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New-York tribune., 1921-02-10
Senate Passes Bill
Removing Limit on
City Disease Fund
If Measure Is Approved in
Assembly Copeland May
Spend Amy Amount to
Ward Off PestiIence Here

ALBANY, Feb. 9.-The bill of Sena-
tor John J. BoyIan, designed TO permit
the Health Department OF the City Of
New York to spend whatever it deems
necessary TO ward off pestilence or
impending disease, was passed by the
Senate to-day.
The measure, which was introduced
at the request of Health Commissioner
Royal S. Copeland, removes the present
limit of $4,000 which may be spent
for this purpose Commissioner Cope
land does not believe that any Of the
plaques now prevailing in certain parts
of Europe can obtain foothold here
but he is anxious to have all the re-
sources necessary at his disposal IN
the event that unusual precautions are
nece ssary at the Port of New York.
The bill, it is believed, will be passed
by the Assembly early next week.
Health Commissioner Copeland said
typhus have been reported and that
it had been definitely established by
tests that only fourteen of the sixteen
passengers of the Presidente Wilson re-
ported i'll were suffering from the dis
ease.
Coolies are to be strictly barred
from the United States if immigration
Commissioner Walhs's latest sugges-
tion is adopted at Washington. He
says altogether too many Of them have
been accompanying steerage passengers
seeking q new home here.
A small delousing plant and fifteen
additional baths were placed in opera-
ton at Ellis Island yesterday. If Com
missioner Wallis is upheld in his re-
quest for authority to send back to
| Quarantine all immigrants who at
tempt TO bring these unwelcome Wis
| itors into the country with them 300
more baths will be installed.
The steamship Providence, of the
Fabre Line, in yesterday from Mar
seilles with 2,303 passengers, was held
lin Quarantine because of death aboard
from smallpox. Dr. Leland Cofer, the
/ health officer of the port, also found
| two cases of illness aboard, one be
! lieved to be smallpox and the other
| typhus.
1t is expected that the 80 saloon
and 333 second cabin passengers vii,
be permitted to come ashore to-day
If permission for their removal is
granted tugs will be sent down the
bay to bring these travellers and theil
baggage to the city.
Eight hundred Of the 1900 steerag'
passengers on the Holland-America
liner Ryndam, which arrived here from
Rotterdam Sunday, were sent back t.
the vessel in Hoboken yesterday be
cause vermin was discovered on the
bodies of large number of them.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-10
Harding Physically Fit
Alter I9 Days of PIay
"Aerer Felt Better in Ny Life
He Declares; ''Had a Bully
Time and Real Vacation"
a q star Corresno,tdert

81 AUGUSTINE, Fla, Feb. g.
resident elect Warren G. Harding, who
left here January % g pale and tired
gentleman, returned tonight sun
Drowned and radiatiug good humor.
Nineteen days Of play, that included
plenty OF golf, deep sea fishing and con-
gTsaai T companions aboard the houseboat
" sslcto,rla, have made him physically fit
'Or IT. The busy days just ahead.
never felt better in my life" de-
sLafed Mr.. Harding, when he arrived
sFoH @ paytona in an automobile accom-
gEahied by Senators Frelinghuysen and
Lage' OF New Jersey. Certainly the
g man who is to move into the White
mouse on March never has looked bet
'eI since the day he was nominated.
IN, We had a real vacation" he said.
", We came into Daytona aboard the Vic
NNa sofls with flags flying, and if Joe Fre-
tnugnuysen hadn't been compelled TO
hurry we'd have finished the trip aboard
.ae boat. ] haven't done a stroke of
Sofk since I left here. Not a stroke !!
sur; sure caught some fish. Had bully
!, Mr.. Harding is hoping to work
trough the mornings during his stay
Aere until the end of February and play
New-York tribune., 1921-02-10
Senate and House
Formally Declare
Harding Elected
Also IL l. Ascertained Re-
PUBLICAN Candidate Got
404 Electoral Votes and
That Cox Received I27

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The elec-
ton Of Warren G. Harding as Presi-
dent and of Calvin Coolidge as Vice
President Of the United States YVES
declared formally to-day at joint ses-
sion Of the Senate and House.
With due solemnity, and without a
ripple OF demonstration such as marked
the elections" of President Wilson,
the two bodies canvassed the votes east
by the electors. The formal vote as
declared tailed with the informal re-
suits known to the public on the day
after election, with 404 votes for Mr..
Harding and Mr.. Coolidge to 1877 for
James N. Cox and Franklin d. Roose-
welt.
Vice President Marshall presided
over to-day's canvass and gave an ef-
fectual warning against any demon
stration for an occasion which, Mr.
Marshall said, was solemn and impor-
tant" and ought to- be carried through
in silence. Unlike many previous oc-
casions, the Vice-President's warning
was needed, except for a litter over
slip-ups of the tellers in pronounciug
names Of states and announcement Of
results.
By a coincidence, Senator Lodge, Of
Massachusetts,, Republican floor leader
who acted as a teller, announced the
first votes, from Alabama, for Messrs
Cox and Roosevelt, while Senator Tn
derwood, of Alabama, Democratic teller
announced the first returns for Messrs
Harding and Coolidge, from Arizona
in the alphabetical canvass of the elect
ors' vote.
mostly OF women, watched the proceed
ings, which were completed in record
time Of about half an hour.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-10

saloons up to the time of prohibition
But they go fifteen miles outside that
town, where there never was saloon,
and appoint an agent there and fix that
rs his designated place Of duty, and
give him 81 day in lieu of per diem
and expenses or s5 day actual ex-
penses, when he Is doing all his work
in q larger city.
"But that is not all that we appropri-
ate for prohibition. Under the bonus
we care for 2,071 of these men, S240 Il
year each, or $4,000 in addition to
their regular pay.
Il do not claim the prohibition force
has been perfect" said Representative
Volstead. at could not be, as it has
been built up in q hurry. With the
amount of salaries paid prohibition
agents it may be possible to have 3
good many people among them who
are not strictly honest. That is true
in every service, and the idea of try
ing to break it down, which seems to
be the effort in this instance, by call
ing attention to a thing of this kind,
seems to me TO be absolutely ridicu-
Inns -
New-York tribune., 1921-02-10
Eight Yedr-OId Girl PRODIGY
Has the Mind Of Child of IA
susan Mitchell Passes Binet Tests for That Age
some Tor lo-Year-Olds and One for l8-Year
oids; Writes Delightful and Imaginative Stories

Susan Mitchell, eight years old. is
the latest child prodigy to engage the
attention of Columbia University.
Susan has never talked baby talk, and
she counted hem breakfast prunes in
French at the age of four.
Susan is the daughter of Mrs. Nellie
Mitchell, of 234 West Seventy-fourth
Street. and she is 8 pupil at the Scud-
der School, where Miss Edna r. Speck
has had charge of her training since
she was four.
Last week Susan was put through
the revised Binet-Simon tests by Miss
Ella Woodyard, of the Psychology De-
partment of Teachers College, and
came out with an intelligence quotient
of 1904.
This means that, although Susan is
eight years old physically, she is four
teen years old mentally" said Miss
woodward yesterday. Most of her re-
actions to any kind of data are such as
an ordinary fourteeRyear-old child
would make. She passed some Of the
slXteen-year-old and one eighteen-year-
old test. This was the test of repeat
ing series of eight numbers in a
string. In interpreting fables, she Is
sixteen years old, and her imagination
and ability to define words is that of
q fourteen-year-old child. She writes
delightful little imaginative stories"
Round-Faced, Hair Bobbed
Susan delights the inquiring visitor
by proving TO be wholesome, round
faced youngster with short bobbed hair
and one tooth missing.
Two educational principles have
guided Mrs. Mitchell in the bringing
up of her daughter.
Il never allowed her questions to 20
unanswered. and I endeavored so to
teach her that she would never have
New-York tribune., 1921-02-10
Half Soviet Army Group
For Military Operations

CoNsTANTINOPLE, Feb. g. Half
the total Bolshevik forces are grouping
for military operations, according to
latest information received here, with
forty divisions Of the Soviet army on
the Polish front and twelve divisions
on the Rumanian front. Those on the
Polish front are assembling in the
regions OF Smolensk, Vitebsk and
Orsha, reports say.
Of the general reserves Budenny's
1st Cavalry Corps Is said to be near
Gomel and the I'd Cavalry Corps in
central Ukraine. The total Bolshevik
forces are cstin1ated to number 500, 900
electives, of whom 100000 ars on the
various frontiers Of Russia.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-10
Negro Sheriff Forgot to
Hang Must Die, Anyway
Louisiana Attorney General
Rules New Execution Date
Shall BE SET

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 9.-Attorney
General Coco announced late to-day
that Lonnie Eaton, negro who has
been living since February because
the, sheriff Of Ouachita Parish forgot
to hang him on that date as had been
directed in his sentence for murder.
must be hanged unless the Board of
Pardons recommends communication of
sentence.
Sheriff Grant wrote to the Governor
yesterday that in the press of "civil
and criminal matters" February a he
utterly forgot the mandate to put the
negro, convicted of the murder of a
white man, to death on that day. The
sheriff did not know what to do about
It, lie had no warrant to execute his
prisoner on any other day and asked
for instructions.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-05
RED CROSS OFFICERS
REELECTED FOR
NEXT YEARS WORK

At the annual election OF Elmore
chapter of the Red Cross. held Tues
day evening at the library, all the
officers were reelected Mrs. ]. w.
Caldwell, chairman; Mrs. d. M
Vandegrift, secretary; A. F. Ander-
son, treasurer; Mrs. VIII H. Gibson,
home service. Mrs. ]. G. Watts was
appointed county chairman of the
roll call for membership. The exer
cutive boad is composed of members
from the auxiliaries as we'll as the
local chapter, so that all parts of
the county may be represented. 1t
was voted to use the junior red cross
funds for children in need of physi-
cal or financial assistance anywhere
in the county. Applications for
benefits from this fund are to be
made to Mrs. Will H. Gibson, of the
home service department. The roll
call begins November 18th and one
half the funds raised remain in our
own county for use among our own
people who may need assistance at
any time.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-05
The Matter Of Railroad Wages.

Some curious figures were brought
out in the grain-rate hearing before
the interstate commerce commission
the other day, by M. 0. Lorenz, sta
tistician for the commission. The
present earning power of all classes
of railway employees averages 61.5
cents per hour. Now, it takes one
hour of mans labor to produce a
bushel of wheat, and the price of
this labor averages 25 cents. If the
farmer paid himself or his hired man
at the same rate the railroad en-
ployes receive, it would cost 36 cents
more for bushel of wheat, and
about "a cents more for bushel OF
corn. If you add the customary
charge for overtime, these costs
would be increased. Mr.. Lorenz's
figures did not take in other farm
products, but the result would.
doubtless, be the same. In applying
these figures to the matter of freight
rates, Mr.. Lorenz declares that the
present average rate from Minnesota
is 1896 cents a bushel 'fTo enable
the farmer to pay his labor in pro-
ducing wheat the average railroad
workers earnings per hour by a re-
I'M tn iohf tiac dn-
clares, would require canceling of
the entire freight charge, and in ad-
dition bounty from the railroad
company to the farmer of 23 cents a
bushel." Most farmers, we believe,
have a friendly feeling to railroad
men, and other organized workers,
but they cannot be blind to the fact
that high wages and big profits in
the industries impose hardship
upon agriculture W h en- country
wages and profits are low. In fact.
the farmer suffers both ways, when
| 1t comes to high railroad rates. He
has to pay the freight on what he
buys, and upon what he sells. And
If the question of reducing railroad
wages comes to a crisis, the weight
of country sentiment will undoubt-
edly be with the companies. But
this does not mean, when the final
reckoning comes, that the farmers
will submit to exploitation or prof.
iteering On the part of the compa.
nies. A fair level of prices, al
around, is the only thing that will
bring about permanent revival Of
business.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-05
Happy-Go-L Lucky Girls Celebrated.

The Happy-go-lucky girls cele-
brated Halloween with jolly pro-
gressive luncheon this year. In or
der that the event might have a
mysterious touch, each girl wos
given a number and instructed to
prepare secretely the course of the
luncheon appropriate to that num-
btr. Much speculation was caused
by this but the final "tats' exceeded
thtir widest dreams. Merely as a
suggestion of the many good things
they had we quote these few:
cocktail fried chicken! shrimp wig
gle, maple dumplings etc.
Evey house was beautifully dec
grated at several places the guests
seated themselves at a table lighted
only by grinning Jacko' Lantern
or a roaring wood fire.
Songs and stories and other i'm
promptu Publications were enjoyed
en- roune to the different homes,
Later the whole crowd went to the
concert and dance, declaring the
evening one of the most enjoyable
it had ever spent.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-05
SHORT line Will
WATCH RECKLESS
AUTO DRIVERS

The Oregon Short line has created
a new job for its signal maintainers,
that of observing and checking up
bn automobile drivers who drive in
a careless or reckless manner over
the tracks OF the system. The rail-
road employee is furnished a post
card blank with room for data as to
the name and number of car the
tlace where the reckless driving oe-
cured name of owner III known,
and other matter of interest. The
secretaries of state of Utah and Ida
no have agreed to take up these
complaints direct with the offender
by writing him a warning letter on
receipt of the cards. This plan is
made as a part Of the railroads
safety first campaign, which will
txtend to cars crossing their tracks.
Mountain Home should be parti-
cularly interested in this campaign
as we have a crossing south of tLs
depot, the only one in the main
part of town, that is little less than
a death trap, being sheltered on one
side by the station and on the other
by the Helfrich warehouse There
have been two or three near acei-
dents there during the past year and
more serious one may happen at
any time. For several years the
Republican has agitated periodically
for a subway crossing either there
or at the next crossing north, and
we still believe that If the village
board would make an insistent de-
mand the subway would be built.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-05
Still "Fooling the Farmers. "

On Tuesday, October 18, the House
ertended the Emergency Tariff bill,
approved May 27, 1921, until Febr-
nary /, 1922.
This Is the bill which was to bring
prosperity to the farmer by protect
ing him against the pauper raised
crops of Europe, which do not exist,
but which destroys the market for
his surplus crops, which he must sell
abroad to be prosperous.
On the day before the House ex-
tended the Emergency Tariff Act,
Senator Mckinley (Rep. Hl.), said
on the floor of the Senate:
81 was in Illinois ten days ago
and found that the price of new corn
to the farmers was % cents, and
might go to 25 cents, although the
corn cost him So cents to raise.
myself think that cents or 3 cents
or 5 cents of the so-called farmer
legislation Emergency Tariff Act)
we passed last summer, but the price
of the crop is fixed by the surplus
we have to sell. In normal times
Europe bought our surplus. Today
Europe is underfed and needs our
grain, but Europe has neither credit
nor money, so they starve while we
burn our corn for fuel.
"As to the price in Iowa have a
report from a man in the town
Where live who owns 600 acres OF
land in Iowa, who stated that IL
would not pay him to husk and ship
his corn"
Senator Kenyon (Rep., Ia.), said:
Il have letter here from farmer
p my state in which he says: Bids
tor the 1921 crop of corn have just
Been made public. 1t is Is cents a
Sushel at the local elevator. The
above has cast additional gloom all
over the middle west
"Out of that Is cents bushel
husking cost cents a bushel, she'll
ing cents, delivery cents, leaving
about S cents bushel for producing
a bushel of corn. 1t costs the far
mers in the Middle West from 81
to 60 cents bushel to produce it."
THE complete answer to the Elmer
gency Tariff Act is to be found In
the daily quotations of the price Of
farm products. The farmers reac
these quotations, but 1t would seen
Republican Congressman do not
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-05
BLAINE COUNTY
NATIONAL BANK
STOPS PAYMENT

Owing to heavy demands upon
their deposits and the present stag
nation in the grain market, having
practically suspended liquidation,
the Blaine County national bank of
HALEY posted notice Wednesday
morning of last week, suspending
payments for the present. The no.
tice was signed by the Board of Di-
rectors, who at the same time noti-
fed the national bank examiner Of
their action. At the same time the
Bellevue Bank and Trust company
of Bellevue posted similar notice
for the same reason.A number OF the
stockholders and some of the direc-
tors are interested in both banks.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-05
ROYAL NEIGHBORS
HOLD CONVENTION
HERE NEXT YEAR
Local Lodge Will Entertain
Delegates From Southern
Idaho Towns at Big
Event of Royal Neighbor
Year.

With delegates present from the
surrounding camps of Nampa, Cald-
well, Mountain Home, Ontario, EN-
nett, Meridian and Roswell, and
large delegation from Boise. Mrs.
Ida Hamblen, state supervisor OF the
Royal Neighbors of America. was
royalty welcomed to southern Idaho
Thursday of last week and partici-
pated in an all-day and evening ses-
sion of the convention of the South
ern Idaho district at Boise.
Secret sessions were held, at which
the degree team of the Nampa
camp exemplified the initiatory work
in a remarkable way. At $50 the
banquet hall of the lodge was filled
with guests, toasts following the re-
past.
The supervisor talked very enter
taingly of the western delegates
trip to the Supreme Camp in May
Other prominent speakers were Con
vention President Irma B. Kibler OF
Nampa and J. w. Babcock, state dep
uty of the Modern Woodmen Of
America.
Mountain Home was chosen for ne
1922 meeting of the convention and
the local Royal Neighbors have al
ready begun the making of plans for
the entertainment to be given on
that occasion.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-05
0wens--Riley.

At the Congregational parsonage,
Moontain Home, Idaho, Tuesday
evening, November /, 1921, Mr..
Frank M. Owens of Wendell, Idaho,
and Mrs. Uouraine r. Riley OF Noun
tain Home, were united in marriage,
Rev. C. e. Mason officiating with the
ring ceremony.
The bridal couple were attended
by the brides parents, Mr.. ond Mrs,
c. F. Ross, Mesdames Walter Foun-
tain ond Bert Smith. Mr.. and Mrs.
Owens have been citizens of Noun
toin Home for a number of years,
being we'll and favorably known.
They are to make theie home on a
big ranch nea Wendell. Their
many friends wish them success and
happiness.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-05
JAP LABORER
SHOT IN HOLD UP
At GLENNS FERRY
Was Shot as He Started to
Leave House. Assailant
Ran and no Description to
Locate Him.

A Jap employed IN the railroad
yards at Glenns Ferry was shot and
seriously injured about midnight
Tuesday night by a hoidup man. The
Jap is an old timer named Tom IL
Is said that he will recover. The
bullet struck in the right breast,
passed clear through his body and
lodged in the wall behind him. The
Japs live in a row of shantias In the
rear of the round house and as the
ltory was told to the sheriff, Tom
had just opened the door when
shot was fired with the result above
noted, The gun man Immediately
urned and ran and was not seen
llainly enough to make It possible
to identify him.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-05
"The Fellow Out on the job

Those parts of Southern Idaho
that think they could make better
use of the water from American Falls
than could Mountain Home and
vicinity are putting out line OF
propaganda calculated to convince
the world that water can never be
brought to this bench, Their figure
of speech is "a fellow who was out
over the job," and he is supposed to
have reported that the difficulties
were such that it was not worth
while to try it. The editor OF the
Republican listened to the story this
'.fellow" was supposed to have told
at Twin Falls short time ago and
E. ]. Colthorp heard all about him
at Pocatello last week. The actual
facts are that the survey will take
several months and is now being
worked at by large number of men
none of them can be informed as to
it's results until the data they gather
is all tabulated and plated at the
engineering Office. If the reclama-
tion service, with some of the best
hydraulic engineers in the west in
charge, needs 100000 worth of data
to determine whether the canal can
be built the fellow who was out
over the job" can't possibly have
anything more than his own eye
judgment and that is worth very
little If anything at all.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-05
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Boyle Murder Still Mystery.

There have been no new develop
ments in the hunt for the murderers
of J. p Boyle, whose dead body was
found over two weeks ago in the
oil house near his store at Regina
with a bullet hole in the back of his
head, The body was shipped to Ait
kin, Ohio two weeks ago at the tele-
grophed request of relatives, and it
is stated thot one of the oged man S
relotives will come here at once to
offend to settling the estate ond to
renew the hunt for the murderers. 1t
is also rumored that detectives from
the post office department are max
ing an investigation
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-05
Red Cross Trains
147 Blind Vets
In Useful Work

Training designed to fit them for the
battle Of life was taken by lat bllna-
ed ex-seryice men at the Red Cross In.
stitute for the Blind, near Baltimore,
Md, during the fiscal year 1920-l921.
according to the report Of the Insti.
tute for that period.
OF this number, 10 have gone on to
other institutions, In almost every
case to institutions where those hav-
ing sight are receiving advanced edu-
cation The blind ex-service men who
have entered such Institutions are pro
vided with special textbooks In
Braille, reading which they were
taught at the Red Cross Institute.
Twelve men have passed from the
Institute to successfully carry on some
occupation or business for which they
We're fitted by special training. A few
have withdrawn from the Institute be-
cause of poor physical condition, IA are
receiving further training on the
job" and 81 are stlll In training.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-11-05
Death of Mrs. Skipper.

Mrs. Charles Skipper died at the
,amily home at King Hill last Fri
lay morning, the funeral being held
at Glenns Ferry Sunday. She was
the mother Of Miss Blanche skipper
former county superintendent Of
jihools, and the funeral was at
tended by a number Of Miss Skip
per's friends here. Mrs. Skipper
was a pioneer in this county, having
located in Glenns Ferry about 1890,
where she had lived since until q
few years ago when she moved to
King Hill where her husband was In
aharge Of the 0. S L. pumping sta
ton.