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The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-11-16

WG0l LIN
The petition of the idaho public util
tiles commission asking that Idaho be
placed i'll the standard time zone
rather than In the Pacific time zone
was denied by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
The task of defending Mrs. Louise
Peete, accused of the murder of Jacob
e. Denton, has devolved on the public
defender of Los Angeles. Lack of
funds has forced Mrs. Peete to call on
Walton Wood to come to her rescue
and provide her defense
One man, name unknown, who was a
member of the crew, is missing, fol-
lowing fire which burned the steam
er Gold White, lying at herlwharf near
Petaluma, Calf. Other members of
the crew reached safety by leaping
overheard. The loss was placed at
$25O,OOO
Leaders of various wool growers as
sociations from Montana, Wyoming,
Idaho and Utah met in Salt Lake City
with Prof. G. r. Marshall, secretary
of the National Wool Growers Asso-
citation for a discussion of problems
confronting the wool producers of the
West.
After a thrilling journey from Price
to Salt Lake City over the Wasatch
mountains at the rate of 165 miles an
hour in the smallest monoplane yet
made, L. e. Whitmore of Price, Utah,
riding with Pilot McBeth, crashed at
the Salt Lake City air mail landing
field. Whitmore sustained bad pune
ture of the chin and a badly sprained
back, but his injuries are in no way
considered fatal.
The Kansas Supreme Court in al
sweeping decision upheld the anti-cig-
arctic law, which forbids not only the
smoking of cigarettes but the posses
sion of cigarette or even cigarette pa
pers. The courts decision was based
on verdicts handed down by courts in
Illinois and Tennessee. The point
raised in the appeal was that the
state did not have authority to forbid
possession of cigarettes when it per-
mitted the sale of tobacco in other
forms
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Nurses Not All Bad

Nor is it fair to assume that the
nurse who is hired to take care Of
e child is, in many cases, merely a
mercenary in his service. Usually
her devotion is far reaching, and it
may be all the better for the child
that she can at times pass upon
questions affecting his welfare with
that cool, calm Judgment which be-
longs to person not muddled by
ties of blood.
AS far as the relation Of husband
and wife is concerned, it seems to
me to be of inestimable value that
they should both have interests out
side the home. It gives both a
wider field Of contact. I am not
prepared to deny chat cooking may
be the best fun in the world, and
there may even be thrills in dusting
and cleaning, but it is difficult to
make them matters of interest
when they are reported to a second
party.
1t is true that even the most ar
dent advocates Of the adhesion of
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Meredith Will "Se" the Agricultural Department to the P,hi

eral exactness Of the foregoing,
that's about the way the new Secre-
tary of Agriculture came into his
new position. He didn't ask for it:
he didn't seek it; but, after all, what
more natural and appropriate than
that the publisher Of Successful
Farming" should become manager
OF the national department of sue
cessful farming? What he has been
preaching all these years as Ed
Meredith, Of Des Moines, he can now
preach as Secretary Of Agriculture
of the United States of America.
The Beginning
AS you sit and talk to the new
Secretary you remember how about
fifteen years ago he used to write
you moving letters asking you to
sign on the dotted line for forty-two
agate lines at 20 cents per, with
generous intimation that a little free
press stuff might be slipped into the
reading columns without doing vio-
lence to the ethical traditions of
Successful Farming"
Rounding new agricultural peri
odical in Iowa In 1902 was about
like coming to 20 Broad Street and
starting in to buck the Standard Oil
Company. The chief indoor sport
Of the farmers was already that of
converting farm papers into shelf
coverings and shields for the tender
plants and keeping ahead of the
supply that the mails kept pouring
in. Probably il Meredith had been
little older or little more expert
enced he would have preferred
patronizng bucket shop or some
thing else safe and reliable, but he
was only twenty-six years old, and,
besides, he had all of six years ex-
perience in publishing and printing,
mostly with "The Des Moines
Farmers Tribune" though he didn't
get much but experience out of that
connection.
Besides, he was born on q farm
that was at Avoca, Iowa, December
%, 1876, and at very tender age
had embarked in farming for him
self on the old homestead with his
capital consisting of one small pig,
which his father gave to him with
many paternal admonitions as to
how to care for the potential porker
and convert it into hard dollars.
This venture turned out very profit
ably.
Raising stock on the side and at
tending school. young Meredith
eventually got through a rural high
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29

its possible multiplication. How
many times can it be used to the
profit of the man who employs it?
How wide can his territory be?"
There are men with probably as
much natural endowment as the new
Secretary of Agriculture who, after
years Of equally successful effort
are publishing local papers that null
tiply themselves few thousand at
the most, whereas Successful
Farming" multiplies itself 100000
times q month.
However, life in the big puddle
was no continuous swimming lark.
and there were many times when
Meredith's friends feared, and his
enemies were sure, that instead of !:
big toad he would make only big
splash. He got into so many tight
holes that the Middle West is full
Of men who take all the credit for
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
The Fathers ADVANTAGE

IF the wife's domain is the home
and nothing else the father has q
terrific advantage, since he repre-
sents to the child the outside world
of achievement and adventure.
Even If he is partner in plumbing
business, to his child he is roman
tic person because he travels away
each day to the land of limitless
adventure and comes back to the
more circumscribed home only at
night. Of course, the happy child
loves his home, but unless he has
been trained to a slavish hypocrisy
he does not love it twenty-four
hours day and seven days a week.
In our own fiat we have two kinds
Of water and steam heat and q
phonograph and rocking-hors
and yet H. Sd makes no secret
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29

school and arrived at Highland Park
College, Des Moines, where, by dint
of tending furnaces and waiting on
the table for more fortunate stu
dents, he managed to complete a
years business course. After a
brief experience in q printing shop
the young man joined his uncle, Tom
Meredith, in "The Farmers Trib-
une" venture, which undertook to
advance the cause of greenbackisrn
as the cure for all our economic
woes in those days.
When the uncle passed awav the
young man and an associate came
into control Of the paper, but Mere
dith was more interested in rroduc-
ing wealth than in the pYintine of
paper money, and he soon disposed
OF The Tribune" and started Sue
cessful Farming" SThe Tribune"
was on its feet by that time, but
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life is failure because she has
carved career for herself she must
be suffering from a curiously un-
justified sense Of inferiority.
One Of the points most stressed
in "He and She" is that man de-
lights in sharing his money with
his wife, but will under no circum-
stances accept a penny of anything
which she may earn. When Mrs.
Herford, the heroine of the play,
wins her 100000, almost the first
thing Mr.. Herford does is to assure
her that, Of course, he can't accept
penny of it. His wife insists that
he shall, and there is bitter con-
fict. In the lobby l met a young
writer whose wife is equally success
full rs magazine contributor, and
asked him whether such clashes
occurred in his household.
"Well, not exactly like that" he
said. "In fact, with US it's just the
other way round. When Pm flush
she tries to borrow from me and
when I'm broke I try to borrow
from her. But the fights just the
same"
A Fortunate Boy
Likewise, I have been unable to
verify the facts set forth by Miss
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
By Theodore M. knappen

Y 7 OU have reached the ad-
" vanced age Of forty-three,
a though there isn't a gray
hair ~in your head; meas
ured by journalistic standards you
are making about all the money
there is-say $4,000 month--and
you haven't anything to do except to
run great publishing house, tell the
farmers of the country how to man
age their farms, preside overxhe AS
sociated Advertising Clubs Of Amer
ica and spend some of your time in
Florida in the winter-and a few
other things that you can readily do,
seeing that you have all the time
there is.
Altogether life is rather dull and
looks as if it had reached its climax
little too early to be real sporting.
You are sitting In your hotel at
Miami, Fla, wishing that you could
md out who it was that invented
vacations and trying to think of
something real hard to tackle when
you get through the hard pull Of do
ing nothing and trying to be happy.
Your name, by the way, Is Edwin T.
Meredith, and you live at Des
Moines, Iowa, when You aren't on the
tla'n or somewhere else.
Just at shis opportune moment the
hotel telegraph operator calls you up
on the telephone and says:
please accept my congratula-
tions, Mr.. Meredith"
For WHAT" you say, trying to
remember if you had caught a big
tarpon or walked on the beach in a
dress suit. barefoot, or something.
You'll know In a minute" is the
answer. Boys on the way up with
the telegram"
You cheer up a bit and open the
telegram with show Of real inter
est, which becomes really demonstra-
tive as you read:
Having transferred Mr.. Houston
from the Office Of Secretary Of Agri-
culture to that of the Treasury,
wish to inquire whether you would
accept the vacant post7
WOODROW WILSON.
Then two or three days later you
are on the job in Washington, the
very Job, come to think of it, that
you would rather have at the mo-
ment than anything else. in the
world, though the possibility had
never occurred to you. "Ain't it a
yrand and glorious feelin'?" as
Briggs has it.
Without taking oath as to the lit
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only twenty, he married Edna c..
Elliott, of Des Moines. They have a
married daughter, Mrs. Mildred M
bohen, who lives in New York, and
son, Edwin T. jr., who is in his
teens. Born farmer, Mr.. Meredith
IS still farmer, having one farm on
the edge of Des Moines and q num-
Der of others. At forty-three the
editor-farmer is erect to the top Of
his near six feet, and his glossy black
hair and glowing dark eyes show
that long years Of intense activity
have not depleted his vitality. The
agility Of youth is still his, and also
the interest of youth in all things.
When l called on the new Secre-
tary of Agriculture the other day it
was with the idea that / would find
that he was revolving in his active
mind parallel between the admins
tration Of "Successful Farming" and
the Department Of Agriculture-that
as he had "sold" the one he would
now try to "sell" the other. And
that is just about what is the stu
ton. They told me that the very
first day he was in office--February
(Which was q rainy, sloppy day,
ne grabbed his umbrella and went
trotnng around from one Agricultu-
raj Department building. ito another,
calling on the bureau chiefs. He was
looking over the works. 1t did not
occur to him that the department
would be especially interested in it's
new chief, but he couldn't have un-
dertaken the job without being tre-
mendously interested in the depart-
ment.
II do not know whether I ought
to say it so early OF not-Ill leave
1t to you," said the new Secretary.
but the fact is the way look at it
my job here is to sell the product of
the Department Of Agriculture to
the people-not only to the farm
erS, but to all the people. They have
a wonderful plant here that is manu-
featuring wonderful service. I can't
tell the men who are making that
product anything about their busi-
ness, but I can help them to sell
their goods-at least, I hope so. If
oy the time go out of Office shall
have increased the marketed service
output Of the department by 20 per
cent or 80 per cent l shall consider
that have been successful.
i suppose every Secretary Of
agriculture has realized that the
most battling task in connection
with the successful administration
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
The Modern W0man's Career
Finds No Sympathy on the Stage

of the fact that he would much
rather live in the park. 1t seems
to me that the ideal home should
represent to every member Of the
family place not Of constant So
journ, but a place Of beginnings
and of returnings.
As to Cooking
1t may be urged, of course, by
thick-and- thin exponents Of the
theory that woman's place is in the
home and that things do not taste
the same unless they are seasoned
with loving care. Perhaps that is
true in rural districts, but we of the
city who live largely out of cans, in
any case, will find that they offer
little opportunity for the display of
the embellishments which may come
only from wifely devotion.
I am perfectly willing to agree
that the child brought up in an in
stitution-at any rate, in ipstitu-
tions as at present constitutea-suf-
fers from the lack Of parental love
and enthusiasm. But as I have said,
the fact that mother has a Job does
not by any means make her an
exile. She can give her children
just as much love as healthy chill
dren need, for it is we'll to remem-
Der that there are as many, if not
more, children who suffer from an
excess Of maternal affection as suf-
fer from neglect. When a safety
pin is sticking in a child it makes
no difference to him whether it is
removed by loving hands or merely
by some one who is paid to take
care Of him. All he wants is to be
rid of the Din.
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| Crothers in her play as to the dan
gerous neglect which must be the
part Of any child brought up by a
mother engaged in gainful occupa-
tion. On the contrary, the bond of
interest and affection between ca
reering mothers and children has
always seemed unusually close. 1t
is traditional that child likes to
boast Of the prowess Of his father,
and if his mother is also in the
public eye he Is doubly we'll off in
his own esteem. never saw a boy
moro satisfied with his parents than
one I know whose father is famous
playwright and whose mother usu-
ally takes the star roles in her hus-
bands plays. They have an equal
place in his boastIngs, and his COM
panions never question his luck in
being related to fame on both sides
of the house. AS far as know
none of his companions ever met
any of his stories Of the things his
mother could do by saying:
My mother bakes the best apple
pies on our block"
AS a matter Of fact, the oppo-
nents Of careers for married women
overlook the fact that few profess
sions take more time than house
work. The woman with great
talent of some sort, or even the
one engaged in ordinary business,
is able to hire high-salaried, COM
petent servants to perform the rou-
tine duties Of the house and to have
just as much time to devote to her
children as the workaday mother.
There is in most households CON-
petition, friendly enough in most
cases, as to which parent shall stand
first in the estimation Of the chill
dren, and, in spite Of the traditional
opinion that the mother must be
first, according to my observation
the father is more often the favored
One
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Meredith's success, recalling how on
this and that occasion, when he was
plumb winded" and only about one
jump ahead Of the sheriff, they had
extended the helping hand that saved
the day. One of. Mr.. Meredith's as
sociates, while not detracting from
these numerous co0perators in the
Meredith success who extended notes,
lent him money or Endorsed his paper
When they were apparently writing
themselves down fools in doing so.
says:
Probably no one Of these men is
conscious Of the fact that the mag
netic personality Of Mr.. Meredith.
his frank genuousness, his refusal
to attempt to cover up any Of the
points in his record that might have
made them less confident in his fu-
ture, had something to do with pro-
duclng in them a state OF mind that
led to these unusual and more or less
unexplainable extensions of credit.
They do not all realize that Mr..
Meredith's confidence in himself and
IN the necessity Of his making good
might have been catching, so far as
they were concerned; so that their
acts were based on a subconscious
faith in this young man, rather than
on their own natural charity or in
terest IN the progress Of young men
in general"
of course, when man begins to
make such success Of anything as
Meredith did Of Successful Farm
ing" people begin to sit up and take
notice. He was made director OF
the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank
IN 1913 and his college honored him
with the degree of LID. in 1914.
In the latter year he was the Demo-
cratic candidate for United States
senator from Iowa. In 1915 he was
the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor. But these were both puddles
where the editor could not multinlv
his ideas. In 1917-1s he was q
member Of the Board Of Exees.
Profit Advisers in the Treasury De-
p@i'"en1, was member Of the
Labor Mission to Europe in 1918
and OF the industrial conference in
!Sl9. lie is now president Of the
Associated Advertising Clubs Of the
World and also holds a number ~
oener positions, public and private
Married at Twenty
IN the same year that he entered
the publishing business, which. II
Will be recalled, was when he was
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for few weeks In order to win a
100000 prize for a frieze. Also,
the play is full Of speeches in which
various characters point out that il
a woman is not sitting on top Of
her own hearth, pecling potatoes
with one hand, rocking cradle
with the other and singing "Home,
Sweet Home" her life is a tragic
failure. 4
One of the star roles in the play
is assumed by Miss Rachel Crothers,
who also wrote the play as we'll as
a number Of other successes, and il
Miss Crothers feels that her own
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
By Haywood Broun
ME theater. which generally
lags a few years behind life,

\4A6 eASoeCIS WAASn SSASAoiiy
lags few years behind life,
IL is still on the side Of the
anti-feminist. Two of the
successful plays Of the year are
built around the thesis that woman
may not have a husband and a
career, or, perhaps it would be
fairer to say, husband, a child and
career.
In "The Famous Mrs. Fair" by
James Forbes, Mr.. Fair falls In the
clutches of widow and young Miss
Fair almost elopes with a scoundrel,
all because Mrs. Fair has accepted
an offer to lecture throughout the
country on her experiences with a
reconstruction unit in France.
And yet Miss Blanche Bates, who
plays the part of Mrs. Fair, seems
to be able to swing one husband,
two children and one of the most
notable stage careers Of any woman
In America without stress or strain.
The Neglectful Mother
In "He and She" by Rachel
Crothers, the young daughter of
two sculptors all but marries
chauffeur, because her mother has
been obliged to take her eye off her
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29

woman's enthusiasm in the same
measure as an interesting job.
Also, in franlness, we must con-
fess that whatever the men in the
plays may say about it there is
deal Of satisfaction in these days Of
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
ACHE CROTHERS Binney
80 the rturns domestic ~ ~.

women to their homes are ready to
grant them enough outside liberty
to shop, or go to anti-suffrage meet
lngs, or to attend lectures on the
drama or what not, but not one of
these things is sufficient to arouse a
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29

high living costs when a man can
help to arrange the bills in two piles
and then take half of them off bis
mind and chest by pushing them
across the table and saying:
"These are yours"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29
Getting the Bacon


I'VE used to add to production b
bringing more lands under the plov.
In those days the Indian fighting
army and the frontiersmen ware th
chief agents in adding to the nes
sources of supply of food. T0-dy
it is the Agricultural Department
that brings back the bacon from its
bold incursions into the realms Of
science. We used to get food D
the rifle, now we get it by taking
thought. More production Of food
as OF most other things, is what we
want now. This department can
show the way. To help it is to pro
ouce. hope everybody will get sfs'
point of view, so that we will have
every possible cooperation in pro
ducing as well as in publishing our
service.
More goods and more work, mol
more money, is what we want rioa'
Of balanced production there csn'
not be too much. Demand gro"
with supply. l would rather take :
chance on jam in the supply y
automobiles al 4 food than woap
on Z jam N the bread line. BeIN
too much Of anything than n@
enough. Improve transportatl0l'
distribution and communication sp
there will be little chance Of Over
production in any line. Just me-
the danger is Of underproduction y
essentials.
Society has loaded up the sefvs
and distribution departments At "
expense of the shop and the issp
There ought, probably, to be nop
farm hands and fewer lawyers, nop
farmers and fewer brokers, M
dairymen and fewer delicatesee
more cows and fewer milk deaieh
The farmer and the manufacta
can't get fair return for their ~
production when so many people =
in the wrong place"
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Puddles and Toads

uUUlcS ana DADS
Already the young man had given
the wide world the "once-over" and
had come to the profound conclu
sion Chat big puddles make big toads
and that a real live toad had lust
as good chance Of being the big
toad in big puddle as the big toad
III little puddle, the effectual big
ness, however, being represented by
the respective sizes Of the puddlcs.
"Fhe Farmers Tribune" was in a
county, or, at most, state puddle.
Meredith calculated to start "Suc
cessful Farming in the national
puddle. Summing up this philosophy
hot long since, Mr.. Meredith said:
"An idea, right plan. q policy
is of value chiefly In relation to
New-York tribune., 1920-02-29

of a department like this is getting
those who should most benefit BY
its work to apply and absorb Its
product. What's the practical use
OF discovering how to double the
production Of wheat if you can't get
the process taken up by the farmer?
| don't suppose the farming CON-
munity avails itself Of one-qusrtr
Of the things about farming that the
department has discovered or col
lated for its use.
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1t was already too small for the
Meredithian ambition at twentv-six.
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z Il Ou have reached the ad-
vanced age of forty three,
a though there isn't gray
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-27

Lampkin. when he first started on
the Dirt track. decided that an English
product. the Sun-Ray. was sufficiently
good to win any race The Sun-Ray
lived up 70 Lampkin's anticipations as
far as the short distance tracks were
concerned. but fell down on the mile
ovaIs And in 1919 the Kansas City
boy built a special job. which con
tafned many new features but still
fell Just a little shy OF carrying him
into the first ruug OF the auto race
ladder.
Last April Lampkin witnessed the
debut OF the Essex car on the dirt
Nrack at Atlanta, Ga. and when II
finished first in the Southeast
Sweepsta kes. Lampkin became an
ardent Essex booster, altho that car
finished in front of his mount Sew
eraI days later Lampkin appeared at
the Essex factory and obtained per
mission 10 construct an Essex car
Kansas City was the first race
where Lampkin competed against a
field. and what Lampkin and the Es-
sex did is now a matter Of motor his
tory The Essex carried off virtually
all the prize money. and several days
later at Dallas a similar victory was
REGISTERED Iampkin has wired the
Kansas Free Fair for an entry blank
for the championship races on Sep
TENDER II and Is, the feature days OF
the 1920 exposition. The several
thousand dollars prize money has at
tracted the attention Of the noted drlY-
ers and this will be the Classiest field
TO ever start in this territory