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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-08-18

I'm all districts Of this state all par
ents, guardians and other persons
having care of children shall instruct
them or cause them to be instructed
in reading, writing, spelling, English
grammar, geography and arithmetic.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-08-18

Estimates of the probable
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May 1922 hereby
Idaho
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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-08-18

Special lotions for sunburn. Ais
finest preparations for freckles. 81
monds Drug Store. ad
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-08-18

Before you buy monograph hear
the Actuelle, greater than the phono-
graph. Stookey Furniture Co. adv
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1921-08-18

For Sale-High grade HoIstein
cows. good mixers. L. A. Pierson.
Copeland, Idaho jun9july17pd
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
POT LIQUOR VINDICATED

upon it before they could masticate solid feed.
 At the custom of feeding children upon pot liquor mothers believing themselves progressive have held up their hands in horror; at the custom innumerable shafts of ridicule have been sped by a press sufficiently acquainted with bucolic life to know country customs, and sufficient ly acquainted with urban life to praise it's advancement Usually the joker when he has been sincere, has admitted that many of the strong men. mentally and physically. who have graced great affairs of the nation, were born in los cabins and were raised" upon pot liquor.
 The explanation is not that the fit sur vivc even the most unsuitable diet. The explanation Is, in word. vitamines. The children of the pioneer mother got the vitamines which nowadays go down the drainpipe in homes of culture; vi. tamines which may be bottled and sold as natures elixir of life.
 Nothing could be more consistent with modern customs than to continue to pour the vitamines from the vegetables down the drainppe, buying yitamines in bot ties and taking doses of the invigorator before or after meals. Will it be pos sible by such means to match the vigor of the achieving pioneers who were weaned upon pot liquor?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
Tuscaloosa Will Have
 a Traffic Bureau

1H HE Tuscaloosa Chamber of Com
 U merce has decided that freight rates constitute an important factor in the welfare of a community Fifty members of that body have pledged themselves to the support of traffic bureau. It will be organ ized in the immediate future.
 The Birmingham Traffic Bureau, established in 1917 has saved it's merchant members a large sum in collection of claims aIone, besides auditing all their expense bills, quoting thousands of rates and doing their traffic business for them free of charge after payment of the yearly dues.
 The Traffic Bureau has stood be- tween Birmingham and rate discrim- nations and obtained rates favorable to this city that otherwise would not have been granted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24

will not and they cannot continue to invest their money in such enterprises without revenue in return.
 The Atlanta, Birmingham and At lantic cannot. serve the people along it's lines as they should be served on continuous deficit of $10O,000 per month. The railroads of the coun- try cannot continue operating on a basis of 1 per cent return for capi- tai investment, which is the record of 1920.
 The wage bill of the railroads in 1920 was SIS per cent, compared with 43.3 per cent in 1917. For the quarter. ending September 30, last, the wage bill was 62 cents of every dollar taken in by the railroads. These are the figures of the bureau of railroad statistics and the inter- state commerce commission.
 There is close connection between service and revenue. They depend on one another.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
Pipe Shops Are Responding
 to the Building Demand

7RHREE manufacturers of sani- N tary pipe, the kind that goes into residences, apartments and storehouses, have reopened their shops this week. Two plants at An niston and one at Bessemer, which had been shut down since Christmas, have resumed operations.
 Resumption in Anniston followed wage readjustment, according to which holders, in order that work might go on, accepted considerable reduction.
 Almost everyone hasSby this time realized that it is foolish to oppose the curtailment process. Theory has nothing to do with it. It is a condi- ton sternly demanding that everyone participate, and everyone will par ticipate, willingly or unwillingly.
 
 The sanitary pipe shops are not being operated at full capacity Those that have heretofore resumed have done so as much to keep their forces intact as for all other causes combined. Some have been selling their product without profit. ' The readjusted wage scales in the shops, lower cost of pig iron and re- duced price for coke have placed the pipe industry on sounder and more reasonable basis.
 The remarkable stride that the building of residences has taken in Birmingham and is assuming in the country at large indicates return of normal conditions in the pipe trade incident to the demaAd for pipe that building entails. As pipe making is one of Alabama's most important industries, this prospect is quite en- couraging.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24

From the Louisville Courier Journal. 6TlH HE discovery of Dr. Harry Bar
 ringer Cox that the vitamines in
 fruits and vegetables may be iso- lated, and bottled, is a thorough vindica- tion of the backwoods mothers who brought their children to hale and hearty manhood and womanhood upon a diet in which pot liquor was relied upon greatly.
 Lr. Cox finds that as vegetables com nionly are C cked the vitamines go down the dranpipe" from the kitchen sink, and soup is nutritious because it contains the health building properties of yege- tables. Many housekeepers know that this is true. When pr. Cox mentions it he is net, of course, attempting to make revelation There has been for sev- eral years past considerable propaganda, ty domestic c.ence opponents, in behalf of avoiding tco common practice of put ting vegetable c into cold water and cook ing the vitamines out of them, but the unscientific opera tor of the kitchen range often lets the vitamines go down the drainripe.
 The backwoods housekeeper, who was her own cock. usually boiled the vitam- ines cut o1 the greens and s'the meat juices out of the jowl, but she poured off the pct liquor and fed the twins
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24

whose vision was, at least for time defective should have eventually figured in such tragedy as the Porter wreck. During his period of service thousands for human lives were entrusted to his care, and it is surprising that he did not hurl more victims into eternity by his reckless ness. The findings of the bureau are serious indictment of Michigan Central officials who kept such man in their employment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
Type of EngineeK Who
 Works for Undertakers

TN report issued by the interstate U commerce commissions bureau of safety, Engineer Long of the Mich igan Central railroad is held respon- sible for the wreck at Porter, Ind, in which 37 passengers were killed and 20 injured. He is charged with failure to obey certain signals" A contributing cause of the wreck was the negligence of his Fireman in ob- serving signals and reporting them correctly to the engineer.
 A striking feature of the report is the service record of Engineman Long. He was suspended four times for infraction of rules and once for defective vision. According to the bureaus report, he was suspended 10 days in October, 1901, for disregard ing interlocking signals. In Septem-s Der, 1907, he was again suspended 10 days for failing to stop when tele- graph signal was not burning and in December of the same year was sus- pended 10 days for failing to stop when block signal was not burning. April 25, 1918, the report says, Long was given "record suspension 30 days, account collision with caboose car, flag out"
 It isn't surprising that an engineer who had proved his unfitness for a position of such responsibility and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
"saturdax Nighty

The first issue of the new weekly magazine, Birmingham Saturday Night, lis attracting much attention" said P. D. Bidwell. T feel sure it will have a large number of readers.
 The miniature dummy which has been distributed throughout the city is Very attractive. The copy of the mag azine will be more so than the dummy. This new publication will deal strictly with happenings in Birmingham, and is sure to prove splendid advertise ment for this city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
7-'---- LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

No. Imogene, the man sitting next to you isn't wearing a celluloid collar. He smells that way because the spring suit he is wearing has been In moth balls all winter
 The girls wore so little keeping warm all winter that we do mot see how they are going to take anything more off in order to keep cool this summer
 woman isn't as big a liar as a man. She admits that she is afraid of light ming.
 Two men can admire the same shirt and remain friends. But it is different when they admire the same skirt
 Fine linen and silver and butler serv- ice won't make meal taste as good as it used to when you were a kid and sat down to a kitchen topped with oilcloth.
 Why do they say that bride is led" to the altar? Did you ever see bride pulling back?
 You can't make a 60-year-old man believe that scircuses are as good today as they were when he was boy.
 Any 16-year -old princess knows that she could write a book on What Par ents Ought to Know"
 The reason man hates to stay home during the day is becauSe every time he gets comfortably settled in chair his wife makes him move so she can sweep uNder the chair.
 Some men are always out of work because they want to now lawns in January and shovel snow off the side walks in July
 And what has become of the old fashioned thrifty man who could save a dollar and a half day on $so-a- month salary?
 At that, a man doesn't have to have more than the one wife to have one wife too many.
 Copyright ls21.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
CONFESSIONAL.

CONFESSIONAL. Lives there man with soul 50 dead" He hates to earn his daily bread By hard and unremitting toll At bench or desk or on the soil? Just look around and you will see A host of him-including me.
 NEVER SHAKES A SHOULDER That's smart dog you have He can do nearly everything but talk. !" "Can he 'shimmy?"
 ''No. don't allow fleas to congregate on that dog"
 STATING IT IN OTHER WORDS. q want to buy home-brew outfit. but I'm afraid to advertise for one' .'wen?"
 What shall I do?''
 State in your advertisement that gentleman interested in experimental chemistry would like to purchase equip ment for small laboratory to be used in conjunction with his kitchen
 A PRoPORTIoNATE INCOME. Wealth and fashion must wait the traf- fic offIcer's signal to proceed" "of course"
 The great and the near-great are sub ject to his command
 '"To be sure. What's tho idea?" Tt seems to me a person invested with that much power ought to draw salary of at least s1o,0oo a year."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
MAKES ELEPHANT VANISH

From Popular Mechanics Magazine.
 Stage magicians who cause assist ants to disappear from the view Of blase audiences still receive applause, but a New York performer has added a brand new thrill by vanishing 1,ooO-lb. elephant. A huge cabinet on legs a foot high. with banks of electric lights underneath to aid the scrutiny of the skeptics, Is rolled onto the stage by number of helpers. the front door opened. and a pair of rear doors thrown back, revealing circular entrance. Into this black, tunnellike interior the elephant coming from up- stage, is urged to enter, amid the "patter" of the magician. The doors are closed, appropriate ceremonies per formed, and the doors opened again. The half-ton beast Is gone.
 Like most effective tricks. the ex- planation is simple. The floor of the cabinet is really a tilting runway. DIV oted at about third of it's length from the front Cables rising through the stage from heavy counterweight De- low are hooked onto this overhanging front end of the floor. behind the cab inet legs, by the trainer. when the mechanism is released. the animals weight swings the floor down through the stage trap to Q runway under the stage, and down. this the huge animal walks or slides and the floor swings back to it's place, with the cabinet empty. The brilliant light. ostepsibly intended to aid the view under the cab inet. actually obscures t. 90 that the smali amount of dropping floQr with in range Is not detected. and the dis appearances remains an effective mys- tery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
"HINKY DINK's. SWAN soNG

Fyom the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The tides of Chicago politics, full favored as it's Packingtown. will cease to roar through the Hang Out for the Boys on and after May 1. For 40 gay and gallus years .'Hinky Dinks" place around and about Clark and Jack son has been land mark. It has worn the air of tradition. Reform CTS have glared with goggle- eyed menace upon 1t. Chicago grew to have a sort of inn pertinent pride in it. "iIinkv Dink s' used to divide attention with the stock yards and the Masonic Temple. You sympa thzed with yourself if you saw Chicago" without viewing the hang out of Alderman "Hinky Dink" Kenna
 High rents got "Hinky Diak," high rents and the famous act fa;nered by one Volstead of Minnesota. Tine Chi cagoese is aV excellent judge of dis tance, and near beers" failed to keep the old place going. Some iethlng pie turesque departs from the days and do- ings of Chicago. ''Hinky Dink" may start a cigar store, if nc lists and in- tends. but--a swinging cigar lighter and an array of lithog ,aphea ooxes will hardly take the place Of rhe sawdust and the brass rail, the hungstarter and Nthe flip-flipping doors.
 Chicago will never oe quite the same place again,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
From the Wall Street Journal.

From the Wall Street Journal.
 N BALLOON comes to earth when
 AA the gas gives out. The M heavier cay T. S S than-air machine subsidies, just as certainly, when the engine stops. The one must be forever inflated to maintain it's altitude. thing physically impossible; and the other cannot afford to relax its speed. Industrial failures and receiver ships are tumbling in on us. What George Martin in Golfers calls balloon jobs are blowing up or coming down to earth. The vicious whiriigig of rising wages and prices slumped when the engine gave out
 All the protests in the world will not stop the fall in wages, for the simple and obvious reason that the money IS not there to pay them. It is not in the employers bank account; it is not in the United States treasury, nor can It be put into the treasury by increasing taxes IL is reported from Washington that the income tax collection shows staggering decrease of $1, ,6oo,000 900, while the excess profits tax is repeating itself If our legislators do not start soon there Will be nothing left to repeal The taxable excess profits disappeared last year.
 There was a mushroom growth of the war; making tremendous paper profits on war contracts, with name which Wal street, long before the slump started, humorously shortened to gas, wind and water' But the whole imitation boom was gas and wind where it was not water, and wind and water where it was not gas. The balloon salaries were gas. The pretentious figures were written on inc sands. and the water of the spring
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
Pays Better

T used to hear it said that about the best revenue producing property was to build negro shacks." says Pow ell Proctor, but friend of mine has got much better thing.
 "A man has never made himself pop ular with his neighbors by putting negro houses on the rear of lis lot, although some have done it; but he keeps an good terms with those who live by him and at the same time nets good return on his investment by having put up a garage to care for four ears at cost of s4oO, which he has no trouble in renting at sS a month for sufficient space for an au- tomobile.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
-->os-- HELLAS

By Shelley. The worlds great age begins anew.
 The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew
 Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles. and faiths and empires
 gleam Like wrecks of dissolving dream. A brighter Hellas rears Its mountains
 From waves serener far; A new Peneus rolls his fountains
 Against the morning star; Where fairer Tempes bloom, there
 sleep Young Cyclads on sunnier deep. A loftier Argo cleaves the main.
 Fraught with later prixe: N Another Orpheus sings again,
 And loves, and weeps, and dies; A new Ulysses leaves once more M Calyso for his native shore o write no more the tale of Troy.
 If earth Deaths school must be- Nor mix with Laian rage the joy
 Which dawns upon the free, Although a subtler Sphinx renew Riddles of death, Thebes never knew. Another Athens shall arise.
 And to remoter time BeQueath. like sunset to the skies,
 The splendor of it's prime: And leave. if naught so bright may
 live, All earth can take or heaven can give. saturn and love their long repose
 Shall burst moro bright and good Than all who fell, than One who rose, Than many unsubdusd: Not gold. not blood. theft altar dowern, But votive tears and symbol flowers o cease! must hate and death returnf
 Geese! must men kill and die. Ceasei drain TO - >regs the urn
 bitter propnscyi The world is wSary of the past o might 1t die or rest at last!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
THE SHOE Box LUNCH

From the Houston Post.
 One railroad announces reduction of dining car prices It mast De that the old-fashioned shoe-box, packed with fried chicken, buttered biscuits. sweet pickles and hard-boiled eggs, has world ever saw could beat it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
k.audable Efforts
 to Aid the Blind

A MOST excellent work is being AA carried on for the blind at the Birmingham public library with which the general public is probably not fa- miliar. Opportunity Is now offered, however, to show interest in a worthy cause in a substantial way by joining the Birmingham Association for the Blind, the annual membership fee being one dollar.
 The Birmingham public library has approximately 500 volumes of books printed in the special type for the use of the blind The library here has recently been made southern de- pository for Braille books for the blind people of the entire south. These books are available to all in the southern states who can read them.
 But the local association for the blind is trying to extend it's activi- ties It wants to reach out and help the blind wherever they be-get them jobs, help them solve household and business problems and tighten their path through life. Every Sun day afternoon volunteer readers en- certain groups of the blind who go to the library to listen.
 Government figures show that the number of blind in the United States averages ne for every thousand of population. With this as a basis, there are hundreds of blind in Ala bama who are not being helped, and the object of the local association is to reach them.
 Recently a revised system of Braille has been adopted for the en- tire United States, and in future all books for the blind will be printed in this system. The Birmingham li- brary has no books printed in the new system. Money derived from memberships in the association will be used largely to purchase these books, which are expensive. Some re- markable instances are given of blind persons who have made themselves self-supporting and have made de- cided successes in life as the result of slight assistance given them. Money spent in this way seems to return many fold.
 A membership campaign by the local association is now under way with headquarters at the public li- brary. Mrs. Caroline P. Engsfeldt is chairman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
EDITOR HARDING

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 The Birmingham Age Herald niournsl that the Harding administration has no official jester. Warren doesn't write a bad paragraph hin,self
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
DALLAS FOR coon ROADS
,A Selma Times-Journa]

The AEe-Herald has found 31 coun- ties that will vote to ratify the road bond amendment and five that will vote against it. placing Dallas with the ob- jecting minority, Our contemporary did not get it's information Ion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
GAS. WIND AND WATER

tide washed them away. The ransom wages were water. The railroads are charged, without a shadow of excuse. in the United States as the official vai- uation of the railroads has already shown. But they are collapsing through watered labor, for which the only liqui- dation is bankruptcy. There Is no wholesome stock market in which to squeeze out that sort of water.
 Our people were suffering from wind. No doubt the great salaries were largely fables. the fertile reading notices of the moving picture press agent The collector of internal revenue is not only wonder ing where they have gone. He wonders if they ever existed. Some of them did, and watered wages were a fact Never in the lifetime of those who drew them will those Salaries and wages be seen again. few men can be paid more than time, and then only at the price of keep. ing better men out of employment
 But our feet are on the ground and we are still alive We are to learn anew the old lesson that no man worth his salt is ever paid all he earns, and that if he hears that point he is at the top of the tobogean with slant on. We are to learn anex the secrets of small, safe profits on large turnover, of honest qual- ity, civility and service. We are to learn that luxuries are luxuries and not merely comforts and that comforts are not ne cessities. Of course it will hurt, But the wound is chiefly to our pride. We need net coneerr ourselves about that if our self-respect remains intact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
overcomcs All Obstacles

The Shelby county bootlegger is not always a small operator" said Mrs. Samuel Benton of Coiumbiana- Some of them own and operate powerful au- tomobiles.
 The county officials had a way o, catching the bootleggers on their re- turn from one part of the county, where they went to get their supplies. to another. They would place Ford car across the highway and hide in the bushes. When the car laden with the 'moonshine came along, it would stop for the Ford, and then the off cials would nab the bootleggers.
 But one night the trick did not work. A big automobile, which the of ficials were laying for and knew had the liquor in it, paid no attention to the little obstructing Ford, but hit It amidships, knocked it out of the way and went on rejoicing Since then the officials have been more careful about their small cars"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
Florida Pronnerona

Business in Florida is good" saio Ira F. Randall yesterday. T have just state, and was impressed by the busi- ness there
 ''The Retail Furniture Dealers asso- citation of Florida is in excellent shape. Being member of similar, organiza> tion here. and meeting the Florida dealers, I could learn what they were dcing. Florida is not hard hit by present business conditions"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24

straight" Dallas county has spent more money on it's roads than any other county of the 67 according to its prop erty valuations, and also rolled up an immense majority for the amendment on it's first adoption. Please take Dal- las out of the list of pull backs" and put her down for good roads, for prog ress and for all things of good re- pute.