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Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1919
DO YOU KNOW i?

Do you know the young fellow
who works for $500 a week and
who is wearing a new winter suit
that cost $85?
Do you know the wage-earner
who loafs because he is afraid if
he does too much he'll work
himself out of job?"
Do you know the housewife
who is ashamed to be seen with
a market basket on her arm OF to
carry home a brown paper bun
die?
Do you know the manufacturer
who, when the price of raw ma
terials and overhead goes up S
per cent and the cost of labor ad-
vances an equal amount, adds %
per cent to the price of his
goods?
Do you know the factory girl
working for $18 a week who is
buying a $3.50 fur coat.
Do you know the man who lets
a fresh clerk sheer him into buy
ing a SIS hat for fear he'll seem
cheap" when he can buy a salts
factory one for $7?"
Do you know the investor who
has traded his Liberty Bonds for
a promise of a hundred per cent
profit in a stock company back
ed by a dishonest promoter?
Do you know the married cou-
pie who do not think enough of
their children to buy War Saw
ings Stamps for them and to
teach them to save.
Do you know the shopper who
says, Wrap it up" instead of
"How much ?"
Do you know the person who
lets the desire of the moment
destroy the result of days and
weeks of thrift and saving?
Do you know the man who
thinks that it is not necessary to
save?
Do you know the man who
says that the government saving
securities, Liberty Bonds, War
Savings Stamps and Treasury
Savings Certificates are too slow
or too small or too old-fashinoed
for his investments?
If you do, you know pretty
well what is the matter with the
United States.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19

and straight lines attached to
the keys. BY manipulation of
these the designer proposes to
turn out samples for paper that
will excel any in use now and al
so to do the work much more
rapidly. It all leads one to sus-
pect that the possibilities of the
typewriter are far from exhaust
ed. However, they have not yet
perfected a machine that is
guaranteed to spell and to punct-
uate correctly, not to mention
the elimination of errors in
grammer.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19
MORE TIPPING.

There have been stories of OPP
orators who could make a type
writing machine "sing" but now
comes the announcement that
they have a typewriter that will
write music. The composer us
ing the new outfit declares that
it is highly satisfactory and is a
success in every way. But even
more amazing is the story of a
typewriting machine that will
make wallpaper designs.
The machine is to be equipped
with a series of curved, jagged
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19
AWFUL LOSSES OF LIVE
STOCK IMPENDING

In spite of large shipments of
live stock to better feeding
ground there will be enormous
losses from shortage of feed on
the ranges.
There is danger that two mil
lion head of live stock, cattle
and sheep will freeze and starve
in the west this winter. Can
not this awful loss and suffering
be averted by a rich and power
full people?
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19

Our Zip Top" and idaho
Gold" flour is handled by the
best jobbers and wholesale deal
ers all over the country and US
ed by all the good housewives.
They are made of the pick of
plumb Camas Prairie wheats,
and every sack is guaranteed or
money cheerfully refunded. 24-t
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19

Owing to my time being oc-
cupied with other work l have
decided to quit the poultry bust
ness. l wish to thank the pub
lie who so generously patronized
me in the past. T. Clarke the
junk man. SOP
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19

Cornelius A. Wood, younger son Vt
William M. Wood, president Of the
American Wooden company, who has
started at the bottom to learn the busi-
ness and is working as wool sorter In
the storehouse of the Washington mills
at Lawrence, where this picture Was
taken. He enlisted in the navy as a
COB, won a commission as ensign in
a competitive examination and was
discharged as lieutenant, junior
grade.
When Romans Ruled Britain.
There is a showcase in the Roman
British section of the British museum
that contains the discharge certificates
given to soldiers in Britain at the time
Of the Romans. The bronze certificates
are quantity worded, and record the
fact that the holders discharged hon.
orably after % years Of service" are
granted Roman citizenship If not al
ready held, land the recognition of
their marriage with those who are
their wives, or In case of unmarried,
any wives they may subsequently mar
ry, provided they only have one EACH"
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Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19

having first produced it. If we
all decline to work, eventually we
all starve. Devinely simple,
isn't it?
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19

There will be meeting of the
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial
Committee at Grangeville jan
uary z, 1920. 50-4
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19

No one has yet invented a
system by which we can con-
sumo a loaf of bread without
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19

December 20 is the last day
you have to pay taxes. 1913
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19

We wish each and every one
of our readers a Merry Christ
mas.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-12-19
When Romans Ruled Britain.

Taxes! Taxes! They must
be paid by December 20 OF else
they become delinquent. 1873
Evening star., 1919-05-04

CONTINUED on Fourth Page.)
Evening star., 1919-05-04
REPORTS APPALLING SUFFERING
IN STRICKEN LANDS OF EUROPE
Jewish Relief Commission Finds Conditions Far Worse
Than Generally Had Been Believed
in This Country.

Frank F. Rosenblatt, who is nearing
Siberia, where Samuel Mason. repre-
senting the Hebrew Immigrant and Aid
Society. as wen as the Joint distribution
committees. now is, and Miss Harriet b.
Lowenstein, executive head Of the COM
mission, who Is in Paris.
Judge Julian Mack, Louis Marshall
and DR.. Cyrus Adler. all members OF
the Joint distribution committee. also
are In the French capital.
Terrible Conditions In Poland.
The situation in Poland IS graph
ically described by DR.. Boris d. Boeen,
who has possibly been most deeply
impressed with the attitude of the
population itself. and OF which he
says:
Tho population has seen and felt
so much of suffering that It. has be-
come calloused to hardship and to
want, but the spectacle Of hundreds 9
or starving children. of women. in
the biting cold. clad only in tho scan-
tiest of filthy ragH. and Of men. list.
streets asking for bread, has deeply
affected the committees repre-
sentatives,
Writing under date Of February
IA, and telling Of conditions at War
saw. he says,
II am heartbq,oken over the situa.
tton. The people are hero hopelessly
wit
The only thing that keeps them alive
is the fatalistic faith in some mira Gle
in the future.
Warsaw Like Nightmare,
II spent this afternoon in the poor
est district 1t is a nightmare, a
sight that hurts. Children sitting in
the cutters, begging in pitifu1 sing
song in Yiddish-dirty, with exposed
bodies. looking through the rags in
which they are attired. Begging, 1
am told, is becoming a chiluren's pro-
fession, the child chooses to remain
begging rather than to go to school
should see their faces-enly the eyes
T6I16CC NOp6-tn6 rest is misery Der
sonified.
And then the women, with their
careworn faces, dressed in God knows
how many garments, all rags, and
still not protected from the cold. The
men standing or walking aimlessly-
every type, Galician, Russian, etc, 1t
is only incidentally that you meet a
properly clad individual, probably the
newly rich 'paszkoc' (obnoxious), as
they call them here. There are other
streets where this species of human
ity prevails. There you see them in
large number. seemingly we'll fed and
perfectly satisfied with themselves
in furs and fine leather boots-dofns
business, while smoking their ciga-
rettes. The houses here look also moro
fit for human habitation-there are
stores and numerous little tailor
shops. But in the poorest district the
houses are a horrible sight-the win
dows without panes, covered with
rags and paper--impossible streets
and still more impossible courts. dirty
<CeatinusAL- - 9hlsd RaUAA
Evening star., 1919-05-04

N ETAILED reports by Ameri-
can eyewitnesses of the actual
present conditions affecting
the populations of Poland.
Czechoslovakia. Greece, Serbia, Tur-
key. Syria, Palestine, Siberia and
other countries of Europe and the
east. compiled since the close of the
European war, are made public by the
joint distribution committee of the
American funds for Jewish war suf-
ferers, of which Felix NJ. Warburg Of
the banking house Of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
is the chairman.
The reports are, in many instances.
the first word received directly from
American sources describing the ter
rible sufferings. privations and hard
ships which are being undergone by
millions of Jews throughout the
world and toward the alleviation Of
which the joint distribution commit
tee has to date disbursted more than
$25, ,00O, 900 contributed by all sections
Of American Jewry.
Sent to Gather Facts.
While in a general way It has, Of
course. been known that the popula-
tions were largely without food and
clothing, the conditions narrated are
even more appalling than has hither-
to been suspected. On many occa-
sions the representatives OF the joint
distribution committee, comprising a
commission Of Jews seEt frcm the
United States, and the members OF
which are scattered throughout the
various countries, have, they report,
returned to their lodgings overcome
by the scenes they have witnessed
and unable to sleep or rest.
The gamut of human misery is reach
ed in the reports received. which tell
not alone of starvation and utter desti-
tuition, but of the ravages Of disease. the
spread of epidemics, complete lack of
clothing and housing facilities, in short,
of the terrific plight of hundreds Of
thousands Of human beings. penniless.
workless. hopeless.
Tho members of the commission, in
addition to their own observations, have
been aided by reports received by the
American relief administration which,
under the direction Of Herbert Hoover is
distributing America n food supplies. They
have been in especially close touch with
Lewis Strauss. Mr. Hoever's representa-
tive in Paris, from whom much in
formation and assistance have been Sc
cured,
Personnel Of Commission.
The members Of the commission in
cluda DR., Boris D. Bogen, Isidore Hersh-
field and Bernard Horwioh, who are in
Poland: Barnet Zuckerman, who is at
Brest-YAtovsk: DR.. Solomon Lowenstein,
returning from Palestine; Miss Hetty
Goldman, on her way to Rumania, fol-
lowing extended visits to Greece and
Serbia: Rabbi Aaron Teftelbaum, whose
Headquarters are at Constantinople and
whose Investigations cover Turkey and
Syria; Henry G. Alsberg, in Czeoho-
slovakia; Jacob Billikopf Sholem Asch.
Morris Engelman, Meyer Gillis, Max
Pine, who are at the headquarters of the
Netherlands branch of the joint dis
tribution COMMITTEES. at The Hague. and
}e&eI M - Xisat sthse as1asEtsse DA
Evening star., 1919-05-04
FRANCE OFFERS A BIG MARKET a..
FOR AMERICAN LUMBER TRADE
y,r Wastaoe and Forest Devastation Have Made I'M
portation on Huge Scale Press
ing Necessity.

Donald Bruce, Capt Joseph Kittrldge,
tr., some twenty lieutenants and twen-
ty sergeants of the 10th Regiment. had
charge of 10000 quartermaster troops,
all colored. cutting firewood for the
LIST and I'd American armies at the
fighting front, with headquarters at
Chaumont. These men managed to
secure and maintain a daily produc-
ton of about 5000 cords OF wood,
which supplied fuel for approximately
| l, ,000,o troops
Huge Mill in Argonne.
Tho vosges section, with Epinal as
headquarters, witnessed the chief for
est cutting done by the regiment. At
Eclaron. in the forests of Argonne, was
the largest single installation, a mill
capable Of shipping, as 1t did. an aver
age of 5000 ties a day. This mill fur
nished duckboards. bridge timbers.
piles. poles and 30 forth. for the 1st
and I'd armies.
"Here is what tho 7th Battalion.
, which was placed at tho disposal of
the French government. manufactur-
ed: 4.46s.000 board feet Of lumber:
1ss.sos standard gauge ties, 1s1. .So4
narrow gauge ties, 127,475 poles and
props. 54,s47 steres of fuelwood. This
was enough timber to build 6e5 bar
racks. 1875 miles Of railroad, 1895 miles
of telephone lines on tho basis that
! half the round material was poles,
and warm a detachment of 500 French
/ infantry for $50 years"
! Mr.. Ridsdale declared that on ao-
count of war speculation the price of
timber in France had moro than dou-
| bled since the beginning of the war,
Clever Trick Fooled Huns.
A clover method by which the
American fumbermen fooled tho Ger
man flyers and kept them from bomb
ing one Of the big mills, was related
by Mr.. Rgsdale. Tho biggest plant
operated by the 20th Regiment was at
f, Eclaron, in the Argonne forests. This
was near some big ammunition
dumps. AS the plant was run day and
night. being electrically lighted, 1t Of
fered a brilliant target for German
flyers, The mills were bombed sew
] eral times but no worker killed nor
much damage done.
Then an American trick resulted in
so misleading the German bombers
that the danger was entirely over
come. This trick was devised by
MAJ. Spencer. who. realizing what a
limo target tho brightly lighted mill
made for the night bomb operators,
ran electric wires into tho heavy
woods for q distance Of ono third of a
mile from tho mill and Installed a
number of electric lights on the trees.
Then whenever an afr raid alarm came
tho lights at tho mill wero extin-
guished and tho lights among the
trees one-third of a mile away were
turned on and were kept blazing while
the Germans wasted bombs on them
and inflicted damage only on some of
the trees. Other mills up along the
fighting front were also bombed fire.
l lausutlA bat y.khsQt aszi1s& AE1sD,
Evening star., 1919-05-04
Political Haymakers Here Soon.

The republican senator's find themselves
embarra ssed They sincere in their crit-
cisms of the covenant. believing that 1t does
transsress the rights and safety of the nation
in the respects pointed out, but they are I'M
mediately pounced upon as trying to make
capital out of their opposition. It's sad world.
the republican think sometimes.
x X * x
THE democratic leaders in Congress and the
l democratic national committeeman. the
political managers. declare they not afraid
of the Investigations the republicans intend to
make and out of which the republicans are
said to expect to make political capital. In the
first place, the democrats to explain,
after peace is declared the country will be worn
out with the and have patience with
exploitation of the mistakes made in waging
the war At least, that is the democratic view
point. They insist that great scandals will
be unearthed. nothing more than bad manage
ment and error. excusable in the haste and mag
nitude of the task which the United States had
to undertake in utter unpreparedness.
X X X X
POLITICIANS are interested in following the
L movements of the returning soldier boys in
politics. That they will figure in the next
campaign. and figure prominently and material
ly, all agree
Here is case in point: Young Theodore
Roosevelt and young Bennett Clark, son Of
Champ Clark. engaged in good
natured which has political goal, al
though not described the racing form.
These two aspiring young Americans said
to be rivals for the honor of building up the
organization of who went into the service
While Col Clark overseas he gained one
lap on Col. Roosevelt by appointing commit
tee organization.
The first convention of the new organization
is soon to be held in st. Louis. and Col Roose-
velt it is said, will be the job to see that
his irons kept hot in the fire, while Col
Clark may be with his command out at Camp
Funston, undergoing rehabilitation. To avoid
this, PA Clark is appealing to the War De-
partment to let Bennett out SO he can go
to practicing law in st. Louis and have his
shingle out by the time the boys begin to
troop in to the convention.
Politicians say it will be very interesting
to watch these two young men break into poll
tics the one in the east with the prestige of
his father, and the other in the west, with his
fathers great following to back him up: one
the exponent of republican principles and the
other of democratic doctrines
All over the country. the leaders say. the
returning soldiers are getting into the game"
and are being received without jealousy by the
older nds. who realize the benefit of the SOL
dters' records party asset and are glad
to have them.
Evening star., 1919-05-04

IN HERE is big neld dpfodu
which the lumbermen OF the
limited States should be quick to
seize. says P. S. Ridsdale. secre-
tarv Of the American Forestry Assocla-
tion who has spent three months in
France and other European countries
studying forestry conditions there ana
tho terrible losses sustained in timper re-
sources during the war. The American
Forestry Associations offer to help IN
the reforestation work in France BEL
p,um. Italy and Great Britain mas
been accepted by the forestry officials
of those countries.
prior to the war France imported
about 1,4s4,oo0, 900 board feet Of manu-
facturen material more than she pro-
duced," said Mr.. Ridsdale. in discuss
ing the situation, "and this shortage
must now be met by continued over
e.nloitatton of her forest resources.
bv commercial imports or by impos-
,n1 a refund of German timber from
German forests.
Necessary to Get Trade.
"The American lumbermen must
realize the necessity. in developing
a market abroad, Of taking advantage
Of the Webb law, establishing agen-
cies. meeting earnest competition and
making a market for the sale OF their
hest material to the high-class trade
by using clever statesmen. earnestly
advertistne their goods and quickly
neetine the market conditions"
Some idea of the terrible forest
losses suffered by France alone Is re-
vealed by the following data:
Esttmated war losses and loss in
renroduction value of destroyed for
ests in France. $500. 900: estimated
numher Of board best felled dufin 9
war. 1850, o,ooo. 900; board feet de-
stroyed by military operations. g.
544. .ooo, 900; board feet oonfscated by
Germans, 2,ses.ooo.ooO. This makes
total drain on French forests of a.
47a oOo. 900 board feet. 1t would take
France fully 100 years to recuperats
fully from these forest losses. for the
productive capacity OF It's forests has
heen reduced about 424, ,o00, 900 board
feet year over a long period. The
devastated forest land in France can
not be put to agricultural usos be-
cause the soil Is such that under
French economic conditions the forest
crop is tho most profitable ono that
Will grow upon land assigned for
forest production.
Work Of q. s. Lumbermen.
In telling Of the big lumber opera
tions in France and of the great part
played by the goth Regiment Of En-
gineers, tho biggest regiment in the
world, which was made up Of lumber
mon and foresters, Mr.. Ridsdale de-
clared that at the time tho armistice
was signed the regiment had eighty
one lumber mills in operation and
twelve more being installed.
Few civilians realize, he added
the amount of wood required for an
army. For instance, when tho armis-
tice was signed Lieut.. Col A. 8. Peck
assisted by MAJ. r. b 1eaasAt 0Q&
Evening star., 1919-05-04
BY N. O. MESSENGER.

will not be long until the political
haymakers will be hard at it in Congress-
laying by political capital against the
/ next congressional and presidential
pagns. Democrats and republicans will vie
with each other in stacking up the fodder.
What will the harvest be?
The republicans apparently have definite
program upon which both wings of the party
progressives and andpatters-are agreed,
and another tentative line of policy upon which
there shading differences of opinion. 1t
seems now that there will be unanimity upon
anti-sociaistic and anti-paternalsm policies.
1t is going to be thumbs down all forms
of government ownership from the very start.
If President Wilson had not seen the storm
coming and directed Postmaster General Burle-
son to turn the wires back to private owner
ship the first week of Congress would have
witnessed the passage of resolution peremp-
torily returning them AS 1t is. there will be
prompt action the necessary legislation to
compensate the owners for the governments
costly experiment in government management
of public utility.
1t has been lesson and will serve as a
warning. The republican party. its leaders de-
clare, wants more government management
and never taste of government ownership.
The next thing will be to hand the railroads
hoo1, .s soon as possible. The democrats
have government ownership and welcome, II
thew want it as a party policy, the republicans
say
THE faction of the republican party OF wnlch
Senator Penrose is leader has program
for Congress action which will be presented
and will be resisted by the progress1ves. Ihe
old-line republicans, if that term can be ap-
plied as descriptive of the element, want
bigb protective tariff Everybody knows where
the progressives stand on that proposlt1on ana
that il will be resisted, resulting IN a nght
which may or may not damage the party. Ihat
is something which only the future can work
out.
The old-liners also want revision or the IN
come tax law and the taxes profits. They
insist that the government under war leg1sla-
ton has laid too heavy and restrictive mana
on business and they demand that the grasp
be relaxed They cannot charge the leglsia-
tton entirely to the democratic Congress and
administration, because they helped pass 1t, out
they can, they say, get credit for lessenlns
the burdens. The republican party proposes
to resume role it has essayed in the past, OF
beine the boasted party of constructive legisla-
ton and the friend of industry and business
Republican leaders realize that just about
the time the next elections come along the
people will be feeling most keenly the heavy
taxation laid upon them by the war They
have not quite awakened to it yet possibly.
but it will begin to hurt about that time. The
Evening star., 1919-05-04

HERE is big field abroad
which the lumbermen OF the
United States should be quick TO
Evening star., 1919-05-04
BH G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Y yHAT is to be the effect OF
Nn/ the proposed international
" v labor program, as drafted
hv onocjal interna fional