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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-04-05
NEWS NOTES FROM
THE HIGH SCHOOL
Interesting Items of the
Weeks Doings Writ
ten by the Pu-
pills

About two hundred people were
present at the last number of the
lyceum course Monday night and
heard DR.. John Bohn of New York
lecture. His topic was one of vital
interest and Importance to the vast
throngs of America and other ma
lions. DR.. Bohn is great traveller
having visited all of the warning
countries during the war as we'll as
before. Many things he said were
great surprises to us, especially as
to the ignorance of the Russian peas
ant. He also gave a very good defi-
milton of Bolshevism. He told of the
productiveness and resources of Chi
ma, some Of which were astonishing.
China leads the world in coal and
ranks second only to the United
States in water power. Great
amounts of iron ore are also mined
in China.-Stanley Parkinson.
Miss Jessie Murphy, a teacher at
the Central school, visited the Poca-
tello schools Friday, and Miss Puma
Pelky substituted in her place.
Mr.. Eichelberger accompanied the
negative debating team, Charles
Swope, Victor Robertson and Ellis
Chapman, to st. Anthony, Friday.
y
Dr. Gillian spoke to the ancient
history classes at the high school
on 1.-THE Ancient History of
China" bringing it down to modern
times and telling of the habits and
customs of the people.
The high school students showed |
pep" Friday afternoon at a debate
rally led by Mrs. Caster, who called
an class presidents for speeches and
gells, followed by a snake dance thru
own.
The Spanish club will give their
lance Friday, April 8.
~
The Sophomore dance to be given
~ the class girls will take place Sat-
lrady, April 10.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-04-05
SUGAR COMPANY
WANTS PARTNERS
Declare Fifty Per Cent
of Stock Bonus Is
Returned

This office was interested in learn
ing the truth about how much of the
sugar stock was sold back to the
Utah-Idaho Sugar company after the
recent issue in February, and on
writing to the Salt Lake office reveiv-
ed the information that something
over fifty per cent of it was turned
in. We shall have more to say of this
subject in later issue of the pa
per, and publish the company's letter
herewith to give their views and
their wishes. \
Sugar COmpany's Letter
We feel that the most ideal condi-
tion in the beet sugar industry would
be partnership, as near as posi-
BILE, between the owners of the manu-
featuring industry; in other words,
the stockholders of the company and
the producers of the raw material,
or the growers of the sugar beets,
and in offering our recent contracts
" y ASSA thoC VIC AloNC "a hCu tuO SIcdI-
est stride towards such condition.
AS you know, this contract bases the
price of beets on the price of sug-
ar, and if the company is fortunate
in securing high price, then the
beet grower shares in it.
We also felt that another step to-
wards the ideal condition would be
to have as many as possible of the
beet growers interested as stock
holders in the company. For that
reason our bonus of 81 per ton on
last years beets was offered to the
beet growers, in the capital stock of
the company. There is only one class
of stock in the Utah-Idaho Sugar |
at this time, and that which |
was offered to the growers is just |
the same as that owned by the larg-
est and oldest stockholders of the
Some corporations have
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-04-05

a preferred issue of stock, which
simply means that this class is pre-
ferred in the matter of dividends,
and that until specific rate of div
idends are paid thereon, the common
stock does not participate in the
earnings of the company. We find,
however, very often, that the COM
mon stock is worth good deal more
than preferred, because after the
preferred dividends are paid, then
the common stock is entitled to the
surplus earnings, and in many cases
this runs good deal higher than
the percentage guaranteed to the
preferred stockholders.
II any of the growers have felt
that the sugar company has been
making abnormally high profits, it
should be called to their attention
that it is very easy for them to be-
come stockholders of the company
and participate in the earnings.
At the present time, due to rath-
er unexplainable market conditions,
our stock is offered considerably be-
low par, and it is the writer's opin-
ion that our farmers would be max
ing a wise investment (if they are
financially able) at this time, by
buying up some of the Utah-Idaho
stock.
According to our reports, more
than half Of the stock which was Of
fered to the farmers in settlement for
their beet bonus, has been returned
to the company for cash.
Yours truly,
UTAH-IDAHO SUGAR COMPANY.
BY J. W. Simpson, Superintendent
Industrial Relations.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-04-05
TWIN FALLS READY
Program Announced for American
Legion Convention

|
Announcement was made Tuesday
by Twin Falls post American Le-
gion, of the completion of a tenta-
tive program for the state conven-
ton to meet in that city April 7 to
10.
A uniformed parade in which all
posts are invited to participate, sub
stantial cash prize being offered for
the largest delegation numerically,
is to be feature of the first day.
Visitors will be conveyed on fight
seeing trips, while delegates assem-
BILE for the initial session.
DR.. e. H. Lindley, University Of
Idaho president, has accepted an in
vitation to address the convention
the second day. He will speak on
'The American Standard" Election
and installation of officers and Sc
lection of the next meeting place will
complete the conventions business
the third day.
Entertainment features provided
include smoker and boxing contest
Wednesday night and dance Thurs
day night. Attendance of about 200
delegates and visitors Is expected.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-04-05
WHEAT GROWERS HOLD
MEETING SATURDAY

Only a limited number of wheat
growers of the county attended the
organization here Saturday after
noon. No definite action was taken
but those who heard Stanley Arndt
of San Francisco explain the details
of the proposition were very much
in favor of it.
The plans call for an organization
of the wheat growers of Idaho,
Washington and Oregon and has for
its object the obtaining of better
prices and markets for wheat. 1t is
modelled on the same plan as the
California fruit producers.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-04-05
u. S. has one car
for ID Persons

Continued from page five)
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-04-05
WILL REPEAT PLAY

The high school faculty will re-
peat their farce comedy, MRS. Tenn
pies Telegram" at the high school
auditorium Thursday night, April 8,
at $50. Admission will be IS and
so cents.-Adv. Al
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-04-05
FARM BRINGS 5000 PER ACRE

Announcement was made at Twin
Falls Tuesday Of the sale by w. ].
Ray Of his ten-acre farm property
one mile northwest Of town to v. M.
sloane of Kansas for $4,000. Ray
owned the place for ten years.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-04-05
HARD TIME DANCE AT GIBSON

There will be a hard time dance
at the Gibson school house Friday
evening, April 8. Everybody well
come and assured good time.
ADV. 47-2
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-03-20
THIRSTY CAMELS ARE
FORMING A CARAVAN

The camels are on the war path.
They are firmly opposed to trans
forming the United States into a Sa-
hara of Drought, and are now organ
izing to make their action felt and
their protests heard everywhere. the
Camels, in short. are an organization
of thirsty citizens of this country who
have arisen in rebellion against the
''thou-shalt-n o t-drink" prohibition
law that is now rampant in u land.
They contend that said amendment
is unconstitutional, that 1t Is an in
fringement of the personal liberties
of the American people, and that 1t
is, by its very nature, null and void.
Where the void is, is left to the dis
erection of the reader.
These champions of human liber-
ties, rights, and beverages. travel in
caravans. One is to start on Its ca
reel in Reno Monday. when E. Porter
Steen, grand organizer of the order
will be in that city to help the infant
organization through its natal stages
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-03-20
FORTUNES MADE AND LOST

Some of the persons who made for
tunes in the Tonopah Divide booms
in 1919, have in 1920 made plunges
attempting to multiply their wealth,
and as a result they are again with
out capital. AS a consequence there
is considerable Juror concerning the
income tax, for 1t seem that If a man
made a million last year and lost it
all this year, he still owes the Gov
eminent an income tax on the million.
Which after all takes some pleasure
out of the making of a fortune, and
makes the losing of one doubly bit
ter.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-03-20
WITNESSES REFUSE TO
co TO CALIFORNIA

According to the Free Press, Sher-
lift w. j. Hine of Hanford. CAL. who
has been in Elko for several days,
has failed to find a single man or wo-
man who is willing to go to California
and testify in the Forbes case. The
laws are such that one State cannot
go into another State and compel a
witness to go from one State to an
other to testify, and this law the wit
nesses are taking advantage of.
Forbes went to California from
Elko to give himself up and confessed
to killing Eaton.
Even Elko County officials to whom
Forbes talked refused to go, and the
California sheriff ran up against a
stone wall in his efforts to get testi-
mony.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-03-20
NEVADA PRESS COMMENT
MARY prcKFoRD's DIVORCE

Eiko Independent: Mary Ptckford'
who came to Nevada upon the ADVICE
of her California physicians. sup
posedly to ~recuperate her health IN
cidentally staid long enough to wei
come Mr.. owen Moore. her erstwhiie
husband, who dropped in at the NH
den Inn one day last week and con
veniently allowed Mary's papers 70
be served upon him. mmediatel
thereafter he left for parts unknown.
Mary. despite the fact that she must
have told the court that Nevada was
her home at the time the violence
was heard and that she positively nan
no idea of changing her sidence
left the evening of the day her decree
was entered for Los Angeles, where
a gushy press agent said she fell 10
the payemen from sheer strain as n
ran toward her waiting automobile.
The Nevada courts, despite the
fact that they are within the law as
laid down by the highest tribunal IN
State VS.. Teidemann, have no VI to
be proud of this affair. III Nevada $
position upon divorce cases has ever
been questioned before, the States
good faith in those matters Is now
shattered in such a way that vast
publicity will be the only advantage
that may come of the courts action.
Mary Pickford had absolutely no
intention OF living in Nevada when
she came here, save for the six
months necessary to obtain her div
orce. Owen Moore had absolutely
no intention of doing any other thing
than colluding with Mary Pickford
when he dropped off" at the Minden
Inn on the day preceding the entry
intention of returning toNevada when
she slipped away on the day follow
ing her legal separation. No court
that Uses intention as the basis of
residence, would feel justified in say
ing that Miss Pickford's residence
was legal. Collision and a lack of
intent in the affair will make her de-
cree extremely questionable il she
eve decides to go again to the altar,
and 1t is rumored that she Is serious
ly considering Douglas Fairbanks as
a matrimonial possibility.
1t is but another example of the
lengths to which moving picture play
eTS Will SO 10 SECURE Il u6SlTeu emu.
IL this case is an example of the dain-
ty Mary's good faith and her aptitude
towards truth and veracity, then
people have great cause to doubt
stories about her salary as well as
her daily life. II Owen Moore's at
titude in the affair Is indicative of
his feelings toward his former wife,
people will begin to doubt the utter
sweetness and congeniality which her
press agents swear was always a
part of her domestic life.
One Frank Spellman. president of
Pathe, will be jerked before a Fed
eral court to explain the mucky hand
he held in the Dempsey and Kearns
selective service case. Spelfman
showed pretty thoroughly what kind
of a man he was. And now Mary
Pickford has not performed in a man
ner calculated to increase the peoples
respect for those who flicker in the
films.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-03-20
Will Try Nickel Coins

Great Britain, for the first time,
is to have nickel coinage. Silver has
become too expensive and copper is
too heavy.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-03-20
Iowa Doctors Are Thrifty

Prohibition Commissioner Maloney
recently received from a physician at
Fort Madison, Iowa, an exhausted
book of prescriptions for liquor. The
book had contained 100 blanks and
the doctor had given them out with
in five days. The stubs indicated
that the prescriptions in most cases.
was lone tablespoon every two or
three hours"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-03-20
LITTLE AcoRNs, GREAT OAKS

The usual pungent flavor OF Ar
thur B~risbane's editorials Is evident
in the following one by him. which
appeared recently in the San Fran
cisco Examiner" under the heading
| given above.
J One Standard Oil subsidiary capt.
talized for 100000 has piled up a
cash surplus of $4,000, 900. Those
figures are from the front page of
yesterdays New York Times, which,
to organized capital. is all that Oil
| vier lie Dain was to Louis XII.
Why did the little IS, OOO,0 900 COM
pany pile up its bank accounts? Ans
wer: Because, IL the 100000 00
has been handed out In dividends to
the stockholders at least $50. 900, 600
would have gone to the Government
in income tax.
The recent decision of the Supreme
Court. one of the most dangerous and
reactionary ever handed down, en-
ables the s5,0OO,00O company to pay
out its s5O.O00,O 900 surplus in "stock
dividends" and the stockholders will
| pay not a dollar of income tax. Small
business men and others must carry
the extra load.
The thing Is done simply. The
$5,O00,O0O company invests it's $50
100000 surplus in excellent secur-
tiles or in new industrial develop
ment. 1t issues to its stockholders
new stock, better and safer than cash,
and on this stock distribution the
Government collects no income tax.
Rich men don't need the cash; they
would much rather have the stock,
which will pay them dividends every
year.
1t Is as though you happened not
to need cash and said to your employ
err:
Don't give me money; the Gov
eminent will take part of it. Give
me a mortgage on the business. 1
know it's good and the Supreme
Court has fixed it so that I pay no tax
on that kind of income"
This Supreme Court decision robs
the nation of hundreds Of millions a
year and adds that load to the backs
of little men. 1t is a dangerous de-
cision.
The fact that judges rendering it
are unquestionably honorable men
makes 1t more dangerous.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-03-20

A new microphone to collect sounds
and convey them to the ears of part
ly deaf persons by almost invisible
wires is so compact that 1t can be
worn under a mans necktie.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-03-20
BIG REAL ESTATE DEAL

One of the largest realty transfer.
ever made in Nevada was consuin.
mated Thursday in Hawthorne, wher
the Jensens, father and son, of Gard.
nerville, purchased the ranches of P
J.. Conway and the Compston brothers
in Sweetwater, Mineral County. The
Jensens. accompanied by their attor.
ney. George Montrose of Gardner,
Vile, were in Hawthorne Thursday
looking up their titles. etc. The
price of the combined ranches with
all the equipment and live stock is
s19O,O00.-Yerington Times.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-03-20
Boy Traps Beavers

Elko Free Press: Dan Olin, one
Of our carrier boys, Is making a rec
ord as a successful trapper, and has
caught six big beavers in the past
month. Dan visits his traps after
school hours and on Saturdays. and
as beaver hides are worth from $50
to $50 Dan will have a nice little
bank account. The beavers were
caught just on the edge OF town.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-03-20

Mexican women, says a refugee
from there. are better than Mexican
men. That's nothing. That's true
in any country. It's true right here.
And women don't have to be so all
fred good, either. to be better than
men.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-03-20
EASTERN MANUFACTURER
BRINGS DOWN PRICES

Lawrence, Mass, March 15.-In
operation on a small scale only for
six weeks, the cooperative depart
ment store established by President
William M. Wood of the American
Wooden Company for the benefit of
his $1,000 operatives here has re-
duced the cost of living for them and
incidentally others in this city.
When carloads of can goods, vege-
tables and apparel, including shoes
and gloves. began to arrive, price
lists were distributed throughout the
big textile plants here and allthe sup
plies we're subscribed for quickly, as
the prices were much lower than the
retailers asked.
So eagerly did the workers buy
that a ten-story building had to be
utilized to house the supplies. 1t is
nearly empty again. but consignments
on the way permit the management
to go ahead on a more extensive scale
The general public cannot buy from
Mr.. Woods store, but his experiment
is causing a big reduction in the prices
of other merchants. Here is a COM
p~arison of prices in the retail stores
in December and to-day:
Women's suits. .$50-$85 $500
Plush COATS. 40 SO 1880
Silk dresses. IS $500
Mems suits. -. 5000 49, $500
Shoes, a pair. Sic s. 1000
Round steak that is 1928 cents a
pound was 1880: sirloin steak, 35-40
cents. was $500 cents; lamb chops,
80 cents, were So; fresh eggs, 50
cents a dozen, were So; beef to stew,
is cents. was 20 cents; Hamburg
steak, 10 cents was rs.
The best grades of canned pears.
peaches. tomatoes, peas. beans and
the like. are offered to the Wood m
ployes at IL cents; the retail mer-
chants ask 80 cents. Potatoes, bring
ing rs cents a peck in the retail stores
a month ago, were 80 cents in the
cooperative stores. Gloves at 35
cents a pair were 81 outside.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-27

Mary Yourkevitch, a Russian noblewomal who is French by adoption. has devote her life to the care of friendless anl mals. She organized and is president q the Blue Cross Society of France. an when the war began from this forme' many training schools for dogs, vher they could learn the arts of war.
 From these she turned out more tha 600 dogs of every degree who served i whatever capacity they were needed There were Red Cross dogs who carrie first aid packets about their necks an had learned to distinguish the living rror the dead on the battlefield. returning | the dressing station with some article Q clothing of the wounded man, to whol they would then lead the stretcher bean CTS. Then there were messenger dog: whose perilous duty was to carry mes sages to the rear through the stream c whining bullets impossible to men.
 When a small force of Frenchmen de lending an exposed post in the Frenc Alps ran out of ammunition and blizxafd prevented them from notifying the force in the rear of their critical conditio four Alaskan sled dogs carried a lieu tenant to the rear, and others carrie back through four days of blizzard an shell fire enough ammunition to say the position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-27

Light and Power Company was struggling to keep going, during and immediately after the war. It was not unusual for patrons of the Lake view and Highland avenue lines to wait 45 minutes or even an hour for a car, which was apt to be janmed with people when it did crawl into view Now a schedule of car every five minutes during the rush hours and every ten minutes during the re- mainder of the day is maintained. Patrons are cooperating cheerfally to make the new cars a success. They would be willing to endure actual hardships to have a five-minute schedule, which means a great deal to the people of an enterprising city who have no time to waste.
 Additional cars of the new type arg to be put into operation. They are not adapted to suburban traffic, perhaps, but or lines within the city limits they bid fair to solve Bir- traction problem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-27
ON BUYING BOOKS

A. Edward Newton, in the Atlantis
 Monthly.
 IT EARLY formed the habit of buying
 books, and, thank God. have never = lost it. Authors living and dead dead, for the most part-afford me my greatest enjoyment. and it is my pleas ure to buy more books than I can read
 Who was it who said, T hold the buying of more books than one can per adventure read, as nothing less than the souls reaching toward infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish?" Whoever it was, I agree with him; and the same idea has been less sententieusly ex- pressed by Ralph Bergengren in that charming little poem in Jane, Joseph dren and grown-ups since R. |. S. gave us his "c,hilds Garden of verses.A My Pop is always buying books; So that Nom says his study looks Just like an old bookstore. The bookshelves are so full and tall, They hide the paper on the wall,
 And there are books just everywhere,
 On table. window seat. and chair, And books right on the floor. And every little while he buys More books, and brings them home and
 tries
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-27
WAR DOGS BIOGRAPHER
From the New York Evening Sun. INK THETHER he be a Pekinsese or l \VNW a St. Bernard. French poodle

From the New York Evening Sun. MN WHETHER he be Pekinsese or WV St. Bernard French poodle
 or Great Dane, dog holds peculiar position in the hearts of men that cannot be usurped by any other ani- nal, nor even human. To the dog more than to any other creature seems to have been given the faculty of perfect trust were shattered by four long years in the trenches with his adopted company. He is now being cared for in the refuge at Neuilly It is in that city that Countess Mary Yourkevitchs a Russian noblewoman and loyalty. It is this element in the na- ture of the dog, regardless of his breed, that has prompted John l. Anderson to publish the little pamphlet. War Dogs Of the World War"
 Here he writes of ''Mijou,' who. though fatally wounded carried a message of love from his master. a French poilu in faded blue, lying dead in a little outpost near verdun, to the small cottage in Meru. 5 miles from Paris, where lived Madame Thaiiant. unknowing widow of Jacques
 Then there is "Monte," whose nerves were shattered by four long years in the trenches with his adopted company. Monte is now being cared for ih the refuge at Neuilly. It is here that Countess
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-27
Revival Ir Neeaea

"To my mind nothing creates a greater interest in the church than re- vival" said Capt. L. K. Plosser, prom inent member of Highlands Methodist church, for at that time people are brought face to face with conditions that otherwise would never confront them. I feel that in the big Bob Jones revival, which begins on next Sunday at Highlands Methodist church, Dr.. Wells, our pastor, has prepared the way in the most methodical and thorough manner. His enthusiasm knows no bounds and his energy and strength have been put into the preliminary cam paign in such manner that he has aroused the enthusiasm of his congre- gation, so that everybody in the church is ready and waiting for the initial day Highlands Methodist church, like every other church, needs revival season. and this one coming as it does, just at the hour when the whole of Methodism is organizing for revival work, is both timely and appropriate"