The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-10-01
GRAIN MUST BE SAVED

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GRAIN MUST BE SAVED
Rain is threatened again and much
grain remains In the field, unthreshed'
The situation is one calling for action
Valuable time has been lost by
t%hreshing machine operators for lack
of enough men to operate he ma
chimes. 1t was estimated that TWO
million bushels of wheat. worth close
to foul million dollars stood in Latah
county fields in danger of total loss
when the last rainy spell struck this
county.
People refuse to take the situation
seriously. With foul million dollars
worth of grain in danger of destruc-
ton, men refused to go to,the harvest
fields to save it. Had there been a
fire in a wheat field or in a warehouse
containing a few hundred or a few
thousand bushels of wheat, every per-
son in Moscow who could possibly do
so would lave gone to the fire n
tried to ave the grain. Yet here is
a situation a hundred times worse
that is treated with Indifference. While
farmers have been begging for men
to help save their crops men have
idled about town or attended to some
trivial matter.
students and sent them to the harvest
fields when the farm bureau showed
the need Of this. The saving OF the
wheat crop is of far greater import
ance to Moscow than it is to the
university, yet Moscow citizens refuse
to neglect their own business or pleas
ure to assist in saving the crop.
The years ago the writer was in
Wallowa county, Ore, during harvest.
Help was scare There was no bad
weather or danger from that source,
but harvest crews were short handed.
The writer went to the county agent
and asked for help. Mr.. Hoke, the
county agent had a list of names OF
men who could be had. One was a
prominent attorney, another was the
county clerk, another was a clerk III
the leading bank, another was the
proprietor Of the largest drug store,
who had already put in three weeks
working in the harvest fields. These
volunteered to go out and save
the crop. Are Moscow and Latah
more selfish than Enterprise
and Wallowa county, Oregon?
That the railroads ''killed the goose
that laid the golden egg when they
asked for and were granted freight
md passenger rate increases, is being
shown. Trucks are taking the place
railroads on short hauls and thous-
of tons of freight and express
hat would have gone by rail under
he old rates, now go by truck. Tens
II thousands of passengers are being
in automobiles who would
lave travelled by train at pre-war
'ates. And now a stock man has
wan Snake river with 1852 head of
'eef cattle that are being brought to
doscow, and is driving them over
and rather than pay the increased
rates. Reports from Spokane,
and other northwest live
took markets show a far greater num-
.er of "drive-ins" since the new rates
vent into effect.
Is 49,
J.. NJ. Hannafords has retired from
he presidency of the Northern Paci I
&c railroad. Mr.. Hannaford has made
splendid executive for that great /,
of commerce, one of the first D
penetrate the great northwest and V
pen it up to settlement and progress. >
leaves the service of the road L
fter devoting the greater part of his a
fe to it, on his 10th birthday. He
a clean record of ability and n
rogressiveness. :,
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An exchange is unkind enough to lie
,mpare Bryan's silence in the nation 81
campaign to the hunger strike of ~
ord Mayor MacSweeney, and calls it fl
speech strike" Not at all in
ID. &C
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ks Afa in
One reason why a hunger striker ~
draws some public sympathy da
that he is about the only striker ST
lose strike does not cut off some ue
e's else food and comfort.-Kansas ~