The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-11-18
INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS WANT
PEACE


have the silly idea that the grea
manufacturers and bankers profl
from war and from its preparation,
said Thomas w. Lamont of j. p. Nor
gan & Co. at a dinner in New York civ
en- by the Japan society in honor 0
visiting Japanese industrial commits
sion. The delusion in question springs
from the fact hat in war there is al
ways some profiteering and some for
tunes are piled up. But in the aggre
gate banking and business and manu-
featuring interests dread war ant
throw their influences against it.
Industry, and peace are
three graces that go hand in hand
Business and manufacturing thrive
in peace and suffer in war, for wal
is destructive and industry and bust
ness cannot flourish on destruction
They are. nourished by peace and are
bled by war, and it is only the super
fetal, the misled and envious ele-
ments of citizenship that take stock
in the agitator's accusation that in
dustry, business and finance are al
ways conspiring and plotting to bring
about war, between otherwise friend
ly neutrality-suspicious. Review.
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Because several inches of snow fell
last night, is no particular reason for
worrying for fear there will be a long
and severe winter. We have, at
times, seen most of the winter during
November and December, while at
other times, during a long residence
in the Palouse country, we have seen
the winter cover most of the period
between November and May. In
either case the Palouse country is the
best place on earth to live.
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The Caldwell News objects, through
its editorial columns, to the tendency
of people to give advice The News
may nave been getting some advice
and maybe needed some. Advice is
not necessarily an Objectionable
thing. Advice given with good in
tent may do a wonderful lot of good.
At least you always have the privi-
lege of accepting or rejecting, or of
taking what your judgment tells you
is applicable in our case. The prin-
cipal thing to guard against is the
fellow who advises from a strictly
selfish standpoint.
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Press dispatches today give Presi-
dent Harding the credit with having
thought out the naval limitation idea
without suggestion from anyone else
and having written in lead pencil the
invitation to the arms conference be-
fore consulting with even his close
friends. Within the past "a hours a
well posted local man, howbeit, not
of the presidents politics, laid be-
fore the Star-Mirror reasons which
made him feel like placing to the
presidents credit the movement for
disarmament. Within a few hours
his expressed opinion had been con-
firmed to some. extent by the press
dispatches. 1t is probable, however,
the big idea was being worked out
in the minds of several of the nations
big minds, perhaps without one know
ing what was in the minds of the
The need for action was so
great that it is not unlikely that men
who have the interests of humanity
at heart were revolving in their l.
minds some means that would offer a I
solution of the war problem SO that
the energies of mankind might be
directed along lines of good, rather
han along lines which would eventu-
lily lead, it now appears, to bank
of the nations and the practi
al destruction of civilization.
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DR.. Stephen Smith, SO years old,
md. by the way, some gay old boy
or his age, in an address yesterday
'efore the American Public Health
in New York, said that
are supposed, if they live
light, to get through at least 100
ears. Every child born, he states,
adapted in physical construction
function, to live 100 years. Com
on sense, the aged physician said,
all that is necessary to carry peo-
through to their %hundredth birth
Then he followed with some adj
ce, which, whether it will prolong
Re to 100 years or not, is good. For
stance he said, Il would advise
e lady who canno digest eggs to
t them ont. the man who vawnc foo So