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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-04

Sixty per cent of the work on ship
is constituting the hull and the re-
naming 40 per cent is in installing
mechanical parts, deck furnishings
and other equipment that goes to
make the finished vessel
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-04


winter climate. It must be borne in
mind that there is only a difference OF
two degrees in the average mean tenn
perature between Boise and Los An
geIes. but the one great thing that
California has done which surpasses
all else by way of. attracting tourists
is the construction of good roads. The
universal use of the automobile has
increased the value and Importance of
good roads.
Boise and Boise valley can have
good roads lust the same as Califor-
mia if we will only show the same
spirit of progress. 1t does not cost SO
much more to build good roads in
Idaho than II does in California, Boise
has wonderful opportunities to capital
iZe her natural resources by means of
the construction of good roads. In
most places. good roads are construct
ed only for their commercial value
but Boise has an opportunity, by rea-
son of location, to build good roads
which will answer the same purpose
and will benefit our city in the same
proportion that good roads have ben
Gifted the metropolis of southern Cali
! Appow pock pAM
w. ,,ara 49, On ,,i,os fro,,, po,so
a., ,root attraction, IN tho Arrovrocl,
dam peonIa will travail hundreds of
miles to SOC tho ,nnsual tho evcen-
tior,1 hut tho nresent road to Arrow :
rocl,' dow sbou1a ba i,nroyoa II
.hou,d ho made bou,evard Tbere
,re MANY avonues leading ou+ of Roise
direotlv into tho mountains
one drive that can he acoomn,isboa
lin about ono hour &c ~, Cottopwood
conyo, on Tho VOID 80 Td.ho CUE,
Tbis ia very ,nterest;rg sbor+ +rir
and when yo,, arrive AT The sunn,it
about 10 r;Ies dist,n+ +ba noporon,s
~ deem wooded c,nyons and Ioft,,
mountain neal,s CANNED With snow ~
no+bing Iess tban noarva,ous ond os
tho paze 10 direoted in tho onnosito
dirocttor ~. oit,, of poica AZ
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-04
COSTLY APARTMENT HOUSE WILL
BE BUILT EIGHTH AND STATE
BOISE, CITY OF HOMES

CONTINUED from Page One.)
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

appears, especially on the witness
stand.
please, please, please, madam
begged lawyer the other day, de-
Tending a client against an indig-
nant woman complainant, "please
let me talk. aside to the Judge,
with deep feeling) l have exactly
the same trouble at home"
1t was after another fast talker
took the stand that the court stenog-
rapher was seen to throw an ap-
pealing glance at the bench.
your honor" she cried, "the
officer said was going twenty
eight miles, but didn't you lust hear
me contradict him?
"And when he served the sum-
mons he insulted me, too. He said
to my husband, You fellows forget
all about speed laws when YOU get
chicken in your car, don't you?'"
The worst offenders, according
to Justice Doyle, are the "one-day-
a-week" drivers, out on Sunday to
make the most Of their time. Women
drivers offend less rarely, but when
they do speed, look out!
Taxi drivers have a bad name.
but owing to their skill they prob
ably do not offend proportionately
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
Eye to
Others Rights

After Justice Fred B. House had
lectured a man the other day on the
rights of other people to the road
the defendant spoke up:
That's just the way l feel,
judge" he said. $50 | hit it up be-
cause l didn't want to use the road
too long"
Then there was an old Dutchman
with a 1912 model Cadillac.
Judge" he said, "every time I
take this car out it breaks down. in
variably SO I speeded her up that
tlme so as to get as far as l could
before she broke down"
The "old stuff decidedly does
not go. If you "didn't realize how
fast you were going" or are Ger
tain the old bus can't make TWENTY
SIX or were trying to make a
train,' reach "sick friend" or
squirting little" to pass another
car, save your breath.
IL found an absolutely new ex-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

cuse the other day that went we'll
until everybody got to giving it,
said Magistrate Doyle. Judge. ,
they would say, my exhilarator got
caught -
AS matter Of fact, according to
officials at the traffic court. practi-
cally no one who attempts to escape
fine by putting up an excuse tells
the truth. This is a sad but true
statement, borne out by many ex-
amples.
There was a soldier a short time
back, with overseas chevrons and
wound stripes, who said he had not
yet got over the habit of speeding
developed while driving a truck in
France. Because of his uniform and
wound stripes the judge postponed
Judgment and quietly investigated
his story.
At the mans temperance in
court guard from the provost mar
shal's office was present. Then it
was publicly announced that the man
had never been a soldier and had
never seen France. Before the court
his chevrons and wound stripes and
other insignia were stripped from
him, and for good measure he got
thirty days in Jail.
Traffic court officials cite another
abuse of the United States uniform
IN that about rs per cent of former
army men, if caught speeding in
civilian clothes, will appear in court
for trial wearing their uniforms.
A doctor from The Bronx. re-
tanned by a lodge as lodge prac-
tltloner, stated that he was speed
ing to the bedside of very old man
who was critically i'll. Investiga-
ton not only showed that the old
man had sent repeatedly for the
doctor before the visit was finally
made, but the physician had
charged So fee for services
already covered by his lodge re-
tainer.
Things always brighten up In
court when woman defendant
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

out of the gutter after a magnih
cent dive over the handlebars.
On the other hand there are tales
of "lazy" cops who, after loafng
all day, set out in an hour to make
up for lost time. Preference is
then shown the wone driver" Who
with no witness to verify his speed
ometer reading, stands little chance
against the policeman's sworn test
mony and daily-tested speedometef
Verify, there are fine points to the
speeding game.
The "ever increasing menace o.
the city streets" Will have to be
fought by sterner measures, accord
ing to traffic court officials. 1t
their observation that fines do no'
deter and that revoking a hcenss
for six months does not cure speeu
They wish that New
York, instead of reyoking onis
twenty-one licenses last year, hsu
equalled Massachusetts total o.
$500.
Traffic court officials suggest tns'
violations and accidents could DC
decreased by some OF 'ns
following measures:
More traffic police.
More and longer Jail sentences
Permanent revocation OF licenses
Army tests for operators licenses
Higher fines -
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

more than the ordinary driver.
According to another witness
tnere are three stages of driving.
FIRST, one is very careful and awk-
ward. Then comes the speed craze.
resulting in fines, accidents and
often death. Surviving this, one
graduates into the class of careful
drivers.
AS to children: "It would be far
safer to give children a New York
Central timetable and tell them to
play on the railroad tracks," saws
Justice Doyle, than to let them
play in the streets of New York"
Strict justice to all offenders
alike has ended the day when traffic
court justices were being "called
to the phone" by a good friend
of some one for speeding. The fol-
lowing conversation overheard the
other day tells why:
Hello. Yes, this is Justice So
and-So.
Flows that? Come spend the
week end with you in the country?
What was the speed?"
The motorcycle policeman like
wise has his troubles. Temptation
is always at hand in the form of
bribes to overlook speeding. He is
liable to serious injury on slippery
pavements. Or while he is making
an arrest, an even worse speeder.
seeing the cop occupied, will
squirt by, whereat the arrested one
inquiries in no gentle terms, "Why
don't you get that fellow?"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

There are plenty of restaurants in
New York with plate glass windows
emblazoned with the three Yiddish
letters meaning kosher. One unac-
quainted with Yiddsh probably trans
lates the symbols T w D, leaving
mental blank of the right half of the
top of the t and Of the vertc cal line of
the D. To the undiscriminating, that
sign means that the food within may be
eaten with assurance that it is cooked
as the tradition of the race prescrbes.
The really orthodox Jew, however,
goes to Trotzky's, the one place in
New York where every nicely of the
kosher code is respected, where "The
Guide of Judaism is followed in all
its minute laws about food.
Who more orthodox than an ortho-
doX rabbi Does rabbi trust the
average restaurant that faunts T w
D sign? 1t is at Trotzky's, and Trotz-
ky's alone, where the orthodox rabbi
takes his meals with the assurance
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

1t is court where home-brewed
legal defence fails unless it is high
ly original. If the defendant fights
his case or makes excuses, the court
listens respectfully; but, as one at
tendant remarked the other day,
"about four in $4,000 get any
where"
For one thing, speeders cannot
stand for the gaff of the courts
cross examination or ridicule.
Been driving seventeen years and
never been here before?" asked "Dol-
lar-a-Mile" Justice Thomas Doyle
the other day. "You've been lucky.
Twenty-Five dollars.'
"You say you had your eye on the
speedometer all the time, and that
it registered only fifteen miles? And
then you say you were all this time
driving in heavy traffic. Without
looking what you were about? Thir-
ty dollars or three days.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

desk looks you over. 1t is Trotzky
himself.
ANY relation to Leon, the Red ?''
you are sure to inquire.
And the tall, black-hatted man re-
plies with emotion to that inevitable
query:
"Bah that fellow, his name isn't
Trotzky. His name is Bronstein.
When he lived in New York in the
winter Of 1917 he used to come here
to eat. He liked my kosher dishes.
He came often. He found that I was
honest and respected. Everybody
knows that I am to be depended on.
Ask any orthodox Jew about me.
They all know me and trust me. This
Bronstein knows he is not trusted.
But he wants to be respected. So
ne borrows my respectability He
takes my name. Bronstein calls him
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

self Trotzky. What shall | do {?
Change my name every time, some one
takes mine? Bolshevik, bah! Is an
orthodox Jew Bolshevik? What
shall l do 2"
dilemma, indeed. For seven years
Hyman Trotzky has been serving
kosher dinners at the Broadway Cen
trail Hotel. There is no sign on the
street to announce him. Only a small
notice in the hotel lobby tells of the res
taurant above. But from II to daily
(expect Saturday, of course) the room
on the second floor back is crowded
with Jews and Gentiles who have
learned where to get good dinner for
85 cents.
If you can cook a better kosher din
ner than your neighbor, as Emerson
did not say, the world will make
beaten pathway to your dining room
In the estimation Of orthodox Jews,
Trotzky cooks the best kosher dinner
in America.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
By Herbert Flint

N HERE is a courtroom in the
old Mulberry Street police
IL station that testifes to the
truisims that humanity's
faults tend to change only in kind
not quantity; that the refining in
nuences OF civilization at best work
but slowly; that human natur"
does not change.
"nere once the murderer and
the thief skunk to face their ac
eusers, where the Bowery drunk
sagged on his bench and the street
woman raised her sin-scarred face
a new type of defendant now holds
forth An old courtroom in the
ancient rookery, made dignifed and
respectable, now houses New York's
tnree-year-old traffic court, where
modern misdemeanor, borne with q
smile and expunged with a bank
note proclaims the growing re-
spectability Of the human race.
AT any rate, however you decide
rnetorically. there you will find the
'raific court--a judgment seat Of
.ne new order Of things: special
'zed' democratized, dignified.
1t ~ democratic because the rich.
est oHender, man or woman, in fus
or silks, must answer there for
onences against the automobile
traffic rules Of the city from a seat
next 10 the grocery clerk and the
taxi driver.
1t IL specialized because the old
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
that his food is as it should be.

that his food is as it should be.
Each year the Union Of Orthodox
Rabbls of the United States and Cana
da convenes. There are thousand
places in North America where these
rabbls might gather. Each year thew
meet in New York at the Broadway
Central Hotel. Why? Trotzky's.
The rabbis know Trotzky. For six
teen years they have been meeting an
nually at his restaurant. No spies
are needed in his kitchen. They know
that every chicken has been prepared
by schoclect or ritual slaughterer.
They know that the beef has passed
every test. They know that the food
is healthful, clean and fresh.
Some afternoons inspectors come
from the Department of Health to look
at my Kitchen" Trotzky explains with
grin. They look in my iceboxes.
They ask where my food is. l tell
them to come back tomorrow morn
ing before dinner"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

Years before the manager Of "A.
Broadway Central Hotel discover,a
in him an asset. Trotzky had littl.
kosher restaurant on a side street al
Broadway Once q year the rabbi,
came there to eat and discuss the prob.
lem of orthodox Jewry. They saw ii,
children grow to manhood.
This month the rabbis returned u
find that Trotzky's three sons had eon.
off to war. But one of them. Benis.
man, who had gone overseas and fought
in the Argonne, burst in on the sol.
emn gathering the day the 77th d.
vision paraded. The rabbis, who knew
the khaki-clad sergeant as a child,
forgot the order of business to gree.
him. The convention became rs.
ception to the son of Hyman Trotzky.
To orthodox Jews Trotzky is a sym.
Dol of honesty. Perhaps Leon Bron.
stein, himself Jew, though scarcely
orthodox, was impressed by that name.
Hyman Trotzky, who had the name
first, insists that such is the case.
AS the man who was destined to BE-
come Bolshevik Minister of War used
to go over to Third street and Brosi-
way from the office of the "Movy Mir"
the radical newspaper which paid him
S15 week, perhaps he wished he we're
as respected as the restaurant keeper
who took his money at the doo-
Bronstein, radical, envied Trotzky
conservative. Guest coveted his hostt
integrity. The man from Vyse Avenue,
the Bronx, longed to have it said d
him:
There goes Trotzky, an honest
man"
And SO when he left New York. IN
May, 1917, to return to Russia, he
clothed himself with integrity by the
well known Bolshevist principle Of ID
suing this fat:
81 am Trotzky."
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
deaths by auto accidents down to
around 600 year.
Procedure
Snappy

AS might be expected, the pro-
cedure in a court like this, with over
1000 cases g month, is snappy. Only
enough formality is INDUCED in to
make legal record. The red-haired
clerk calls out name, reads the
complaint, asks the defendant if he
wishes an interpreter or de-
sires to call a lawyer and
witnesses and whether he :
wishes to plead guilty or not =
guilty-just like that.
Guilty.
"How fast was he going?" asked
the judge of the motorcycle police
man who made the arrest.
"Thirty-fve miles an hour, your
honor"
"How far did you time him."
"Four blocks"
"Thirty-five dollars, or three days.
Next case"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
C> "Exhaust" Days Skid in the Traffic Count

court, where murderers and the
mildest sort of juvenile offenders
were once herded together, is a
thing of the past.
And it is dignifed because it
represents wealth. The traffic
court, be it known, has "class."
You have to own an automobile
or be trusted with one-to be in
danger of entering this room
Where They "Pay
With a Smile"
So it is also a genteel court.
From its spacious windows to it's
neat hardwood court fixtures it
proclaims the "middle class" One
can send his wife or daughter there
for justice without fearing they will
be in any way insulted. It's attend
ants are gentlemanly. The judge,
despite his bristling air when hand
ing out fines, looks and is pleasant.
Motorcycle policemen with neatly
brushed hair and swank military
looking uniforms smooth the way
to the clerk who receives the fines.
1t is no flattery to say that it is a
nice court.
Perhaps this explains why, first
OF all, the traffic court is known as
a place where "they grin as they
pay it." twenty-five dollars fer
twenty-six miles an hour? With
pleasure, your honor. They dig
down, pay it, grin and depart. For
they come expecting to pay, often
knowing beforehand what it will
cost them, even to dollar.
Some $4,000 such persons, in the
course of year, pay the state over
S25O,OOO in fines as the result of
the work Of some 805 traffic police.
mounted, on foot and on motor.
cycles, in greater New York. These
men watch more than 14O, 900 motor
vehicles on $500 miles Of streets in
5ob square miles of city territory
with $4,000 street Intersections. An
otner dash of statistics and you have
the whole story; They keep tho
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
M aking Up For
Lost Time

Or the "cop" may be pursuing a
WHY customer, to see the fugitive
suddenly turn onto a dirt road.
Unless the "cop" stops voluntarily
ne usually does so involuntarilv
When he strikes the dirt road at
high speed the front wheel of his
machine buries itself in the soft
dirt, and If he does not merely
break his neck he will pick himself
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

Orthodox regulations Insist that
food must be fresh each day. Trotz
ky buys just enough for his noon
day meal. Those who come late often
are disappointed. Every afternoon
his kitchen Is as bare as Mother Hub
bard's cupboard. Every morning the
refrigerator is filled with new food.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
By Glendon Allvine


Sketches by La1ere,, Stout
"ROTZKY.
With that one word before
YOU, what word flashes next
into mind?
Bolshevik, probably, or Lenine or
Russia.
it Is red reaction, anyway.
If you happen into the Broadway Cen
trail Hotel, which forty years ago was
the last word in hostleries, and mount
to the second floor, up over the door
in the rear you'll see the sign:
"Trotzky's."
Some Bolshevik hangout, you sup
pose. Venturesome, you wander in,
and the tall, black-hatted man at the
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

During Passover week the dishes
and silver and even the pots and ket-
ties are new, as orthodox rules re-
quire. Trotzky might be able to slip
IN an old spoon, or something; but
he'd rather eat pork than do that.
Trotzky is an honest Jew. Honesty
pays him handsomely.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-25

y HERE Is courtroom in the
old Mulberry Street police
station that taatiGoa "a 4L
The evening world., 1919-02-27
Who Are Your NanleSakes?
AIesan d er

TnE most distinguished OF all
AleXanders was Alexander the
Great, King OF Macedonia Wh'
conquered all the known world and
sighed for more worlds to conquer
lie died at the age of 39'
Alexander Farnese, Prince OF
Parma. was another Alexander who
liked lighting for its own sake. At
the age OF II years he begged to be
oIIowed to go along with an expedition
mat was going TO fight at -. Quen-
in. and he wept bitterly when the
renuest was refused him.
Several great writer's have bcon
AIexanders; Alexander Dumas. tine
older. who wrote such fascinating
stories as ''Thc Count OF Monte Cristo."
",rhe Black Tulip" and THE Queen's
Necklace:" Alexander Dumas The
Younger. who wrote "Camille;" Alex
ander Pope, the English poet, who, al
though deformed, enjoyed the friend
ship Of the most distinguished men OF
The evening world., 1919-02-27

his time; Alexander Kjelland, the
Norwegian writer, and Alexander Toll
stoy, a Russian writer,
Alexander Bell vas the great Amsr-
lean who invented the telephone,
which Is still called the Bell trls-
phone; and Alexander HUMBOLDT was
a German traveller statesman pnd
the most distinguished naturalist uf
all times. One Of his most important
discoveries was the decrease in m
tensity Of the earth's magnetic force
from the poles to the equator. His
most important book "kosmos." was
written in his seventy y-hfth year. He
did much in his long LIE to further
the science Of the world,
Alexander Hamilton, one Of our
greatest statesmen, was ,ometlrnes
called Alexander the Coppcrsmlth,"
because OF the copper cents he had
made in 1893 when he was Secretary
OF the Treasury, These pennies were
very unpopular with the people. !Ui
was killed in duel by Aaron BurE.
The evening world., 1919-02-27
The Jarr Family
By Roy McCardeIl

Go, rThs New York E'enirs wor'

H." said the cashier. IF you want
TO stay home having Il good time
being sick, and then expect TO get
your salary raised, you certainly
must know this firm better than
do, and I've been with them since
the Spapish War"
Mr.. Jarr said nothing, but with a
disdainful gesture he sp.rned the
cash that Johnson thrust toward him;
also the tab for thirty dollars, the
same amount being deducted from the
weeks stipend.
Pulling on his new gloves, Mr.. Jarr
strode across the office and into the
private sanctum OF the boss, whore
he tottered and fell into chair and
sneezed profusely.
What's the matter Mr. Jarr?"
cried the boss in alarm. Pray. what
is the matter? You should not-you
really should not have come down 10
work until you were perfectly recoy-
cred from that dreadful Innuenzl---
which is contagious, very contagious"
ana the boss moved away from the
snecZing
Forty doIiars!" moancd Mr.. Jarr.
Il beg your pardon" SAID the boss,
odging toward the door but dtd
not quite grasp what you slid!"
/ Forty doilars!" repeated SIR. Jarr.
The Increase and the taD that's been
taken out OF my salary.
But you got thirty dollars, per-
sonal.y gave you thirty dollars!" cried
the boss.
Forty dollars sneezed Mr.. Jarr
ITS fever from the 'Au,' He mus;
be humoredl" thought the boss in
Wild alarm. And then he called over
the partition:
SAY, you, cashier! Give Mr.. Jari
$50, And hereafter his salary is thirty
dollars more"
Now go home, Mr.. Jarr, and rest
up" added the boss. It's all right,
everything is all right. Rut you mus
get id OF every symptom OF the 'hu
before You come to work again."
And as Mr.. Jarr took tse money anl
departed, Johnson and jenkins loose,
after him and, tapping their fore,
heads remarked in unison:
Hes crazy with the fever Of 'nu',
Yes, crazy as Trotzky."
The evening world., 1919-02-27
The Cry of Our Colored
CO-WOrkerS
The Urban League for the Help of Colored People
By SO phie Irene Loeb

all organizations in the interest OF
negroes and its efforts have been to
confine itself to those activities not
covered by other agencies. During
the war, the leagues offices have
served as headquarters for Federal
agencies. including the war Drive,
the Food Saving Campaign. and the
United states Food Administration. II
has a Big Brother and a Big Sister
service.
Efforts have been made by the or
gani2ation TO secure better housing
conditions for negroes, During the
Influenza epidemic the headquarters
were used as a clinic by the Board
OF Health and other organizations,
and also have been utilized in the
Children's Year Baby Saving Cam
paign.
These are only few OF the activl-
/ ties, but the work they have accom-
| plished is only the beginning OF what
/ they hope to DO. Therefore they are
making Il drive, an appeal for aid tC
| carry on their constructive poo
| gramme IN the interest OF their com
mun.tIcs.
Surely Il the war has taught u'
anything it has created In US a re,
spect and interest for those who hav,
given their best in the common cause
History VIII record that our negro
brethrcn naNo been far up in tn,
front in the big achievement. Blu
ImcdaIs and badges t,onc are not go
ing to repay IN the reconstruction
period, Something moro material i
needed ia order to make for bette
and cleaner conditions,
What the negro wants to-day is t.
have chance TO become the goo,
Iciti2en-to be given work where he /
needed,
1t is the same cry as that Of tn
, white man. II should be answere,
4 in equal measure.
q To aid the negro in making hlmso.
useful Is a part of the reConstuctio
programme that should not be over
{ looked.