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take the world than any further ac-
centuation OF the worlds divisions
upon lines OF race. The British En-
pire has done signal service for
humanity in abridging these divi-
sions in the past. Loyalty to King
and Emperor is the Asiatic peoples
proof. To depart from that policy,
TO fail in that duty, would not only
greatly increase the danger OF an
international war, but ii would
divide the British Empire against
itself. Our foreign policy can never
range itself in any sense upon diff
ferences of race and civilization be-
tween the East and the West. 1t
would be fatal to the empire. We
look confidently to the Government
and the people Of the United States
for their sympathy and understand
ing in this respect.
THE friendly cooperation OF the
United States is for us cardinal
.principle, dictated by what seems to
;us the proper nature of things-dic-
tated by instinct quite as much as
by reason and common sense. We
desire to work with the great Repub-
lie in all parts of the world. Like it,
1--WE want stability and peace on the
lie in all parts OF the world. Like it
we desire to avoid the growth OF
armaments, whether on the Pacific
or elsewhere, and we rejoice that
American opinion should be show
ling so much earnestness in that di-
,rection at the present time.
I'VE are ready to discuss with Amer
lean statesmen any proposal for the
Limitation of armaments which they
may wish to set out, and we can un-
ldertake that no such oVertures will
sind lack Of Willingness on our part to
meet them.
IN the meantime we cannot forget
that the very life OF the United King
dom as. also that of Australia and
New Zealand, is built upon sea power,
and that sea power is necessarily the
We have, therefore, to look for meas
ures which our security requires. We
cannot possibly be content with less"
Canadian Envoy In United states.
The Prime Minister referred to the
proposal that Canada have an envoy
in Washington.
One change which has taken place
since the war is the decision by the
Canadian Government to have Min
lister Of its own in Washington" he
said. 1T is very important develop
ment. We have cooperated willingly
with it and will welcome a Canadian
colleague i1 Washington as soon as
the appointment is made.
s4,immlls over such things as the
strike of the coal miners and other
labor troubles in the British Isles and
slossing apparently the insuperabie
difficulties in connection with Poland
and the Near East, he counted upon
his fingers the fruits OF the allied VIC
tory. They are, as he enumerated
them:
The German fleet destroyed.
The Gerinan army reduced from a
million men to a little more than a
hundred thousand
German al mamcnt either scrapped
or turned over to the Allies.
He referred TO the fact that nearly
AL the parties interested had now
agreed 10 the reparation scheme
adopted and said that Lord Curzon
hoped that upon his return here from
Paris 10 be able to report that both
the Polish and the Near Eastern prob
lens we're in fair way to settlement.
And when they are settled he
said, then only can we say that peace
has arrived despite ALI the peace
treaties we have signed
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
Columbian Ladies
Give Local People
Musical Treat Wed.

The concert put on at the taber-
nacle Wednesday evening, under the
management of Ronald Robbins and
F. H. Kennedy was one of the pleas
ing successful entertainments of the
season 1t was quite financial
undertaking for them, there being
more prospects that they might lose
money than that they should make
a profit or break even. The house
was comfortably filled and the re-
ceipts of the entertainment were a
little more than enough to cover the
expenses.
The Columbian Orchestra put on
a splendid entertainment, it being
composed of about twenty young
ladies, most of them girls scarcely
out of their teens, some of the choic-
est young musical artists Of the west
ern states. 1t was little different
than any other musical entertain
ment we have had in the town and
was very refreshing and pleasing.
The young men who brought 1t to
town are to be commended for their
venture and people are pleased that
it was a success both financially and
as an entertainment. The next time
these young men select something
and assure the public that it is good
the public will have reason to accept
it as such and bank on their judg-
ment that it is as represented.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
u. of |. Glee Club
Announce Members
for Years Work

The members of the University
of Idaho Glee Club for the 192O-21
season are announced. All of the
men this year hail from >the Gem
State" save two. Most of the MEM
bers are upper classmen, who have
served on the club in years before.
By geographic location of their
homes, the list of members is as fol-
lows: Arthur Gehrne and Howard
Knudson, OF Spokane; Albert Graf,
Fred Veatch and Eric Leithe, accom-
panist, of Occur d'Alene; Robert
Cummins, of Wallace; Russell True
Scott, soloist and president of the
club, of Rupert; Rex Kimble, George
Kerr and Michael Compton, Of Boise;
Titus G.. LeClair and John Gipson
Stalker, of Lewiston; Paul Sargent,
of Fruitland; Port Arthur, of Black
foot and Boyd w. Cornelison, man
ager. of the club, Clayton Westover
and Alfred Brigham of Moscow.
The club will tour the Gem state
during the month of February with
an orchestra. Prof. E. O. Bangs,
formerly of the University of Mon
tana department of music is conduct
ing the club. A schedule of four
teen concerts will be given. The ex-
act time of the tour will be an
nounced in the near future.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
Water Users De-
cision Delayed by
Small Attendance

There was a meeting at the court
house on Monday afternoon in the
probate court room for the users of
water on the Blackfoot river to dis
cuss the subject of whether they
wanted a water master for the sea-
son of 1921 or not. There was only
a small attendance at the meeting
and because it was not full repre-
sentation of the parties interested
they decided to adjourn and call an
other meeting at a later date. The
election of the water master should
be made about the first of March.
In the season of 1920 they had
from one to two watermasters on the
job at salaries Carrying from SIS to
$12 a day according to the equip
ment they furnished; the bills were
filed with the county clerk and paid
by county warrants. Under the law
the county is entitled to be reim-
bursed by the water users, but in
vestigation reveals the fact that very
little of the money has been returned
to the county. For the 1919 work,
two of the canal companies did not
pay and for 1920, six of them failed
to pay, making a total loss to the
county of some $500 or $1,000.
Steps will be taken to recover this
but the county government deplores
the existence of a law that requires
them to pay private bills and then
have to bring suits to get it back
again.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
WAPELLO PROPOSES RABBIT
SHOOTING CONTEST SOON

Some of the sportsmen are agitat-
ing for rabbit shoot in the country
east of Wapello in the near future.
Rabbits are said to be very plentiful
out in the sand hills and are just
itching to be shot at.
Last year some of the folks at
Firth organized two teams, the
single men against the married men,
and went out for days shooting,
taking wagons and boys to assemble
the rabbits and it was considered
one of the best days sports they ever
had. They killed 1900 bunnies and
the losing team paid for the supper.
and dance following.
There were no accidents in that
days sport; a lot Of rabbits were
removed when they were doing dam
age and there was lot of fresh meat
for anyone who wanted it besides
plenty for chickens and pigs. The
people in that country will be very
much obliged to the hunters If they
will assemble and do execution.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
Will Meet at Idaho
Falls to Consider
Sand Creek Damage

There will be meeting at the
court house at Idaho Falls Saturday
morning at 10 o'clock to consider
matters pertaining to the removal of
the waters of Sand creek from the
flooded districts lying southwestward
from Iona and extending into Black
foot.
1t is proposed to undertake
drainage and storage program to pre-
vent the waters of Sand creek from
sub-irrigating the land in the region
mentioned and thereby stop tre-
mendous damage bill that has been
going on with ever increasing force
for quarter of a century. 1t now
reaches within two or three miles of
Blackfoot and is still travelling. Un-
less plans are changed these waters
are likely to be switched across the
Idaho canal by means of siphon and
thev they will run down into new
district headed straight into Black
foot and unless they are drained off
or turned aside by some means would
eventually food the town.
People all up and down the valley
realizing the danger and the damage
under the present conditions are anx-
ious that there shall be- full attend
ance at the meeting and that steps
shall be taken to store the water and
drain the flooded district and thereby
restore lot of damaged property
to it's original value. Blackfoot
should send good delegation to the
meeting so there shall be no lack of
action due to the Indifference of the
locality suffering part Of the dam
age.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
Foes of Fall River
Project Reiterate
False Statements

WASHINGTON.-When J. Horace
Mcfarland of the National Parks as
sociation and William c. Gregg of
the National Art club of New York
appeared before the water power
committee of the house of representa-
tives in support of the bill taking
away from the water power commits
sion the right to pass an application
for power and irrigation develop
ment in national parks, they fell into
the hands of Representative Addison
T. Smith of Idaho and were raked
over the Goals for their campaign of
propaganda designed to defeat the
building of the Fall river reservoir
in the southwest corner of Yellow
stone national park. Incidentally,
Mr.. Mcfarland was forced to admit
that he had only a secondhand
knowledge about tn park conditions
and Mr.. Gregg was forced to con-
fess that conditions in the Fall river
basin, where the proposed reservoir
would be built, are not at all such
as might be inferred from his now
famous article in the Saturday Even
ing Post.
Mr.. Gregg could speak from first
hand knowledge as he went into the
Fall river basin last August, a few
days after Representative Smith Wis
tied the reservoir site. He reiterated
that he found no swamp; in fact,
boasted that he had camped fright
in the swamp" but he also admitted
that he was there during tn dry sea-
son, and under question, admitted
that much of the bottom land was
boggy except during July, August
and eptember.-Idaho Statesman.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
Chapter I.

The county assessor has had a
pretty hard time and so have all the
deputies. When they go out to get
q certain kind of information and a
certain quantity of information they
come in contact with human nature
and they say human nature has
never changed very much since the
creation.
The tax proposition was not so
bad away back in the olden days
when everything that was, was good.
But now there are 50 many conflict
ing human interests, that human ma
ture wanders into unlooked-for
channels.
We believe that most people will
report all of their taxable property
if everybody else will agree to re-
port all of his taxable property. If
every taxpayer will 'fess up to ex-
actly what he owns and tell it all
to the assessor then there is no doubt
that the assessor will fix things right
on paper and the taxpayer will get
bill for just about his proper por-
ton of the tax bill. AS we said be-
fore, everybody processes to be will
ing to pay his just proportion of the
taxes, so the way to apply the rem
edy to all this tax trouble is for
everybody to resolve that he will re-
port just exactly what he owns to
the assessor. But there are always
some weakened people who do not
like to carry out their own resolu-
tions there is where the hitch comes,
but there is a way to strengthen
them so they will be glad to carry
out that resolution. The law ex-
plains just exactly what each property
owner must do in this matter. He
must make full and correct report
to the assessor Then the law also
provides that the assessor must keep
the records correct and he must not
knowingly release any property from
taxation excepting as provided by a
certain statute on exemption. The
public records are open to inspection
by all citizens and representatives
of the press, if they apply for this
privilege in business hours and con-
duct themselves in proper manner
and do not seriously interfere with
the work of the office by the persist
ence of their.inspection and this year
your tax reports, the sheet that you
fill in or which the assessor fills in
when you are telling him what you
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
COUNCIL CONVENE
in SHORT SESSION
Manager of Mutual
Creamery Asks Pure
Milk Ordinance

The city council held. short Ses-
sion on Tuesday evening and heard
an application from w. w. Thatcher,
manager of the Mutual Creamery
company of Blackfoot, asking that
an ordinance be enacted to place
everybody on the same footing who
sells milk. He says the cream sta
tions are operating under state law
that prescribes just how every step Of
the work shall be conducted and If
they do not come up to that certain
standard required by the dairy speci-
fications, they are penalized, but the
farmer having COW or two and de-
string to sell milk around the
neighborhood can violate any or all
of the specifications, operate under
less expense, deliver unsanitary
milk and cream if they wish or weak
milk and thin cream and nobody
pays and any attention to it. He
asked the council to consider the
matter of enacting an ordinance that
would put them all on the same foot
ing, making them all responsible
alike and requiring them all to fur
nish pure clean product in pure
clean containers.
The building activities under the
present and Immediate prospects
were represented by the issuance of
two building permits; one applica-
tion for permission to remodel the
Blenkle building for .theater and
the other by w. H. Palmer, asking
permission to move an old shed.
A mechanic named Arthur, said to be
an employe Of the sugar factory was
named as plumbing inspector.
The water committee is working
on the question of rates for water
service and the engineers, Cotton &
Wilson are working on plans for the
new water system for the town. They
will all report at the next meeting.
The council has under considera-
tion the matter of requiring rooming
houses to obtain licenses for permis-
sion to engage in that business. This
is not so much license on the busi-
ness itself, but a license guarantee
ing the character of the person en-
gaging in the business. There is a
tendency for rooming houses to go
into the hands of irresponsible and
immoral persons after the furniture
gets old and is not in very desirable
condition and becomes doubtful
investment for good citizen to run
it as a good house. That is the time
that it is liable to change hands and
go down hill in the matter of charac-
ter. An ordinance may be enacted
requiring the persons conducting
rooming houses to obtain licenses
and these will only be issued upon
the proper showing to convince the
officials that the person desiring to
conduct a rooming house is person
of good character, who will conduct
a house of good character.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTs

Braves returning from the Rock
ford rabbit drive of Thursday report
the terrain Uttered with rabbits that
once were alive and active, but are
no more, the number being 1900
plus.
It is announced that the next
drive will be made on Sunday, it be-
ing an emergency measure that could
not be done on Saturday and could
not be postponed till Monday, so Sun
day is the day.
We are also invited to announce
that the people living east of Wa
pello have some rabbits that are
spelling to be shot at, and that Sun
day, JAM. 30 is adopted as the day
for rabbit drive, assembling, are
told, at Alex Vaughn's farm
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
Funeral of Frank
T. Britton Under
Auspices of Masons

Funeral services for Frank T. Bit
ton of Marysville, who died here last
Saturday, were held Tuesday morn
ing at II o'clock at the family home.
The Masonic lodges of Blackfoot and
Ashton, of which Mr.. Ritton was a
member, had charge of the funeral.
DR.. Gillian of the Methodist
church spoke and chorus under the
direction of Mrs. B. G. Wood fur
nished several beautiful selections.
Mr.. Bitton is survived by his
mother, who is eighty-four years OF
age, a sister Mrs. Wilson and one
brother.
The body was laid to rest in the
Grove City cemetery.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
DELEGATES CON.
CLUDE PLAN TO
SETTLE DISPUTE
Agreement Reached In
volving California
Case and Nippon
ese Rights
BOTH MUST FAVOR
Reports Are Ready for
Consideration by
Officials

Washington.-Neg between
Ambassadors Morris and ShidehurI
for the settlement of the Californ,a
question and the definition of the
rights of Japanese in the United
States have been successfully con-
cluded.
Approval of the conclusions of the
two ambassadors must be given by
their governments before any further
action looking to settlement of the
controversy that has arisen over tie
California anti-alien land law can be
had. Baron Shidehara has submitted
his report to the foreign office at
Toxic and Mr. Morris has his report
ready for consideration by Secretary
Colby.
Members of the senate foreign rela-
tions committee have been kept advis-
ed by Mr.. Morris of the various phases
of the negotiations, so that if the COM
mittee desired to consider in the re-
naming days of the present session
any draft treaty which President VII.
son might submit the way would be
cleared for prompt action.
Administration officials have had
no assurances that it Is the purpose Of
the Republican leaders to endeavOr to
dispose of any American-Japanese
treaty at present, but it is understood
that some representations have been
made from Republican sources that it
might relieve the Harding administra-
tion Of considerable burden If such
treaty could be concluded during
the present session.
. These representations are said to
have been based upon the theory that
the sO-called California question can
be considered by the senate and by the
house as well as purely nOn-partisan
question.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
Equalizing the Tax Burden;
Five Million a Year

own, will be reviewed by some one
who knows just about what property
you are the owner Of. The assessor
does not assume to know what each
man owns; that would be too great
task to lay on the assessor; he has
troubles enough getting the records
made complete, but there Is no man
In the county who owns property,
but that there is some other man
who knows how much he owns.
When you report your property to
the assessor this year you might just
as we'll make up your mind that
somebody who is we'll acquainted
with your possessions is going to
look that sheet over carefully and if
there is any doubt, investigation will
be made to see who own certain
pieces of, property.
If there is some property in the
county that is not owned by anybody
there is a way to take care of the
property; if it does not appear on
the list of any one of two or three
persons said to be the owners,
neither of them could very well step
in and claim the propertWafter action
was taken regarding the nonpayment
of taxes on it.
Might Go to Jail
When the assessor comes to you
and asks you for a statement of all
of your possessions and goes down
the line calling off the names; milk
cows, graded stock, common stock,
stations, work horses, common
horses, sheep, swine, farm machinery
and all the other things in the list,
that is mighty poor time for you
to be operating your forgotten. He
is going to ask you to sign on the
dotted line below these statesment
and if you have forgotten anything
it might be very troublesome for you
afterwards because you are signing
form that is known as an affidavit;
in other words you make solemn
oath that what you have told is true,
that you have told all the truth and
nothing but the truth about your
possessions. 1t does not matter
whether he has you to hold up your
right hand and repeat the whole
paragraph constituting the affidavit
or oath, there is statute that says
that when we sign on that dotted
line that constitutes taking the oath
and asserting to or acknowledging
all that the paragraph says. Here
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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
AMERICAN FALLS CON-
STRUCTION UNDER WAY

S. T. Williams was up from Ameri-
can Falls the first of the week visit
ing his son here. He reports that
the Reclamation department have a
force Of men drilling on the site Of
the dam at American Falls to de-
termine the kind of material to have
between the surface and bedrock. 1t
is reported that railroad construction
will begin the fifteenth of February
building the new line Of road across
the valley, touching the townsite and
getting in a position to abandon the
present bridge to make room for con-
struction work on the new dam.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
ANN GREER LEAVES
FOR SALT LAKE CITY

Miss Ann Greer left on Monday for
Salt Lake City, where she will attend
the east high school. A number of
her girl friends escorted her to the
train.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
FIRE DESTROYS BARN

A small barn on northeast Main
Street was destroyed by fire this
(Thursday) afternoon with very lit
tie damage resulting.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
RETURNS FROM EAST

DR.. F. w. Mitchell returned Mon
day night from a five weeks stay
in eastern cities, where he was TAX
ing postgraduate work. He spent
ten days at the Mayo hospital at
Rochester, Mimi. and divided the
rest of his time between hospitals in
Chicago, New York, Baltimore and
other places. He said that he was
very busy all the time and was work.
ing under some of the best surgeons
in the world.
He said he had the good fortune
to be in fine weather just about all
the time he was gone and it was
very restful. He was working early
and late as physicians do, commenc-
ing at 6 in the morning and work
ing until 10 at night and felt it was
one of the most profitable post
graduate periods he had ever spent.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27

Mrs. M. j. Young left Wednesday
for a visit with her daughter Della
at Laramie, Wyo.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-01-27
Lewis Robbins Talks

Lewis Robbins talked on the sub
ject and said he was not against the
farm bureau, that he had been a
member part of the time, that he
was dealing in farm produce and
therefore was to some extent in the
light of the middleman whom the
farmers are seeking to eliminate; he
believed the farm bureau was good
thing and he wanted to see it con-
tinue it's operations; he was the
owner of 400 acres of land in the
Moreland country and as the farm
bureau taught the people at large
how to handle the various crops
more successfully that would increase
the value Of their farms and as their
farms increased in value, his land
would increase in value so that in
directly he was beneficiary of the
work of the farm bureau whether
he ever had any transactions with
it at all or not. He felt that it was
every mans duty to help sustain the
farm bureau If he had improperly
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