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Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24

than the highest previous total II
Is estimated that during the year 1919
the number of registered clubs in
creased by upward Of 900, and passed
the previous highest total-that of
$500 on January l, 1915. The increase
would appear. states the report, to he
due in some degree to the revival of
clubs which fell out of existence dur
ing the war, and in greater degree 10
the institution of new clubs to meet the
desire of large numbers of men to
maintain associations formed during
service with the forces in the war.
There were In England and Wales on
January l, 1919, some S4,OA premises
licensed for the sale of Intoxicating
liquor on or off the premises, and o.
2S8 off-licenses, giving proportions, ac-
cording to the estimated population,
or pal on-licenses and 594 off-licenses
per 10000 persons. The full figure of
on-licenses showed decrease upon the
year Of 600. In the ten years 1895 to
1904 the average annual decrease was
1856. For the fourteen years 1905 to
1918 the average was 1,1O2. and during
1919 the decrease will probably prove
to have been about COG, making an
annual average for the fifteen years
since the Act of 1904 came into oper-
alton of about 1,069. and leaving
total of about S3,438 on-licenses at the
beginning of the year 1920. The de-
crease in the number of off-licenses
nhoh tn
have been about "a, compared with
1875 during the preceding twelve
months.
The number Of licensed premises
closed since January 1, 1905, when the
Licensing Act, 1904. came into opera
tion is 1904. and the new licenses
granted 654. making the total net de-
crease of licensed premises over the
period 16040. The number of licenses
extinguished with compensation In
1919-namely, 49S-while higher than
the figures for 1916, 1917 and 1918. is
only half the average for the years
preceding the war-1905 to 1914. The
loss of efficiency in this method of
abolishing redundant licensed premises
Is due mainly to two causes, viz, (a)
failure on the part Of the compensa-
ton authorities to raise the funds
authorized by the act, and (b) in
crease in the cost of the licenses.
During the year 1,459 license holders
were prosecuted and there were $50
convictions. In 1918 the figures were
appreciably greater, being respective
ly 1,723 and 1.141.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24
A Christmas Day Menu

First course-GladneSS.
Entrees - Love garnished with
Smiles.
Gentleness. with sweet-wine sauce
Of Laughter.
Second course-Hospitality.
In some house Hospitality is brought
on surrounded with Relatives. In 9th
ers il is dished up with Dignitaries.
In third. best of all. 1t is served In
simple shapes. but with great variety
of Unfortunate Persons-such as lone
ly people from lodging houses, poor
people of all grades, widows and
cbildless in their affliction. This is
the kind most preferred; In fact never
abandoned by those who have tried
1t.
For dessert-Mirth.
Gratitude and Faith beaten togeth-
| err and run In the molds Of solid Trust
and Patience.
Ronbons of Good Cheer and Kind
| lnesS.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24
80. tnIs is JUST wnat tuey ulu.
Charlie had the first bump.

When he picked up his package he
square peg In it.
There was a bit of paper tied TO the
peg. and on II was written:
Get into the right place."
square hole with round peg in it.
Its paper said:
Don't get into the wrong place"
Then Frank gave bump that was
a regular butt, and he held up
square hole with a square peg in 1t.
These words were with them:
"A place for everybody. and every
body in his place"
/ When Dick bumped. he go a round
hole and a round peg.
"What does this mean?" be shouted.
1.-The same thing" answered Frank.
sure" said Chauncey.
Chauncey was the littlest. He was
so little that he used to take his doll
to bed with him and talk over with
it, before he went to sleep. the things
tIICy luu uttIt tliut uut. sNlu lie Idu
just learned that word sure" lie
was so proud Of 1t that he used to
say it 10 his father instead of "yeth
SIR" Chauncey would soon learn that
"sure" was not as nice as 'yeth sir"
Then the girls said 1t was their
turn and they began to bump.
Ruth got an alphabet, so as to learn
not 10 say .hkjlmnop."
Sarah had n headache in her
knee" SO Mary bumped for her.
Down came IA pair OF rubbers and
Mary put them on INSIDE outwards,"
just to Try them.
Then they all bumped the tree for
Chauncey. who wasn't biz enough to
bump hard enough to make anything
fall.
Such a lot of things tumbled off.
There was baseball glove-Ruth
tried it on and her hand looked like
a hassock a breastpin-S Sarah pinned
it on her sleeve. where she could see
It; two doll dress patterns; II new
dolls hat-a small hat; SET of dish
eS, uOll , ulSD Chilli, anu lOtlH-
pick.
Chauncey was like the old woman
who lived in the shoe, He didn't know
what TO do with all his things; but
he was careful TO use the toothpick
every time he took a drink of milk.
There was still one package left
II was in the top of the tree.
One little girl. her name was Lucy
had not had anything. So the chill
| dren let her pull the top of the tree
| down TO get this package.
And there was the dearest doll tina,
| ever came off of Christmas tree
II had blue eyes that would open ant
shut and the cunniugest frock.
! Lucy. now the DOLLS mother though
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24
English 'Drunks'
Double In 1919

be stated as follows: There were more
men at home, and fewer of them in
khaki, more policemen (and those less
overworked) available for street duty,
more hours for drinking, more (and
stronger) liquor, more light in the
streets, more money, more leisure, less
self-control, less appreciation of the
fact that drunkenness matters" now
the war Is over, less readiness to
realize that the progress toward gen
eral sobriety won during the war ought
to be carried on in peace time, and
lack of adequate equipment for driv-
ing that point home.
OF the 57,04S convictions in 1919,
53.621, or SO per cent, occurred in po-
lice districts wholly within the opera
ton Of the Central Control Boards re-
strictions 3,7O4 in districts partly with
in, and 623, or just over one per cent
in districts entirely beyond their
scope. 1t will be seen that the table
given above Is dominated by Greater
London and Northern England, l. e.,
the counties north of a line drawn
from the mouth of the Severn to the
Wash. Together, Greater London and
Northern England with a population
Of about II per cent of the total for
England and Wales) account for 3d.
920, or 80 per cent Of the total con-
victiOns, Greater London showing
about 20 per cent of population and 80
per cent of convictions and Northern
England 81 per cent Of population and
81 per cent Of convictions for 1919
were 1915 per cent in excess Of those
for 1918. and Northern England
showed an increase of 90 per cent
but the December figure for Northern
England was just over five times as
great as in 1918, while the Greater
London December figure was less than
four times as great.
Tables are given showing the con-
victions Of men and women separately
for each month Of 1919. OF the total
number 81 per cent. Or 46,765 convic-
tons related to men, and 11,1o3, or 10
per cent to women. In relation to the
estimated number of persons of 81
years of age and upward in 1919. the
/ figures represent for men so per TO-
600, and for women nine per 10000.
The figures for men are more than
twice as numerous as those recorded
I'm 1918, viz. 21,S53, and exceed the
total for 1917, viz. 34.1O3; those for
women exceed the 1918 total of 1920
by So per cent, but do not reach the
1917 total of 12,3O7. In both cases the
increase was continuous, with slight
fluctuations throughout the year, and
the highest percentages of increase as
between one month and the next were
in both cases between February and
March, SO for men and AZ for women
and between November and December
3S for men and Is for women.
Clubs on Big Increase.
At the beginning Of the year there
were 500 clubs regstered--S53 less
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24
Statistics lust Announced Reveal
Startling Reaction From
Dry Wave.
BEGAN BEFORE WARS END
Women Keep Step With Men In Re-
turn to Old Era Of Drinking Days
Number Of Registered Clubs
Increased Some 900.

London.-The licensing statistics for
1919 show that during that year there
occurred strong reaction from the
notable decrease in convictions for
drunkenness which began In the lat
ter months of the year 1914 and per-
sisted through the years 1915. 1916,
1917 and 1913. The total number of
convictions for drunkenness in Eng
land and Wales in 1919 was nearly
double the figure for 1918. viz, 57,94S,
as compared with 29,O75-an increase
of 2S873 or 1913 per cent.
The reaction, it Is pointed out, be-
gan in the middle of the year 1913,
and was at first gentle and hesitating;
1T gathered force early In the year
1919, and from March onward the fig
ures for every month, with the ex-
ception of October, exceeded those for
the preceding month by percentages
which were never less than five and
rose to 81 as between December and
November, and 4S as between March
and February. AS compared with the
corresponding months of 1913 the fig.
ures for every month in 1919 from
March onward showed increases vary
ing from 5 to 318 per cent In Sep
TENDER, 1910, the convictions were
nearly three times, in November more
than three times, and In December
more than four times as many as In
the same months in the year 1913. On
the other hand, December is the only
month In 1919 which shows figures
exceeding one-half Of those for the
corresponding month of 1913, the year
in which the convictions reached the
maximum recorded USS,S77); and the
other months range. in relation to
1913, from less than One-half to less
than one-fifth.
Some of the Reasons.
In some general comments on the
statistics of drunkenness the report
states:
There Is In these records Of cOnvic
lions for drunkenness and the move
nents shown therein great wealth OF
material for research into the problem
of public drunkenness and its causes
consequences and cure. But the en-.
terprise is long and difficult, and. to
he successful. ought to march with
practical administration and expert.
ment More or less superficial manip-
ulation of the figures and facts on
paper has all the dangers and sterillty
Of mere speculation. Out of the many
and various contributory circum-
stances II Is almost impossible and
extremely unsafe to Isolate this one
or that one, or this or Tint group. and
call It the cause OF the particular
movement which may be under con.
sideration. Some of the circumstances
or causes--which operated ut different
times. In different ways, and In differ
cnt degrees In different districts--mny
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24


Father would say to me. mo orderly
boy would leave his hat on the floor
like that. Barker wouldn't do it, If
he were boy"
Then Barker would bark. once.
Then my father would ask Barker
II he was good dog, and Barker
would bark twice.
Some dogs have no names.
The little black and white dog
across the street Is just dog. but
he will come when you whistle.
There is dog near here who knows
the butcher cart when he sees it COM
ing. He drives all the hens out of
the yard, so he can pick up the scraps
of meat that fall from the cart while
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24
Turk Governor Iron Ruler

short skirts which Moslem women cop
led from their French sisters.
He dried up Kerrassounde by meth
DDS MS direct as those Of the late Car
RE Nation. Without warning he went
to all the liquor shops and poured
all the spirits into the streets.
Immoral women became too conspic-
he ordered that the heads of all such
women be shaved. Many of the WON
en- left the town.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24
Naval Planes Aid to
Chesapeake Fishermen

Westinghouse result of
patrols maintained by naval sea-
planes, Chesapeake bay fisher
men are making the biggest
hauls on record. Reports to
the navy department from the
commandment of the naval air
station ut Hampton roads said
the patrols had proved ''indis-
pensable" to the fishing indus
try In those waters. Immense
schools of fish are spotted al
most daily by the seaplanes, 1t
was reported, and fishing fleets
are given the location by radio
communication or, II within
sight, by flag signals.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24
RIGHT Up to Bedside II Necessary

Knoxville, Tenn.-Telephones from
the pulpit to pews for the deaf have
proved so successful that the Broad
way Baptist church Is planning to
have the pulpit connected by telephone
with the homes Of those unable to at
tend church so that nobody need miss
the sermon.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24
Sixteen Years for Lese Majesty.

Valencia.-SiXteen years in prison
was the sentence imposed on Profess
sor Cnamuna. who was convicted Of
lese majesty. 1t being charged he
wrote three articles critlcizing the
Spanish monarchy.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24

for them that
were all bullying
and bursting with
good things.
What fun they
had with him and
with all the
things he had
brought.
They had such
a good time that
some of it spread
away around the
corner to a house
that Santa Claus
had not visited
yet.
So. everybody
had something.
This is what
God meant the
Christmas tree
for.
After their visit
to the moor chtl.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24

tnnr ms was inc very best girt OF ali.
Then. just as they were going to GO
downstairs. there came a rap at tho
door.
Come in," they shouted.
What do you suppose? 1t was Santa
Claus. He marched In with stockings
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24
Nest OF SO Rattlers
Blocks Work on Road

Fossil, Ore.--Workmen on the
John Day highway are confront
Ing an unusual difficulty in en-
countering a large number of
rattlesnakes. The survey is
through numerous rocky hills
and there the snakes abound.
In cutting through rocky banks
they run onto whole nests Of
them. 1t is said that recently
they found 80 in one nest.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24
Peter and the
Mulberry Tree
n, (1e:aAonl,>e (seas.A Aara.A

)ME dogs have names.
There was Caspar, the
pup. He had a name, but
he was too young to know
1t.
There was old dog Bar
ker.
My father used to make
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24

around In the grass, under the null
berry tree until he had found every
mulberry that had fallen down. Then
he would run against the tree and
bump down a lot more.
Some children heard about Peter
and the mulberry tree and 1t made
them think of something.
1t made them think of fixing up a
Christmas tree, with many little pack
ages upon it-like mulberries-and
then humping the things off for
Christmas gifts.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24

dren, they all went home laughing
and happy enough to wait whole
year for new crop of Christmas
cheer-just as the dog Peter, has to
wait until another season for a new
crop of mulberries.
TO- 1920. Western Newspaper Union)
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24

of meat that fall
from the cart
while the butcher
is getting the
meat ready.
This dog hasn't
any name. He is
so selfish that he
isn't worth nam
ing.
Once there was
a tree, and 1t had
Il name. IT was
a mulberry tree.
The man that
owned the tree
had a dog. too.
His name was
Peter, and no lit
tie dog was ever
more fond of
meat than Peter
was of mulber-
ries.
He would hunt
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1920-12-24

Uhr Parth qaa grnmu ul1 mtlq ta ,trhrn nj rarr.
fnt at Cl1riatnlaa ii almaya il yuung:
Chr 1Part nj thr JPnp hurna l1atrn1a ann fair t.
Ann tta auu full nj n,lair hrraks firth tr air.
m1rn hr anng nj tlr argrla IN au,g.
Ut IN rnm,ng. nlh rartl it IN runag tunigh!
On thr annmflakra that ruurr thy snn
Chr frrt nf t1r Ghrtst-G 4ilh fall grntlr a1n mlir
Ann 1r uur nj thr Ohrta Ghh tela nrt mitp hrltght
Chat u1ankirh thr rhlhrrn nj Gnh ~-
Uhr frft nf thr llumhlrst may malk III thr ftrlh
n mllrrr thr frrt nj thr 4uirHt haur trnh
Uhia. thia ia t1r n1arurl In mnrtala rrurarn
M1pn tllr Bilupry trlmprts uf Ohramaa taup pfarn.
That manknh thu rhihrrn nj Gun.
p Brooks
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-04-06
DEBATE CELIBACY
TAX ON BOTH RACES
WILL HIGHTEN WOMAN'S EVER
INCREASING EGOTISM," IS
VIEW OF MANY IN FRANCE

Frances justly famed and
highly involved methods of taxation
may soon be augmented by new
levy of a sort frequently discussed in
America and in England, but of q
character far in advance of anything
ever actually proposed in those coun-
tries.
The Chamber of Deputies is Crap
ping with measure taxing cellbacy
10 per cent. 1t is held by many per
sons here that celibacy is taxable
wealth, and what makes this remark
able measure even more remarkable IS
the fact that it does not respect sex,
the bachelors pocketbook and the
spinster's stocking being equally hit.
In thus pointing the punitive finger OF
taxation at both sexes France crum-
bles an age-old dogma that non-mar-
rage is the bachelors fault and places
man and woman on an equal plane of
culpability.
What bearing such indirect, yet
forceful, recognition of equality of the
sexes may have on the course of fu-
ture events may we'll be left to femi-
nists to enumerate, and yet the mme-
date situation produced in France by
the proposal and the favorable recep-
ton of the proposed measure are not
without far reaching consequences
and piquant concern.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-04-06
THE SEXTON BEETLE
Wonderful Insect that Buries the
Bodies of Small Animals.

Suppose a husky ditchdigger We're
given the job of burying the body OF
an elephant, using no tools other than
his hands? He might spend the best
part of his life trying, and Incidental
" might wear off his fingers and even
his arms in the vain attempt to give
the huge carcass burial, says the
Philadelphia Public Ledger. Now,
suppose we give our ditch digger all
the shovels, spades, pickaxes and
wheel barrows he could ask for, and
even then it would likely be some
time before the peanut-lovlng pachy-
derm would cease to cumber the land
scape. :,
Now, there is a certain small in
sect, known as the sexton beetle,
which in a few hours can accomplish
task in proportion to his size equal.
lv as great or greater than that OF
the man and the elephant. He is call
ed the sexton by reason OF his queer
habit of burying the bodies OF small
birds or animals. He is an extremely
cheerful-looking little fellow, quick IN
his movements and always IN the
greatest of hurries.
If YOU wish to observe sexton bee
tie, all you have to do is to throw a
dead mouse or a mole out into the
garden. You wont have to wait long,
for in an incredibly short time the
undertaken arrives. Busting, busl.
nesslike, and alert, he walks around
the mouse a few times, touching 1t
here and there with his "feelers", as
if taking measure of his job. Hav-
ing satisfied himself as to this, the
size of his proposition, he disappears
under the body and at once proceeds
to work. Called by some system OF
wireless, his two or three assistants
shortly arrive, and without any delay
work themselves out of sight under
the body of the mouse. They do not
dig a hole, as one might suppose, tum-
BILE the body in, and then cover 1t with
earth. Theirs is a different method,
more original and effective. They
work themselves under the object to
be inferred and throw up on it's side
the soil that was beneath the body;
so little by little it slowly sinks.
The sexton is no scavenger. He
does not practice his chosen profes-
sion merely to get unsightly objects
out IF sight or for any sanitary rea-
son whatever. 1t is the call of the
parent instinct-the instinct that tells
him that the young beetles can not
live and prosper without the shelter
of lust such a home as he prepared
Tor them. his only object in putting
snugly underground the body of the
mouse is to keep it in just the right
condition until the grubs hatch out
and begin to call for their natural
food When the mouse has been tuck
ed away and the mother beetles have
deposited their eggs in the body the
burial squad disappears.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-04-06
Get the Habit Of
Drinking Hot Water
Before Breakfast
Says we can't look or feel right
with the system full
of poisons.

Millions of folks battle internally
now instead of loading their system
with drugs. "What's an inside bath?'
you say. Well, it is guaranteed to per-
form miracles if you could bel1eVe
these hot water enthusiasts.
There are vast numbers of men and
women who, Immediately upon arising
in the morning, drink glass of real
hot water with a teaspoonful OF lime
stone phosphate in it. This is a very
excellent health measure. 1t is in
tended to flush the stomach, liver kid
neys and the thirty feet of intestines
of the previous days waste, sour bile
and indigestible material left over in
the body which if not eliminated every
day, become food for the millions OF
bacteria which infest the bowels, the
quick result is poisons and toxins
which are then absorbed into the blood
causing headache, bilious attacks, foul
breath, bad taste, colds, stomach trou-
BILE, kidney misery, sleeplessness, I'M
pure blood and all sorts OF ailments.
People who feel good one day and
lady the next, but who simply can
not get feeling right are urged 10
obtain a quarter pound of limestone
phosphate at the drug store. This
will cost very little but is sufficient
10 make anyone a real crank on the
subject of internal sanitation.
Just as soap and hot water act on
the skin. cleansing, sweetening and
freshening, so limestone phosphate and
hot water act on the stomach, liver
kidneys and bowels. 1t Is vastly more
important to battle on the inside than
on the outside, because the skin pores
do . not absorb impurities into the
blood. while the bowel pores do.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-04-06

profit by the past experience of other
and plant a portion of their land to
other crops, and for this purpose there
is no crop so well adapted for a cash
crop as the peanut. Peanuts are an
easy crop to grow and market and
there is an increasing demand for all
peanut products. They have been the
means of bringing prosperity to farm
ers in many sections of Georgia, Flor
ida, and Alabama.
"Live stock production, crop rota-
ton, an ddiversifcation mean success
and prosperity to Southern farmers.
The Information Department of the
Southeastern Peanut Association, 241s
Luckie St., Atlanta, Ga, is in posi-
ton to render valuable advice and as
sistance to farmers interested In
growing peanuts for market.