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New-York tribune., 1920-04-11
Must Combat Hcresies

AAoW Hldlly OF us can reason sue
cessfully with the man who would
natlonalize the family; who denies
the right to property; who regards
honesty, morality, patriotism. every
virtue which it has been the object
OF strong and good men through all
ages to achieve, as the product Of a
VICIOUS and decadent class system
who denies religion Of every sort.
and calls God himself the agent and
abettor of capitalism?
How many of us think such think
ing as much less than mad? Yet roth
ing IS more imperative than that we
flnd how to meet this welter of
chaos on its own ground SO that we
may help to transmute it, in some
way, or some part Of it, into a spirit
OF understanding, of sympathy, of
mutual cooperation. What ultimate
remedy shall we discover, further
more, against the kind Of thinking
that organizes strikes against the
life, order and wellbeing Of society
by demanding, with no broad sense
Of social justice or clear knowledge
of economic law, larger and larger
compensat;on~on the basis of service
that deliberately renders smaller
ard smaller productive return to So
ciety, at time when increased pro-
duction and greater efficiency of
labor are positively the only ulti-
mate ways to tighten the burdens of
living under which we all. h1cludine
New-York tribune., 1920-04-11
Says Colleges Do Not Teach
The Remedy for Bolshevism

By Archibald Lewis Bouton
Dean, College of Arts and Pure
Science, Neav York University
New-York tribune., 1920-04-11

ITH our social organiza-
tion shaken by unrest, of
which the consequences
will rnach ia f11t11ra oro,,-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
FLOWERS AND
THRIFT

1t is strange how great the num-
Der of persons is who want good
roads for motoring but make no
more of a stir towards getting bet
ter roads than does the complaining
drummer towards getting better rail
road service.
And so is it strange how many
there are who hum loud praises of
the beautiful flowers and grow not
more than a daisy or two in their
gardens.
One who devotes considerable of
his leisure hours to the cultivation of
a flower garden must necessarily
lose that much time that might be
spent at more expensive pastimes,
such as driving a motor car about
the neighboring country
Thrifty persons raise flowers. They
have that quality of contentment in
the natural beauties of life that goes
with the character of a gardener
Their pleasure does not require Sc
much the expending Of money fol-
artificial benefits as the giving OF
time in the simple and homely pur.
suit of making things grow in the
door-yard. F. c. K.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16

or other crops following a crop of
beets Is better than II the beets
had not been grown there. The old
Russian found out about these
these things and wrote book ex-
planning 1t. but you and failed to
get hold Of his book and inform our
selves. Napoleon was banished to
st. Helena and could no longer push
the sugar industry in his own coun-
try. His greatest general, Marshal
Ney, was court-martialed and shot
by jealous factions, and only by the
persistence of some of the smaller
fry Of France was the sugar indus
try preserved. Then came the third
Napoleon who concentrated much of
the energies of France to the de-
velopment of the sugar beet industry
in the race to keep ahead Of the
Germans. and they developed ALI
that rich country in northern France
which the Germans lately took so
much satisfaction in destroying. For
eighty years they had been gradual
ly improving their soil by rotating
Continued on page three
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
GIVE US TINE

Tourists are now coming thru in
numbers, stopping, spending money
here, wondering why small towns do
not appreciate their patronage
enough to smooth down the entrance
roads into town.
Many of them, as last year, are
being DETECTED from the Yellowstone
highway at Pocatello to the Star
valley road passing thru the Jack
son hole country, but they often
come back this way to see if the
roads are as bad as they have heard.
Naturally they do not know how
much better our roads are now than
in those former years, not so far
back, when an impossible condition
of the highway would only excite
a casual remark.
However. between Blackfoot and
Fort Hal there is stretch of three
miles of asphalt paving to give
strangers an inkling of what is to
be. We are confident that in the
fulness Of time our main highways
will all be paved. Il. c. K.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
MOVIES OLASSED WITH
PULPIT AND PRESS

An unusual recognition was given
to the movies when, on the recon-
mendation of Secretary Franklin K
Lane, resolution was introduced in
congress and approved. to the effect
that the great educational power OF
the movies should be encouraged to
teach lessons of citizenship and
American ideals of government in
the schools, churches and welfare
work of the United States.
The resolution carried with it a
request for the services of the ex-
perts and specialists in those mat
tiers, to cooperate with the movies
to speed up such work.
When teachers, preachers, chau-
tauqua speakers and practical po-
itical economists join forces with
the movies to spread American ideals
there is not much of a gulf between
the moving picture shows and the
pulpit and press.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16

en- to bar out the large beets grown
thinner In the rows,
If every beet in field, planted
on plans as practiced at present, sent
out its web-like root system to fill
a six-foot cube, the soil to depth
of six feet would not only be pretty
well explored, but pretty well filled
with roots, and later with humus. 1t
would be bored quite full of little
holes or pores, and all these little
pores filled with humus and water
would constitute valuable reservoir
of moisture and plant food.
Napoleon q Beet Farmer
A crop of grain sends its hair-like
roots down several feet If it can get
thru. But the soil has to be either
loose or porous for them to extend
into it. When the root system Of
the sugar beet has explored the soil,
the root system of grain and potatoes
can more readily follow. and they
feed upon the humus that was left
from the beet roots, and upon the
moisture stored in the humus Of the
beet roots. On this account the grain
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
"OUTNOF THE TRENCHES
BY CHRISTMAS"

The above quotation was the slo-
gan of the Ford peace party when it
went to Europe in the /good ship
Oscar II. Delegates we're assembled
from all over the United States to
go to war-torn Europe where nations
were engaged in the death grip, and
by some strange spell that nobody
ever claimed to understand how to
operate, they were going to get the
contending armies to march off home
leaving all the trouble unsettled and
ready to burst out anew.
When this aggregation put to sea
and began taking an inventory of it
self, it found that it was made up
of al the different types of freaks
we had in America. Freaks and
freak ideas were the rule, and nearly
everybody wanted to make speech
and get his particular hobby before
the party and thereby become
famous for being the author of the
peace of the world.
By the time they were ready to
land in Europe, they had developed
into a Babel, and were fighting
among themselves. Scarcely any two
could agree on anything. and they
| did not know just how the war was
to be stopped. Madam Schweimer,
| who originated the idea of the peace
trip, and Henry Ford who backed it,
did not know what they were going
| to do; Mr.. Ford was getting sus-
/, picious of Madam Schweimer and she
was herding him every hour of the
day and evening to prevent other
wise ones from getting to talk to
him and put him wise to some of the
| absurd things about the trip.
All the expenses of the party were
being paid by Mr.. Ford's secretary
out of his fortune, and the women
Of the party had no sooner gotten
into European markets than they be-
gan stocking themselves with finery
which they charged to Mr.. Ford, and
which his secretary paid. He soon
issued orders to curtail that kind of
stuff, and he started for home, dis
gusted and disgraced. The whole
party went to PIECES, Mr.. Ford pay
ing their expenses home or wherever
they wanted to go, and it will go
down in history as one of the absurd
things outrivaling sales of gold
bricks.
There was a peace party in
Chicago last week. 1t put third
party in the field to elect president
of the United States and solve all
the problems of the nation and most
of the universe. They quarreled
among themselves from start to fin
ish Of the convention and specialists
in pouring oil' were kept con-
stantly on the job to exhort when
the convention was about to bloT up
with differences. 1t was by the
barest margins that they held to-
gether till they adopted their plat
form and made the nominations.
The convention thuout bore a sim
ilarity to the voyage of the good ship
Oscar II.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
THOSE TAXES OF
YOURS

If there is anything you want done
to reduce your taxes or to make
them higher, now is the time to get
busy on it. The right place to start
anything in the management of gov
eminent is to start it in the pre-
cinct meetings of your party. Dele
gates from the precincts carry the
message of the precinct to the coun-
ty convention, and the delegates
to the state convention carry the
message of the county to the state
platform committee.
II you want to build more roads
or less roads, or if you want to repeal
or strengthen the widows pension
law so they will receive no money
or less money or more money-if
there is anything you want changed
in the laws, start at the precinct
and go up the line thru your par
ty organization.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16

tatoes, cotton. sugar, paper, brick,
iron and steel are still above the
100 per cent advance over 1914
prices.
There has accumulated such an
oversupply OF leather in the form
of hides and raw wool that lower
prices are being predicted. The fl
nancial panic in Japan has material
ly lowered silk prices, and broken
several silk firms in New York.
Markets are unsettled. Manufac-
turers are holding off their usual
purchases of raw materials expect
ing lower prices.
Money continues tight, but prices
are being forced down for that rea-
son, so it seems to be six one way
and half dozen the other. Freight
rates are to be raised as soon as
the amount can be agreed upon by
labor and the railroad board, and
while most of this increase is expect
ed to be met by the manufacturers
and the middlemen, yet the ultimate
consumer, you and l, will almost
certainly get our share of the ex-
pense.
But all these things indicate that
we are not any worse off as the
months go by. Autumn is always
a prosperous period especially for
agricultural vicinities such as ours.
With money getting more valuable,
and the world demanding foodstuffs,
the whole west should reap might
ly this fall. F. C. X.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
FINANCE AND
TRADE

Nineteen fourteen, the year of the
great war, is now six years past, and
it is estimated that the present nor
NAL prices for commodities average
about 100 per cent higher than those
of 1914.
Taking this as basis of judgment,
rubber, copper, silk, beef and cof-
fee are going at reasonable prices,
because there is a surplus of them.
Such commodities as wheat, corn, po-
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
TEACHERS EXAMINATION

The regular examination for all
classes and grades Of teachers GER
tificates will be held in Blackfoot
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July
%, % and "a, at $3.50 a. m. sharp.
All teachers not holding valid Ida
no certificates are required to write
at this examination.
GRACE FAULCONER,
adv. Syst County Superintendent.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16

When there was to be an election, this was in the
very early days, they posted the notice the church
door, If there be auction other sale that
was posted on the church door where everybody could
see, for everybody went to church, Election returns
were written and posted on the church door, If this
custom we're revived now, we might have to enlarge
the door, and what lot of people would go church
who do not now.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
Operations of the Prod Man

After people were assembled in church, there was
the prod to that they kept quiet and listened
When he caught anybody asleep he applied the prod or
tapped them the head with the end of the pole and
they sat up and took notice. 1t was rule that public
opinion recognized as law
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
Wonders of Sugar Beet

The average sugar beet extends its
root down about fifteen inches. It
puts out set of fine roots that ex-
tend deeper. 1t puts out set of
roots that are fine like cobwebs that
are almost invisible. that penetrate
to a great distance. If you go into
your field in the latter part of sum-
mer and dig within two or three feet
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
A Russian Scientist

A Russian scientist at Odessa, de-
parting from the custom of spending
all their time raising wheat, ex-
plored the realms of mystery con-
nected with the sugar beet, and
found out the things that Eugene
c. Hale of Groveland, Idaho, foun
out for himself and showed to me
and l told the readers of my paper
IN 1916 and thought we had made
quite discovery. But this old Rus
sian with his whiskers went a hun
dred times farther, and before | start
to tell you about the queer conspira-
cy that for three years was keeping
a strangle hold on the beetgrowers
who were trying to build a modern
sugar factory at Rigby, want to tell
you several things about the manners
ard customs of the lowly sugar beet
as first revealed by the Russian.
want to tell you these things first,
because the knowledge of them Will
put money into your pocket if you
will make use of it in preparing
your farm for producing sugar heets.
while full knowledge of the way
the strangle hold was worked. will
only make you cuss some of your az
quaintances and give them permits.
sion to go to HI
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
Conspiracy Against Beetgrowers


Sit down folks and listen to me.
l have a story you would want to
hear if you knew how big it is in
your affairs and how vital it is to
your business. AS review the mass
OF it, l find that the only hard part
about telling the story is that it is
so big ! don't know where to begin.
1t affects so many people wonder
which ones to bring into it first. It
covers SO many dates in its opera
tions l hesitate about whether to tell
the story backwards, beginning with
the phony resolutions adopted by
some well-meaning farmers at Provo
last Saturday, or go back to the days
OF Napoleon when he appointed a
committee of scientists to study out
the way to produce sugar in large
quantities so he could equip his ar
my and his nation with sugar and
be able to attack England and yet
be able to eat. So long as cane sug-
ar had to be carried to France in
ships, with the English navy mistress
of the seas. Napoleon hesitated about
going over to kick the ''stuffin' i" out
of England, and he laid the founda-
lions for the beet sugar industry,
and pushed it for fourteen years as
war measure. He built sugar fac
tories as Hindenburg built fortresses,
by the hundred, and in doing so he
made strides for agriculture that
were a revelation and ought to have
been grabbed at by all mankind, and
yet we, after a hundred years, do
not understand because we have not
studied it.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
Pray Four Hours, Preach Five

Sermons were longer then than now The history of
the colonies records that ranged from two hours
up; the longest recorded is five hours Prayers were
long too. -Four hours is the longest known prayer in
those times, and prayer lasting an hour was not at all
unusual There was dog peter to put dogs if they
got noisy, and guard to sit among the boys the boys
section to that they kept still and maintained proper
decorum. If any guilty of Smiling and larfing
and other evil they were liable to be silenced at the time
and then summoned before the magistrate the day after
and rebuked and fined.
Adults all had their own pews and visitors were
shown visitors pews. Men who dropped into others
pews fined and usually not less than shilling
but more often it was four five shlings One man
persistent and kept repeating the offense until thew
fined him Fl pounds about $13o, and after that he
stayed good
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
Tacoma Gun Store, Inc
Tacoma, Wash.

Largest stock Of hunters and trappers
supplies In the northwest-especial at.
tention to mail orders.
Send one cent stamp for catalog
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
The Puritans Were Devoted Christians and
They Did 1t This Way:

meeting, just the chore boy rounds up
the cows at milking time.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
Beets, Politics and Progress
By Byrd Trego
CHAPTER Nv.

OF sugar beet, you may not find
any roots, but you will notice that
when you loosen the soil and move
1t very carefully. 1t clings together
just little, but the invisible fibres
that make it cling will break under
a very slight strain. That does not
mean anything to the average OBJ
server because 1t is just something
in the soil. But this old Russian
that l am telling you about spent a
large part of his life studying that
particular feature of soil ant. found
that it never exists in just that GER
tain form except when there is a
sugar beet growing within six feet.
Beet With Million Roots
If you will plant a sugar beet
where there is deep soil and no bed
rock to obstruct its operations, and
give it the summer to do as 1t
pleases, 1t will send out all those or
binary roots we have seen, and it
will extend this set of almost invisi-
BILE roots like spider webs and will
occupy block of earth six feet deep,
six feet. wide and six feet long,
which means that it occupies six
foot cube or about ZIG cubic feet
of earth. If you will plant another
beet six feet from the first one and
give it the same chance, you have
two of those six-foot cubes filled
with rootlets. Plant a row of them
across your field, 100 beets strung
out for 500 feet, and you will have
one strip of earth across, your field
six feet wide and six feet deep, that
is explored but not filled, with those
spider-web rootlets conveying plant
food to headquarters which is the
beet itself. If you planted a row
of beets every six feet, all over the
tract, there would then be a whole
field with rootlets exploring it six
feet deep
New Kind of Reservoir
When the beets are harvested, all
those fine roots are left in the
ground and they hold moisture, and
in decaying form a species of fertil
izer like leaf mold (decayed leaves)
that is called humus. 1t helps to
hold the moisture too, and the crop
on that land next year can get along
with less rain or irrigation than
before. The soil is loosened just
little by these rootlets, and the roots
of any crop can penetrate the soil
more readily and get plant food more
easily than before that set of beet
roots explored it.
Hale Brothers Discovery
There has been great deal of
controversy in Bingham county as to
the way beets should be grown-how
far apart in the rows and how far
apart the rows should be. The sug-
ar company's field men used to have
them thinned to about eight inches
apart in the rows, and have the rows
about twenty to twenty-four inches.
The Hale Brothers at Groveland in
creased the distance to about eight
cen inches in the rows and thirty
inches between rows, and raised larg-
er beets and great tonnage but the
factory people were not friendly to
the change. They wanted a beet
about four inches in diameter and
eight inches long, and used to threat
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
Wolf Heads on the Church

When there bounty on wolf scalps, the bounty
was not paid until the whole wolf head was nailed up
the meeting house. In the course of time the
lated skulls got quite smelly and they looked anything
but religious still the custom prevailed because it was
convenient and suited the people under those conditions
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16
Attend Church or Die

Down in Virginia, in the very early settlement when
Sir Thomas Dale governor he declared that all per-
sons must 60 to church, and that absence from service
was punishable by DEATH excepting presentation of the
valid excuse that of sickness. But he never execu
ed anybody on account of it. It where public
opinion was not strong enough back up the law just
like the law against winter bathing in Boston sixty
eny years ago and it became dead letter But they had
captain of the guard make the rounds of the houses
meeting time and round them all up and that they
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-07-16

wa seksouiedsms~ss 70 K. c. 9.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1920-12-16

Harvcy's Weekly: Railroad stats
tics continue to show progressive i'm
provement in the condition of the lines
since their redemption from govern
mental mismanagement. In Septcm-
Der, we are told, more freight was
moved than in any previous month on
record. The movement was also more
rapid than in any month Of govern
ment control. Such reports must be
gratifying to all excepting the propa-
gandists for the s'Plumb plan" because
they indicate improvement in one Of
the most essential and fundamental
elements of national prosperity. Of
course they are also gratifying to the
majority, who oppose government
ownership, because they indicate the
superiority of private ownership and
management. AS for the 'Plumb
plan" people, they would probably pre-
fer to see the roads unprosperous and
inefficient in the hands Of the govern
ment than prosperous and efficient in
private hands; wherefore to them these
reports are full of unrelieved gloom.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1920-12-16

The Nobel peace prize was this
year awarded at Christiana to Presi-
dent Wilson and the prize for litera-
turc to Knute Hamsun of Larvik,
Norway. Both gentlemen are entitled
to the honors conferred, Mr.. Wilson
being at heart a pacifist and doing his
utmost to keep us out of war, and Mr..
Hamsun, for years rccluse-a very
obscure person-contributing the fin
est works of the day to the literary
world. Hamsun is remarkable
character. He came to America when
a young man and worked on the street
railway in Chicago, on farms in North
Dakota and at odd jobs in Minncap-
oils. He failed to make success of
anything and went back to Norway,
where he applied himself to literary
work, his bitter experience in the
United States assisting him material
ly in writing his books. Until six
months ago he was virtually unknown
to fame, when he blossomcd forth in
all his glory, having produced some of
the most remarkable works the world
has ever known. Now, at the age of
60 years, he has been awarded Nobel
prize, valued ct $4,000 in American
Dormant genius is, sooner or
later, sure to make itself manifest.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1920-12-16

"Why is Minneapolis the rendezvous
of all sorts and conditions of crimi-
mails ?" asks contemporary. The
reason is, perhaps, that the stories Of
murders, banditry, ETC., in that city,
showing that very few of the perpe-
traitors are captured, printed in the
papers throughout the country, at
tract criminals to Minneapolis for the
reason that it looks like a safe place
for them to practice their professions.
At this time Minneapolis certainly
has an unsavory reputation, and it is
hoped. that the measures now being
taken by the authorities will have the
effect of thoroughly cleaning up the
city so that it will be safe place in
which to live.