
road, near Nebraska avenue. y. m.
Address--DT NJ. n Dolmage. president
VI tho Ar.-.C- a. .yCtiu-4i Union ~ Wash
Congregational Church, II a. m. on The
Regeneration of Armenia"
'DAuco-Ontformed men and WHr SHUrb~
erH. Ceutrsl High School. y m.
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WHAT'S Doing; Where; When

Lecture-Capt. A. r. p Carpenter. the
nero or Zeebrugge BelascO Theater, 4:Sa
y. m. proceeds to go TO Dover Patrol fund.
t.ng-Alpha OmiCrOn ri sorority res
lGence OF Miss Margaret Mitchell 1Iu.
East 'dpitOl street. 1870 y. N.
Meetins-Florida Society Of Washington,
cIub rooms Of the Washington chaptsr
American Institute OF Banking. 1914 F
street northwest. 5 p.
Address-MrF Florence Willard Dav
spiritual Realization" Eagles Wings
5OS Eleventh street northwest, p m.
Tomorrow.
LeCtUrc-The Rev. William j. BrOsns 4
;. j., OF Woodstock College. GonzaEa Col
lege lecture hall. s p. IN.
Dance-SUciaI club OF the Young Mems
Hebrew Association, Masonic building.
Ninth and = streets northwest. s D. m
Proceeds will go TO the Hebrey Fund for
the Aged
Lecture-Mrs. Max West Child weIfars
ana the Work OF the Children's Burea u
Friends Meeting House. Thirteenth and
Irving streets northwest, Sis D. IN.
Banduet-Men's Bible Glass Of Keller
Memorial Lutheran Church. Ninth street
and Marylan nd avenue northeast. 1870 D. m
The Rev; Lauritz Larsen, OF Brooklyn,
will speak.
ehearsal-WBshingtOn Community Or
chestra, Wilson Normal School. 7.5O D. m.
MeetlnG-The archaeolOgiC cal section Of
the Twentieth Century club, 2622 WoOdley
place northwest, : o. m.
Meeting-Thc Day Nursery Association
Ebbitt Hotel. 1880 a. IN.
I.cEra ra.-i--''L."ts Go. coIupauv OF sol
diers and other service .EcI, & -trIl Iraurn
7. NJ. G A, Eighteenth and @ strvJ;r
northwest pm. ChL=les LesteB RienSer
will direct.
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from his extravaganza l enjoy
working, / have not got that
shelved feeling l had so often
when | just stayed home and did
the family mending and played
cards, sometimes, in the afternoon.
By the way, ! get the family
mending done for 25 cents an
hour, and four hours work is
ample to keep them all neat and
respectable. MARGARET r.
GlOrles In Being a Turk.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Your correspondent who
signed hersef "Sally" and wrote
to your column a few evenings
ago, stated specifically that she
did not want to hear from men
of my type, which she desig-
mated as the Grand Turk" If
by being a Grand Turk" she
means one who disapproves of
the economic independence of
women, / glory in the title.
Her letter proves the stability
and correctness of my conten-
tion, that all women should be
home, instead of philandering
after professions, and in office.
! would 60 even further than
that-pd keep them out Of
churches, except for the pur-
poses of marriage and burial.
If a woman insists on work
ing what is to be expected but
that chivalry will perish from
men.
THE GRAND TURK.
Here speaks the true "mid-Vic-
tOrian," or perhaps we are doing
Victoria an injustice. The senti-
ments here expressed suggest the
Brunswick dynasty, in its earlier
stages of development, when the
great-grandfather, grandfather, and
uncles of Victoria furnished such
congenial material for Thackery in
his immortal. -Four Georges"
Victoria, herself. is accredited
with a sentiment similar to my
correspondents. She replied to
some one urging more liberal laws
for women: But Chivalry will
become extinct in men, Chivalry
is now pretty generally classified
with the dangerous cOnfections, it
upset our social digestion, if it did
nothing worse.
And what would the Grand
Turks solution be of the ten mil
lion women in industry, in this
country alone? How many is he
willing to support that they may
give up their jobs? We doubt his
Turkish claims; his sentiments
1uGgest Turkeys chief ally in the
Irtn unplp2 -Iu Co..
The Washington times., 1919-02-04
Here's Another.

Answer to Mr.. CORNELL'S lad
der problem: The width of the alley
is 80 feet S% inches. Any bright high
school boy should be able to obtain
an answer correct to within a few
inches, and the answer does not come
out even anyhow, even in quarter
inches. The answers recently given
are correct, though not so precise as
the one above; "a feet being correct
to the nearest foot, and S31a feet be-
ing correct to the nearest half-foot.
L. J, G..
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That Alley.

THOMAS CIRCLE gives the width
Of that alley as S3.7S117s6 feet,
which being interpreted is SS feet
8.774143 inches. He sends his work.
ing of the problem on a sheet and
half Of paper.
The Washington times., 1919-02-04

Do any Of your "Old boys" re-
member when the two brown stons
front houses were built on C street
between Third and Four-and-a-Half
streets by DR.. Frederic May?
When they were nearly finished
the boys Of the neighborhood playsd
follow my leader" through them,
and were led by Franek Taylor, and
in the gang were Theodore Davis,
Seth Todd, Sam Parker, Charley
Maury, Warren Choate and Others
One afternoon, just as Franck
Taylor jumped from one Of the front
frst-hoor windows, George Williams
threw q piece Of soft black cement
that struck Taylor square IN the
eye and blinded him for life.
Of these boys Taylor became Ad-
mtral Franek Taylor, Theodore
Davis became one Of the leading
artists Of civil war pictures on
Frank Leslie's staff, Seth Todd BE-
came q leading physician and presi-
dent Of the Arlington Fire Insur-
anee Company, George Williams was
raised by his uncle, Col. Lem VII
liams, who commanded the light in
fantry battalion, and a regiment IN
the evil war. Of an these not one
is living but Warren Choate, who
may be seen on our streets any day
PEA0Ep
The Washington times., 1919-02-04
HEARD AND SEEN
By EARL GOODWIN.

Starting the week right:
The furnace FIRE was nearly out
yesterday. but by a clever ruse
(making believe l didn't care at aIl)
| got it to going again. and then
having breakfasted, set out to the
work zone.
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And the fact that & ticket seller
refuses TO sell me seats on two trains
to Baltimore because he said the
Baltimore trains didn't take passen-
gers to Baltimore, I would submit Is
relevant to the fact that / appealed
to time table justice through my
friend BRICE CLAGGETT, who Is
now so high up in the Railroad Ad-
ministration that one has to take
balloon to catch him
The Washington times., 1919-02-04

CHARLES E. GIBSON, driver fcr
No. 3 truck Oath and Ohio avenue), 4,
was sailor, was at the battle Of
Santiago, and was also aboard No. 3
truck few years ago when it was
struck by taxicab and turned over
as the result Of bad and unavoId-
able skid. GIBSON was hurt at
that time, but went through the
The Washington times., 1919-02-04
Some More.

l beg E. H. F.'s pardon in regard
to the width of the alley.
33 feet ga inches is the correct
figure.
If you want the correct figure on
the height let me know.
z n
The Washington times., 1919-02-04

He sent a letter to the administra-
ton, OF which this is substantially a
copy:
"on August 1. 1918, ! placed an
order with a coal company for six
tons Of white ash stove coal at S1O.75
q ton, for which they demanded cash
over the counter before the order
would be considered. We sent check
Immediately so the order would be
nlled Somewhat to our surprise We
discovered in October when our fires
were first made that the coal CON
pany had not delivered the kind Of
coal we had ordered but in one lot
OF coal about four tons Of it mixed
heavily with soft coal, which cannot
be burned in our stoves
The Washington times., 1919-02-04

For two months past we have
tried to get an adjustment OF this
matter by having them take back
this coal and give US the kind we
paid for and are unable to get them
to do So"
The Washington times., 1919-02-04

Anything l love is originality, and
here are some original ideas in
spelling, picked up about Washing
ton:
A Fourteenth street shoe repair
shop, near Thomas Circle:
Whole Soles 80 Minuets
Half Soles 10 Minuets"
In a clothing store on Seventh
street.
Formally s25 Now $40"
In an H street shoe shine place.
Residential Shoe Shine Parlor."
Here is a batch from one grocery
store:
NOT OLIOMOEGERM."
"LEMB CHAPS"
"BREST LEMB."
"HOMDREST MEATS"
"FRSH LIVER"
The Washington times., 1919-02-04

OF course. being a newspaper man,
all / want is facts
The Washington times., 1919-02-04

E. A. FORSYTH, Of S573 Warden
street northwest, is one OF the few
people this winter who is having
trouble with his coal affairs, and, &C
cOrding to him, he cannot get the fuel
administration interested at all.
The Washington times., 1919-02-04

But BRO. WHEEL assures ne that
1 am misinformed- They DO take
passengers to Baltimore.
The Washington times., 1919-02-04

And after that I rushed into my
own little Office and tore open mail.
After a while a gentleman named
WHEEL, from the Railroad Ad-
ministration office, called me on the
telephone. He took me to task for
having said that the 1905 and the
$3.50 train to Baltimore do not carry
passengers to Baltimore.
"But when went to get tickets
to Baltimore" I told him, zone Of
your bright young men informed me
very solemnly that those two trains
are through trains and that / could
not purchase tickets on them if I
merely wanted to 60 to Baltim6re." "
And / stood there and drew lines
through the time table and the
young man said: "Yes, those two
trains oughtn't to be on the
schedule"
The Washington times., 1919-02-04

I hope the fuel administration viii
take an interest.
The Washington times., 1919-02-04

The District authorities might
take this matter up and save z
The Washington times., 1919-02-04

hope the fuel administration viii
take an interest.
Seven out of ten drivers seem to be
ignorant Of the fact that automobiles
should be driven to the far right al
circles, at not more than eight miles
an hour. At Scott Circle the other
night 1 heard a man tell the police
man there, who had warned him
about circle driving:
Il am a member of Congress, and
| will have you fred"
COL. WILLIAM OWEN, U. s. A,
retired. who made so great a success
with the mOtion-picture instruction
laboratory at the Army Medical Mu-
scum, is about to start a bureau for
educational mOving-picture work In
the Interior Department
WILLIAM BRIGHAM tells me that
many horses are falling down and
breaking their legs on hills made
slipnery by oil
"We could prevent this" says
Mr.. BRIGHAM, '5y putting sand
on the oil, but there is a District
regulation which prevents anyone
from putting anything on the
streets" -
The District authorities might
take this matter up and save q
The Washington times., 1919-02-04


En- route (via the Chevy Chase
line marked Potomac Park'') I over
heard one man saying to another:
Facts! Faetsl Facts! All these
newspaper men want is facts. They
don't seem to appreciate that facts
are not all there is to a situation" I"
mo, they don't understand that
what they want is relevant facts"
said his companion.
To which l thought to myself that
the only people who object to the
facts are those whom the facts hurt.
And those who never believe what
they read in the newspapers are
scarcely able to make any one be-
lieve them.
With these thoughts in mind, I
walked into a banking house and
there saw WILLIAM d. HOOVER
and his colleague FRANK STONE,
sitting behind an enormous pile Of
letters. And also z. PERCIVAL
WILSON from whom ! purchased
some Liberty bonds.
Thence to another banking house
where / saw COL. ROBERT N.
HARPER about Chamber Of Com
merce matters, he being my friend
and adviser on matters civic. Talked
to his coadjutor, HILLEARY OF
FUTT about the price Of GRAPHIC
phone stock, it being a security
which has recently risen in price, I
am told.
The Washington times., 1919-02-04

And those who never believe what
they read in the newspapers are
scarcely able to make any one be-
lieve them.