The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-21

Associated Press dispatches state
that Farley w Christensen, the Salt
Lake City attorney for the |. w. w.
who is the nominee for president on
the Farmer Labor" party ticket, has
asked Senator Harding and Governor
Cox to join him in an appeal to Pres
ident Wilson to pardon Eugene V.
Debs, socialist-I. w. W.-non partizan
league candidate for president, who
is serving term in the federal prison
for disloyalty and trying to obstruct
the draft If this farmer" should
succeed in securing the release of Debs
he will probably ask for an uncondi-
tional pardon for the /. W. w. who
murdered the American Legion men
at Centralia. We wonder what real
farmers think of this man, who is rep
resented as the farmers candidate for
president
1t looks like Shamrock " will do
what Shamrock |, II and III could
not do, Gift the cup" But few Am
orleans will regret it if Sir Thomas
Upton succeeds in carrying the cup
back to England, from which it was
taken by the America, more than so
years ago. Sir Thomas has shown
himself to be a good, clean, loyal
sport and we would rather he get 1t
than any one else, if it is to go from
the United States. Should the cup
be lifted" interest in yachting will be
renewed and we may look for some
real, live yacht races. Americans will
not long be, content to permit the cup
to remain outside of this country.
Railroad employees are to get an in
crease of Fl per cent in wages and |
salaries and the people are asked to
pay Is per cent more freight charges {
to make up this increase. Every in
crease is like the tariff-the consumer
pays it. We will get no better service
i
us more. Just the same. And higher
freight rates means lower prices for
wheat, hogs, cattle and everything the
farmer produces. Freight rates are
added to what the farmer buys and
taken from what he sells.
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1t is a far cry from the old days
when trips to Alaska were made by
sailing vessel, dog teams and on foot,
to the flight from Mineola, New York,
to Nome by army airplanes, which ex-
pect to make the round trip In two
weeks. What would the Alaska pio-
neers have thought had they been told
that within generation airplanes
would be making the flight from New
York to Alaska and return? Yet this
feat is now being undertaken and will
be successfully accomplished II
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1daho's sugar beet crop is said to be
the best in the history of the state n
while the acreage breaks all records,
being several thousand acres larger \
than in 1919 This will probably re- I
suit in an advance in price of sugar II
when the new crop comes in. The in II
creased expense of caring for this big |
crop will probably be added TO the |
price Of sugar to the consumer. sf
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Billy Bryan and Billy Sunday Il
Will make good team at the head Of !!
he prohibition ticket and will give an-ttI
,ther chance for people to vote for /
residential candidates of their choice. II.
low if Governor Edwards, of New II
Jersey, will just come out on a
traight wet" ticket everybody ought H
0 find candidate to suit his or her SF]
articular tastes. liz
This paper has been asked to sug- II;
est that the clock in the tower of the III
[ethodist church be kept in closer II
ouch with the actual time Com :
laints are made that it is well nigh
npossible to keep watches and clocks u
sgulated by this big clock, which =
light to give the accurate time both
" and night
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babe" Ruth the demon of the base &
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