The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-07-16

the male voters of the town
But bear this In mind-the success or
failure of their administration will add
nothing TO women's suffrage. nor will
IL prove anything regarding IL. no more
than the success or failure OF male
administration proves anything in re-
gard to male suffrage. There have
been failures OF administrations where
women had nothing to do with them.
But the idea OF turning an entire town |
over TO the women to run is a novelty |
that Is well worth watching.
Just now, when the world is la the |
midst of the most serious paper short
age it has ever known. experiments
| that are being made with fax straw
will be watched with interest. DaG.-
constructions are said to have shown
that, while wheat straw can be uss5
only In the manufacture of a manila.
! or brownish paper. flax straw makes
paper that Is almost as white as any
We have today. and which can be used
for either printing or writing pur-
poses.
Not only would IL be discovery
worth millions to It's discoverer. but
II would be worth great deal to the
thousands of farmers In the west aid
middle west who have never found any
use for their flax straw and who haze
been forced to burn II to get Ii out of
the way. We are growing from twenty
to thirty million bushels of flaxseed In
this country annually and aside from
the seed II Is waste. since stock VIII
not eat the straw. More than 3.00o.o0o
acres planted TO fax each year could
be made to yield still greater profit
could the straw be utilized In the man. .
ufacture of paper.
The matter IS also attracting the at
tention of Canada. where flax-growing
is important and where paper mills
have already experimental in making
; tlax-straw paper with fair degree of
: success. AT least the experiments
/. bring out the hope that. enough paper
can be made from II to relieve the
strain upon our spruce pulp supply.
with the result that paper Will again
get back to a point where newspapers
In towns like Phoebe viii not have the
, sheriff and the bankruptcy courts star
ing them In the face.
Q Residents OF Phoebe recall that along
0 about the time the automobile made its
appearance on the country roads OF
: the United States certain OF our pes
y simistically inclined predicted that
e they would soon replace the horses OF
+ this land. Some editors wrote long ar,
y tieles on the passing OF the horse and
all that kind Of stun. And the prizes
OF q good horse has been higher sincs
the automobile was invented than i
ever was before.
Then came the tractor, Just a few
years later. and the same condition
was predicted as before. But listen {,
a these figures given out from Washing
ton and complied this year.
There are 10000 otractors and las.
&4t motor trucks on the farms of tht
country. The tractors displaced fron
one to two and one-half horses pc
farm where the tractors We're owned
But In no case did they displaee enoug
horses to pay for the cost of the trac
tor. Then. too. it Is declared that q
y horses must be kept to do the man
phases OF farm work which cannot b
satisfactorily or economically done b
- a tractor. they are available to NEE
the farm needs for transportation @
agricultural products and must be kel
In as large number as ever.
There Is no question but that I'll
n automobile solved lot of problem
and the tractor Is already showing II
self TO be blessing. But the man WI
figures that they will put the hors
out OF business hardly knows what
Is talking about and hasn't eth,
counted or priced the horses In h
community recently.
Any Phoebe girl knows skirt h
better be an inch too short than .
- inch too long.
A Chicago man predicts that we W
- soon have IS wheat. We suppc
about the same time Ven have Il
se-ceat baked potato
We'd rather live next door to q
w man with had cold than next do
10 man who blows horn. The IN
with the cold may recover.
Opportunity differs from the knock
we occasionally meet In Phoebe
opportunity only knocks once
OF all the ladies we've ever hea
talk we prefer listening TO the one
silver dollar.
You never can tell Many Psoe
man forSives his enemies only to r
il In on his friends
We see In the daiiies where coal
Of New York mathematics efcped tn
possibly wanted to cut expenses 30 u