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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29
Noted Writer Was
Driver of Horse
Car in Chicago

| CHICAGO.--Twenty years ago
fired from his position as conductor
on horse car because he couldn't
| remember streets and once even for
got in what direction the car was
going.
Today-hailed by critics as the
greatest living fiction writer of
Scandinavia and winner of the Nobel
literature prize for 1920.
Such is the story of Knut Hamsun,
| who has just been announced as win
ner of the Nobel prize.
Old friends here remember him as
thin, blond youth, always hungry
and always broke He had come
into Chicago from the North Dakota
prairies, where he had been working
as a plowboy. He obtained a posi-
ton as conductor on a horse car, but
lost it because of his inability to keep
lis mind on his work
DR.. Anders Doe, prominent in Nor
wegian circles. here, knew Hamsun
and told something of the writer's
Chicago life.
He was an out at-the-elbows lad,
said DR.. Doe. He was very poor.
No, he had no money. That was in
the early eighties, when he came to
Chicago after working as a plowboy
on the virgin North Dakota prairies.
''He got job as conductor on the
old Halsted street line. The horses
~1-lled the car then, mister. And,
my! it was cold out on the back plat
form.
Il still remember Knut's chapped,
red wrists, where his coat sleeves
forgot to meet his mittens. And he
always carried books in his pockets.
Always books Euripedes, Aristotle,
Thackeray Such dreamer, that
boy! He would forget to pull the
rope; they missed their corners"
Hamsun's forgetting which direc-
tion the car was going was the last
straw which lost him his conductors
position. From Chicago he went to
New York. Then he got berth on
a Newfoundland Banks fishing
smack. Later he worked his way to
Norway as seaman.
He was always writing, even at the
time he was in Chicago.
His Pan poems were published
in Norway in 1892 and from then on
he attracted wide attention with his
works.
Up to the present his works have
been translated into twenty-three
languages. His published volumes
cover 65,000,000 pages. The an
from his American pub
Usher, Albert A. Knopf, of his win
ming the Nobel prize means he has at
last received the accolade of literary
fame.
Knut Hamsun, now sixty years old
lives on an humble estate in Norway.
His latest book, Hunger" just pub !
lished in this country by Mr. Knopf,
tells the story of a fight of bitter
ness between young author and
starvation and is symbolic of Ham
suns own struggle.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29
PROTECT YOUR
GROCERY MAN.

The recent failure of the firm OF
: George Brunt, grocery man of Idaho
Falls, with $4,000 of liabilities
should be a warning to us to pay our
grocery bills as promptly as possible
and enable the dealer to keep his
bills paid to the wholesaler.
George Brunt has been rated as one
of the very successful grocers of Ida
no Falls. Hes went into the business
as boy, learned it from to q, de-
veloped business of his own and
for quarter of century has, been
increasing it. In the recent crash
his debts totalled $4,000 and his
assets only about $4,000.
A number of years ago two young
fellows in Blackfoot went into the
grocery business thought they under
stood it, were anxious to serve and
build up big business, were &C
quainted with everybody, were, the
friends of everybody and were taken
advantage of by large percentage
of the population. Because they were
easy going, because they were
friendly, because they did not crowd
collections hard, because their friends
did not come in promptly and pay
up, they soon had more on the books
than they had capital invested and
the result was failure, losses, humi-
liation, foreclosure.
AS soon as the word went out that
their front door was locked and the
business in the hands of the credit
mems association, many of the GUS
toners of the firm went to these
young fellows and made little talks
like this, ''Why if | had known you
were needing money, could just as
well have paid my bill. Why didn't
you let me known that you were
hard up and | would have fixed my
account"
There are men in the grocery
business in Blackfoot now; there are
men carrying large accounts with
people who are perfectly able to pay;
there are well-to-do people in every
community who think that just be-
cause they are well-to-do and gilt
edged and perfectly safe risks to
carry on open accounts that they
do not need to pay their bills until
they get good and ready
When dealer cannot collect
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29

Mr.. Hindman states that IL the
whole amount is allowed to be with
drawn in a short period that the per-
s0nel of the Prohibition Law enforce
ment squads all over the nation. will
have to be increased some five hun
dred per cent.
This statement of Mr.. Hindman's
is indicative of the methods of the
dry forces which remind us of a dog
chasing his tail. .
Two facts connected with the pro-
hibitive measure seem to have been
overlooked entirely in planning en-
forcement One is that particularly
all the liquor now manufactured is
going to be consumed and all the
dry squad activities in the universe
can not stop it, The second fact is
the inability of revenue officers,
through. inadequate forces to put a
stop to the smuggling and manufac-
ture of 'moonshine." With this sit
uation existing, it would appear that
the logical step to bring about total
prohibition would be to throw all the
strength of the dry forces toward
Stopping the smuggling and moon
shining" If this process. were follow
ed in short time all the liquor avail
able would be consumed and an &C
tual drouth effected. When your cell
lar is flooding you don't set your wife
to bailing it out, while you try to
stop the fow--you both bend your
efforts toward stopping the food and
then-if you can get away with it
you let her bail it out.-G. w.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29
READY TO LEND FILMS ON
MAKING CONCRETE ROADS

Many a woman more blessed with
a sense of the ridiculous than she is
with tact has remarked to friend
husband as he climbed from under
meath the car stalled on muddy
country road after struggle with
recalcitrant machinery, IF only a
movie photograph were here"
Her wish would have been graft
fed this summer in many places in
Delaware and New Jersey, for movie
operators from the United States de-
partment of agriculture were there
filming good roads with the assist
ance of engineers from the bureau of
public roads. The resulting picture,
Modern Concrete Road Construction,
is now ready for lending to inter-
ested persons who make application
for it's use at "good roads" meetings,
schools, colleges and meetings of en-
gineers.
Every process involved in the con-
struction of concrete road is shown
in the film from the heavy grading
to the completed road. The picture
opens with a view of an automobile
stuck in the mud in an unimproved
country road. After the spectator
has been shown all the steps in the
construction of a modern concrete
road, the picture closes with athrill-
ing race between a railroad train and
a motor truck on concrete high
way-a feature calculated to show
the possibilities Of rapid transit Of
freight traffic on good roads, but not
to encourage speeding.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29
GERMANS WERE TO
COLONIZE MEXICO
Secret Treaties Made By
Carranza Gave Ger
mans Advantage
(By International News Service)

(By International News Service)
MEXICO CITY, Mexico,-7Mexico
his still discussing the alleged secret
treaty between the United States,
Great Britain and France, and inter-
ests antagonistic to the United States
are making the most Of the prejudice
inspired by Count Reventlow's dis
closure.
1t is the general belief among those
who are not blinded by prejudice or
do not purposely close their eyes that
Count Reventlow's intention was to
discount expected revelations con-
tinued almost up to the time of this
fall. AS
There were two secret treaties with
Carranza, it is said. One was made
when Carranza thought that Ger
many would be victorious in the war
in Europe. This treaty gave sweeping
confessions to Germany and permit
ted that country to make the Rio
Grande River as German as the
Rhine. Publication of the terms of
this treaty it is asserted by persons
who profess to know, would astonish
holders of concessions issued by the
Mexican Government preceding that
headed by General Carranza.
Make Second Treaty
The second treaty was made after
Germany was defeated, it is de-
clared and is merely modification
of the first treaty. While the first was
prepared in the expectation of bounc-
ing days of German conquest, the sec
ond was written to meet the changed
prospect. Instead of permitting the
Germans to move to the banks of the
Rio Grande with the pomp and noise
of victors, the treaty provides, it is
said, that Germans may settle along
the border and take title to land
there. The plan was to fill up the
country adjoining the United States
with German settlers. r"
Under existing laws foreigners are
not permitted to own land within a
zone extending sixty miles southwark
from the international border, but
this law was to be set aside in favor
CT the Germans.
IiepdidtioHS WelS DelhS ludue loT
German colonization at the time the
Carranza Government was over
thrown in the May revolution. Even
now the colonization project has not
been entirely dropped German in
terests have obtained a large amount
of land in the northern part of Mex
leo and German colonists are being
brought in as fast as it Is DOSSible
to do so under present conditions.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29
BOY SCOUTS WILL
FIND MURDERER

NEW YORK.-Chinese boy scouts
Of New York's Chinatown have sworn
to find the murderer Of Leong Yung
Chinese eX-service mn, who was
shot down here. by Tong men.
The police, as is usual in Tong
murder cases, met with professions
Of absolute ignorance when they
questioned witnesses of the shooting
regarding the identity of the MUIR
derer. But the little yellow boy
scouts who know the underground
life of the colony as we'll as their ell
ders, came forward and vowed that
they would find the man who shot
down the former soldier.
Yung, according to the story told
by his white wife, was expelled from
the Hip Song Tong last February
because members of the Tong thot
he was an informer who had been
'squealing" to the police.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29
AMERICAN AUTOMOBILES
GLUT INDIA MARKET
(By International News Service)

(By International News Service)
LONDON.-India is glutted with
American motor cars, according to
report which has been received
from Bombay.
The report states that 900 Ameri-
can cars are at present lying at the
Bombay docks unclaimed. Most of
the motor car firms are said to be
reducing their prices and that this
is particularly so of the firms hand
ling American cars.
The importation Of English cars is
said to have practically ceased, the
manufacturers declining to meet the
reduced prices of the American cars.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29
FIVE WOMEN WERE
ELECTED IN CONNECTICUT

NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-Connecti-
cut, the last state to ratify the con-
stitutional suffrage amendment,
elected more women to it's state leg
islature than any other state, accord
ing to a report published by the Ma
tional American woman suffrage
association.
Connecticut elected five women as
against four in Kansas and three in
California, where woman has had the
vote for several years. Utah elected
three and New Hampshire, New
Jersey and Oklahoma two each.
Twenty-Five women were elected
in fifteen states.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29
LET THE WOMAN
DO THE WORK.

We read of some fourteen million
gallons of good whiskey stored in the
warehouses of Pittsburgh alone.
These fourteen million gallons seem
to be worrying Pennsylvania state
prohibition director, w. Wayne
Hindman.
1t would appear that the decision
of the United States Supreme Court
permitting the whiskey to be with
drawn legally has greatly facilitated
it's movement out of storage and this
fact is annoying Mr.. Hindman also.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29

money due him from people who are
abundantly able to pay, 1t is a pretty
hard row for him, trying to keep his
business going by collecting from the
people who are not able to pay
1t hurts community to have a
store fail; 1t hurts a community to
have any business house fail. il you
can Fay your accounts, always be
Prompt about paying; if you cannot
pay them, pay as much as you can
on all of them.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29
WEST VA. GOVERNOR
ASKS FOR TROOPS
Federal Aid Sought in
.,........ the Coal Strike. so,
Zone

CHARLESTON, w. Va.--Governor
J. j. Cornwell announced that he had
asked the government to- send fed
eral troops into Mingo county, West
Virginia coal strike zone, and added
that as soon as the soldiers took
charge he would ask President Will
son to declar martial law. ~
Federal troops controlled the
Mingo region for some time, but
were withdrawn about six weeks ago,
when the situation quieted down.
Since that time many disorders have
occurred, number of persons have
been shot and killed and gangs of
unidentified men have attacked coal
properties. ...
The state department is totally I'M
able to cope with the situation in
Mingo county, the governor said. 81
hope with all my heart" he added,
that martial law will be declared
Immediately after an investigation
has been made. but l am totally
unable to venture an opinion upon
what eventual military action will be
taken" ,
CAMP SHERMAN, Ohio.--A pro-
visional battalion of 400 picked
troops is under arms here to leave
for Williamson, W. Va. renewal of
trouble in the strike district has re-
suited in the recall of federal troops
to that section for police duty, it was
announced.
Captain E. l.. Brine, commanding
the provost guard, left this afternoon
for MingO county. He was supposed
to have gone to make preparations for
a possible movement of troops into
the strike region, but camp head
quarters would not confirm his err
rand
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29
SOLDIER GETS "BONUs''
OF $4,000 IN CASH
(By International News Service }

(By International News Service)
SACRAMENTO, Cal.-Because he
served in the American army during
the great war, James P. Hasapis, ma
tive of Greece, is $4,000 richer to-
day.
Hasapis, who is brass foundry
man at the Southern Pacific shops
here sent a picture of himself, in
uniform, to his mother and his god
father, in Greece. The latter replied
by placing the $4,000 in a bank in
Greece for Hasapis, in recognition of
his god-son's services to his adopted
country.
Hasapis will continue to work in
the railroad shops.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29

More dollars are wanted for pro-
hibition enforcement. Also more
sense in it's enforcement.-Buf
Commercial.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29

Lots of men forget that a hunger
strike is liable to follow work
strike.-Financial America New
York;
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29

The wheat farmer is glad cotton is
coming down, and the cotton farmer
is glad wheat is coming down.-San
Diego Tribune.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-29

1t is too bad that our ancestors
did not live long enough to realize
how smart we are.-Detroit Journal.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-22

The next person Tinwaiinw went TO
collect from In the Land Of Dear
knows-Where. was Mr.. Munchis
Mouse. who lived in the cellar OF
Maple-Trce Flats. and who also was
janitor OF the place. collecting gar
bage and so on
Mrs Muncic Mouse was the
washer and ironer for all the flats.
too. 80 between them they made .
very good living.
II waS very convenient for the
dwcilers In MapIe-Tree Apartments
TO have the Mouses SO near. and to
make things still nicer. a little dumb
waiter (elevator) ran up and down
inside the tree. which carried gar
bage cans and laundry baskets. and
furniture when folks we're moving
In or out.
when Tingaiing and Napcy and
Nick arrived for the rent, carrying
the rent-book. and the large lead
pencil Munchie was Just washing up
at the kitchen sink. getting ready to
eat his dinner. and Mrs Munchie
was folding away the last of the
Squirrel family's clothes in their
basket. while the coffee boiled.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-22

show off. You know. II isn't any fun
nj all to feel smart unless others can
see how smart you are. So Reddy
Fox, just to show off, grew very bold;
very bold. indeed. He actually went
up 20 Farmer Browns hen yard In
broad daylight. and. almost under the
nose of Bowser the Hound, he caught
the pet chicken OF Farmer Browns
Boy.
OF Mistah Buzzard. sailing over.
head high up in the blue. blue sky.
saw Heddy Fox and shook his bald
head As he said:
"Ah see trouble on the way;
Yes, All do Tee. An dol
Hope IL Amt . gwins TO stay.
Yes. All do Yes. An do
Trouble am q spry OIL man.
Bound 70 find yo' II he can.
II he finds 20 bound TO stick.
When All sees him An runs quick!
Yes. All do Yes. All dol
But Reddy Fox thought himself 40
smart that IL seemed "a II he really
was hunting for OF Mr.. Trouble.
And when he caught the pet chicken
u Farmer Browns Boy. OF Mr.. Trou-
BILE was right at his heels.
Next story: Rndtiy Fox Grows
Careless.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-22

DEDDY FOX was growing bold.
IN Everybody said so, and what
everybody says must be SO.
Reddy Fox had always been very sly.
md not bold at all. The truth IL,
Reddy Fox had 80 many times fooled
Bowscr the Hound and Farmer
Browns Boy that he had begun to
think himself very smart, indeed. He
had really fooled himself. He thought
himself so smart that nobody could
fool him.
Now, 1t IL a bad habit, a very bad
habit, to think too much Of ones self.
II In one Of the worst habits in the
world. And Reddv Fox had the
habit. oh. my. yes Reddy Fox Ger
fainiy did have the habit! When
any one mentioned Bowser the
Hound. Reddy would turn up his
nose and say:
Pooh, It's the easiest thing In
the world to fool him"
whenever Reddy saw Farmer
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-22

Hello. Munchie.- called tbs fairy
landlord thru the window. Rent
day"
why. 10 II is." answered Mnnchie.
rolling down his sleeves and opening
the door. Come In. Mr.. TingaiIns.
won't your"
"Company's with me- answered
the faIryvnan-
The more the merrier.. answered
Munchie. Bring EN- along"
SO in they filed. including the
Magical Mushroom.
Mrs. Munchie put her laundry has.
ket on the elevator and pulled the
rope. Thereupon the basket. elevator.
and all went up, up and up. 10 tho
Squirrel famiiy's floor. where IL
stopped. and the next thing they
heard was Mrs. Samantha dragging
tho baske. off.
Now said Mrs. Muneie. UNITY
Ing her apron. come and sit down,
folks. while the cheese cakes are
hot" Which they all did. but where
they got cheese I'll never tell you.
unless 1t might be from the milk.
weed
Copyright. 1870. N. r.. Al
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-22

that they would get into one Of the
traps set for Reddy Fox. OF course,
they missed those fresh eggs. and OF
course, they blamed Reddy Fox.
Never mind" said Jimmy skunk.
scowling down on the Green Mea.
dows where Reddy Fox was taking
sun bath. Farmer Browns Boy will
get him yeti hope he doess'
Jimmy said this a little spitefuIly
and just as II he really meant II.
Now, when people think that they
are very. very smart they like To
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-22

earlier.
II was saturday night. and. ~
the boats came In. the boy could
hear the happy voices OF the PEG
pie who got off at the little dock.
and the giggles and saueais OF tho
girls "a they met
Then they would all come laugh
ing and shouting past the door.
so on up the little road to their
camps or cottages. and the night
would he still again.
Coal oil makes only a very poor
light. you know. and the boxes
and barrels threw iurnpy black
shadows on the floor.
The nine O'Clock boat brought
the last crowd. and after that tho
boy had only one more hour TO
watch the storc.
Sometimes. from nine 10 ten.
quite a lot Of people came In TO
buy Ice cream. 50 he determined 10
stay right there and have as much
money IN tho drawer as posslels
when his father came hack.
But II wasn't an Ice cream
crowd that came.
Creeping st-althiiy In. like
blanket savagcs. a party OF young
Indians entered the store.
"vaniliar' they demanded. And
iemon' We want all you got
see 80
But TIRE boy knew. NO ne said.
Il know what yeu want yeu Just
want u TO get drunk on. and I won't
sell n to you for that"
"Haht" they snesred. 'ysu big
mani Yeu no sell yeu no like indian
get drunk-big man"
And roughly pushing the hoy aside.
they rushed behind the counter and
helped themselves
Bottle after bottle they drank---tiii
they were sirk--oh. 80 sick stupid
men. TO try to get drunk on vanilla.
Bat the little s,orskespsr vas ses
inIured In any spst-~eut his gres.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-22
Seattle's
Leading
Dentist

I am now devoune
my entire time to my
dental practice. ! make
all examinations and
diagnose each case as
well as do all extract.
ing between the hours
Of 0 q. m. and s p. n
My offices have bee
established for NOR
than a quarter OF
century. and under m.
personal management on,
1901. I do not compete '
transient. advertising Oct
My prices are the 10
sistent with first-class W
EDWIN J. BROWN. I
6eatllc's Leading D
100 COIpnablA RI
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-22
SS ri Rl;';'!!, .
Page 100
A I.ATTERDAY PIONEER

This Seattle Of ours Is a won
derfui place. Not long ago. Peggy
and David made q little trip on
the sound. They visited Port
Madison and suquamish and In.
dianola.
They saw Chief seattie's grave
and heard many stories. And this
h the one David liked best. be-
cause IL Is about a little boy who
II stili a boy. and about real In.
dams who live over there right
now.
land It's pretty wonderful. isn't
Il. to live In big city and be
able to take 80 short trip to
find Indians and forestsn
II happened not long after pro
hibition went into effect
One OF the things the old In.
dams hated abou, the white Man
was the bringing of firewater
whisky TO the Indians.
~ Histd' tlttu 80 HUNT fupfN
cruel and wicked. and II was hard
or for good chiefs to control the
young men when they were so
often drunk with White Mans
whisky.
All Down the years. from
earliest pioneer days 'tiii now.
when II Is against the law to buy
Il or make IL. the Indian has been
wild for whisky. And tina; is what
the story Ii about.
In little store across the
sound. not far from the r~scrva-
ton. little boy had been left
alone. not baby boy. OF course.
He was big enough TO wait on
the people who came to buy, for
usually they bought just things In
packages--oat meal or crackers or
canned milk or loaf OF bread.
which they had forgotten to buy
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-22
Republican, Name
Three Bureau Chiefs

SAN FRANCISCO. July 22.-or-
ganzation OF the republican cam.
paign in the West progressed fur
Their today with the naming OF three
bureau chiefs to play important
parts.
Congressman A. T. Smith OF Idaho
was named head OF the speakers hui
reau. National Committeeman John
T. Hart OF Idaho was appointed or.
ganization chairman and Congress
man John |. Nolan OF Oakland chief
OF the labor section.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-07-22

Browns Boy. he would say with the
greatest scorn:
Who's afraid Of him, Not IT,
SO. sas Reddy thought more and
more OF his own smartncss, he grew
holder and boider. Almost every
night he visited Farmer Browns hen
yard. Farmer Brown set traps all
around the yard. but Reddy always
found them and KEEP, out OF them.
IL got SO that unc' Billy Postum and
Jimmy Skunk didn't dare 10 TO tho
henhousc for eggs any more for fear