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The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-11-27

We certainly took some chances
for the next day the place where
our car stood was covered with
Is feet of red hot stones. At the
edge Of the flow the Lava had
cooled off to some extent and Its
movement was slower than at the
middle. Large trees would pc
pushed over and consumed III an
instant. Out in the middle the
molten lava was flowing down
the mountain side at the rate OF
thirty miles an hour. This stream
was about the size Of the Clear
water river in the springtime.
Great stones as large as the Union
State Bank building would be
tumbled and rolled down this
stream until the intense heat
would cause them to explode, with
a deafening roar, into thousands
of pieces, which would fall back
and be melted into liquid. In the
evening a party of us chartered
sam pan "a Japanese power
fishing vesselD and went by water
as near as possible to the point
where the lava stream entered
the ocean. The water was boiling
for more than mile out to sea-.
Numberless dead fish of all siz-
es, shapes, and colors were float
ing around on the surface of the
ocean in all stages of cooked
Continued on page 3
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-11-27

moved about by an unseen ana
supernatural force; A cool, queer
sensation traversed my spinal col
umn for a few seconds. ABOUT
two O'Clock the next morning the
telephone operator called US up
and told US that Mona Loa had
broken out again we got up ana
when we looked toward the noun
tam It seemed TO be on nre me
sky was one mass OF deep req;
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-11-27


to come over ais soon as ! can get
a leave of absence We will tour
the TT. S. in our car if ] can get
permission from the U. s. govern
ment to bring our servants. Sol
is attending military school In
Honolulu. He is very pompous IN
his military uniform Mr.. Nc
Ouaid, who was in Nezperce dur
ing the flu epidemic, leaves in a
few days to accept a very lucrat-
i've position as manager OF large
sugar cane plantation in the Phil
ippine Islands. Mrs. MeQuaid
(nee Helen Jeffrey is staying
with us until he gets house
furnished in their new location,
when she will join him. In the
meantime she is teaching in the
government school at Holualoa.
You have probably seen in the
Associated Press dispatches that
we have had big lava flow on
our island. The first disturbance
began about a month ago with an
earthquake. ] was standing on
the front steps of small store at
the time and my car was in the
street just in front of the store.
When the first culver began the
people ran pell nell out of the
building. Then the shaking be-
came more violent and my car ran
back and forth in the street It
was very weird to see my auto
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-11-27
DR.. Jeffreys Writes From Hawaii.
lContinued from page %

wasY a leper. We are not much
afraid of leprosy here in Hawaii.
It is only slightly contagious. Al
so we cure more cases OF leprosy
than we do of tuberculosis. The
leper patients have a compara-
lively good time in their life at
the leper settlement on Molokal.
They have good food and houses,
and the best and latest pictures
In their picture shows. They are
allowed to marry. There are men
and women in the settlement who
are not lepers themselves, but
who have had several leprous
husbands or wives. They live
with one till he or she dies, then
they marry another. Many ma
tives become cured at the settle
ment. but they will not go before
the doctors to be examined in or
der to get their discharge papers
because they are so well satisfied
with life in the colony that they
do not want to leave.
| almost forgot the most I'M
portant news. We have a baby
girl at our house, born August AZ.
We call her Jean. Mrs. Jeffreys
was in the States for five months,
but she was not able to make Nez-
perez a visit. She arrived home
the first of August. We intend
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-11-27

Hay fork
300-gallon steel tank on a 31 inch high
wheel Studebaker wagon, with hose and
pump complete
31a inch Studebaker truck and rack
3L inch Weber truck and rack
New 16-foot grain rack
Steel wheel wagon and bundle rack
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-11-27
10 Head of Horses

Registered Shire mare, IL years, old W.T.. 1850
Registered Shire stallion, coming 4, W.T.. 1900
Bay horse, years old, w.t. 1760
Bay horse, years old, W.T.. 1910
Bay mare, years old, W.T.. 1860
Bay horse, years old, W.T.. 1860
Bay horse, 8 years old, W.T.. 1900
2 black horses, years old, W.T.. 1850
Black mare, years old, W.T. 1900
Black gelding years old, VT. 1900
2-year- old horse, W.T. 1900
2 2-year- old mares, w.t. 1900
yearling Hambletonian colts
spring colts
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
lawful" But
Happy Days

Then were the happy days." sighed
the young woman from Maine "Happv
days-and some awful, aWfMl DAYS"
she added. "If you will ask any nurse
the most awful experience that came to
her overseas, III wager that she will
answer, the March push You couldn't
possibly imagine the dreadfulness of it,
the terrible depression everywhere. for
every last one Of US was sure that the
jig was up and the Allies beaten. 1t
was all too horrible for words. / have
seen great big British artillerymen
throw themselves on their cots and cry
like babies, and who could blame them.
after the four awful years of fighting
and suffering, to find that it had only
come to this. For week or more we
lived in that terrible Slough of De-
spond' and then all Of a sudden came
the news that our boys--our own Amer
lean boys-had come in time. We had
a little victory celebration of our own
in the hospital and it was pretty difficult
to keep the wounded Tommies in their
beds; some had to be held down by main
force. And maybe we girls weren't
proud Of our country 1t was the hap
piest day of our lives"
''And then our own wounded boys be-
gan to come in" Miss st. Louis took
up the story. II was on duty in the
operating theatre. We had five tables
and only three nurses to keep them 60
ing, and the conveys of wounded kept
coming in a steady stream day and
night, from April until October. I had
just two half~days off during that time
and | shouldn't have taken those only
they drove me out. We ate most of
our meals in the operating theatre and
as for sleep, if we got three or four
hours in the twenty-four we felt we
were pampercd pets. But it was worth
it. / wouldn't take million dollars
for that experience"
Me, too," said the State Of Maine
Moi aussi," echoed the girl from
Jersey.
Were any Of you wounded?" ]
asked.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
How the Firms of Massachusetts Distribute
Their Own Milk Supply

in five towns. The Finnish neighbors
all chipped in with loans to meet the
need for little capital and started in
business for themselves. They did not
sell at the retail price and then return
the savings to the shareholders, as do
most cooperatives. They sold it outright
as cheaply as they figured it could be
done. This, | am told, was true in each
town, but the operation of the plan in
Fitchburg is of especial interest They
kept on charging their business through
loans secured from thrifty Films who be-
lieved in cooperation. They employed
manager. Business seemed prosperous,
but woe betde as the year ran on they
found themselves not only with no
profits, but serious deficits. They had
been selling too close to cost, as they
had not appreciated the amount Of over
head expense involved Neither had
the manager proved to be an efficient
person. The middlcman did not seem
quite such an ogre, after all. Things
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

the purpose. st. George ward. It was
called Ny, but it makes me homesick
to think of it, BY the way, if YOU
had come in a little earlier you would
have heard our morning hymn. Lets
repeat it for her, girls" and the four
forthwith raised their voices and sang,
Il Want to Go Back to Bhghtv"
This talk about England and Amer
lea not being friendly is ali bosh," she
continued. Il must admit that at first
our boys didn't understand the Tommies
any better than the Tommies under
stood them, and there were few scraps
between them, but I can tell you there
was quite different feeling among the
boys of both countries who came 20
Palgnton, after having fought side By
side IN the trenches. They understood
each other all right then"
We were treated like queens in Eng
land, the uniform was an open sesame
everywhere; 7 believe we could have
walked straight into the private sitting
room at Buckingham Palace and no
questions would have been asked
"When we landed here nobody paid
the slightest heed to the little group Of
army nurses who stood patiently beside
the rail watching the Joyful reception
given the men and feeling like rank
outsiders. No one, except one young
man, who directly his eye lighted on
US, rushed madly up the gangplank and
across the deck. AT last somebody has
remembered u.s. we thought.
Which one of you women got decor
ated for bravery?' he called as he came
toward US. When we replied that none
of US had received that honor he grunt-
ed and turned disgustedly away. He
was cub reporter looking for COPY"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

paper with the words. Ono NOR milk"
written in laborious English Thus it
went. At the Orovas' not even bottle
was out. At the Leomas there was a
determined woman in the doorway telling
him in broken but forcble English what
she thought Of system that robbed
little children of their hlthrght. On
the corner he met Finnish worlmen, who
asked him, with grin, GLOW the milk
business banc gon' today"
The first day The children whimpcrod
because there was no milk, and the ha-
bics did not take altogether kindly to
the change in regimen from fresh cows
milk to patented baby foods The second
day there were more fretful children
who were upset by not having their daily
drinks Of milk, and there were babies
who cried all night with collie from the
change to patented foods There were
little Frieda and wee Marie, who were
very i'll indeed, and the doctors said this
would never do that parents could not.
simply must not, try to strike en- the
milk question. But the Films are a
stubborn and determined race. Proud,
too, and having taken their stand they
would not go back on it.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
An Eye Single to Profits
Means Decreased Production

This method is fraught with several
dangers for the consuming public. First,
its chief interest is profits. Neither is
it so much interested in keeping up the
maximum milk production, which means
cheaper milk for us, so much as it is in
making a good profit on what it does
sell. The pressure on the farmers under
the present method has resulted in the
raising of $4,000 less heifer calves in
New York State this year, and last year
it was % per cent less than the year be-
fore In Orange County alone twenty
five carloads of beautiful dairy cattle
have been shipped for slaughter between
the first and the ninth of this month,
according to John Altman, one Of the
best dairymen in that district. This
pressure, with its resultant reduction of
the milk output, means higher prices.
Then there is the difficulty of securing
effective public control over private
monopolies
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

and dancing. clubs and discussion In
Brussels what corresponds to our Union
League Club has been bought for the CO.
operators The bakery has also pro-
vided a day nursery for the children
and old age pensions.
1t was such visions as these in the
minds of the determined Firms that kept
them going in the face of failure And
they have succeeded
Their weakness has been the hazard
involved in selling on so close a margin
1t is wiser to sell at retail prices and re
turn the difference at stated intervals
To-day they are merging with the Into
Cooperative Stores chain OF CO.
operative stores run by the Firms in
Massachusetts, which has behind it an
efficient wholesale buyer. Heretofore this
Milk Consumers League has not sold
shares, but done its business on q loan
basis, gradually paying back the loans
from the profits. Its paid capital is
now $4,000. From now on it will sell
shares according TO the regular CO
operative plans, and the basis of control
will be ''one man, one vote" like all bona
tide cooperatives
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

tions except the kindliest, friendhest in
the world, just don't you believe it. 1t
is nothing more nor less than insidous
German propaganda. | never hear
that sort of talk that certain picture
doesn't flash across my mind, and so
long as that memory remains with me
nothing on earth can change my opinion
II see the little cemetery on the hill
at Winchester where we buried our
boys who went West after they came
to us. 1t is the 3oth of last May, Dec
oration Day, and that little Gods
Acre is crowded with people. In the
centre stands the Mayor of Winchester
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

you can see l had an easy market.
Got the O. K. and a detail to carry it
up the hill, reached our diggings, and
found that while I was away the outfit
had loaded, ready to move, and an engi-
neer outfit was moving in, and that in
the scuff1e the seven bolts of shroud cloth
had evaporated. The C. o. of the engi
neer train admitted putting one small
piece on his train as it passed through,
but said he hadn't seen the bulk of it. Of
course, engineers are experts in the gen
tie art of camouf1aging, so / am Quite
prepared to see white tablecloths doing
duty IN every engineer mess in the divi
sion for the next month or SO.
Each time | meet the D. S. C. now
very carefully avoid all mention Of
panels by cleverly steering the talk along
radio or wire lines, or use the latest
rumor from Berlin to stir him up-it's a
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Out With the Old
Horse and Wagon

The upshot of the matter was that
the Firms decided to meet their problem
as they had been taught to do in the
old country, for in Finland cooperation
thrives, as it does in England, Belgium,
Denmark and various other European
countries. Whether the milk distributors
were asking only ''fair profit as their
term goes, or an unreasonable profit,
why shouldn't they, the Finnish people,
sell themselves milk and get it as cheap
Iy as possible, they asked. SO the old
horse and cart became a regular insti-
tuition not only in one town, but soon
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
BY EL.ENE FOSTER

OOUR young women in dainty bou-
doir caps and fluffy silk negligees
sat up in four white beds in a
big, sunny corner room at the top of
the Polytechnic Hospital and talked about
the war. They were a small contingent
Of the nurses who had been sent home
from the hospitals overseas to recover
from the effects of the Influenza thirty
of whom are in the Polytechnic Hospital.
Two of the group had worked in France
and two in England, but all were
equally homesick.
"You-all can't understand what it
means unless you've been through it
yourself" said the little blond one
from Mississippi, "but it's an experience
that | wouldn't have missed for all the
world, and if my poor old heart never
does stop beating in rag-time | shall
still be everlastingly grateful that I had
the privilege of taking care of our boys
over there
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Even Siberia Cooperates;
Why Not New York?

OF course, to undertake such a prof.
ect in New York City AZ cooperative
milk distribution is a much larger and
much more difficult undertaking. Il
would require a great deal Of organizing
and the raising of a great deal of capi-
tai, but why should not the people be
thinking of these things and working out
figures on such problems? eve arc the
sovereign power" What We arc dc
tcrmined to do we can do if VIC will only
work hard enough. Think what the com
bined profits of the milk business in New
York City might yield in the way of SO.
cial benefits. AS profits to be returned
to each householder the amount would
not be much, but kept together to en-
large the business and to provide social
benefits, think how much richer the com
munity would be!
In this connection it is interesting ~
know that 80 per cent Of the dairy bust
ness In Siberia IS comparatively owned
Cooperative groups own 800 crcamerics
tno, that's not a misprintl, 500 distribu-
tive societies and do business Of
$38, 100000 a year Aren't you sur
prised? Hadn't you always thought OF
Siberia as a dismal land of prisoners
and salt mines and frozen steppes? It's
true about the prisoners, of course. Per
haps that's the secret of the great sue
cess that cooperation enjoys in Siberia.
all the liberal minded men being sent
there as fast as the old regime could
ferret them out and pack them off.
The Dairymen's League here in New
York is an evidence of what producers
have been able to do, but it is a kind Of
cooperation that obviously does not bene
fit the consumer. 1t is consumers CO.
operatives which are now needed.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
A Dicker in 'Panels" in War Times

nACK again in the land of "Verbo-
~ ten" with it's queer signs, qucerer
smells and piles Of filth, and ne
glcct everywhere
Tonight we arc very comfortable in d
village held before us by the Boche for
four ycars--yesterday we were in one
Of his rustic rest camps, in word
even had a piano.
While we were there found seven or
eight bolts Of good white cloth-shroud
cloth, for the Hun finds it cheaper to
save the uniforms and use a winding
shcct-and after we had salvagcd enough
for tablecloths and dishcloths | made
my way down to d. w. headquarters and
made "a dicker with the division signal
officer TO trade him seven bolts Of the
cloth for some wire needed knew he
needed the cloth FOR "pnncls" Panels
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

"No, but | can't think how we ESCAPED,
for we were under fire the greater part
of the time. You see the Huns were
anxious to get at the munition stores
which were very near us, and they were
constantly bombing us. We wore steel
helmets when we went out while the
shrapnel was flying. Before they gave
US the helmets we used to go about
with tin basins or pals on our heads.
1t just seemed that we couldn't get away
from that kind of excitement, for when
I went up to Paris on leave it was
just the same Big Bertha spoke her
little piece every twenty minutes dur
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Being a Sister TO Him
Has a New Meaning

They called US sister," said the tall,
dark one in the corner, whose home is
in the state of Maine. ~ suppose be-
cause Of the nuns who work in so many
OF the hospitals, but bless your heart,
we were more than sisters to them; we
were mothers and sweethearts and even
grandmothers to those boys. We wrote
their letters, mended their clothes,
scolded them and watched over them
sometimes until the end came"
"One of the most difficult things that
had TO do" broke in Miss st. Louis,
Who was nbbling chocolates in the bed
between the windows, "was to buck up
the Tornmies when they got discouraged
ana were loath to 90 back to the fight
ing line. l used to feel so sorry for
them! Often q poor little lad who had
oeen In the fight from the beginning,
"no had been wounded repeatedly and
patched up and sent back to the fighting
Ane, would lose his courage and say to
NE, Sister, Pm all fed up on this bloom
Ia var ] just can't 90 back-it's a
orr1ole nightmare to me. My 'eart's
n'I IN It any more Do you know how
cured that boy? / read In Flanders
'leids 70 him, and I never once got be-
yond' TO you from failing hands we
'n'o" the torch without being inter
'cpted by, 'That'll do, sister, Pm on
ne waypo
Tan you imagine any one Of us set
l'h2 down to private nursing, to tax
my care Of nervous woman, child
WIN the measles or an old man with the
...,nsumatism, after experiences like
maj asked the fourth young woman,
""o hVes somewhere in New Jersey.
Just hate TO think OF the future"
''sned Mies st. Louis, II hate to think
VI regular hours for rneals, Of comfort
"o's steam heated rooms and all the
""'ef Injuries that We have been long
,"H Tor for the past year and half.
"ahs 10 20 back to the old barracks
- i'suen and the twelve hours' steady
~''"' which during the big drives be-
zane twenty-four on stretch"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
Cooperation Has Its
"Clooms" and Its Hopes

A group of born and bred Americans
would probably have abandoned the
project when they saw there. was not a
saving to be returned from the sup
posedly fabulous profits to be made by
the distribution of milk That has been
the trouble with Americans as co0pera-
tors. Each man has been too keen to
get quick money out of his little venture
That is why America has come to be
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

, in his robes of office, surrounded by the
dignitaries of the town and church, for
Winchester, az you know, is cathedral
town. Every grave is covered with flow
ers and from the head of each futters
little American flag. The Bishop of
Winchester is reading the prayers for
the dead and the motley gathering,
which is composed of townspeople Of
all classes (many of whom were in
mourning for their own brave lads) +,
doctors and nurses from the hospital
and few of the convalescent patients,
stand with bowed heads in the spring
sunshine.
''The idea Of holding little memorial
service had occurred to us the day be-
fore, but when we tried to purchase
flags for the occasion we found that
they had all been bought up by the
townspeople and on our return to the
hospital we were told that the Mayor
had invited us to the service 1t was
all planned and carried out without our
even making a suggestion, and as l
stood there among those graves I could
think of only one thing; l wished, oh,
how I wished, that the mothers of the
boys whom we had laid there could
know how carefully and tenderly their
English cousins were looking after their
last resting place.
Winchester loved our boys As we
walked with them through the town,
we would be stopped by half dozen
women who would come to their cottage
doors to invite us in to tea To give
US bread and tea and jam in those days
of short rations meant that they must
deny themselves their favorite meal"
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
; Milk Consumers Went On Strike

tegrlty and our public efficiency arc yet
equal to the handling of so technical
problem and one involving so many
millions Of dollars.
The Dairymen's League, which repre-
sents between 10000 and 10000 dairy
men and farmers, is striving to de-
velop public opinion in favor OF distri-
button by the producers of milk. 1t is
their contention that they would be sat
1sfied to make the distribution at cost
for the opportunity of producing as
much milk as possible and making fair
profit on that thus saving the consumer
the distributors profit and giving him
the cheaper milk that always results
from increased production. Well and
good. But in the end should we not be
IN the hands of a monopoly whose in
tcrests were theirs rather than ours?
The other method which is advocated
is the cooperative ownership Of dist,ibu-
tton By the consumers themselves. This
would be a truer balance of interests.
1T would require campaign of educa-
tlon, but it can be DONE 1t is being done
in other places. Five Massachusetts
towns have cooperative milk distribution,
notably, Fitchburg, Worcester and Mayn-
ard. They have been established by
those most successful cooperators, the
Films, who come to this country with a
background of experience in cooperation.
Just before the war, when some of the
dealers began to raise the price of
milk, not only the amount nccessitated
by the increased cost Of production, but
also little for themselves, then it was
that the Films in the manufacturing city
of Fltchburg, next in Worcester and then
in Maynard, went on strike against the
high cost Of milk. They were hard
working, independent, frugal people, and
they proposed to have milk for their
children at rock bottom prices
New-York tribune., 1919-01-19

The result was that ono of the Finnish
men got an old horse and cart and
went driving out over the countryside
among the farming folk to sec who
would sell him milk. 1t was not hard to
find farmer who agreed to sell his
milk direct SO he came driving back
into town with milk, not enough on such
short notice for every one, but milk
enough for most of the very little ba-
bles in the neighborhood. And the next
day he brought more and the next more.