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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23
Olinger Quartet Draws
Full House 10 Concert


Whether it was the voices of the
Olinger quartet at the Opera
House Thursday night, or their
personalities, or their precise
training and perfect assurance, or
perhaps happy combination of
all-anyway the evening was a
genuine success and the packed
house showed that Frank w. Far
mer had made a good impression
on previous visit. The people
knew what to expect.
Unique features of the enter
tainment, and, considering the age
of the performers, some of the best,
were the addresses and readings
of Captain Roger Bailey and of
Captain Clayton Howe, each de-
livering two selections relating to
FtAA making of good men out of
10Th young fellows are
Epsld 4 YEARS Of age, as are
r AZ NE -hundred High
SIT W6H they lacked in
stature was made up in military
bearing, confidence, training and
enthusiasm.
Songs of the quartet ranged
from the most beautiful sacred
songs to negro dialect, and in
cluded comic pieces, popular airs,
martial songs-something pleasing
for every taste. 1t was a real
pleasure to be able properly to ex'
press appreciation for the beauti-
fully sung religious songs, espec'
tally Remember Now Thy Crea.
tor. Neptune" in the deep easy
bass voice Of Charles Reid brought
a round of applause demanding al
encore-the good old bass violil
song.
In "Roses of Piccardy" and
"Sweet Little Woman of Mine"
Rayden Massey was given gooe
range for his fine tenor voice. He
! is a CHEEKY member OF the organl-
zation, and met with the genuine
iapproval of the crowd.
I Everett Foster sang in an ex-
pressive way "Tommy Lad" and
''Pretty, Pretty Creature" and re.
sponded to the hearty cheering
with Little Gray Home in the
Vest.
Frank W. Farmer might have
thought his audience all Scotch
from the way they received MARY
of Argyle", but Irish Courtship''
proved the Irish to be well-very
well-represented. He responded
to the gratifying reception OF these
songs with a jolly encore.
All of the solos were accompa-
MED by Miss Flora Taub, who
knows just the bounds of the ac-
companist, and did not seek to as
sert her work unduly. 1t was a
Joy to watch her capable graceful
fingers.
/ Mrs. J. R. Sutherland arranged
this treat for Idaho Springs, and
looked after many of the details
To her is due vote of thanks for
the coming of this popular group
of entertainers.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

The guy with old fashioned
clothes and money in his pockets
will heat the one with a moder n
500 suit with the pockets empty.
Middle Park Times.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

If man doesn't wind up his
bad habits his health will soon run
down.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

Cattlemen around Dumont have been
finding considerable difficulty in getting
feed to their stock.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

Mrs. Evaline Callow is enjoying va
cation this week from her work at the
A. Thames store.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

A polished gentleman isn't nee
essarily smooth article.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

The Alice stage with good supply
of mail started home Thursday on a
sled after having been compelled to re-
main since Saturday on account of the
deep snow.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

Manager Schoellkopf sent the motion
picture machine to Denver Thursday
morning for repairs. After being un-
able to finish showing "Ann of Green
Gables" Wednesday night This is a
clean pretty story, and the large au-
dience hope to see it completed.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

Mrs. Alice Dewitt is disrosing of
the remainder of her household goods
make some investments for her hus-
badd near Blythe, California. Mrs.
Dewitt came here some time ago for
few days, and liked the place well
enough to buy property here, and may
return before very long and rebuild her
partly burned house.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

| Jennings and Smith sub easing on
the Albro from Dingle, report the pro-
ject as turning out exceptionally we'll
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

Bv L. A. Seidl, Omaha, Neb., win
ner of the first prize in the contest con-
Quoted by the Omaha Thrift Committee.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

Mrs Mabel Googan came from New
York Friday for Wait with her aunt
Mrs. L. J. Cook.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

Frank Stout has gone to LaClave,
Colorado, to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Ber-
nard Bruce, and May remain there for
some time.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

E. L. Regenntter is attending to
professional business in Denver.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-04-23

County Treasurer Patrick Devany
came down for a little business last
Saturday and didn't get back until
Wednesday.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29
MOTTO T..

All persons indebted to and all per
sons holding claims against the estate
of Alex Nofal. deceased, will please
make settlement with
w. G. BAROODY.
Especial Administrators.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29
THE YEAR'S BIG BUSINESS

Our nation is not that territory
which extends north and south. east
and west, but the human beings who
on this territory have established
thelr homes. The nation lives in
homes. Industry is to supply homes
Out IN the morning aAd home at
night goes the nation, men and
women and children, and govern
mcnts real business is always the
nome and the people in it.
The things that make Il good home
are the things that make good
nation.
/ have seen houses into which TOO
much material prosperity brought
idlencss, pickering. and discomfort
and even reduced the standard of
health. And sometimes | think that
something Of this sort has happened
20 MS 1t ia only temporary, if we
face the situation. Wealth newly ac-
1uired often brings calamity in it's
rain, but after time there develops
sense Of responsibility with it. 1t
is that period which We have reached
and ii is largely tho women OF the
country who must accept the respon-
sibility Of restoring TO the national
home content and happiness, health
and well-being.
MARY Roberts Rinchart in Janu-
1ry Good housekeeping.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29
STOCKS OF CAST OFF LCXURIES
LA1v1A DTALERS HAVE LARGE

Libau, Lstvia, Nov. 23-The ap-
pearancc OF the shop windows here
indicate that the Libau tradesmen
have received some of the plumber
taken by the various armies that have
swept over the Baltic states. They
are piled high with antique furn-
Sure from country estates. St,tu-
arr, silver and bronze ornaments. sill
vcrware and jewelry also abound in
the commission houses.
English dealers in antiques overran
the Baltic states after they first pick
ed themselves Of the Bolshcvik re-
gime and picked up much of the val
liable furniture and the jewels, ori-
entail rugs and old silver. Conse-
quenty the shops now offer fewer
rare pieces than they did year ago.
Besides the loot, the shops carry
an amazing lot of second hand wares
which were the property of persons
impoverished by war who must now
convert them into money. LuXuries
went first but now furs, fur coats
and all sort of wearing APPAREL are
being sold in the shops. These stores
look like American rummage sales.
1T is common for prosperous look
ing strangers who are inspecting shop
windows to be approached by owners
~ rare old furniture of works OF art
who desire TO offer their precious
possessions at private sale where their
friends will not recognize them
The shops i'm I.ibau are much the
same as those in Riga, Windau and
the cities of Esthonia and Lithunia
Conditions were the same in Moscow
and Petrograd until the Soviet gov
ernment closed all the private shops,
seized their stocks and forbade trade
government.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29
NANN-HARNARD STUDENTS
WORK WAY THROUGH COLLEGE

Cambridge, Mass, Dec. 20-Half
the Harvard University student body
of about 5000 is working its way
through college in whole or in part
n survey of student employment just
completed at the graduate school
supplemented by figures from the
student employment office shows that
those obtaining regular and casual
employment ranging from profession
al house-hun.ing to instruction dIs
languages TO an inmate of an in
sane hospital earned more than $77,-
demic year 1919-1920.
99S men registered for work last
year. 1872 obtained it, The number
of positions available is always less
than the number Of seekers.
Occupations in term time include
that of walters, chaufferS. choremen,
furnace tenders. hotel clerks. window
cleaners, university guides, and play
crS in jazz orChestras Some students
spend Christmas holidays chopping
wood in the forests OF Maine One
man is reported working nights, sleep
ing live hours. out of the twenty-four,
ana earning fifty dollars week.
Tutoring is the most popular en-
ployment in tcrm-time and in one
form Or another il is also remunera-
tive in the summer recess. One man
last summer earned $3.50 4 month
ana expenses AS supervisor of Chill
drcn's play. Another spent his morn
lnSS with Il group Of children at a
popular resort on the Maine coast
and made $1,000 i'm TWO months. Sew
cral took ocean cruises as tutors, COM
panionS or cooks. Another man pick
ed mp several weeks expenses posing
for an artist.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29
CLERGY MEN ASKED TO
STUDY MEDICINE

London, Dec. "a controversy il
on among the poorly paid section OF
clergymcn who find themselves hard
hit by tho high cost OF living over :,
novel suggestion put forward by DIR
Robert Rcntoul Il prominent Liver
pool practitioner, that the clcrevmcn
could argument their incomes by act
ing rs doctors as well as parsons.
DR.. Rentoul advises vouno cIcrov-
men to study medicine, take their de-
gree and combine body-curinr with
Soul-saving work
Many clcrSymcn do not look with
favor on the idea. They argue thai
they have plenty to do ALREADY and
that local practitioners would bitter
~ resent competition from them. Dnc
wants to know where Door Curatr is
l" raise the $50 pounds sterling nec-
eSary 10 qualify for "A medical degree
and others hold that "within =
month the clerico- -medico's sermons
would be thin, and that the soul
would suffer at the expense Of the
b0dy," ~
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29
PRESIDENT OF FRANCE
PURCHASES AIRPI.NNE.

Paris. Dec. 2---Presidcnt Millerand.
despite the earnest contrary advice of
Madame Millerand. is reported TO
have ordered an airplane limousine
for the urposc OF making Official
visits to foreign capitals and cities
in the provinces.
Should tho report prove TO be true
II will mean "a departure in the mode
OF travelling of presidents I'm France
and the permanent sidetracking Of
the presidential train. a regular
squadron will have to bc provided for
the Presidential suite and the 80 or
50 journalists who accompany the
president ON all his trips from Paris.
some newspapers calls the Presi-
dents attention to the fact that a
tall from the window Of his aerial
mousine would have more terrible
results than leaning too far out of
tho train window, referring to the acci-
dent tn the former president Paul De-
schanel,
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29
SOCIALISTS IN GERMANY
ON TILL. WAR PATH

Berlin. De-. 1-SOcialis. newSDa =
pcrS and communist lgitatrrs are
making much of the misery "csult-
ing from unemployment. high cLst of
necessities and the winter, and arc
contrasting: the condition Of the Loor
with the prodiSal spending of the
proiitccrS. There is perhaps less ex-
cravaGancc than there was before
the war, but the number of Idle and
very poor is said TO be create, and
emphasizes present conditions.
Workers for the red revC luton"
with the slogan Of poverty AMI prof
iteer, the ammunition they most
frequently employ. are urging tn ov-
crthrOw of the government and tho
establishment of Il dictatorship of the
prolctariat to relieve tho conditions
they call intolcrable. AS the misery
OF the worthless Increases with the ad-
VahclnS winter they expect to gain
strength to make an effort to over
turn the present regime. which they
blame for the troubled economic con-
ditionS.
Die freihcit ORGAN of the Inde-
pendent Social democratic Oartv is
sues an earnest warning" to the gov
ernmcnt that conditions arc coming
to head and that it will be i'll for
the administration if some tangible
effort is not made to relieve id,cncss
II adds: 1T is time for the caDitalistic
regime to take heed. The Droletariat
has not lost it's strength; it is grow
ing stronger against that time when
the hour of decision shall strike"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29

A fully equipped instinct for soldier
pupils has been established i'm the
army Is the announcement made to-
day by Major General T.. c. Harris.
The Adjutant General.
The chief difference between II and
those in civil life is that the soldier
IS paid at least $50 "a month while at
tending while in the outside world tho
student pays his tuition, and supports
himself in the bargain.
This new mercantile school is part
of the Fifth Division, at Camp Jack
son. Columbia. S. c.. which is now re-
crulting up to full strength. under
geographic orders from the War De-
partnenh. AS Major General John /,
times, commanding the division. saws:
soldiers are given the training
which will enable them to perform
efilclently rhc clerical duties of the
several branches Of the army, at the
sam time qualifying them for worth
while position" in the business worlI
Special cl:"lt is made TO develop SELF
reliance. initiative perseverance. and
judgment"
In the army's school of business
every student has a desk and lixines
similar to those in the office OF y
business executive. Typcvrjtcrs
comptomotcrs. filing apparatus. ard
adding machines of late model arc
part of the machinery of the we'll
lighted and ventilated class rooms.
Soldiers in the business course take
either stenography and typewritng
| bookkeeping and typcwriting, or the
| army clerical course as preliminary TO
advanced work in either the accounting
or executive fields. The Gregg sys-
tenn Of shorthand is taught. and the
| touch method Of tpyewwriting.
! Courses in pcnmanshin, spelling. and
the use Of English are given to all
! students
In bookkeeping. after the tsudent
mas reviewed and is proficient in
arithmetic and penmanship, he acts as
pookkeeper for store. where he
| must meet and solve all the urob-
| sems he would find in a similar DO
Sition in civil life. He buys and sells.
does business with Il bank, a whole
sale house, and individual consumers:
ne makes records of actual transac-
lonS, and determines the progress Of
ms business. its costs, and profit or
| iosS. In addition, there is trairinc i'm
ordering: goods invoicing, advertis-
ing and salesmanship. tin,e-kccping
ana costs. instruction in busin ess
III" ana ethics is also part Of the
| course
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29
CLARION CALL.
(By Jane Priest).

(By Jane Priest).
The world needs a song
Now sing, if your Gift be singing!
The world needs song
To set mems pulse ringing.
Over the ultimate seas
t The jubilant strains must carry
TO lift up the heavy-hearted,
So their feet may lag not nor tarry.
Tn world needs a prayer
Now pray, if your gift be praying .
The world needs a prayer
That will mean what all are saying
Give us ray of hope
Something to lessen the sorrow
Faith that it's all for. the best,
And courage TO rise tomorrow.
The world needs a light
Now see! If your gift be seeing!
An all-pervading light
To send the darkness fleeing.
Show us the vision divine
And no not dare conceal it.
You son the mountain tops,
II YOU see truth, reveal il!
Good Housekeeping for January.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29
FEDERAL TAX
REVISION LAW
Calls For Repeal of Excess Profit
Tax and Reduction of
SurtaX

New York, Dec. 26.--Recommend
tions for radical revision OF the fed
oral tax laws, calling for a. curtail-
ment of more than $1,000. 200, 900 a
year, were made public today by the
tax committee of the national indus
trial conference board.
The report, expressing the opinion
of only the committeeman themselves.
will be submitted as a basis for dis
cussion of the third national in
dustrial tax conference which will
convene here January 21-22.
The report Of the committee pre-
sents the following recommendation
which would reduce federal revenue:
Repeal Of the excess profit tax
which would diminish tho federal
taxes to the extent OF $500, 900 900
per annum.
Reduction of surtax rates, which
would, entail Ia loss of 5000, 900, 900 an
nually.
provision that business losses for
any year should be deducta bic from
the income derived during the sue.
ceeding year or the preceding year
IT the income of the succeeding yeal
is insufficient which would curtai
taxes s5O,0O0,O0O yearly.
The committee opposed a sale OIL
turnover tax in the recommendation
for remedial changes. These changes
the report stated, would have but lit
tie effect on the gross revenue from
taxation. The committee declared in
its report that the proposal for ar
excess tax on the privilege Of hold
ing land and natural resources is un.
sound
Sincere and vigorous retrench.
ment i'm public expenditures mus
stand behind any tax system aimed
TO work permanent public improve
mcn!,' the report says.
The report calls on the busines.
.ncn to act together to remedy [;
situation that the committee believe.
to be working private injustice ant
puplic harm.
Business agreement will accom-
plish public benefit" the repor
states, but business disagreement O.
this important subject will merel,
Intensity and multiply the injuriou.
factors of bad situation"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29
UNIQUE
TECHNICAL CORPS

Berlin, Dec. 2-The backbone of the
German government today is tho
Tcchn-sche Nothilfe, a technical en-
ergoncy aid association supported by
the government, DR.. Berwit, one of
the leaders of that organization told
the correspondent of the Associated
Press the other day. DR.. Berwits
statement was made as the alarm"
went cut for the Technische Moth
life 10 moboliZe to take charge Of the
electric lighting plants here, left idle
by a sudden strike. He considers his
organization more potent than troops
or police for the welfare Of the coun-
try.
Two or three hundred irrespon-
sble radicals here can terrorizc
100000 people" the doctor said
Troops cannot prevent it, the cleo
trio lighting plants are dark, the
streets are dark, the trans are still
and what can soldiers do? They cam
not operate these plants, which re-
quirc highly skilled labor. There is
only one organization that can as
sumo control and that Is the Tech
nschc Nothilfe."
The Technische Nothilfe went in
and began firing the furnaces and
| then the strikers voted to return 10
work. The TechniSche Nothilfe moved
out
I'VE are skilled workmen, not strike
breakers, not labor union men; we
really are the representatives OF u
| public that in these days is more or
less at The mercy Of a few agitators,"
50 "A
in strike for wages; all we do is
step in and operate public utilities,
| prevent sabotage, and furnish the
people just the bare nccesaries of a
daily existence We step into the
breach when chaos threatens"
In Berlin is is understood the
Technische Nothilfe has 10000 men
recruited from every business and
listed 80 that there can be no confu-
sion. Arrangements have b C n
made whereby they can drop the
work they are doing and answer the
Technischc NOthilfe's call. "All Ger
many is as carefully organized as
Berlin" DR.. Eerwit declared.
I'm the case Of disputes between
employers and labor we have nothing
to say. Wage demands may be ex-
orbf'ant, OF legitimate, we DO not con =
slider them. We merely see that
people are not terrCrizcd, that de-
struction OF public utilities, sabotage,
IS held to a minimum. The leaders of
union labor are not opposed to US.
They are. in fact, with us. for they
realize that it is essential to the life
OF the state TO keep certain indus
tries functioning. They aTre not al
ways able to do that themselves.
There is no longer any great
danger from a general str:.A any
where in Germany, for mind you all
this agitation YOU hear so much
about is not a general agitation; ii S
the bowling of few of the ultra
radicals. ready to Go anything, spread
ing discomfort wherever tney can,
working for the destruction of syery-
thing that is, and Offering Il >,hing
worth while as a substitute.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29

81. Johns. y. T.. Dec. 23.-SevcraI
thousand fishermen have left New
toundland owing to the comparative
failure Of the cOlony's fisheries this
year and the low price received for
the product. They have gone chiefly
to Canada ard the United States.
The total catch OF herring in the
season which ended in the middle of
last winter was only about half the
average OF previous years and. be-
cause of renewed competition with
scotch, Dutch and other foreign mar
Nets due 10 the return of peace con-
dluons. the value was greatly reduc-
cd. The early spring fishery for cod
Off the south coast and the seal fish
cry of the East coast were failures.
The main cod fishery around the
coast Of the island and Labrador re-
suited in an estimated catch Of l.
100000 quintals tof 1l2 lbs) as
against 100000 for last year. The
price dropped from $l2 to so a
qulntal for Newfoundland fish and
from $40 To SIS for Labrador cod Tho
decline in prices Cf cod oil Holsters
salmon and other subsidiary pro
ucts has been 50 great that the fish
ermen Will not receive more than
haI the amount which they obtained
last year.
Another factor tending To emirra-
non lS the CuEjailment in the iron
mines, where forces Of =. 3.00O bavo
been reduced by one-half Althouyh
IN" pulp and paper mills are making
an exceptionally large cut of wood
hey cannot absorb all the men Sock
ms work from them this winter.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29
Prices Have Not Fallen i'm United
KmS@dOm.

London. Dec. 27.--rhcre is no
abatement IN the high cost Of living in
the United Kingdom. The average
level OF retail pricess including food
clothing. fuel, light and rent, on No
vembcr | was about 176 per cent
above that of July, 1914. as ComDarcd
with l6i per cent ON October |. the
official Labor Gazette states
Last months y per cont increase
is mainly due to the higher prices of
flour and bread.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-12-29

mas not yet been tried I'm this coun-
try. II seems probable that il can be
grown here. at least In the Phillip
pines and possibly in Hawai-, and
Porto Rico.
The trip west to Lake Victoria
across Uganda and down to the Su-
dan was through a region compara-
lively little known by our department
but I'm which many of our crop plants
are grown. and which undoubtedly
can supply many native plants oi
Importance I'm the future development
of our agriculture.
The trip down the Nile from the
very headwaters at Ripon Falls was
most interesting because OF the Inn
mcnse development OF native grass
es and grain sorghumS which almost
everywhere line the banks os tho
Nile Seeds of these plants were
secured at many different stations. The
agriculture. methods OF irrigation and
cultivation. especially In the uppcr
and lower Sudan, were OF especial in
tercst To an American agriculturist.
The African expedition ended at
Port Sudan September =. 1920. Dr.
Shantz brought with him about o.
900 photographs In addition 10 tho
many plant specimens sent or
brought back.
The living plant material is now
in the various plant t-introduc-
ton gardens of the department prep
atory to being distributed later To- OK
pertinent stations and special expert
menters In different paris OF the
country,