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The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1921-02-03
METHODIST CONVENTION
HELD FIRST OF WEEK
UNQUALIFIED SUCCESS
Important Sessions Held at Local
Church Monday and Tuesday
Of This Week

What Is said TO have been the most
successful and enthusiastic sub-dis-
triet convention OF the 26 held so far
by the workers that were here. was
excluded al the Methodist church
Tuesday night. having commenced
the day previous.
DR.. HOllingshead OF New York.
gave an illustrated lecture Monday
evening. showing the needs OF the at
ficted world and some OF the work
being done TO meet these demands.
He spoke at length OF the wealth OF
the protestant churches and calculat-
ed the immense sums that would be
available for the work OF making the
world better. II sufficient support was
given the movement.
Tuesday morning. DR.. Is. Raynor
Smith, OF India. gave an address In
costume. depicting the accomplish
ments being made in that densely
populated country.
Dr. Mecklenberg, in an address.
later on IN the day. dealt with the
problems of organizations and ef-
ficiency.
Bishop Charles Wesley Burns, OF
the Helena area. delighted his hear
ers at two addresses. one OF them be-
ing given Tuesday afternoon. and the
her in the evening.
He is an orator OF unusual ability.
and with masterful argument i'm
pressed upon his huge audiences the
messages he came to deliver. IL is
said that his addresses were OF as
high order as have ever been heard
here.
Forty delegates from other towns
in the district attended the conyen-
ton. Bull led with delegation OF
q. The pastors OF all the churches
In the district were here. These
were the Rev. L. l.. White. of Twin
Falls. DR.. Barnes. OF Rupert. and
Rev. Mr. Hawk. OF Bull. Others
present included John Wesley Miller.
field agent of Gooding college,
and the Rev. j. +. Baker, district
superintendent
Al general assemblage OF all the
delegates and participants i'm the con-
veation. held at the Filler Cafe. Tues
day evening. there were - who ate
dinner together.
Resolutions commencing the local I
Methodist church members. It's pastor
and the members OF the visiting team. I
we're passed. and are published in 4
this issue OF The Record.
The convention team went from
Go0ding. where similar clinic was /
held Tuesday and "Wednesday OF this
week. The Rev. c. Z. Deal pastor
OF the Methodist church went with
here to Cooling. where a similar
clinic was held Tuesday and Wednes-
DAY OF this week. The Rev. C. +.
Deal. pastor OF the Methodist church
here went with the party 10 Gooding
where he will attend q meeting OF the
board Of trustees OF Bristol Park.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1921-02-03
HAZARD WINS N
CLEAR LAKE stfr

The Farmers Mutual Power com
pany has Just received favorable
decision from Judge Ensign confer
ring upon the company the title 20
the Clear Lake poser protest.
The ease Il styled Moills =. syster
against W. c. Hazxard and the Farm
err Natal Power company. and aas
been In eoars for two years. The
effect Of the decision will give the
farmers Organization the right 10 d.
selop power for the use o. the stock
hoiders Of the company.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1921-02-03
FARM AUCTIONS
ON INCREASE
Five Farm Auctios Sales Here in The
Next Two Weeks

Tuesday is the date set for the clos
ing out sale 10 be held at the J. p.
umphrey ranch one-hslf mile east
and 0ne-haif mile south OF Filler.
AIRS. +. NJ. Umphrey. Administrative.
has leased the farm 10 the Musgraye
Brothers. and Is selling the complete
farming equipment In order 10 settle
the estate. In conjunction with this
sale. Mrs. G. +. Sieber Is including
the farming equipment OF her hus-
band : estate. Mrs. Sieber rented her
ranch only yesterday. and this morn
ing made arrangements TO include
the equipment in the umphrey sale.
which is scheduled 10 commence at
noon Walter and shearer are the
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1921-02-03
FORMER COUNTY
RESIDENTS FORM
CLUB ON COAST
~. g. Munyon. Secretary Of Idaho As
sociation i'm California.

Love for the Gem state has not
waxed cold among Idahoans soJourn-
ing in Southern California. accord
ing to word that has been received
here.
The following from the Pomona
tCalif.) Bulletin OF January 20. de-
seribing a picnic OF present and for
mer Twin Fails county residents has
been received here:
Pomona Il 10 have the next an
nuai Twin Falls County. Idaho pie
mic. according TO an announcement
by c. r. Wade OF this city. who was
elected president OF the Twin Falls
County society yesterday at their an
nual picnic which was held az Long
Beach.
Seventy former residents o the
Idaho county were In attendance and
despite the rain. had. as Mr.. Wade
expressed IL. "a grand old time" The
picnic was originally scheduled for
Bixby park in the beach city and the
picnic dinner preparations were un-
der way. while the coffee had actual
~ begun 10 boil. but along came
old Jupiter Piuyius and the pieniek-
ers scurried To the auditorium where
the balance OF the program was
staged.
The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1921-02-03
Annual Affair.

The picnic affair was made per
manent annual event and Officers
were elected 10 serve year. Among
the important featares 10 be taken
up and decided upon was the nert
picnic place. which will be at Ganesaa
park. the last Saturday In February.
A number 81 Pomona people
were named among the officers and
appointees. Follo~ing are the Of
ficers for the ensuing year;
&C. n. Wade. 81 East Pasadena
street. Pomona. president: NJ. l..
Thompson. Pomona. viee-president;
"a. G Aanyoa. Long Beach. secretary
The president also appointed the fol-
lowing com nittee ~hich ~ill have
charge OF the picnie nert year; Mes
danes w II. Baldwin of Pomona.
steinour Of Los Angeles. Hunt Of
LoRE Beach and the Misses IHez
Ppeketi and Marie Wade 81 Po-
mona.
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Weaver sale Today

Weaver Sale Today
The big Weaver sale IL being con
Quoted to-day M one OF the a. J.
Weaver ranches southwest OF Filer
This s. the largest farm sale ever adj
serfised In this section and q large
attendance OF bidders l. expected to
attend the aucfiOn-
Daam tlo~iag oat
The A. J. Daum auction sale wiii
be held az his ranch near Poplar hin
school hose. Tuesday. Feb Il ar
Dasm T. offering his compl@esa line
Il farming equipment Walter and
sbearer are the auction~ers.
D-swrsier sale feh. 10
ON the neri day. Feb. ls. y. p
Detweii~r Nil hold public auction
al bis ranch just north~esi Of Filler
ur. Det-eiier 4 offering n head q
s0od hcrsss. = COW. some chickens.
At hogs. = good line Of farm imple-
aeBts. and . quantity Of household
.oods- MunyoH and soa and Hop
slns are the auetioneers.
Arsn~s Sale In Two weeks
ON Tuesday. Feb. II. DR. r. $
2rmes vii hold = general farm sale
Il his ranch a half mile norlh aud
salf mile ~~st OF Filer. lie viii IN
Jude horses. implements. and 9th 4
n stock and equipment in his offer
Rs.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
HI CALL

We have called you across the water,
And the ring of our tone is clear.
We are sick of the sin and slaughter,
And we show you the course to
steer
But, say, are your hearts sincere?
We have tested your blood and thun-
der.
We have tasted your bread and
wine;
And your love was the love of Won
der,
In the light of the lurid line.
But, say, was your love divine
We have banished the breath of malice.
We have rendered your rights Sc
cure.
You have drunk from u scarlet
chalice,
And you found hal the blood was
pure.
But, say, does your faith endure?
We have stood as a solid nation.
We have dared, we have done and
died.
Now you come for a consultation
In the face of your local pride.
But, say, is vour vision wide?
William V. V. Stevens.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
Mr.. F~ordney's Happy Thought

While others are looking about in
holes and corners for means Of put
ting an end to unemployment Mr.. Ford
ney goes straight as d slot, for the big
thing. We are importing foreign
goods, he tells us, at the rate of
about $300,0GO,U 900 a month, and ex-
poses the tremendous folly of the pro
ceeding in this simple and straightfor-
ward fashion:
Most Of these goods could be made
here. There is not a manufactured
article produced in the United States
in which the labor cost is less than
900 of the total cost-following the
raw material from start to finish.
Now, if that is true of the 100000,
600 that We are sending abroad each
month to buy foreign-made goods,
S250,00O,0 900 is going out from the peo-
pie Of the United States to employ Ger
man, French, English, japanese and
Chinese labor, while our own workers
walk the streets in idleness.
But Mr.. Fordney ought to carry his
happy thought further. To stop i'm
porting foreign goods would, of course,
help; but that should be only a begin
ming. A far more serious cause of
unemployment in our states is the bad
habit they have Of importing from
each other what each might perfectly
We'll produce for itself. Massachu-
sets, for example, could set thousands
of her people at work making auto
mobiles if She stopped importing them
from Michigan, and Michigan, in like
manner could get busy making shoes
which she now ~fatuously imports from
Massachusetts. Evidently the cure for
unemployment is as easy as rolling off
a log-unless there is something
wrong about Mr.. Fordney's reason
ing.
A mar may be a protectionist with
out being an ass, but the chairman of
the Ways and Means Committee is do
ing his level best to convince people
that the terms are synonymous.
Independent, 10-8-21
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
VOTE ON ISSUE OF BONDS

At the election on November 8th,
each voter will have the privilege of
voting to allow the officials of New
Jersey 10 issue bonds to the amount
of fourteen million dollars.
The State constitution provides that
the legislature shall create no debt
except for invasion except it has been
submitted to the people.
The proposed bonds are for four
teen millions to be used for tearing
down and rebuilding asylums, reform
atories and prisons. There Is no
doubt that extensions are needed, un-
doubtedly needed more than concrete
roads and a State highway across Del
AVA Bay to Lewes, Del. The inter-
est on these bonds will amount to
SSiO.000 yearly. besides a portion of
the principal Will increase the taxes
a million and a half dollars a year.
The Record believes the Legislature
should provide for these extensions
from present revenues. The amount
of interest on the bonds with a little
economy would make a million a year
for extensions without extra taxation,
which the bond issue will require.
With the sale of liquors stopped,
which statistics show, has been the
direct and indirect of many
State dependents; with our welfare
nurses and county hospitals, school
doctors and physical training, there
should be in a few years a great les
Sening of inmates to the State huma-
njtalian institutions.
OF course, the bankers want the
bonds and the contractors want the
Jobs. but do the taxpayers wan more
taxes in these eXtrayagant days?
The Record favors voting against
the bond issue.
Then, tell the legislators to econO-
mize elsewhere and provide money for
the needy benevolent dependents.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
ANOMALY

President Harding is making great
preparations for his great disarma-
ment conference, to be held in Wash
ington, d. c., beginning November II,
when he will have a big picnic with
his invited guests from his seclusive
association of nations. Only the big
nations have been invited. The little
fellows are not considered worthy
enough to have a look in.
Disarmament propaganda is being
exploited to make this affair a bigger
affair than the League of Nations
conventions, because Harding is do
ing this and Wilson did the other.
Those with ~passivist proclivities
are booming disarmament. All must
get ready to throw away their revol-
vers and guns, have the swords made
into pruning hooks, cannon into pillow
shares and battleships into tin Liz
zies
Getting down to home we make
note of a peace conference speech
made Thursday evening in the Friends
Meeting House in Woodstown. The
day before the Standard and Jersey
man announced that the site for a
new State Military Armory, in Salem,
had been selected.
Salem, the original settlement of
Friends, in America, has been preach
ing, teaching and practicing peace
for 246 years. Now that all the world
under the leadership of President
Harding has begun to preach disar-
mament, the Quakertown of Salem is
just feeling proud of having a State
armory in which to drill men and
teach them to fight.
There is the anomaly, the irregular,
exceptional, unusual, singular, pecu-
liar, lack Of conformity, in thought,
preaching and practice. And to think
a Quaker State Senator should get it.
There is a big lot of political and
religious buncomb in this day as of
yore.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
Reimbursement of Taxes

The first counties of this State to
take advantage of the 1921 legislation
which permits the State Board of Tax
es and Assessments to make reasSess-
ments in districts where the rate is
low are Essex and Union. The Board
it was learned, has already begun an
investigation of assessments in Morris
and Middlesex counties as a result of
complaints being filed by the Board of
Frecholders of Union and Essex. 1t is
thought that in a short time this will
mean that the Board will be compelled
to investigate every county in New
Jersey. Union County's complaint
against Middlesex is of particular in
terest, due to the fact that it was
mainly through the efforts of the I'm
ion County Tax Board officials, headed
by Francis X. Dobbins, of Railway,
that the act under which the State is
now proceeding was passed by the last
Legislature. At that time the alleged
under-valuations in MiddleseX County
formed the basis of the a%rgur'c0t ad-
vanced in favor of the bill. Since that
time it is understood that Union has
employed experts working in Middle
sex studying taxing conditions. While
the complaints already filed are from
the northern part of the State it is
understood that Hudson, or one of the
other counties may similar ac-
ton to be taken with respect to some
of the southern Counties.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
Restoring Pre-War Prosperity

Great numbers of men have been
falsely taught that the government
can and should restore business to nor
NAL. 1t can assist, but business is the
business of the people. They must, by
industry and thrift, turn the tide to-
ward good times. The thousands who
give their consciousness into the keep
ing of men whose notion is that the
Government can restore industries and
business by proclamation or act of
Congress, all are wrong. They have
lost the freedom and independence
which are the whole soul of all whole
some American institutions-From
the Chicago Journal of Commerce.
They have been taught for fifty
years that it was necessary to have a
high protective tariff.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28

New York Journal of Commerce.
The fact must not be overlooked
that practically no manufactured
goods are here included. The most
serious phase Of u export trade is
that existing in these branches of our
industry. No doubt weakness in in
ternational finance as it is now con-
Quoted is responsible in considerable
measure for the diminished volume of
exports in September. Until we can
send products abroad on a sounder
basis of payments it is perhaps just
a Well that our export trade does not
assume too great proportions.
BY going into national seclusion, de-
Serting the Allies by rejecting the
Peace Treaty and building a high
tariff wall around the nation why
should other nations want to buy our
products?
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
HEARST VISITS MEXICO CITY
Why He Reyiled President Wilson

Mexico City, Oct. 23.-William Ran
dolph Hearst's party arrived in Mex
leo City this morning. Mr.. Hearst
registered at a prominent hotel and
declined to see the press. The Hearst
party was guests Of Mexican officials
at a bull fight this afternoon.
The party travel in a private Pull
man and expects to spend three days
in Mexico City. Mr.. Hearst will have
an interview with the President on
Monday.
1t is rumored that Mr.. Hearst has
offered the Government to establish a
paper here if the Government will
recognize the titles to the ranches
owned by the Hearst estate in North
ern MeXico.-News Item.
Readers of the Hearst newspapers
during the past eight years know how
they all continually reviled Wood
row Wilson's administration. The
above shows the reason. 1t was the
Hearst papers and their ilk who
wanted President Wilson to use the
L. S. Army to invade Mexico to pro-
tect their properties which had been
procured by questionable means thru
old officials under Huerta, the brute
murderer whom President Wilson made
to get out of Mexico. The old method
was called dollar Diplomacy" which
President Wilson dispensed with and
made many enemies who had foreign
investments, including William r.
Hearst, whose family have large hold
ings in Mexico.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
Solomon Said

Fear God and keep his command
ments for this is the whole duty of
man.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
Why Tax Reduction is DeadlOcked

Wall Street has no use for the rev.
enue Bill as it now stands in com
promise; between the Eastern and
Western Republicans in Congress. 1t
is no compromise, in the view of the
Wall Street Journal, but a 'pusillanl-
nous surrender of Republican leaders,
"a cowardly retreat before a gang OF
demagogues euphemistically called an
agricultural bloc" 1t would be better,
according to this view, to let the war
taxes stand as they are.
Whether that is to be the outcome
of the existing deadlock will evidently
be for the President to say. The pres
ent tangle is largely of the administra-
TONS own making. 1t has failed
throughout to assert any leadership in
the matter. If at the outset Of the
extra session it had had a definite plan
of its own for submission to Congress
and had put the whole influence of the
administration back of it the present
holdup would have been avoided and
tax reduction as well as tax revision
in fairness to all interests Would by
this time have been in force.
But the President stood aloof. he
was overcome with an exaggerated
respect for the independence of the
Legislative department. While declar-
ing that general tax reduction must
accompany tax revision, he did moth
ing within his own sphere of action
such as foreign policy, to make tax
reduction possible by slashing cost.
The result of all this was to turn
the question from one of tax reduc-
ton to n of shifting taxes without
reduction. And the matter of shifting
taxes inevitably became an issue OF
social and industrial classes, or OF
whose backs were to be lightened and
whose to bear the shifted burden.
The Wall Street interests and the
Farmer interests cannot both gain in
such a contest, and as the situation
stands, Wall Street is not the gamer
and the party split grows wider every
day. Executive fiabbiness for the sake
of party harmony has caused anything
hrt harmony, and as Ion" g it cc1-
%tinucs, so long will the majority dead
lock in Congress continue.-World.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28

General Leonard Wood has been
considered the political legatee of The
odore Roosevelt, and was a prominent
candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for President. The Wilson adj
ministration Of the Philippines has
been much criticized. Gen. Wood was
sent there to correct the affairs as
Governor. He is doing so. A news
dispatch on the 18th stated, that he
had pardoned fifteen criminals, two of
whom We're serving life sentences for
murder. Gen. Wood is a great re-
former.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
THE NEW YORK

u ARTERY PARK, at the foot Of
ID Broadway holds what Is our largest
aquarium. 1t contains 100 tanks and
seven floor pools and is equipped so
that sea water may be heated in
winter (for tropical fish, and fresh
water cooled in summer.
Circular in form, this building has
a unique history. 1t is 2O5 feet In
diameter, erected in 1907 as a fort.
Lafayette was received here in 1924
and Jenny Lind sang here in 1850.
For thirty-five years it was an immi-
grant receiving station-almost $780,
600 Of them having passed through its
doors.
The character of the exhibit nee
essarily varies somewhat with the
seasons. About $50 different kinds of
fresh-water and marine fish have been
shown. The average exhibit Overs
about POO different species.
Among the most peculiar varieties
arctic s%ea-horSe, said to be the only
fish having a tail used for grasping
purposes: the thread fish, having fin
rays which often attain a length sever
al times that of the fish itself: the
Nassau grouper which can change its
color eight times in as many minutes !;
the puffer which has the power to in
fate itself with air and float and the
sucking fish which is provided with a
sucking disk on top of the head and
attaches itself TO the glass front or
sif' Of the tank, from which 1t can
be loosed only with difficulty.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28

Freight Auditor-Were you in on
1t when our directors cut the melon?
Cashier-No. But I cut some fig
ure when they cut the payroll.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
WONDERS
OF
q, Western Newspaper UhIon'
NATIONAL
CHURCH
BY 7. T. MAXEY

CHURCH
n AMBLING about the so-called
N "old" section of our national
capital one Sunday morning, my at
tentiOn was attracted to a church
which, outwardly, looked but little
different than hundreds Of other
houses of worship which are scattered
p~rOmiscuously across broad land
and are representative of numerous
denominations of religious belief, ex-
cept for its peculiarly slender and
graceful Spire.
Approaching this thus distinguished
editice, the air suddenly filled with
colorful and pleasing tone, as, from up
in the Steeple, a chime of ten rare
bells called the faithful to devotion.
Entering. | learned that this his
toric structure was none other h a
The National Methodist church. After
service, | was told and shown how a
former bishop and beloved WOrshipers
had Immensely enriched it II en-
deared its memory by unusual con-
tributions collected on their travels
in foreign lands.
For instance, some of the marble
tiles in the vestibule We're brought
all the way from the ruins of Sol
omon'S temple in Jerusalem; the
keystone in the arch above the pulpit
was carved from a stone carried from
the ruins of the same far-Off temple,
and the beautiful pulpit and highly
polished altar rail are partially made
from the logs of olive wood, trans
ported from the Garden Of GethSemane
and Mount of Olives. An ivy vine
which tightly attached itself to the
east wall of this old edifice was grown
from a slip taken from the tomb Of
Martin Luther. ut Wittenberg. Ger
many.
Presidents Grant and Mckinley. Vice
Presidents ColfaX and Fairbanks,
General John A. Logan and many
other men prominent in the affairs of
the nation, have worshiped ut this
shrine.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28

Last year, Warren G. Harding, can
didate for President, said the League
of Nations was dead. Now President
Harding has put out by a special
writer that he wishes the League Of
Nations to live-to live as a European
League. Another wabble to please
partisan faction.
The Penn's Grove record., 1921-10-28
THESE Rats Wouldn't Eat My Best
GRAIN" Saws Fred Lamb

1t hard to keep rats out of a feed
store. Tried for years. A neighbor-
ing store sold me some Rat-Snap. It
worked wonders. Gathered up dead
rat every morning. Bought more Rat
snap. Haven't a rat now. They
wouldn't eat my best grain when J
threw Rat-Snap around" Three sizes,
soc, o5c, $1.25' Sold and guaranteed