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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30
THE ESCH RAIL BILL
PASSED BY HOUSE
FINAL ACTION CAME ON RAILWAY
MEASURE AFTER six DAYS
- OF DEBATE.
Openly Declared by Opponents Of
Plan Guaranteeing Operation for
Six Months That Issue viii be
5A Made Political One.

Washingt0n.-On virtually party
vote of 203 to 159 the house Monday
night passed and sent to tile senate
the Esch railroad reorganization bill.
Final action came after six days OF
continuous debate.
The Democrats made the passage of
the measure party issue as pro-
test against the section which contin.
ues the guaranteed operating income
OF the railroads for six months after
the termination of federal control. It
was openly declared by the Democrat
leaders that this issue will be carried
into the national campaign of 1920.
The first intimation of partisan
split on the bill came when Represen.
tative Sims of Tennessee, ranking
Democrat member of the interstate
commerce committee, which drafted
the measure, made last-hour motion
to recommit.
The. motion carried the instruction
to the committee to strike out the
guaranty section and report the bill
to the house Immediately.
The vote against the Sims motion
was 200 to 1855, with the Republicans
and Democrats lining up almost solid
ly for and against the guaranty, re-
spectively. The minority then record.
ed its protest by opposing final pas
sage of the bill.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30

The statistical division >.of the
General STAFF estimates that 100000
men participated in four or more of
the major operations. One million
two hundred thousand will have the
Meuse-Argonne clasp and Ave hun
bred and fifty thousand the Saint
Mihiel clasp, representing the two
battles employing the largest num-
Der of American soldiers in the his
tory of the nation. Eighty-five thou
sand clasps will be issued for the
Champagne-M Marine defensive action,
concentrating the stoppage of the
German drive to Paris, July Is to IS,
1918. Marshal Foch's action begin
ming the next day, known as the
Aisne-Marne offensive, used 270, 900
Americans, the third largest body of
our troops engaged at one time in
France.
The other major operations in
France for which battle clasps are
granted employed American troops
in varying numbers, from 500 in the
Lys defensive to 10000 In the
Ypres-Lys offensive. The Cambria
offensive had 2,vv Americans par
ticipating, and the S0mme defensive
1900, the majority Of whom were
the engineers who on a memorable
occasion earned their clasp by turn
ing their picks and shovels into
deadly weapons. The Aisne defen-
sive had an American division Of H.
500; another division Of $4,000
shared the Neutrality-suspicious. defen-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30
Warming Pad Burns Babe.

Douglas, Ariz. = Robert, the five
mOnths-Old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Tony
Schweichier, died early Monday morn.
ing while his parents slept, from
the effect of burns from a warming
pad placed on his chest during the
night by his mother to keep him warm.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30
OAKLAND
S E NJ S B l. E S TX

YOU'LL like this new Oakland Sensible
i Six four door Sedan the instant you
see it. For it is big, handsome carr well
made and exceedingly able. And after you
ride in this latest Oakland model, you will
like it even more. The spacious interior is
designed for comfort, and is finished most
attractively. Four wide free-swinging
doors provide easy entrance and exit to and
from the driving and rear compartments.
When the car is parked unoccupied, these
doors, as well as every window, can be
locked. The windows in all four doors are
regulated by convenient automatic con-
troller. The rear side and back panel win
dows arc fitted with curtains Of grey silk.
Every essential convenience is included in
its standard appointment. And like all
Oakland models, the new four door Sedan
is moderately priced.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30
Accuse Women 81 Making Wine.

4 st. LOuis.-AnnOuncing that large
number of women were making wine
of berries, dandelions, cherries and
other fruits and plants, Miss Cora
Stoddard, in an address before the Ma
tional WOmen's Christian Temperance
Union here, said: 1--WE must 60 after
these women as well as the men"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30
Auctioneer Hauls Down Red FIau.

Middleton, N. Y.-The color red con-
tinues to fall into disrepute. John b.
Breasted, an auctioneer, announced that
he is so opposed to anarchists that he
has discarded his professional red
flag and will henceforth blazon forth
bargain sales upon field of blue.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30
Gooding College
Raises $40, 600

The new dormitory and the Mr..
and Mrs. H. Il. Moody gymnasium
for returned soldiers and other
young men Of the intermountain
region became assured December II,
when the business men, students and
teachers of Gooding subscribed overs
$4,000 in order to hasten the cam
paign to successful close. an
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30
MINERS HAVE MANY HOLIDAYS
Work From 1876 to $40 Days During
the Year,

st. Louis.-In the five year period,
1912 to 1915, the time worked in the
bituminous coal mines of this country
ranged from 1876 to 232 days of pos
sible $40 working days, according to
statistics furnished the American Min
ing congress convention here ON Mon
day by DIR. V. H. Manning, director Of
the United States bureau of mines.
In 1917 the mines worked 243 days,
and In 1918, under the abnormal war
conditions, they worked 249 days, ac->
cording to DIR. Manning.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30
Teacher of Birth Control Jailed.

Washington. The supreme court
has dismissed without an opinion, for
lack of jurisdiction, the appeal OF Mar
garet Sanger on the cOnstitutionality
of the New York state birth control"
act. Miss Sanger was sentenced to
thirty days Imprisonment for conduct
ing a birth control clinic" in Brook
lyn
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30

lin the Legion or out Of It. It has q
fundamental, unassailable faith in
America. It has the courage to re-
cite its faith, The destiny of the
jnited States is largely In It's hands.
Md the hands are strong.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30
Railroad Loses Land Fight.

Washington.-The government by an
opinion in the supreme court won its
fight to have cancelled and recalled
patents for 5000 acres of California
oil land valued at S1O,O0,000, alleged
to have been obtained through fraud
by the Southern Pacific company.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30

740 Four Door SEDAN s74o
p o. B. PoHAc ADDITIONAL Hs
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-12-30

These figures are presented in the
Golfers article:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

TT is one of the salutary lessons of
crisis that humanity is enabled to
realize lapses that it has tolerated in
less exciting times. The Community
Service of Philadelphia, for example,
would have had fertile field for its
activities in ante-bellum days. But vel
fare work for the service men and sail
ors in town was rather neglected then.
The development of the War Camp
Community Service in the war was mag
nificently comprehensive. 1t is said that
the Philadelphia organization admins
tered to the needs of more than four mil
lion in uniform and provided more than
thirty thousand dollars worth of profess
sional entertainments and other social
features. And now, instead of entirely
shutting up shop, the new volunteer Com
munity Service appears as a praise
worthy offspring,
1t is an excellent sign of sound think
ing when the spirit of enterprises aris-
ing during war, which, relatively speak
ing, is seldom with us, is preserved for
peace, which, according to the hopes of
mankind, is to be our normal state.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16
"HlCK CROSSINGS"

THERE are cities in this country and in
= Europe where any one who crosses a
heavily Travelled street in the middle of a
block is likely to be snapped up by a
policeman and charged with a misde-
meanor.
In communities where the danger of
that odd performance has been fully
realized through disastrous experience
an attempt to get across a street by
worming through rapidly moving motor
traffic is known as chick crossing"
The effort of the Rotary Club to stop
the practice on Market, Chestnut and
other crowded streets is commendable.
An ordinance aimed at habit that is a
constant source of danger would be wise.
Why do business organizations find it
necessary to lead municipal admins
tration around by the hand to show it
the needs of the city? One wonders
whether the Rotary Club can show the
police department how to handle parade
without isolating shops and business
houses, stalling traffic for hours and
creating a general atmosphere of siege.
And could the club and its officials de-
wise an anti-smoke ordinance for the
regulation of motorcars, since everybody
at City Hall appears to be too tired to
undertake that simple task?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

promised to have automatic telephones in
general use in about fifteen years we
may feel assured of reduced costs, since
machines aren't troubled by the high
cost of living.
After century or so we may have in
the United States, at the end of every
telephone wire the combined receiver and
transmitter, convenient and decorative
device to save time and trouble which
has been in use throughout Europe
almost since the first days of the tele-
phone 1t is almost unknown in this
country, where telephones originated.
Is it because the Bell Company happens
to have had a paternal and affectionate
interest in the corporation which manu-
factures the ugly and cumbersome two
handed telephone familiar to America?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16
TOWARD A SCHOOL SURVEY
FREDERICK P. GRUENBERG'S skel

FREDERICK P. GRUENBERG'S skep-
tical pleasure over progress made to-
ward the conducting of a school survey
has its origin, of course, in the frequent
rebuffs which an admirably conceived en-
terprise has encountered. 'If we live
long enough" declares the director of
the Bureau of Municipal Research, I'VE
may see the money appropriated"
The forecast seems rather unduly dis
NAL. Joseph w. Catharine has presented
a resolution authorizing the expenditure
of $4,000 for the work and, despite it's
low gear, the Board of Education does at
times move on.
There can be no question that the sur
vey is much needed. Anything that will
foster education along efficient lines is a
necessity in America, which has cause to
be abashed at the ignorance revealed in
classes that pass as educated" The
draft statistics, moreover, revealed some
alarming facts concerning enlightenment
in this country.
While the Philadelphia schools will
compare favorably with those of many
cities in the land, there are still fulfill
ties to be eliminated and there is room
for solid improvement and more effective
organization. The survey should be
practical and profitable guide to high
endeavor
There ought to be, and probably is,
sufficient public interest in the schools
here to render the functioning of the
commission fact while the director of
the Well-run Bureau of Municipal Re-
search is still young enough to enjoy the
inquiry.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16
PAINLESS TELEPHONY

TN ABOUT fifteen years, upon the word
Of l.. H. Kinnard, vice president and
general manager of the Bell Telephone
Company of Pennsylvania, we shall have
automatic telephones all up and down
the land. You will twist tiny dial with
numbers on it to make a "call" there
will be flash of mechanical magic at
ceiffral and 10! the thing will be done
without the aid of an intervening voice
In that bright future telephony will
not only be painless. 1t will be heloless.
All the hello girls-or almost all of
them--will be married and living happy
ever after.
A charming outlook, surely! We are
,<ett'ng along y the Bell Compsn1 has
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16
Red Russia Is paling to a pink.
What Do You Kno,U?
QUIZ

QUIZ
1. What is the lowest rank emitting a
nobleman to sit in the House of Lords?
2. Which one of Napoleon's brothers mar
ried an American!
5. Who was she!
a. What article of apparel particularly
typities cardinal!
s. What is the psalter?
g. What is a dulcimer?
7. Name two famous comedies by Beau
marchais.
8. What are prunes?
8. A bachelor is sometimes described as a
Benedict. What is the error in this
word?
TO- What is the principal duty of the Vice
President of the United States?
Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. The town of Gary is in Indiana.
2. Louis Philippe Tas the last king of
France, although officially his title was
king of the French"
3. In obsolete Scotch a caddie was mill
tary cadet. Later the word came to
mean one who waits for chances to do
errands or other odd jobs. In the
eighteenth century a caddie was an
Edinburgh commissionaire.
A. Napoleon died of malignant cancer.
8. The brothers Grim were German phil-
ologists and collectors of the famous
fairy tales.
O. Frederick Douglass was an American
orator and journalist. He was the
son of a negress by white man and
was active in the Massachusetts anti
slavery movement before the Civil War.
He was for several years United
States marshal of the District of Co
lumbia and was minister to Haiti in
1888.
7. japanese suicide is not shari kari" but
''hara -kiri."
8. A cachalot is whale with teeth In the
lower jaw.
o. The two Presidents Of the United States
who died natural death in Office were
William Henry Harrison and Zachary
Taylor. They were both Wings.
10 The Spanish name for snaiu IL Tsnana.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16
CHANGE

HIS step was young as in the last decade,
- He never thought that he was getting
old
Until he felt his heart was sore afraid
AT some new problem which half slipped
his hold.
1t came like that strange sudden shock of
grief
That quivers through ones' pulses on the
day
One wakes to realize, though years seemed
brief,
The hair of some loved woman has turned
gray.
Charlotte Becker, in New York Sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16
TIME TO BRACE UP

EROM the White House, from Mr..
Taft, from the strike areas and from
the labor conference there came yester-
day various intimations of what is wrong
with the country and proof that the
trouble is transitory and yet serious
enough.
Unquestionably there has been nerv-
Gus general reaction from war tension
and a revival of the hard self-nterest
that is the opposite of such impulses as
swayed the country while the fight was
on. The inspiration of the war, as Mr..
Taft suggested, no longer sustains US in
a community of interest. Withdrawn, it
has released some of the worst impulses
in all sorts of people All is fair, you
might suppose, in peace.
The Senate's callousness in the face of
Mr.. Wilson's dramatic illness, the col
lapse of Mr.. Gompers, who wore himself
out in good causes, the news from the
strike areas, the insane opportunlsm of
the mine workers and the very apparent
efforts of each side at the labor confer
ence to seek not decent solutions, but
positions of dominant advantage for
themselves, are related symptoms of
relaxed social consciousness.
Mr.. Gompers, like Mr.. Wilson, was the
advocate of nationality, of humane prin-
ciples. He exhausted himself trying to
be heard above the bedlam. 1t used to
be the habit of many business men to
characterize Gompers as a radical. More
recently they have learned to appreciate
him as a conservative force. Labor will
come upon that knowledge when it is too
late.
Yet even while Gompers was making
his great appeal for reason the labor
conference was talking in circles. 1t had
still to be urged" from the White
House. Are we to suppose that repre-
sentative Americans, in time like this,
must shoulder their responsibilities upon
a man perilously i'll?
The forced settlements that both sides
are seeking in the steel strike will do no
one any good. They cannot last 1t is
I'D to the Washington conference to find
saner methods. And it is up to the con-
ference, too, to find a way by which
strike in the soft coal regions or govern
ment seizure of the bitumnous industry
may be avoided.
The country will judge both men and
causes by what is done, or left undone, at
the labor conference and its judgments
will be heavy. 1t is sick of force. 1t is
disgusted with the aggressive ignorance
of radical agitators. But it is sick, too,
of the vanity and seishness of men who
refuse to stoop from their familiar clouds
to discuss with their workers matters
that are of concern to the whole nation.
1t is time for all people to brace up,
to get back to common-sense grounds, to
be decent and to think of the country
first and of their own selfish interests
afterward.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

Out of "a 900 votes cast in municinal
election in Buffalo, ''less than 300 votes
were polled" for soviet form of govern
ment. But the average sane and sensible
citizen will feel surprise that there were so
many.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

Mustapha Kemal Pasha says the Turk
ish nation will prove to the world its entire
fitness for remaining in possession Of its
sacred SOIL" Meaning, of course, that
the soil is sacred because Of the innocent
blood shed upon it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

Girls of the West Philadelphia High
School are of the opinion that a scientific
meal isn't satisfying unless garnished with
ice cream.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

Germany has agreed to Join in the
blockade of soviet Russia, says a dispatch
from Berlin. Then there is either Snake"
or a ''must" in It,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

Enrolment at the universities of the
country is as gratifying as the enrolment
for service in the same institutions when
Uncle Sam needed men.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

In the raids on Reds
"Cracky!" Said in Gary a Russian
Huck Finn book was confiscated,
but what the police
thought was anarchistic literature proved to
be a translation of "Tom Sawyer" And.
of course, the most explosive thing found
therein was a burst of laughter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

Now the Dope King has been deposed,
steps should be taken to demobilize his army
of addicts.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

The sudden shifting of Uncle Sam into
the ranks of the rent profteers is shock
to the tenants. But perhaps he doesn't
know the company he is keeping. r
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

Sir Arthur Whitten Brown will tell
tonight how Aviator Artie Brown crossed the
Atlantic in an airplane
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

The strike of grocery drivers isn't Voinr
to make a bigger dollars worth of rrocerias
for the market basket
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16
Where Interest
Wanes

Interest in the air
Where Interest derby is said to be
Wanes waning. The trouble
with the race is that
it has scientific value; and utility of any
kind damns sport That's the difference be-
tween driving a coach and four and driving
a truck.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

The country will rejoice when the Pres
ident himself is able to give an authoritative
quietus to the rumors concerning his physi-
cal condition,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

If the industrial conference has done
nothing else it. has demonstrated the iDefi
cheney of the soviet system.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16
TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA
BY Christopher Morley

Happy indeed are those who have learned the
way to her little tables, and heard her cheer
full cry "A Ia cuisine!" when one of her
small dogs prowls into the dining room.
. Equally unique is the old curiosity shop near
by, one of the few genuine 'notion" shops
left in the city (though there is delightful
one on Market street near Seventeenth to
enter which is to step into country village).
This is just the kind of shop bought by the
old gentleman in one of Frank Stockton S
agreeable tales, the title of which have for
gotten. The proprietress, charming and con-
versatile lady, will sell you anything in the
notions line, from paper of pins to gar
ter elastic. Then there is the laundry whose
patrons carry on a jovial game known as
Looking for Your Own Every week, by
some CHEEKY habit of confusion, the lists are
lost, and one hunts through shelves of neatly
piled and crisply laundered garments to pick
out ones own collars pyjamas or whatever
it may be. The amusing humors of this
pastime must be experienced to be under
stood.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

The Building Owners Association has
asked the Mayor for cleaner streets. 1t
may yet decide to wait for the new broom.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

Rent boosting has received its bsrdos.
blow to date The bricklayers' strike Is ovos.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

Bear hunting started yesterday. Con-
gresham Moore anticipated the season.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

THE little cigar and magazine shop on the
= corner is the political and social focds of
the neighborhood. I shall never forget the
pallid and CHASTITY countenance of the news
dealer when the rumor first went the rounds
that Hampy was elected. Every evening a
little gathering of local sages meets in the
shop; on tilted chairs, in a haze of tobacco,
they while the hours away. In tobacco the
host adheres to the standard blends, but in
literature he is enterprising. Until recently,
his was the only place I know in PhiladeI-
phia where one could get the Illustrated
London Neios every week.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16
Unfortunate
PhraseOlOU
afterward.

4 speHker at tHe COLI
Unfortunate vention of the Asso-
Phraseology citation of Military
Surgeons of the United
States is quoted as saying that the fouler
the atmosphere and the more bacteria one
breathed the more immune one would be
from disease. This is what might be termed
making a fool of the truth.