American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1919-02-28
A PLAGUE OF PANACEAS.
(From Saturday Evening post)

(From Saturday Evening PosD
A new craze is sweeping over the
country-as silly. as pestilential as
the dancing madness that seized the
world Just before the war. Every
body wants TO reform everybody else
and settle everything that Is wrong
with anything Our mails are choked
with impassioned letters. our waste
baskets are cverflowing with
thoughtful" pamphlets--all touting
panaceas.
Everything. from pap to dynamite,
Is being recommended for what ails
the world and the other fellow.
Every method of relieving him of his
pocketbook- for that is always the
seat Of the other fellows disease
is being advocated. Some favor
choking han with taxes as an easy
cure: others. treating him with a
piece of lead pipe as being quicker
and more merciful, Some pear
! headed professors and members of
/ the allied trades Of mental shut-ins
are working In shifts turning out
! their celebrated Socialist Soothing
| Syrup, guaranteeing to cure finan-
cial corpulence and the black curse
of the bourgeois home life. Bright
! young men who make a living shaking
up bright young thoughts In bright
young papers are offering their
snappy-tasting Bolsheyik Sarsaparilla
| for those duh world aches One
group Of ladies Is brewing over bond
| fires cure-all for everything, while
another group denies that there Is
any efficacy i'm that medicine and
wants TO cheer up the plain old prob
lens by running them with baby rib
bon.
This is the greatest era of pap,
piffle and poison the world has ever
seen The old family doctor hasn't
a chance; nobody but a quack can
prescribe nowadays. But sensible
people learned long ago that there is
no health I'm the nostrum, no way TO
sound body except through living
saney. simple exercise and hard
work Throw the bottles out of the
window--it won't hurt if you throw
out few quacks with them-and
let's all go back to work
Meantime, young Professor THIS
and old Doctor THAT should not be
allowed 10 offer. as safe and pleasant
| lbutHt fOllDOuiiuh illdl sItdif ~ Nv
praved appetite In credulous takers
And one can always know that the
habit for the stuff has been formed
when the patient begins TO babblt
about "the revolution"
The final aim OF every revolution
the only lasting result that can bs
gained from one--is the ballot. II
, Americans have not the simple, com
mon sense TO use IL wisely and tc
[ elect honest leaders who will past
| honest laws-not for one class bu
, for all classes how can they expec
. anything good to come from the self
. elected leaders who selfishly seiZ'
= power for themselves and small
I group OF followers?
The answer Is that the men VIII
I advocate the sort of practical Bol
= shevism that Is at work In Russii
} today. and they are almost all un
! naturalized foreigners, do not wan
= honest leaders or honest laWs-the.
want TO loot Anything except mi
4 racles that the majority wants II cal
e have at the next election. But lie
e none imagine that the old, simple
/ fundamental laws OF life and healtl
0 can be repealed. even at the polls.
- G. w. Dahlberg returned late las
L week from a business trip TO Spo
4 kane Mr.. Dahlberg expects 10 re
!. main in this city and will engage 4
: selling granaries, water tanks an
2 silos for the Weyerhseuser Timbe
s Company.
When Soldiers May Swear.
& Thou shalt not swear unless unde
a extraordinary circumstances. An
Il extraordinary circumstances" ca
n be defined as moving your tent In th
middle of the night under a down
d pour of rain, seeing your conrad
e shot. or getting coal oil In your te'
e Some Of these things are visualize
D. In Private Peat" which will
2 shown at the Irene Thester ne1
'e Sunday.