The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-08-23
WHAT Ais THE REPUBLICAN
COMMITTEE?


What ails the republican national
committee? Is is a victim Of sleep
ing sickness? Has some one drugged
the one-time energetic aggressive
and sagacious VIII Hays?
Harding and Coolidge were NOM
mated SO days ago, and the repub-
lican committee volunteered prompt
promises of vigorous, rousing cam
paign. But the campaign is well
nigh half spent and lethargy seems
to have seized the gentlemen who
were going to stir the country with
a whirlwind campaign.
Only IA days remain before the
casting of the country's ballots on
November 2. If the national commit
tee does not bestir itself and make a
better showing in the last half than
it has made in the first there may
be distressing surprises on the night
of November 2.
The national committees dullness
and inaction indicate complacent
belief that the party has the demo-
cratic donkey by the tail and a down
hill pull. But Governor Cox and his
running mate do not seem to share
that belief. They are "jazzing up"
their campaign little lvlier every
day, while deepening dullness falls
upon republican headquarters.
Has Will Hays been handcuffed or
gagged or has the "enemy" drenched
republican headquarters with some
mysterious and lethal gas ?-Spokes-
man Review.
The Poles have taken $4,000 soviet
Russian prisoners and have four COM
plete Russian armies in q pocket"
where it appears they cannot escape.
The Bolsheviki seem to have met the
most serious defeat of their career
and the overbearing attitude they as
sumed toward Poland and the de-
mand for humiliating armistice
terms, will only make the Poles more
bitter in debating terms to the Rus
SLAMS. She soviet seems to be in
about the same position Germany was
in at the close Of the war. After be-
ing brutal, aggressive and uncompro-
missing, until defeated, they are in a
poor position to ask for easy terms
from their conquerers. The sympa-
thy of the civilized world is with the |
Poles who have made one of the most |
desperate, stubborn and successful |
fights ever witnessed. When it SEEM
ed their country was doomed they |
have snatched victory from defeat
and have taken as prisoners more
than half as many men as they had
in their own army at the beginning
of the war. The Poles had 114,000
and the Russians had more than $780,
600 men we'll armed and equipped.
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Several threshers have been burn
ed and with each machine there has
been a loss of grain. These losses
should be warning to all to be more
careful and to carry insurance. No
farmer can afford to be without in
surance on his crop. The cost is very
light when compared with the risk he
is running. Every threshermah
should have rigid laws governing the
smoking of cigarettes and the use of
matches around thresher and should
lave his men drilled for fire so that
ZACH will know what to do in case of 1
N emergency and not have to wait !
o be told. This is the dryest and
most dangerous part of year and the )
,reatest care should be used by all.
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Every Sunday scores of Pullman
itizens drive through Moscow to the
where they enjoy the cool
reezes and deep shade. On Sun I
ay afternoon one can nearly always
ind more Pullman than Moscow peo- 9
lie in the timber on Miscow noun
ain. Distance must sslend enchant- :.
tent to the view" in this case. :