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Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-02-05
WHY
superstition Has Remained
Powerful in China
I hope you get me!

America wears Its supersttions apol.
ogetically. The Chinaman is proud
Of his; they are his encyclopedia.
social guide ana legal adviser rolled
Into one. Feng Shut is the Chinese
creed Of superstition. Feng Shut, or
wind and water, Is combination of
two mysterious and powerful elements,
the azure dragon and the white tiger
Wnlcn must meet at an angle for ia
vorable conditions to prevail. Even
when lucidly and copiously explained
Feng Shut remains a shrouded mys-
terry.
10 the Chinaman, Feng Shut is the
great thing In life. Following its com.
mands he warlly avoids chances of III
luck. When he builds a house he places
the windows at various angles In or
der to confuse the evil spirits who may
try to get In. When his neighbor
builds a house he watches proceed
ines, and If the structure shows signs
OF becoming higher than his own he
voices protest on the plea that the
good spirits who have been honoring
~A' houotHuiu WIFI VISITS Will De I'M
able to find their way over a project
Ing roof top. Strangely enough, these
arguments are proposed and received
With dignity, and unless the offender
can think of some apt retort to show
that he Is not doing injury to his
neIghbor, he usually complies with the
request
The complications of Feng ShuI are
quite beyond the western mind. It is |
doubtful whether the Chinese under |
stand the mystic symbols and portents |
about which they so seriously and |
glibly converse. Their belief In the |
power Of Feng Shut is, however, I'M
Imagine an American de-
Gliding whether to get married, wheth-
er to have an aching tooth pulled or
where to plant rose bush by con-
sulting the direction of the wind and
taking the sign seriously, and you
have some idea of the Chinese guild
ing rule In life.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-02-05

Just so long as capital and labor stand and glare at
eacn other we may expect everlasting turmoil and
nation wide catac The Congress Of the United State
IS kind OF doctor that treats symptoms and does no
treat disease. No legislative remedy that know of can
be found to produce peace and queude and good order
unless the manufacturers something more in bust
ness than dividends and look upon the employees as
brothers in the Republic and not as cogs in the achn
or as members on pay roll It is hopeless from the
standpoint. And unless the laboring men have som
higher incentive to do their work than the mere WAGE
which comes from the doing of tiff they put in their
time finding how little they do and how much more
they can get for the donb Of TIT hopeless from their
standpoint.
It's hopeless if the mad passions of are to ham
mer at legislative halls for their final and just settlements
government of discretion dies. The only government in
business life that hope to live government of love
and compassion What the economic life OF America needs
Is not awgver but evangelist The country needs
rebaptism OF peace patriotism such had Of war pa
trotism. Just now need body of citizens who are
content to do day work for day wage; who are will
ing to pay days wage for days work; who believe
more IN the common good than in larger goods
Since the world began business and wealth have had
such opportunity for the angel of the Lord to write
their names down beside that Of Abou Ben Adhem they
have had just The trumpet call of conscience is
only to the meek and lowy but to the bh and mghty
and when dividends and wages measraby forgotten
the love of service for Christian counry-f there
IS any hope at all--passlon, Ell preferment and
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-02-05
How Our Troops got Across

During our 10 months of war more
than 100000 American soldiers were
carried to France. Half million of
them went over In the first 10 months
and million and half In the last
SIX months. The highest troop-carry-
Ing records are those Of July, 1918,
when. 100000 soldiers were carried to
Europe, and June, 1919, when 100000
were brought home to America. Most
Of the troops who sailed for France
left from New York. Half of them
landed in England and the other half
landed in France.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-02-05
HOW SPANS OLIVE OIL
~ w is PRODUCED AND


PLACED ON THE MARKET.
In Spain there are 1851 ,2SS
acres planted with olive trees.
OF their products about 81 per
cent is for oil. The yield Of olive
oil varies widely from year to
year; in 1911 1t was 421,7S2
metric tons; In 1912 only 49,
OO1 tons; In 1917, 427,S36 tons
in 1913, 255,202 tons. In odd
years the yield is normally great
er than in even years.
Though there are oil mills,
the greater part Of the OIL is
pressed by the producers. After
pressing, the pulp, called orujo,
Is sold to the sulphur-oil fac
tories, the product Of which is
used In making soap. The resi-
due is a brown, fiaky charcoal
like substance used as fuel. This
generates high heat.
The quality of oil depends up
on the acid content. Oil with less
than half Of one per cent of
acid brings the highest price, but
anything up to three per cent
is considered edible.
1t is contrary to law to mix
olive OIL with any other oil in
Spain, but, of course, this does
not prevent Its adulteration in
other countries. In the first five
months of 1919 edible olive oil ;
to the value of S3,153,214 was {
exported to the United States !
from Malaga. }
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-02-05
Why Nuts Are va,uey,, -.

Nuts can and do take the place of
meat in the diet with beneficial results,
and they are bound to be In great de-
mand at good prices In the future, says
the American Forestry Magazine.
which is campaigning for the planting
of nut and fruit trees along the Roads
of Remembrance being built In honor
of war heroes.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-02-05
FOR SALE: Wicker Babv Carriage

FOR SALE: Wicker Baby Carriage
enameled and corduroy upholstering.
heYerseable body. In first class con.
dltion. Has been used but a short
time. Phone Mrs. Ripper or inquire
at Valley Music House. to.
FOR SALE: 40 tons Hay; good
iced ground, and water, $4,000 per
ton.-Phone 14-14, Fruitland. t..
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-02-05

personal success must all be put the background and
the capitalists and the aborers must realize that the
is also entitled to admission into the brother
hood and business must be conducted and must be
done primarily for the love of promoting contented and
happy people Dividends and wages must be secondary
This problem for solution by who believe in the
fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of
Science Sentinel
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-02-05
How 10 poll.n Hsdstead,

Brass bedsteads should not be pol
ished with metal polish, as the acid
In 1t Is too strong. Just wash the
brass parts with soap and water, and
then rub well with a dry chamois
leather.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-02-05
How New York Protects Sheen.

New York expects its sheep herd to
increase perceptibly under the opera
tion of new dog law drawn up to
prevent the ravages of the canine.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1920-02-05
YOUTHS DIE LIKE RATS

(Part of Sermon preached to Sunday Morning congrega
ton. by Pastor A. E. Houser of Church of Gods
OF all teh gifts we may make none could go to a
better cause nor to more apprecatve people than those
OF Armenia This is the S. O. S. call for food clothing
and shelter 100000 children are looking to America
for the only help they shall receive.
eve who live in comfortable homes and are well
clothed with far more than need to eat let us think
Of these orphans and send worthy relief.
Now is the time to help save dying nation-not
lot OF poor ignorant and cruel Turks but educated
cultured, refined Christian folk These people who have
endured everything at the hand of the uspeakable Turk
send out cry of ambush to go over into Armenia and
help them The Armenians are the torcll-bearers oil
civilization i'll the Near East.
Armenia is still without food, homes or tools
Every acre baptized with the tears of Orphans Every
drop OF their blood is precious The Armenans III
to sell their souls to the Turks They cast their lot w
the Allies even though it meant cruel bloodshed devas
tated homes and wholesale massacre Of their families
Held Back German Forces
'.To reach Bagdad Germany had to tramnle over
the manged starving bodies Of thousands of this brave
people But they stood like wall against the Germans
Germany because of the plucy determined resistance
OF Armenia, never reached Bagdad Ludendorf in his
book says their eastern plans failed they kept them from
supplies of coal and oil.
Herbert Hoover says: Armenia is the most des-
perate situation in all the world
Melville Charter in the November number of thel
National Geographic Magazine, tells of his trip to the
interior Of Armenia Relief Train. AT Eivan, the
capital of Armenia, he visited the Seeping Barracks
where 800 orphans hudded together without tables
chairs or beds Every morning the oNeart around
and carried off 10 Is bodies The rest were dragging
their nearly starved bodies around
Children Die Like Rats
The boys and girls looked like old men and women
bowed with abe In the he observed half dozen
bodies unnoced like many rats In the center was
group of children trying play while Just at the outer
part OF their circle two three dead children I'M
noticed The picture was depressing to all the Relief
Committee.
" AS they left 1ddir they said they would never for
get the thousands of voices not of welcome Godsend
a
help US; America, help u.s. Fellow citizens can't you
hear them crying and see them stretching forth the
hands for pity and little bit Of love?
Yes, America hurryl II we do our best in spitt
OF every effort make 100000 of these people will
perish this winter
Some people and Sunday Schools are planning to
pefriend child this year
Payments may be made monthly if desired
80, America, thou art Dives faring sumptuolsly
every day and clothed in purple and fine linen Behold
Armenia lying at thy gate, sick and hungry suffering
sarynb dying for afew crumbs from thy table of plenty
--0- F
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-08-29

fby Walter Biddle of Toledo Ohio. on
! July %. Biddle used a stock Franklin
touring car for the test, driving it 100
miles in low gear at an average speed
of 11.62 miles per hour Needless to
say Biddle was not overhauled by any
vigiIant guardian of the law for break
ing speed regulations during the low gear
test.
The trip was made from Toledo
through Sylvania. BIissfeld. Adrian,
Hudson, Hilsdale and return to within
u miles Of Adrian before the speedom
eter registered the required 100 miles.
The motor was not stopped during the
entire eight hours and 90 minutes which
the trip consumed and the motor showed
no signs whatever of overheating This
latter fact was concIusively demonstrate
ed by Biddle when he reached the one
hundredth mile mark When this point
was reached. the car was Immediately
put into high gear and driven back at
high speed to Toledo. a distance of 80
miles. without giving the motor chance
to cool off even for an instant
No adjustments OF any kind were made
on the entire trip, and the car finished in
perfect condition. according to Sylvan ].
Snyder, chief statistcan of the Toledo
Blade who rode with Bidd!e to observe
the car S performance.
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-08-29
Planters Didn't Want Trees.

III WAS ftiN tlillNNit III litSi 10 lfliltiit
planters in Malaga TO look with favor on
cultivation Trees were planted whcr-
ever possible. AZ length, the sudden
rise in the price Of rubber. mainly due
to the development Of tbe automobile
industry. forced the idea of cultivation
on the attention Of the planters and the
investing public especially that of Great
Britain A few pioneers began to cul-
tivate their trees; and III 2 few years
there arose a boom in cultivation. such
az has never occurred in any other in
dustry.
The plantation product first attracted
serious attention in the manufacturing
world about 1898 but II was not until
1905 and the two following years that
the rush into rubber took place. which
forms the most striking episode Of this
story.
70 show how lightly the plantation
product was regarded BY European and
American rubber manufacturers. il is
only necessary to state that it took from
1900 to 1904 for the annual production
or plantation rubber tn grow from four
tons to AZ tons. In 1907 the output
reached | 900 tons. in 1911 1880 tons,
III 1915 1O7, 800 tons and III 1919 2S5.
o25 TONS In comparison. the Brazilian
output grew from 81 1876 tons in 1900
until it reached it's maximum Of f410
tons in 1912 since which time the an
nual output has averaged about 10000
tons.
The romance Of plantation rubber is
the old, old story, a few resolute men
working in eastern junges. having faith
in the ultimate success of the work they
had undertaken. and that Of those dar-
ing to put their capital into PARKWAY
lands. 1t was but few years ago that
practically all the planters were feeling
acutely the pinch for funds 70 tide them
over the early stages Of the enterprise.
Many cases could be cited where Is
years ago $4,000 to $4,000 could not
be found to carry on estates being plaut
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-08-29
RUBBER, BASIS OF INDUSTRY
HAS HAD ROMANTIC HISTORY
IN Early 70s, First Seedlings Were Planted Which
Later Grew Into One of Largest Industries in
Attracted Wide Attention in 1898.

Through one of those mysterious CO.
medicines so nicely timed that they are
regarded by many as a distinct act OF
Providence, there were set in motion
In the early seventies two separate ac-
tlvlties which were to coalesce more
than generation later and make pos
sible the great automobile industry of
America and the attendant tremendous
expansion of the rubber and petroleum
industries.
One of these activities was the effort
of Selden to produce an automobile en-
CINE. Here was the inception of what
has been termed the most gigantic me-
chantcal enterprise OF the ages. 1t
took many years for the flower to
bloom; but from the day of those first
experiments the advent of the automo
bile was constantly imminent.
AS if the unseen forces that guide
human affairs were fully cognizant that
within brief period this effort of Sell
denis was to blossom fully in the great
automobile industry of today, another
man in another quarter of the globe,
and with no thought of the automobile
in mind, took at about the same time,
thu steps which have made it possible
to furnish for that industry the large
supplies of rubber on which automobiles
arc so vitality dependent.
Auto Dependent on Rubber.
What the automobile would be without
rubber tires would be hard to imagine.
Without rubber, some automobiles would
undoubtedly be manufactured, but they
would certainly be rattlebang affairs Of
slow speed and much vibration. 1t is
quit true that following the invention
Of a successful engine, Automobile devel-
opment has been conditioned very large
ly upon the development of tires This
fact is amply demonstrated today,
through the revolutionary changes TAX
ing place in motor truck construction
due 10 the adaptation Of the pneumatic
tire to use on motor trucks, Germany
had a chance to find out what automo-
bile operation without rubber tires was
like during the war, and she did not rel
ish the experience.
It is the purpose Of this article to
show how it happened that when the
automobile industry burst upon the
world. with Il need for rubber which the
recognized sources If supply could not
have begun to meet, there was found
ready a new quarter, supply so ade-
quate that the progress Of the indus
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-08-29
CHAIN DRIVE TRUCK
PROVES PROFITABLE
BUY; STILL CONG
Purchased by Cadillac Narnish
Company Seven Years Ago;
Has Covered 100000 Miles.

one Of the first chain driven trucks
built by the Republic Motor Truck com
pany has been in service for the Cadillac
yarnish company Of Detroit Mich. for
seven wears without interruption since
his purchase in 1913. The hauling ac-
compIished by this truck is almost I'M
bplieyable. While no accurate figures
are available to show the mileage GOV
cred hy this truck. il is estimated that
over 100000 miles have been delivered.
The tires are the truck : original equip
uent, this fact lending substantial proof
to the oft repeated assertion that Ike
public construction makes for tire and
general operating economy.
The Cadillac Naruish company Of De
troit. through 4. :. IoungS. president.
has gone on record in expressing its
opinion regarding Republic construction
ana service in a letter written 10 the
eraser Motor company of Detroit, the
Republic distributor in that city.
The truck continues in steady daily
operation at the present time and the
record it has made is best described In
the following letter:
IN answer to your inquiry regarding
the Republic truck which We have III op-
GRAFTON, it CRIES lis pleasure to inform
Won that our experience with YOUR truck
has been entirely satisfactory.
we nave operated the tf1tfk Tor
seven years and during that time have
spent less than $50 for repairs. We have
worked it pretty hard during all the
sine and yet ii never required a com
pEete overhauling in that time nor has
it ever been in any repair shop for scri-
Gus work All the repairs which We're
ever necessary were of minor nature
and we did the work ourselves.
Our Republic truck has operated
constantly in summer and winter and
most Of the time has carried a so per
cent overload
I'VE cannot speak too highly Of Re
public construction, the dependable ser
vice which our truck has rendered. and
the all around satisfaction which we
have experienced with it, Signed. Cad
lilac Yarnish company, by A. S, Youngs,
president.
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-08-29
SHOULD SAVE GAS
IN WARM WEATHER
As DURING WINTER
Application of Thermostat to
Motor Car Makes Big Econ
omy Possible in Summer.

Every motorist has hoard 50 ,,,,cb
about s,r;,,v oa.l,;.e 1ls''' - aiuen
.'0V'' Ga log s0s"'i1e III the winter that
the ad1'saoiIltE of saving in the summer
has been overlooked Yet it is possible
dav in summer ay,,o.ia11,, $500 s.,,,s
tha ca,. eSpe'la'N III starting
The application of the thermostat 10
the motor car is what makes @asoI;ne
saving in the summer time POSSIBLE
On the Columbia car. for instance. is
powerful thermostat which automat
lcally opens and closes the radiator shut
ters with which the car is confirmed
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-08-29

try has not been halted for second
by any shortage Of rubber IN other
words. this is the story of the rubber
plantations in the Far East
Until ten years ago. rubber meant
rubber from Brazil. There were some
other sources Of supply Of inferior
grades, bat practically all the prime
rubber came from Brazil. Today Bra
Ills supremacy is gone. In less than
a decade the Far East has jumped TO
the front, and is now producing nine
tenths Of the rubber Of the world.
Romance of Rubber.
The history of The passing Of the
glory of Brazil in this particular has
touch Of romance il #. II the six
ties and Englishman named II. 4. Wick
ham spent much time in Brazil in the
rubber field. He. conceived the idea
that the rubber trees which grow wild
in Brazil could be cultivated and grown
on plantations. But he was ahead Of
his time. and found little encourage
ment.
Wickham finally enlisted the interest
Of Sir Joseph Hooker Of Kew Gardens.
London. who had been considering the
possibility Of introducing the trees into
India. Hooker in turn interested the
government of India in the project. with
the result that Wickham was given n
commission BY the Indian government
for the Introduction Of the Brazilian tree
into India.
How to fulfill the commission was
the problem. Hooker had already tried
TO effect it. but without result in spite
of the resources Of Kew, Wickham was
in Brazil when the solution of the prob
lem suddenly presented itself. A large
British steamer which had sailed up the
Amazon on her first trip with a cargo
Of goods TO be sold it being the inten
tion TO load her from the proceeds with
rubber for her return trip-found her
self without funds, and without a cargo,
when tine supercargoes, after disposing
OF the goods she had brought decamped
with the money. Wickham promptly
chartered her in the name Of the Indian
government. and placed aboard her at
a port third of the way MP the river,
several thousands Of the seeds Of the
Hevea Braziliensis. the rubber tree,
carefully packed.
For my part" says Wickham in his
memoirs. as the fine ship sped on her
way with my precious Heyea, 20 far
safe aboard, smng Up fore and aft il
Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-08-29
MAKES LONG TRIP
ENTIRELY ONLOW
Engine Did Not Overhead When
100 Miles We're Covered
by a Stock Franklin.

Every motorist knows what it means
to run any considerable distance On low
gear-he knows that if there ever is II
time when his engine is liable to over
heat and cause him trouble. that is the
time. one At the supreme tests Of what
q ear vii! actually do under trying con
ditions is how it will behave when run
in low gear mile after mile.
In this connection. therefore il is IN
tereSting 70 note the low gear run made