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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26
OPPOSED TO SUSPENDlNG AN
NUAL ASSESSMENT.

There is no doubt that the at
titude of the Miner in opposing the
suspension of assessment work for
1920 and 1921 reflects the attitude of
the mining interests of the state OF
Idaho. The comparatively few claim
owners who failed to do their work
in 1920 have been favored by the ex-
tension of the period in which to do
the work from January 1 to July l..
No claim owner holding his ground in
good faith has any valid reason for
asking that he be relieved from doing
the work after having been granted
this extension; to do so is evidence
of bad faith and should be so re-
garded by congress. Nor is there any
valid reason for asking for a suspen-
sion of assessment work for this year.
Wages have come down and there
has been a material reduction in the
cost of supplies In all mining dis
tricts there are men who depend upon
assessment work for a living, and be-
sides these there are many miners out
of employment through the suspen-
sion of large producing mines To all
Of these the doing of annual assess
ment work will be of direct benefit,
md also to local business men. Let
The law requiring annual assessment /
work on mining claims stand. 1t is a
good law and there is absolutely no /
'eason to justify its suspension.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26
FEDERAL APPROPRIATION FOR
GOOD ROADS.

The widespread demand for econ
omy in all departments OF govern
ment should not influence congress to
defer reasonable appropriation for the
construction of roads in cooperation
with the states. To do so would not
( be in line with the true theory of
economy. The value of permanent
highways is no longer a question for
argument In every community in
every state the construction of mod
ern roadways to accommodate local
traffic and as connecting links in in
terstate and transcontinental high
ways has come to occupy a position Of
first Importance, and the require
ments Of all these communities com
bined represent a national demand
for government aid that congress
should not ignore The Dowen bill
now before congress, with possibly
some notifications, has the approval
of practically all the highway de-
partments of the states. This pro-
vides for federal cooperation with the
states on a ffty-ffty basis. This bill
Overcomes the defects of the present
federal aid policy and also provides
special allowance for road construc-
ton in states like Idaho in which
there are large areas of land reserv-
ed by the government from which the
state receives no benefit in the way of
taxation. The bill also overcomes
fatal weakness of the present system
by making provision for the mainte-
nance of the highways constructed
through federal aid. The passage OF
this bill can not be opposed as an ex-
pense that should be dispensed with
on the ground OF economy, for its
passage would Immediately result in
iiverting money to the people through /
The employment of many men now
ale in road construction Grant that /
he money appropriated must come /
rom the people through one form or
mother of taxation. its return in this
'orm of public improvement is last
ng benefit in which everybody |
shares, both through providing quick .
md permanent means of communi-
,ation and employment for a large
lumber of deserving men.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26
NEW PHASE OF STRIKE.
(New York Herald)

(NeW YORK heralu)
An action at law probably unique
in court records has been begun in
Atlanta, according to this news dis
patch from that city:
Recovery of salary lost while on
an illegal strike is asked in seven
damage suits totalling $41OS filed
here against national officers of the
Brotherhood of Railway and Steam
ship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Elk
press and Station Employees.
THE petitioners were among clerks
employed by the Central of Georgia
Railway when. they assert J. w.
Thomas, grand vice president of the
clerks union. called a strike May II,
1920 which the grand president later
declared Illegal"
Should this suit result in a decision
in favor of the plaintiffs the POSSIBLE
tiles of trouble it would open for la
Dor leaders would be many in num-
Der. Were the promoters of strikes
to be held accountable in court for
loss of pay suffered by their followers
the same principle would suggest
that they might be held accountable
for damages TO a woman for the loss
of her husband, in case of fatalities,
and to children under similar circum-
stances. The suffering Of strikers
families deprived of their incomes
might conceivably be capitalized.
Evictions and the like would give
ground for action
This suit will be closely watched,
not only because of it's immediate
importance but on account of its po-
tentialities. Labor leaders will be
slower to call strikes if they may be
made to pay the workers they call
from their tasks for the losses they
incur.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26
HARDING SEES THEM ALL.
washington starr

washington Sldf)
The president has many callers and
manages to see them all Some have
business with him. Some desire sim
ply to pay their respects Others
have in purpose speaking words of
approval of what he has done since
assuming the duties of his office, and
wishing him good luck for the future
Politics is absent In this company
are republicans. democrats. socialists
and men and women without party
classification. All alike make pleas
ant reports as to their reception It is
TO be noted with qualification that
among the callers are many senators
and representatives, both parties con-
tributing. Sometimes republicans and
democrats call together and are re-
ceived with equal cordiality. Con-
nection thus between the White
House and Capitol Hill seems to have
been reestablished With the presi-
dent visiting Capitol Hill when he
has business there. and legislators
visiting the White House when they
have business there should make for
such agreeable relations between the
two localities as will inure to the
benefit of the country
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26
THE REAL BASIS OF FRIEND
SHIP BETWEEN NATIONS.

1t is arranged that General Per-
shng shall be in Paris to participate
in the celebration of Bastile Day, July
a. Later it is understood he will
return to the United States on the
same ship with Marshal Foch and
the body of an unidentified American
soldier. In accordance with an act of
congress passed at the last session,
the body will be buried in the Nation
al cemetery at Arlington with elabor-
ate ceremonies. prominent in which
will be the leader of the American
armies and the commander in chief
of all the allied forces. It is inter-
national exchanges of that sort that
cement the friendly ties between ma
tons and reduce the probability of
future wars. France and the United
states are not at peace merely be-
cause certain arbitrary rules and reg
ulations are written into a league Of
nations covenant but because there
are mutual ties Of sympathy and I'M
Outstanding between the two coun-
ries
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26

W. agitators. AS an evidence Of EN-
bree's prominence in the l. w. w.
liz was brought out in the trial
that he had been called to Chicago to
act as general secretary Of the organ
ization for several months while the
regular official w. d. Haywood, was
doing a Jail sentence.
Soon after having that honor con-
ferred upon him, it seems that En-
bree transferred his activities to
Butte which is now general head
quarters of the l. w. W. A former
member of the organization who was
Intimately associated with Embree
classes him in an article published in
McClure's last summer as the "ablest
tactician in the l. w. W." and de-
scribes with detail how after his ar
rival in Butte he forced the one Big
Union idea by adopting a system Of
penetrated the rival labor bodies of
Butte and placed the radicals in COM
plete control in the great copper
camp. IT was an unlucky day for
Embree when he came to the Occur
d'Alenes to help a fellow l. W. w.
who was being tried and to recruit
members of the organization. After
eyadlng local officers in various parts
of the west as well as federal secret
service men, it remained for the sher-
if of this county, who has specialize
ed on the ways of wobblies. to gather
Embree in under the provisions of
the criminal syndicalism law of this
state. 1t was a great catch second !
only to Big Bill" himself, and it is
gratifying to know that for the next |
)ne to ten years he will have an en-
'orced rest from his execrable activ-
ties within the walls of the Idaho
1t is further gratifying
% know that Immediately upon his
elease from that institution the fed
ral authorities will Immediately
transport him to the land from which
lie came.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26
THE CONVICTION or HAYWOOD'S
CHIEF LIEUTENANT.

The arrest. trial and conviction of
A. $ Embree is an achievement for
which the authorities of Shoshone
county are deserving of hearty con-
eratulations With w. D. Haywood
out of the country Embree was UNI
questionably the ranking exponent of
l. w. W-ism and the most dangerous
man connected with that radical and
disreputable organization He was
one of the men who We're driven out
OF Bisbee. Arizona, a few years ago
after having brought about a reign
of terror in that camp. forced a sus-
pension of mining operations through
characteristic l. W. w. methods, and
left the people the choice between
submitting to the ruinous rule of the
mob and rising in their might and
driving the outlaws from the camp.
They chose the latter and from that
date Bisbee has been free from l. W.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26
THE LITTLE GREEN TENT.
(Walt Masonl

(Walt Mason)
The little green tents where the
soldiers sleep, and the sunbeams play
and the women weep, are covered
with flowers today; and between the
tents walk the weary few. who were
young and stalwart in sixty two,
when they went to the war away. The
little green tents are built of sod, and
they are not long, and they are not
broad but the soldiers have lots of
room; and the sod is part of the land
they saved, when the flag of the en-
envy darlkly waved, the symbol of dole
and doom. The little green tent is a
thing divine; the little green tent is a
country's shrine. where patriots kneel
and pray; and the brave men left, so
old, so few, were young and stalwart
in 'sixty-two, when they went to the
war away
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26
UNCLE SAN AND ZAP.
(PhIIadelphia Ledgerl


The Italian foreign minister. Count
Sforza, has summed up the American
position on the zap mandate even
better than our own state department
and our numerous pubncists Il said
to Earl Curzon British foreign min
lister" says the Italian that without
the United States the war would not
have been won. She has asked for
nothing and is entitled to her own
way about zap She ought to have
it," Exactly The United States
gave tens of thousands of lives and
SSOOOOOOOOOO toward beating the
German Imperialism to its knees and
grinding its face in the dust We
asked for no indemnities, reparations
spheres Of influence and have taken
no mandates. We have continued to
feed Europeans and to help in getting
a huddle Of newborn misshapen ma
tons on their feet. The one thing
we have asked is the resettlement OF
The zap mandate. While France and /
England, Italy and Japan have been /
aking over their Mesopotamlas, their
Syrias, Standings and Aegean Is /
ands we have stood aloof.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26
WHEN THE ANeELUs RINGS.
(Boise statesman)

(BOlSe statesman
A new appeal from the American
committee of devastated France re-
minds MS. with something of a jolt,
that church bells are not tolling over
the ruined villages of France. OF
course, we say to ourselves, other
things would have to be purchased
before church bells. We had not
thought of that.
Somehow though. those fields
wherein Minet saw the peasants
pause for prayer at the sound of the
distant village bell would seem more
desolate than war left them if, hour
after hour and day after day, they
sleep in silence
The people interested in the re-
Mobilization of France have not over
looked the need of church bells, they
are calling for subscriptions. No one
doubts that they will get all the
money they need
American money for bells to ring
the Angelus in France What a pref
ty thought that their sound will steal
across fields sprinkled with Ameri-
can blood, over graves where our
beloved dead lie sleeping, to the ears
of peasants who will pause to pray
and. praying thank God for the Am
erica that not only gave her blood for
France but sent iron tongues to pro-
claim sweetly from the steeples the
undying friendship of the land of
for the land of Lafay-
ettel
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26

offered himself and been accepted in
marriage), to announce to the world
in 1898 the demonstrated discovery
of new element-radium
1t was Marie Curie's beautiful tri-
butte to science that an impersonal
name 'radium" was given, because
the element emitted rays. Knowl-
edge and not fame drew her. She
industriously extracted all the radi-
UNI from her small store, and after
devoting another year to its study,
offered it to the medical world.
In 1903 these first quantities of ra-
dunn were released and Americans
were able to purchase the first NOR
sci for New York. A quarter or more
of that historic bit which proved that
radium gives out heat continuously
came quickly to America.
Nine. Curies small store of the Bo-
hemian refuse, however, was quickly
exhausted, and all the radium to be
had in the world was for some time.
made in Germany That also we
could buy but at much higher
prices
1t is the privilege of the women of
the United States to choose this time
to lay this tribute at Nine. Curie's
feet-a gift of radium instead of
wreath of laurel-with which she can
and will give back to them a thous-
and-fold in value, a hoped-for revel-
alton of its medical power when its
forces can be guided and directed to
the cure, perhaps to the elimination
of that dread scourge-cancer-
which she now intends to study.
With this essential aid to her fur
ther studies. Nine. Curie will return
to France bearing also medals in
gold from the U. s. National Acad-
envy of Sciences. the Wolcott Gibbs
medal of the American Physical So
ciety and other tokens that she will
treasure with her Nobel prizes of
1908 and 1911. Before she leaves us,
however, she will, on May 3d. con-
ide to the custody of the College of
Physicians of Philadelphia, the orig
nal quartz piezo- electric apparatus
ievised many years ago by Profess
or Curie and used by both herself
nd her husband in the earliest de-
ordinations of the radioactivity Of
he first radium salts they studied.
Ter willingness to part with a cher
she'd relic of her historic radium re-
reveals her sentiments to-
ard the country that honors itself
Y confiding it's finest medical tool to
er capable hands.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26
Madam Curie and the Story of Radium

CDR Robert Able, ST. Luke's Hos
pital, New York, in Engineering and
Mining JournaD.
Marie Sklodowska's father was pro-
fessor of physics and chemistry in
the University of Warsaw She was
born in that city on November z,
1867, and studied there until her
graduation by the Gymnasium. The
magnetic pull of the renowned Paris
university, where science had its
highest and purest atmosphere of re-
search, brought her with scores of
others from different countries to
that institution.
Fired by the spirit of work. Marie
/ Sklodowska was welcomed by Pro-
fessor Antoine Henri Bacquerel in
the department of physics, and by
Prof. Pierre c. Curie in chemistry, as
clear mind and a gifted student.
The former permitted her to assist
in his problem of uranium research.
a search to see whether on exposure
to sunlight it's absorption would
make it luminous.
An experiment was prepared with
Ia Photographic plate inclosed in
thick black paper. But the sun was
hidden for a fortnight and the plate
with the piece of uranium was laid
away in a drawer. Two weeks OF
dun Paris days passed. 1t was
thought wise to test the freshness
of the plate by developing it. To
the surprise of all, a dark spot ap-
peared beneath the mineral. Some
rays had gone through
the black paper This was the start
ling beginning of the discovery.
"Becquerel rays" became the new
wonder
Nine. Curie herself took the next
great step-the deciding step She |
went to the mines near Carlsbad, Bo-
lemia, where for a century the min
sral pitchblende had long been
Known as a composite ore contain
ng a dozen different elements in ad-
lition to the uranium. On examin-
ng the fifty tons of mine refuse,
Nine. Curie found to her surprise
hat it was four times as strong in
5ecquerel rays as was the uranium
from it. The startling fact .
hen stared her in the face, that :
unknown existed in that +
efuse
BY chemical methods she proceed
a to dissolve out all the lead and :
Their elements known to be present. /,
18th each succeeding elimination !,
lie quality of radioactivity appeared
'eatly strengthened. At last she
'tained a small residue that could
ntain but two known elements, yet "
was sixty times stronger than q
anium itself This remnant glow
in the dark. There could be but
e conclusion: she was face to face pl
tn a mysterious. unknown force cl
Two years later she was able, by
ira chemical resources, with the
lp of her teachers and her hus- In
nd (for Prof. Curie had meanwhile sa
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26
Decoration DAY
OWN Carlton)

Cover the Thousands who sleep far
away
Sleep where their friends can not find
them today;
They who in mountain and hillside
and dell
Rest where they wearied. and lie
where they fell.
Softly the grass blade creeps round
their repOse;
Sweetly above them the wild flow'ret
blows
zephyrs of freedom fly gently Ger
head,
Whispering names for the patriot
dead.
Cover the faces that motionless lie.
shut from the blue of the glorious
sky;
Faces once lighted with smiles of the
gay
Faces that beamed friendship and
love TO your own;
Lips that sweet thoughts of affection
made known
Brows you have soothed in the day Of
distress;
Cheeks you have flushed by the ten
der caress.
Faces that blowed in the battles red
flame,
Paling for naught, till the Death An
gel came.
Cover them over-yes, cover them
over
Parent and husband. and brother,
and lover;
Kiss in your hearts these dead heroes
of ours,
And cover them over with feautiful
flowers.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26
A FIRE ALARM THAT CONCERNS
EVERY CITIZEN.

This is fire prevention week. , per-
cd set aside by the governor of Idaho
and the governors of all other west
ern states having large timber re-
sources as a means of impressing
upon the people the Importance of
cooperating in the prevention of for
est fires. Another dry season is at
hand. Matches tossed thoughtlessly
away camp fires left smouldering,
sparks from unguarded engines and
carelessly burned brush heaps or
slashings, may cause injury and dis
tress beyond calculation. For
months thousands of families with
last years horrors only too fresh in
mind. viii watch in terror for the
rolling smoke by day or flame-lit sky
by night that foretells a swift but
fearful death
Certainly millions upon millions of
dollars which YOU and your family
should share will vanish, leaving
nothing more enduring than pail OF
smoke from Canada to the Mexican
line Almost daily the newspapers
viii chronicle fire losses which would
endow hospital or a university OF
pay your taxes for a life time, and still
say nothing of the direct conse-
quences to the water supply to the |
young growth upon which the future
forest depends, and to countless de-
pendent industries.
If riot or INVASION should sweep our
Pacific coast states plundering their
banks and treasures of forty million
dollars of the peoples savings and
business capital and by destroying
he producing power OF commercial
Enterprises reduce the community's
income by twenty seven millions
more. the catastrophe would starte
he world
If this stupendous disaster should
hreaten to recur the following year
nd every year thereafter indefinite
y. annually taking sixty-seven mil
on dollars from the earnings of the
eople. diminishing their invested
calth and paralyzing their indus
-ies the situation would be unbear-
bic. IL would dominate the minds Of
len. women and children. All else
ould he forgotten in their prepare
on for defense.
Forest fires in Idaho, Montana, .,
'ashington, Oregon and California -,
sstroy annually. on an average.
source which if used and not de- -
royed would bring s4OOOOO 900 to y,
eir inhabitants. The citizens of -,
ose states are responsible to a great q,
tent for this stupendous loss and .,
ey have within their own hands the
medy The main thing to remem- -,
r when in the woods for pleasure or
isiness is that carelessness causes
rest fires, and that precaution will
event them. All that is necessary
the same care with fire in forest
gions that YOU would take as a
alter of course in your own home o,y
in a city. clu
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26
Thursday May 20, 1921
RoRAH WINS GREAT VICTORY IN
THE SENATE.

When few weeks ago Senator
BOrah announced that nc would Offer
an amendment 10 the naval appropri-
alton bill authorizing the president to
invite Great Britain and Japan to join
the United States in a conference
having in view an agreement to re-
duce expenditures for naval construc-
ton for the next five years. the pro-
posal was met by vigorous opposi-
ton from the chairman Of the com
mttee on naval affairs who had
charge of the appropriation bill, and
to make the opposition more effective
it was further stated that the presi-
dent objected to the proposed Borah
amendment But these obstacles
thrown out in advance did not deter
the Idaho senator in his purpose, lie
offered his amendment and for days
il occupied the attention of the SEN
ate, and the support it developed evil
IDENTIFY alarmed the leaders of the ma
jority, for last week Senator poin-
dexter chairman of the naval COM
mittee announced that the Borah
amendment would be accepted by his
committee and that it would doubt
less receive the approval of the ma
Jority in the senate.
Senator Borah. in advocating his
amendment pointed out that for
years the United states and others Of
the great naval powers have advo-
Gated reduction OF armament as the
surest means of preventing war. but
at the same time all have continued
to increase their naval strength and
to add millions to the tax burden al
ready carried by the people He con-
tended that so long as this rivalry for
naval supremacy continued, there |
could be no assurance OF lasting |
peace, and that there could be no re- |
lief for the people, already bowed |
down by the weight of taxation. He
therefore offered his amendment as a
test TO the good faith of this and
other nations, and he included in his
resolution the three nations having
the largest navies and whose pro-
grams provide for the largest expend-
itures for naval construction, believ-
ing that if these three can be brought
together and can reach an agreement
to reduce naval construction, it will
prove to be long step toward per-
manent peace
Senator Borah has to his cred {
I many notable achievements /
since he first entered the SEN
ate, but the passage of this
resolution viii we predict bring him d
he most enduring fame. 1t is almost d
nconceivable that the representatives n
If three great nations, called together 4
% discuss a reduction in naval ex- o.
'enditures their people bled white by h,
aXation, can fail to reach an agree NJ
nent. If they do then their example fl
viii be quickly followed by other ma
ions and the Borah resolution viii .,
ave marked an epoch in world his
DRY.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-05-26

Among the peasants of Serbia the
wedding procession to and from the
church is conducted on horseback