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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14

Miss Salesperson, are you always
busy? Mr.. Merchant, do you see to
it that your sales force is continually
employed?
These queries are prompted by the
truism that the hardest kind of work
to do lis no work at all.
There is bound to be in all estab-
lishments a certain time when routine
work is done and there are no Gus
toners to serve. Then, again, what
some sales people see fit to regard as
routine work, is most important.
There is hardly a time throughout the
business day when your stocks won't
stand little Strengthening and in the
process you become better acquainted
with them.
If there is one thing more than an
other that will break the heart Of the
head Of an institution 1t Is to have a
clerk for a sales person will never
commit this breach) say to a customer
1--WE are just out, or I'VE haven't that
particular brand" or II never heard Of
such an article" when as a matter Of
fact +. the merchandise in question is
nesting in some nook, Just screening
to be shown and sold.
Idle time, If there be such, had better
be continually employed, and If work
cannot be found in your own depart
ment, why not have the house devise
some rules under which you may visit
another section Of the store and see
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14
MERCHANDISING MUSINGS
By E. G. R.

how things are run there. We say de
wise rules" advisedly, because IL the
house simply invites such procedure
without Limitation, we are sure to find
some to improve the time by social,
rather than business calls, and then,
too, you run the chance of having a
customer disturbed in her mental pro-
cesses by the visit.
How long does 1t take you to get un-
der way In the morning?
How soon do you begin to get ready
to quit at the end of business day?
We have seen employees who thought
they were loyal, taking 80 precious min
utes in the morning by yawning, gos-
siping and catching their breath, be-
cause for fear Of being late. they have
had to run to the store, and taking
at least as many minutes more in the
evening fixing to quit.
Let's cut the time in half and say
80 minutes all told. Seven times
30 are 210 minutes, wasted in a
weeks work for which your en-
ployes are taking real money, which
reduced to hours, means three and
one-half hours. Now say there are
rs offending employees. Here you
have 761a hours stolen from the
firm, which Is more than a whole
weeks work, figured on nine
hour day.
The drab lack of interest in being or
] the Job with nothing to do, takes the
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14

lecL. 1 W~ 80 weak
! could not get up
] suffered such pains
in my back I could
not work or hardly
take caro- of my
baby. One Of my
neighbors re CO m
mended Lydia E.
Pinkham's vegeta-
BILE Compound. I
took it and used
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Sanative Wash. and
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14

The Queen of Belgium has decor
ated Miss Alberta Bicknell and Mrs.
Constance Bicknell Vaughn, daughters
OF Mr.. and Mrs Ernest Bicknell of the
American Red Cross. Miss Alberta
Bicknell is the youngest Red Cross
relief worker to receive a foreign dec
Grafton, in this case the order of Eliza
beth, and the reward comes for "long
continued and hard service" in behalf
Of the Belgian children and refugees.
She is 20 years old and has been work
ing in Belgium for two years. Mrs.
Bicknell was decorated for similar ser-
vices several weeks ago.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sincere
thanks to our many neighbors and
friends. members of the Acme Plumb
ing company and F'raternal Order of
Eagles for their many acts of kind
ness and words of sympathy in the
loss Of our beloved wife. mother and
sister.
FLOYD ROBERTSON AND
BOYS,
MR.. AND MRS. J. B. ROBERT
SON,
MR.. AND MRS. WILLIS TRIM
. BILE,
MR. AND MRS. ARTHUR
LUKE,
MIR. AND MRS. MERRILL
ROBINSON
MIR. AND MRS. DENNIE ROB-
ERTSON,
MR. AND MRS. U. S. ROBERT
SON,
MIR. AND MRS. CLAUDE ROB-
ERTSON.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14

Let us mount your mead and tai,
your hide. Il. w. Limbert. Roise. Ida q
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14
WEATHER CONDITIONS
OVER THE COUNTRY

The high pressure area which cow
cred the northern Rocky mountaiI
states yesterday has moved rapidly
southeastward. spreading out over thu
plains states and the middle MISSISSIPPI
pi valley region. The north Pacific
disturbance Is developing slowly and
moving inland, promising showers q
Washington. Oregon, and Idaho. and
causing somewhat higher temperature
in those states. The only sections ri
porting rain in the last "a hours ar(
Manitoba, Canada, Minnesota, and
eastern Tennessee.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14

pep out Of the worker: 20 that when
there is something to do. she has for-
gotten how to do 1t with energy. Fogt
after all. energy. enthusiasm and %
timism are as much habits a. are eos<
tain physical habits.
Everybody knows that after . holt
day it takes times to get back into tho
swing, and by the same reasoning. ~
ter hours Of idleness. 1t takes an entire
sales force some time to warm up to ~
work.
"Spizzerrinktum-pe always, -
the only way in which to give ''valnl
received" to the 'old man." and inol-
dentally will tell for you in the lOnG
run, via the pay envelope.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14

DR.. Aurelia Reinhart has the dis.
tinction Of being the only woman
president Of western college She
is at the head of the Mills College,
Oakland. Cal There are POT girls
at the college taking an academic
course. DR.. Reinhart is a graduate
Of the University of California.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14
Miss Katherine Stinson standing
near the propeller Of . huge Hand.
ley.Page machine.

The ranks of the transatlantic fly
ers are to receive new recruit. This
time it is an American girl, the IA
nous Katherine Stinson. Miss Stin-
son. who has been doing Red Cross
work in France. has just returned to
America. She states that she hopes
to be the first woman to cross the
great pond by the air route.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14
FIVE CENTS

That's all for our Coca-Cola and
soda drinks. We pay the government
tax.-Coco Cola Bottling Co-.Adv.
' swa
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14
STRENGTH FOR
YOUNG MOTHERS
How Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg.
etable Compound Restores
Health and Strength.

Lansing, Mich" After the birth of
my child / was not able to stand on nv
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-05-14

| got better right away and was soon a
new woman and could work hard, and
can recommend these remedies to other
young mothers who are weak and ailing
- was. Mrs. ORA o. BOWERS, 621
5. Hosmer Street, Lansing, Mich.
Women who are in Mrs. Bowers con-
dition should not continue to suffer from
weakness and pain-but profit from her
experience and give this famous root
md herb remedy, Lydia e. Pinkham'a
Vegetable Compound, trial.
For suggestions In regard TO your
ecndttton write Lydia "a rfnkham Ned
teins Co. Lynn, Mass. Iheresuitof their
% yearv experiences b 1t your service
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
Baron Shimpei Goto

getting impatient. 1t is like a sick
man, to whom every day of pain is
so hard that he soon feels he has
been sick long, long time. The
world thinks that now. But if it
would stop to realize it, the time Of
the worlds sickness has not been
long, not as the world moves. To
the world few years are not much.
"The world is restless in many
ways-in politics, in philosophy, in
art, in literature. 1t is getting tired,
and there are always people who are
more tired than the rest. There are
always people who cannot get along
with the world, and when the world
is having trouble getting along with
itself, it will listen to them. Soon it
will get tired of them, too.
GLOW much of this unrest in everv
line" he was asked-"this demand
ing that the government shall do
everything, and this 'inventing' of
new old things that are easy to do,
is because the people who make the
demand want to evade their own re-
sponsibilities, because they can not
or do not want to- take the pains and
the trouble to do things right or to
do them well?"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
By Bertram Reinitz

"HE East Side is all over New
York City. War-made pros
perity has dropped into it
like a huge rock into a tiny
pond and scattered it's contents to
the four subways.
AS yet the Saturday night crowds
on Grand Street do not reflect this
second exodus of Israel's race. and
the population an acre still exceeds
that of Wood County, Tex. But the
trend, mental and physical, Of it's
hundred thousands is away 49, to
where the marble fronts and the
tile fioored Railways are calling.
Vanioads of the East Sides furni-
ture travel in slow, persistent lines
uptown, out Of town and to Brook
Ign.
The prosperous pilgrims depart
and no successors plug the diminu-
tive gaps. Few of Europe's young
men or old or middle aged men are
going West, because the Old World
is just as new as the New World
ever was, and there is little or no
transatlantic rapid transit from the
countries which gave the East Side
its majority.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

The fact is that the young folks are
swimming strongly in the food of
high wages.
Most Of these families have
three and more children. Most Of
these children work. They earn, not
$40 or $11 a week, as of old, but
$25 and $50. Incomes of families
that struggled along on the meagre
earnings of the father in other
days move grandly along on in
comes of 800 week and over
The Jewish children are conscien-
tious and good for the most part.
They give by far the largest share
of their earnings into the house.
"But they want some return.
Fashions looking like they came
from Paris by aeroplane do not
match with the undecorated, old
law tenements of the East Side. So
the girls demand finer and better
looking homes. The boys who were
in the army have new and more
healthful ideas about living. They
want good and modern sanitation
and plenty of light. Most of the
houses on the East Side were built
long ago. There has been little
building here in the last five years
because the lots are too expensive
and builders found they could erect
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

which is which. One talks of democ-
racy, but it has none. The other is
at least honest. There is no human
lty in Bolshevism. There is no real
idealism in it. 1t is not democratic.
"lt will not last long, however. 1t
is a thing that will pass, though l
cannot guess how soon.
Z "That is true of this whole unrest
that we see in all countries, even in
Japan and America, which have suf-
fered least. A period of restlessness
like this is always followed by a
period of settling down and content
ment and quiet. 1t is not anything
to be greatly worried about. If
there is any idealism in it, any good,
that will last, but the grasping and
the trouble, making will not last.
1t is just as we'll to be optimistic
about it. The world has had many
things of the kind, and always they
leave little good and pass on. This
is just another of them"
"Then you think that the crisis in
the worlds unrest has passed."
He shook his head vigorously.
"No, no, ! would not say that. 1t
will pass in safety, but l cannot tell
when. Maybe soon. The world is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

throne. 1t seemed body of men
whose intentions were very close to
Gods. But as time has gone on and
each one has wanted this thing here
and that thing there, it has moved
further and further away from the
throne. Now it is quite a ways
away But God has still it's place
for it, and if this particular lot of
men do not come back there, there
will be others. After all, there is a
good deal of goodness in it,"
"You know, baron, that there are
a good many people in America who
say--some with pride and some with
condemnation-that it is America
that has been trying to put the
idealism into the peace conference,
and that this is the one thing she
has done. Do you think that is 500"
The baron smiled benehcently.
at is a good thing for America
to think she has been giving ideals
to the world" he answered. at is
a good thing for her to think that
she has a leadership of that kind.
1t is a very good thing"
'And the league of nations-do
you think that will work."
"You mean the league plan as it is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

Dora is good stenographer, and
perhaps she will get raise. Then
lsadore-he'll be Irving soon-is
now stock clerk at $27 weekly.
Goods are scarce, and the statesmen
all hand him tips to give them pref
erence, filling their orders first from
the depleted stocks
Hyman is graduating from high
school next month. Maybe he'll
get SIS a week. H-m-m. Mrs.
Silverblatt adds on X. Menders
chopping block, as she absorbs the
high toned aspect of her former
neighbors, whose children, she
knows, never had such high marks
in the primary as hers. X. Mcndel
has finished plucking the feathers
from the chicken by this time and
she leaves, wondering how long it
will take Dora to get to work from
Borough Park every morning.
These mental processes are cost
ing the East Side its citizens. This
story might be the first chapter of
the obituary of the section. Or it
might cause the word artists who
daub with its rich local colors for
good living to move on it in a body.
Then housing shortage will be
unanimous through all the city's
neighborhoods.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

houses more cheaply in The Bronx
and Brooklyn and ask higher rents. -
And once they taste the life
along the new subways they never
return, Mr.. Germanowsky declared.
If apartments are few in their
chosen neighborhood, families
double up. Besides, that reduces
the rent.
Shopkeepers are not bewailing the
cash registering effects of the ex-
odus. The East Siders are at pres
ent severing only residential rela-
tons with their first American
home.
On Saturday nights chiefly, Mrs.
Lefkowitz comes in from Borough
Park and meets her onetime neigh
Dor, now of The Bronx, in X. len
dePs butcher store on Madison
Street. Both women wear hornets.
not shawls. They speak English,
using Yiddish idioms only. Mrs.
Silverblatt, still on Rivington Street,
in the same house from which the
other two women eA1igrated, meets
them and hears their conversation.
favored with telephones in the hall
way and perhaps elevators, or
dumbwaiters, at least. She COM
putes salaries. Dora has just found
new position for $25 a week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
Has America Changed?

The baron was last in America
eighteen years ago, and then made
rather careful study of the country.
He was asked what he thought of
the changes he has seen on his pres
ent trip and whether he had altered
his views on American civilization.
Particularly he was asked what he
thought of the charge so frequently
made that the high tension Of our
business life and industrialism has
made it impossible for us to have
the finer and more cultured things
in life.
The baron admitted decided
change in his estimate Of America
and one in our favor.
"Whcn ! was in America before"
he explained, at seemed to me that
you were raw matcrial-vcry fine
raw material - but unfinished,
though there was every opportunity
to make a splendid thing out Of you.
But now'-and he spread his hands
abroad-"thorc is such a change!
You are no longer raw. There is
still much ahead for you, but there
is no question about what you will
do. You have made q great prog
ress, not only in what you call your
industrialisn-that you have always
had-but in the other things that
go to make a great nation. You have
gained in al kinds of culture.
eff there are some things still
wrong, America need not worry. The
changes | see as the result Of the
last eighteen years have convinced
me that America has saving thing
inside herself that will keep her on
the right road OF progress. She has
the ability to look for her faults and
her weaknesses, and whatever may
be wrong with her to find them and
to take means to correct them. That
is the most valuable thing any na.
ton can have"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
OTTO, Stale, Hires Young Men to Irritate Him
A Remarkable Interview With =
Striking Personality

at present drawn up? That will de-
pend on the sincerity of the nations
in it,
"Does that mean that the league
is not strong enough to stand
alone?"
"There may be some weaknesses
in the league plan as drawn. Some
things that Japan wanted to see in it
are not there, for instance. (The
baron's reference was to the pro-
vision for recognition of racial
equality among the members Of the
league.) But that is not the point.
No matter how perfectly the league
might be drawn up, whether it will
work or not will depend on the sin
cerity of the member nations. If
they intend to keep the provisions
of the covenant in good faith and do
keep them, then the league will sue
coed. But if they each have selfish
schemes of their own, or even if any
strong one of them has such in
tentions, then the league will either
fall to pieces, or at least it will not
prevent war"
There has been talk here" it was
suggested, "that in the work of the
peace conference sort of under
standing has grown up that the three
powers which are biggest in each of
the northern continents are to have
a kind of admitted leadership on
those continents-Great Britain in
Europe, the United States in Amer
lea and Japan in Asia Do you know
whether there is any truth in this?"
"There may be some truth in it.
l would point out, though, that if
Japan has taken more important
position it is not because she has
grown stronger, but that France and
Italy and other nations have grown
weaker"
1.-The idea was, rather, baron, that
an understanding had been reached
that each of these nations should
have a sort of sphere of influence
and responsibility; that the questions
between America and Japan as to
the control of the Pacific had been
settled, for instance, and that each
of these pOUarc had omr,oJ - 40
spect the others interests and that
they had worked together. to this
end at the peace conference"
II think that is little exagger-
ated. Perhaps there has been a rec
ognltion of Japan's position in Asia
and wider understanding that she
is not aiming at anything there that
would endanger any one else"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
Marble Fronts Lure Thousands From East Sid,

The shrinkage of the East Side
and the reasons for it are obvious
and real. While the other sections
of the city writhe in the grip of a
housing shortage, the East Side
stretches its residential legs com
fortably and uncrowded. Seven
thousand of the apartments which
once sheltered penniless immigrants
and those with bullying socks are
now some landlords liability. A
conservative estimate places five in
dividuals to the average East Side
family unit. This means that quar-
tiers for thirty-five thousand per-
sons-and actually tenanted by that
many five and even three years ago
are vacant.
Up in The Bronx the S. R. O.
sign has taken the place of the
ITO Let" poster. Erstwhile East
Siders trample good-naturedly on
each other in the scramble for the
smallest jot of hardwood floor
space on which to unravels their
folding beds. Brownsville, Borough
Park and Washington Heights re-
port landlord pleasing surplus of
applicants over flats.
But the determination which in
duced them to stecrage across the
water which other people are try
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15
Tie BGron's Hobby

After the interview was over and
the baron had said .is formal good.
bys. MS secretary and Interpreter
called attention to some work the
baron had been doing. The baron
had shed his coat Immediately and
was already deep in consultation
with another of the irritant seven.
The secretary took from the man.
telpiece a roll OF several pieces Of
a parchment-like cloth, covered with
japanese writings. On some were
as many as a hundred characters
each a word. On others only five or
six.
DO you know what these are!'
he asked. This work is a hobby
with the baron. He was making
these last night. They are what you
call epigrams, or proverbs, and some
are verses. 1t is something that is
done by many Of our most intellect
ual people in Japan, and it is very
fine and formal art, for there are
most particular rules to be observed
This one is to be sent to the AS
sistant Secretary of State, as an APP
probation of his kindness to the
baron when ne was in Washington.
Here is one for the Ambassador ana
one for the consul here. Among
japanese gentlemen they are often
sent as courtesy.
Here is the last one he made,
and the secretary spread out sheer
nearly as large as a pillow sup
with seven bold characters beautifui'
ly engrossed on it. 1T is little
hard to translate into English. Per'
haps this is as close as / can get IT.
Human efforts must perles,
Gods plans" .uul
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

ing to fly over is active upon them
and they gladly go from where
homes are many to where they are
few.
East Siders debate only one
question before they determine to
move, according to Abraham Ger
manowsly, Of 140 East Broadway,
who has dealt in homes for them
for the last twenty years.
"They ask themselves if they can
pay the added rent and expenses,
conveniently or inconveniently. 1t
doesn't make any difference" Mr..
Germanowsky explained. "The war
salaries and war business successes
have enabled them to answer i. the
affirmative. And they leave the un-
improved three and four room
homes and go to five and six room
apartments with less floor space.
but more lights, imitation marble
and mirrors.
at isn't that the old men in the
black skullcaps have desire to
climb up slippery stone steps
through narrow Railways and ride
in crowded subways. Few of the
former immigrants themselves have
been Americanized that much or
succeeded to the extent of paying
$40 a month for $40 worth of room.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-15

can coast, every well informed uer.
son knows that they are untrn.
They are always being started. ana
find their way into some newsuane,,
that, for some reason, want to ~,
up feeling against u.s."
The anti-Japanese German prom.
ganda came to mind and the million.
that were spent by Bernstorff's hired
crooks to stir up America to war a.
the time that. relations with Ger.
many were becoming acute. Barn,
Goto was asked whether there had
been any similar propaganda carr;ea
out in Japan. He took several min.
utes to think it over.
'Not very much" he said final,v
There may have been some of tbs,
IN Japan, in attempts to influence
the newspapers or some speakers
But the Germans did very little o.
that sort of thing with us directly
"But their propagandists hav.
been very busy indeed in China and
have spent great sums of money
there. Their chief aim has been n
convince the United States that
Japan had imperialistic and uniuu
ambitions in China and that her
plans there would seriously iniure
the United States and the cause Of
general decency and humanity. Shs
has spent great deal of money try.
ing to make America believe that.
and if she could it might make soma
friction
and if she could make Japan
believe that America was trying to
interfere with Japans Legitimate
and proper activities or rights
there?" it was suggested.
"Well, yes. There is not much
chance of her doing that"