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The daily banner., 1919-07-29
VOTES REPEAL OF
ICE CREAM TAX
House Also Removes Levy on
Soda Water.
HOT TWO-HOUR DEBATE

Also Cuts the War Levy on Fruit
Juices Without Record Vote.
Partisan Politics Injected Into Dis
cussion. 80
Washington, July 29--After near
ly two hours debate and while the
temperature in the chamber was now
ering around the 100 mark, the house
voted to repeal the 10 per cent tax.
on soda water and ice cream.
The house also passed without q
record vote the bill for reduction OF
the war tax on fruit juices, as urged
by western producers. Members SAID
the tax, fixed at two cents gallon,
was q fiat reduction from twenty
eight cents, estimated. All amend.
ments were rejected from the Dill,
which applies to 'non-alcoholic beVer1
ages. including loganberry, grape and
apple juice.
Considerable partisan politics was
injected into the discussion and Rep
resentative Treadway, Republican,
Massachusetts, declared the argument
was the best evidence in the world
that the house acted wisely in voting
for recess.
There was sharp exchange be-,
tween Representative Moore, Pennsyl-
yania, and Emerson, Ohio, both Re-
publicans, when the latter asked leave
to extend his remarks. In objecting,
Mr.. Moore declared one reason why
the country got false impression OF
congress was through members seek
ing netoriety. He charged that Mr..
Emerson had introduced resolutions
on every conceivable subject which he
did not attempt to follow up after
they got into the record and the news
papers.
HE gets more bunk into the record
than anybody else," Mr.. Moore said,
land if the Democrats want him they
are welcome, as we would be glad to
exchange him."
Mr.. Emerson made sharp denial
of Representative Moore's charges.
Representative Kitchin, Democrat.
of North Carolina, made the principal
argument against repeal, and Repre-
sentative Longworth, Republican,
Ohio, was the chief speaker for it.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
FEW U. S. DEAD NAMELESS
22, 600 Americans in Cemetery at Ro
maune and $500 at Thiaucourt.

22,O 600 Americans in Cemetery at Ro
maane and $500 at Thiaucourt.
New York, July 29.--Less than one.
half of / per cent of the American
soldiers who died on the battleflelds
of France were buried unidentified.
according to Colonel Joseph S. Her.
ron, of Cincinnati, commander of the
$4,000 troops, who inferred the fallen
Americans, who returned here.
The men under Colonel Herron's
command removed the dead from the
graves dug for them under fire or at
night on the field where they fell and
laid them to rest in large concentra-
tion cemeteries.
The largest graveyard is at Ro-
mango, where $4,000 Americans who
died in the Argonne and Meuse sec
tors rest, and the next largest is at
Thiaucourt, where lie 1900 soldiers
who fought at st. Mihiel and Toul.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
PAYS MEXICAN BANDIT PRICE

American Ranchman Thus Saves Son
on Advice of carranza Government
Washington. July 29.-Acting upon
the advice of the Mexican government
John West Thompson, an American
ranchman living near Mexico City,
has paid the 1900 pesos ($75O) ran
some demanded by bandits for the re
lease of his fourteen-year-old son. The
state department was so advised.
The Mexican authorities said they
feared the bandits would murder the
boy unless they received the money.
Secretary Of State Lansing said the
Mexican foreign Office had agreed 10
refund the amount of the ransom and
TO take measures for the capture and
punishment of the bandits.
The kidnapping took place Thurs
day from Mexico City, and the boy
ras released on Friday.
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csr,,an markets Opened 70 america.

Coblenz, July 29.-Army headquar-
ters gave permission for five Ameri-
can commercial travellers to proceed
through the Coblenz bFidgehead on
business in the interior Of Germany.
Opportunity for the reopenipg Of
trade relations between the. United
States. and Germany was thus def
nitely afforded, allowing American
firms to compete with European
houses In the German markets.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
CAMBRIDGE WITNESSES
The Names of Cambridge Persons
Familiar To All.
Who are the witnesses?
They are Cambridge peopIe-


They are Cambridge people
Residents of Cambridge who have
had kidney backache, kidney ills,
bladder ills; who hay eused Doan's
Kidney Pills. These witnesses en-
dorse Doan's.
One Cambridge resident who
speaks is J. A. Hastings, miller, Ill
Muir st. He says: "I was in a bad
way with the rundown condition OF
my kidneys. My back panied consid-
erably whenever stopped and sharp,
shooting pains caught me in the
small of my back, making me feel
miserable. The kidney secretions
were scanty and painful in passage,
too. After using two boxes of Doan's
Kidney Pills, had no further kid
ney trouble. 1 generally keep them
on hand. however, in case 1 should
need them"
Price soc. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Hastings had. Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.-Adv.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
Doing GOOD.

Few medicines have met with more
favor or accomplished more good
than Chamberlain's Collie and Diar-
rhoea Remedy. John F. Jantzen'
Delmeny, Sask., says Of it, II have
used ChamberIain's Collie and D1ar-
rhoea Remedy myself and in my
family, and can recommend it as be-
ing an exceptionally fine prepara-
ton, ,"-Adv.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
Boy browns Trying to Swim Dam.

York, Pa, July 29.-Becoming ex-
nausted in an attempt to swim across
Bupp's dam, located short distance
south of this city, Leo Thomas Lock
nan, nineteen, an adopted son of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Shenberger, was
drowned. The body was recovered
after it had been in the water more
than an hour and half, too. late for
any effort at resusciation.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
Turks Routed: Lose 800.

London, July 29.-FIfteen hundred
dead and wounded Turks were left on
the field after two clashes with Greek
patrols near Messina and Alden 10
Asia Minor, said an Exchange Te.e
graph company despatch from Athens.
Greek reinforeements were rushed up
when the fighting began.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
NEGROES CHEER RIOT PLEA
"stop White Man From Treadinu or
Our Toes" AppIanded.

Our Toes" AppIanded.
New York, July 29.-Nearly 1000
negroes shouted their approval when
various speakers addressing a meet.
ing under auspices of the Equal
Rights League, urged the adoption of
radfcalism among negroes as a means
of obtaining their, rights
One speaker suggested following
the constructive work done by blacks
in Washington" while<others advised
"using all methods, even force" and
making radicalism the essence of our
propaganda" and stopping the white
man treading on our toes"
The meeting was a welcome"
home to Milliam Monroe Trotter. of
Boston, who recently returned from
Paris after an attempt to present TO
the peace conference a petition con.
sArQing the negro race.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
clothes rIed, RarreI Saver Him.

Phoenixville, Pa, July 29s-When
Paul Emery, of Phueniwille, finished
swimming in the Schuylkill canal and
went for his clothes he found them
so tightly "chewed" that he had to
walk a mile TO the home of friend
holding barrel around him. There
aR obtained clothes.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
chile out to cut Eood Prices

Santiago, Chile, July 29.-Measures
recently adopted to prevent increases
in the price OF food stuffs and other
so-called problems are attracting
much attention from public officials.
One of the. proposed measures dis
cussed is the taxation Of corporation
war nrofits.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
Cause of Dependency,

Dependency is often caused by
indigestion and constipation, and
quickly disappears when Chamber
lain's Tablets are taken. These tab
let's strengthen the digestion ana
move the bowels.-Adv.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
By EDWARD .. CLARK.

BY EDWARD y. CLARK. b
Washington.-This is .shiftingsthe-
responsibility time in Washingtoa.s
Shifting responsibility, as probably
every American knows, even II his
pursuits keep him at distance from
the slang of the streets, is otherwise
called passing the buck"
There neveraMasa war In our his
tory which did notrhayeo its aftermath
of buck passing. The bigger the war
the greater the passing" pastime.
Washington is witnessing the game
at its height In these bleaching hot
days of summer.
Congress today, through some Of Itsi
committees, is trying tOsfind out why
we were not prepared for the wa-.s
Congress, however, has perfect CON-
prehension today of why we were not
prepared for the. war. It knows that
it did not sanction appropriations Of
money in sdfffcient sums % make read
iness for war possible, and yet r0day
the lawmakers are spending time and
strength in searching for cause
which they can fnd under their own
desks or In the wastebaskets of their
committee rooms.
The cause Of our lack OF pt6para-
ton was the lack OF money to make
preparation possible. Tits perfectly
legitimate for congress TO shift the
responsibility, but as those who know
how things have gone look on the sub
ject, congress is shifting the respon-
sibility onto shoulders where It does
not belong. The responsibility Is not
on congress. because the people did
not want congress to make the appro-
priations necessary for thorough pre-
paredness. Congress was obeying the
will of the. voters of the country and
to them the buck should be passed.
Rather 1neenslstent.
However this is not the way .ey
are doing things in congress- To-Day
1t seems to be the feeling that csrsf
tain chiefs in the war and navy de-
partmentss should have been able at
the first sound of the alarm drum to
have produced ships cannon, rides,
airplanes, shelf, hand grenades, and
all the other things necessary 10 carry
on hostilities at top bent. +
Recently congress has been sInsesti-
eating the why's ana the nwhefefores
Of the lack Of preparedness. 1t wants
to know. for instance, why MAI Gen.
William Crozier. who was chief Of
ordnance at the outDreaK OF nostlnties'
did not have at hand rides, artillery,
machine guns and general munitions
of warfare IN stffcfent ouahtities to.
blow the Hun on the face OF thsl
earth. q
There is some fun to be found IN the
situation, because congress knows that
all it has to- do Is to turn TO the
records to md that General CrOzier
had been hammering away Ior ysArs
at the lawmakers urginS that money
enough be granted TO enabis Tns ord
nance department to supply ths things
for which the people were eertain to
clamor the instant that war unhap-
PLY. might come.
What is true of the ordnance de-
partment is just as true of several Of
the other departments Of Eoyaf1ment.
The CHIEFS of these departments
through the years were askings OF each
congress that money be- gtHsnste put
their branches Of the eeryieee upon .
footing which would make them really
~ 80. af,>y. ahnr4d
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
Dry Issue in philippines.

Manila. July 29.-The council of
state has memorialized the United
States congress to permit the Filipino
people to decide for themselves the
question of prohibition. The acting
eernnr Yeater, announced that pro-
hihi'i5n for the Philippine Islands
wcTi'a be considered in message he
will send to the special session of
the legislature. Filipino sentiment
towoFd prohibition is regarded gener-
ally hostile.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
FORCE DOWN PRICE OF FOOD
Havre Trade Unions Compel Produc
ers to Slash Market Eidurea.

ers to Slash Market Figures.
Havre, July 29.-Ofncials Of the
Federated Trades unions went to the
wholesale market and obliged the
producers to sell them a quantity of
foodstuffs at prices varying frfom s
to Is per cent under the average mar.
ket price. f5
They then took the foodstuffs to
one of the public market places,
where they were sold at cost price.
In the excitement arising from the
operation a crowd partially plllaged
a farm cart laden with produce and
bakers store.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
Chamberla1n's Collie and Diar4hoea
Remedy.

Noy is the time to buy a bottle of
this remedy SO as to be prepared in
case that any one of your family
should have an attack of collie or
diarrhoea during the sumner mon
this. It is worth hundred times its
cost when needed.-Adv.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
GOLD MEDAL.
nkRlE EM on

The national remedy of Holland for over
200 years; it is an enemy of all pains re-
sulting frcnn kidney, liver and uric acid
troubles. All druggists, three sizes.
Lsok for the nasle Gold Medal On every box
and accept no limitation
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
Rlease 10 be conuress candIdate.

Columbia, S. c., July 29.-Cole I.
former governor, announced
he would be d candidate for congress
at the forthcoming genera election.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
The Weather.

Forecast for this section: Fair TO-
day and tomorrow westerly winds.
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
BETTER
DEAD

Life is burden when the body
is racked with pain. Everything
worries and the victim becomes
despondent and downhearted. To
bring back the sunshine take
The daily banner., 1919-07-29
BucKRlsSIAG|s IS
NOW eREATeAhE
WASHINGTON is WITNESSING
PAsTIME AT ITS HEIGHT
THESE suRNIN0EpAYs.
CONGRESS DIGS INTO WAR ii

Trying to Find out Why We Were Net
Prspared-The People, Not Con-
sress, Really to BIarne-c SnSrsss.
obeyed viii Of voters.
The Caldwell tribune., 1919-08-22

the money to do the work is the adop-
ton of business like scheme of road
preservation. No county in Idaho has
been so prodigal in spending money
for roads and few counties are more
poorly equipped. Ada county roads,
leading as they do to the capital, are
daily the inspiration of much criticism
and unfavorable comment. And it is to
those tourists who condemn southern
Idaho roads to whom Boise Valley
has been extending invitations through
various advertisements to become fu-
ture residents of this section.
Canyon county roads are nothing
now of which to be proud but this
county at least has something which
most others sorely lack. That is a
definite policy of road improvement
with centralized head. District road
supervisors, each having jurisdiction
over a small area of any county, have
proven totally inefficient and decided
ly expensive. 1t is that time worn
method of highway improvement
which is today keeping Ada county in
the rut which it occupies. Nothing
can be more pitiful than the fact that
Idaho's richest county is being
exhorted to keep its road program
abreast of other less favored coun-
ties. Until Ada county radically re-
vises the present method of handling
road funds, no amount of bonds will
provide good roads.
Most sections of this country are
new and urgently need road improve
ment. Without cent of bonded in
debtedness for roads and with a COM
prehensive plan for highway better
ment that is yearly working toward a
certain definite goal of all graded and
gravelled roads, Canyon county has
roads no worse certainly than Ada
county's upon which millions have
been spent.
The Caldwell tribune., 1919-08-22

quest accompanies the contribution to
that effect. But, of course, we must
always know from whom the COM
munication comes.
Have you ever experienced the thrill
of writing something and then seeing
it in print with the knowledge that
two thousand other readers see it and
read it? Try it once, remembering
that upon the things you say is public
opinion based.
While perhaps the greatest interest
will be manifested in purely local
problems, if you believe that President
Wilson or Governor Davis should dc
other than they are now doing, let us
give the world the benefit of your
ideas. Perhaps you think we SHOULD
invade Mexico, perhaps you have some
suggestions to aid the high cost o.
living problems, perhaps you have &
novel idea pertaining to the labor sit
uation. Perhaps your idea is SOUND
but it will never mature if you alone
know it. Tell us and let it become
something for people to think about
The Caldwell tribune., 1919-08-22
PERISHABLE POTATOES.

There was something fine in the
efficient methods employed and result ;
obtained by Governor Davis last week
when he convinced Washington rail
road administration officials and the
bureau of markets that potatoes shoul
be just regarded as perisiiable prod
ucts and entitled to the same consider
alton accorded deciduous fruits. Gov
ernor Davis utilized every agency a.
his command to relieve the tense 81,
ustion confronting Canyon county po.
tato growers whose losses, had not
the embargo been lifted, would have
run well toward one million dollars.
Just why the railroad administration
should have been so poorly informed
of the exact conditions confronted BY
producers can only be surmised.
Every conceivable effort had been
msde, beginning early last spring, 10
aequaint them with the transportatio ,
needs to handle the crop. 1t seems II
be nothing more than another of the
unforgivable blunders credited to fed
erai control of American railway,
That the position taken by the rail.
road administration was arbitrar y
and unwarranted is giving too mu.,
credit. And the bureau of markets
certainly deserved the rebuke whic'l
Governor Davis rendered when he in.
formed that department that "your
The Caldwell tribune., 1919-08-22
HOW IT DOES SOUNDl

One of the aspects of the present
initiation in the United States is defi-
nitely full of danger in the future.
No one can travel much in the west
and middle west without observing
that those sections are in the opening
stages of a spectacular land secula-
ton. Land speculation is always the
last phase of a cycle of initiation.
There have been several land booms
in the west since the civil war, and
they have always been followed by a
period of economic prostration and
political heresy. In many middle west
counties just now farms are being
sold at twice what the owners would
have regarded fair price three years
ago. The present prices seem to be
justified by the present prices Of farm
products. But the present prices of
farm products are not going to con-
tinue.
The old lineup between the debtor
and the creditor class will be dupli-
Gated once more. 1t was just such a
situation that gave rise to the Green
back Movement; to Populism, and to
Bryan. 1t will happen again.-Col-
1iers
The Caldwell tribune., 1919-08-22
DOING BUSINESS.

Efforts of the federal government
to combat the high cost of living be-
came evident here early in the week
when Postmaster James Ford re-
ceived instructions relative to dispos-
ing through the medium of the postal
service such quantities of the army
surplus which has been allotted locally
for distribution. While this sale will
surely have no effect on current pro-
cess for groceries because of the limit
ed amount available for distribution,
the action of ahe government in
throwing those stocks of food on the
market has heightened considerably
the belief that Uncle Sam may be able
to do something of consequence in re-
moving the prohibitive prices from
many essential commodities.
Prices quoted by the government
are considerably lower than those
asked by local grocery stores. But
that is no reflection on local men or
the condition of business as it is now
found to exist here. Supplies being
disposed of by the government were
bought some time ago at the cheaper
prices Prevailing then and in such
large quantities that considerable
discount was allowed. Piecemea
buying has no place in army, curricu.
lum.
Perhaps the most outstanding fea
ture of the weeks development in the
federal inquiry into causes for higf
living costs is the revelation tina
boarding, where discovered, ha,
largely been at the instigation of mel
of small financial means who invested
heavily in food stuffs. While no sin
gle individual can make an appreciabl
difference in the amount of food ma
terials on the market, large numbe
of them would have marked effect
And it appears that the pastime o
utilizing essentials to human happi
ness for speculative purposes is rathe
wide spread in large centers of popu
lation. The government will do righ
if they will throw such boarded food
on the open market. Men who gambl
in such commodities are entitled t
: little consideration.
The Caldwell tribune., 1919-08-22
BAND CONCERT ETIQUETTE

That Caldwell has splendid band
is attested by the continually increas-
ing crowds which attend the weekly
concerts at Memorial park. Popular
ity of the city playground and really
high class music is an attraction of
unusual quality and which is freely
patronized, is an attraction to lovers
of enjoyable outdoor music.
But in the matter of etiquette, those
who come to listen to splendid con-
certs unwillingly share chagrin and
discomfort with the band members
and director when uncalled for inter-
ruptions of the concert are INDUCED
in by passing motorists and crowd OF
noisy scampering children who utilize
the Commercial club floor during con-
certs for a tom tom and who yell and
shrek at the top of their lusty voices
while the band is endeavoring to en-
tertain those who came to listen to
music and not to discordant, maudlin
uproars.
A Ford has its uses. But certainly
stopping long enough to rubber and
then suffering away with all the
racket that a Ford is capable of pro-
ducing when getting under headway
cannot be construed as use. Explod.
ing gasoline somehow does not har.
monize with Spanish serenade.
We are liberty loving people. Nc
one desires to curtail privileges ant
the band is no exception. They be
lieve that when the fact is pointed ou
to the people that ribald discord ha!
no place at a concert and charivarie
are for the night air only, those whc
do not care to listen will be consider
ate of those who do. Caldwell's banc
is one of the prides of the city. lie
US keep it so by showing the courtes.
it deserves.
The Caldwell tribune., 1919-08-22
COMING HOME.

Samuel Gompers, one of those
Americans occupying position of
public responsibility who believed
world peace required their supervis-
ion, has determined to return to the
United States. He expressed belief
that labor conditions in this country
were of more consequence than 4
study at first hand of European
wrangles.
Good for Mr.. Gompers! If there is
anything more vital to the welfare
of America today than closest applica
ton to the duty of solving domestic
labor controversies we are not aware
of it. Threatened nationwide strike:
are postponed, put off and pushed
aside But the problem OF something
approaching permanent adjustment
becomes more and more ominous. We
need Mr.. Gompers and every other
sane leader upon whom labor relies
And we believe they will find a man
sized job dead ahead.
The Caldwell tribune., 1919-08-22

arbitrary stand indicates astonishing
ignorance of the situation"
Persons familiar with the situation
here need not be informed that po-
tatoes, artificially matured for early
markets, are just as perishable as any
fruits. And certainly they are more
essential to human livelihood. That
such an organization as the federal
bureau of markets should have taken
the stand that potatoes can properly
be shipped in box cars, is almost in
conceivable with all the information
which that department can have mere
ly for asking.
The Caldwell tribune., 1919-08-22
SUBSCRIBERS COLUMN.

Caldwell is growing, thriving city
Because of this, there are many things
which are needed, many things which
should be given precedence and taken
cognizance of when plans are elabor.
ated for successive Improvements
Other things, perhaps, are not as they
should be, Someone tells someone
else that something is wrong. The
Someone is a knocker but perhaps he
has a creditable reason for being so
Earth is no Eden and Caldwell surely
is only small part of this sphere
much like the rest, no worse and little
better. What we need is good, honest
constructive criticism. This column
will become a medium OF such criti-
cism.
In your opinion. Caldwell may have
just one crying need. You have
thought about it often and have fire.
quently believed that you would begir
a campaign to obtain that need. Fol
some reason YOU never have. This i:
your opportunity. Tell the worlt
through the medium Of this depart
ment. The Tribune will gladly pub
lish anything that comes to us which i
sincere and not libelous. No contri
butors name will be used when a re