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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-08-25

GRANDVIEW

! Jack Kniffon has purchased the G
A. Line place across the canal.
The J. /. Case agent was in Grand
view Sunday.
A. Rupe has purchased a threshel
separator from the ]. /. Case com
pany. He went to Pocatello to gel
it Monday returning Friday evening
John r. Falks and wife, former
residents Of here, passed thru Mon.
day on their way to American Falls
Messrs. Gray, Kenneth and Miles
Taylor and Wayne Kundreth Of
Blackfoot were down Sunday and
Monday hunting sage chickens. They
had very good luck.
j.. H. Early of Blackfoot was a
visitor at Joe Cosgrove's place the
first of the week.
Chester Snyder of Pocatello is
working on the Charles Shaw farm.
Chester is the step-son of Mr.. Shaw.
Ed Summercorn is cutting grain
for ]. A. Satterfield this week. IA
Many Grandview people attended
the dance in Springfield last week.
Charley Shaw and wife motored
over from Pocatello Wednesday.
They stayed over night at his ranch
and returned to Pocatello Thursday
morning. 5E
George Luceer motored to Aber-
deem Thursday on business.
Ed Summercorn and Ray Cole mo-
tored to Blackfoot Thursday on
business. 8f3.
Many Grandview people are get
ting their cucumbers from Mrs.
George Taylor Of Springfield.
Mrs. Rose Parsons Is having her
grain threshed this week. Her sons
Frank and Dell bought separator
from George A. Line last spring.
Mrs. Edwards had the misfortune
Of falling and breaking one Of her
ribs the first Of the week.
Robert Wiley underwent an OPP
GRAFTON. for adnoids and tonsil
trouble in Pocatello Wednesday.
Robert is recovering rapidly and ex-.
poets to return home the first Of the
week. Y I.
Mrs. c. B. Huber has been on the
sick list this week.
While In swimming with Lucille
eastman, Clifford Miller the small
son OF Mr.. Miller. OF Pocatello came
very near drowning Thursday even
ing. They were in the canal where.
the water was not very deep, but
they swan OF In hole about twelve
feet deep. When Clifford went to
put his feet or the bottom he went
down. This frightened Lucille and,
she became strangled. Ed Paul,
ditch rider just happened along and
pulled her out. She then told Mr..
Paul Clifford was drowning and
after few minutes search in the
stream the boy was rescued. Arti-
ficial respiration was begun and DR..
McKinnon OF Aberdeen was called.
AT last reports the boy was recover
ing nicely.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Rupe and son
John and nephew Jack, returned
home Monday from Salt Lake City,
where they have been visiting with
friends. On their way back they
stopped at Termonton and report
seeing an abundance Of fruit and
crops all looking fine. Mrs. I. w.
Story accompanied them on their
way down after visiting with friends
In idaho.
William Knox, Arthur Smith and
Earl Farmer left Friday evening for
q four day fishing and hunting trip
In the Lemhi mountains. They ex-
pect to return Tuesday evening.
The board of directors of the
Standrod Bank met here Friday.
Irwin Wall made a business trip to
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-08-25

Prohibition is great thing. The
money the head of the family form
erly spent for strong drink now il
spent by the wife and kids for soft
drinks.-Kansas City Star
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-08-25

served. Those present were Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Rupe, Mr.. and Mrs. G. B.
Huber, Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Lucier,
Mrs. R. Davis, Mr.. and Mrs. Joe
Maxwell, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Young, the Misses Maude Rupe,
Hattie Prewitt; Ruth Breene and
Harry Rupe, Harold Meyer. Irwin
Wall, Chester Snyder and Jim and
Jack Prewitt.
Word was received here the first
of the week that Charley Shaw,
resident of here, was seriously Ill in
Pocatello, suffering from typhoid
fever. The entire community hopes
to hear Of his speedy recovery.
.+
Automatic Evidence.-Multi Mil
lions-"Is your son home from col
lege?" Ha
Well Thye-"I presume so. I
haven't seen my car for q week.
The Orange Owl.
Self-Evident.-A small boy was
scrubbing the front porch of his
house the other day when lady
called. N
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-08-25

The old game of privacy may be re-
viving, but 1t is a futile endeavor.
Sooner or later the PIRATES will have
to land, and then the pronteers will
get 'em.-Kansas City Star.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-09
NO FUSS AND FEATHERS"

The smooth way in which the ad-
ministration has conducted the nego-
tiation of the peace treaties with Ger
many and Austria, is directing the
attention of the world to the fact, that
Messrs. Harding and Hughes, and the
lesser lights of the state department,
have accomplished a big thing in di-
plomacy, without the press agenting
that has attended such matters for
the last eight years. And that while
the Democratic press has been fore
casting all kinds of obstacles, and
troubles in the way, the representa-
tives of the American people have
done business--that the beligerents
have signed on the dotted line at the
foot of the document prepared by
Mr.. Hughes.
President Harding and his Secre-
tary of State, Mr.. Hughes, have nego-
tiated the treaty without any fuss or
flourish. There has been no footing
of horns, no parading of diplomatic
triumphs', no sending of ship-loads
of conferees to Europe. All the talk
of "secret diplomacy" has fallen flat
for the treaty is a plain, straightfor-
ward agreement in no way in con-
flict with the Versailles treaty, and
is Just such an agreement as the
Senate would have ratified promptly
if negotiated two years ago. No fault
has been found, no fault can be found,
with this treaty. 1t assures to the
United States all the rights it ought
to enjoy under the Versailles treaty
and avoids the burdens and respon-
sibilities and dangers which that
treaty created but which the United
States ought not to u
Though he has not been accorded
that credit, President Harding has
achieved a real diplomatic triumph,
the Importance of which will be fully
realized as time shall demonstrate the
wisdom of his course. Moreover, the
result justifies the attitude of those
Republican senators who refused to
approve the Versailles treaty with its
e%xtraneous provisions.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-09
September.

Enter September with its celebrat-
ed 30 days, every one of them in Mon
tana being usually a bird and one of
brilliant plumage at that. 1t is a
month Of reopening school, of garner
ing harvests, of returning tourists and
oysters, of following leaves, of mel
lowing atmosphere, of reviving wo-
mems clubs, of golden pumpkins, of
state and county fairs, of renewed &C
t~ivities on college and high school
gridirons. 1t is a month prolific of
holidays. In the United States as a
whole, Labor day, last Monday, is
the only September holiday, but GER
tain other countries have a plenty.
Brazil, indeed, has a grand total of
nine-you might call September IN
Brazil a nine holidays wonder. Some
of them are religious and some pollt-
ical-the 7th is Brazil's independence
day. On Sept.4, Egypt, HeJaz, Meso-
potamia and Turkey will celebrate the
Mohammedan new year. On the fifth
in addition to our own states, Hawai-,
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-09
Testimony of Mr.. Page.

We have always known that the
diplomatic service of the United States
was thoroughly demoralized during
the Wilson regime, but the extent OF
the decentralization has not been known
until the present publication of the
letters of Walter H. Page, former am
basador to Great Britain. In n of
his letters to Col. House, Mr.. Page
said concerning his communications
to the State Department.:
"What the devil do you suppose
does become of the letters and tele'
grams that | send, from which and
about which | have never had a word?
AS a matter of curiosity l should like
to know who receives them and what
he does with them"
Mr.. Pages curiosity concerning the
operations of the State Department
were shared by a lot of people through
out the United States concerning the
operation of various other Depart
ments during the Wilson regime. Peo-
pie wonder who got their letters and
what they did with them. Publica'
ton of Mr.. Pages old letters viii
serve a number of useful purposes
The Missourian who is initiating an
other boom for William Gibbs MsAdoc
is quite appropriately named Looney
Bee.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-09
FOUND IN OUR
EXCHANGES
MONTANA NOT DRY
IF WATER COUNTS

Can anyone maintain that Montana
is an arid state if it is shown that ir
the driest year of it's history the
water that originated here and flowed
to other regions amounted to 10000.
900 acre feet?
That is enough water to irrigate
thoroughly 100000 acres of land.
And that much water was drained of
M%ontana's hill and escaped home use
in 1919, according to figures obtained
from the United States geological sur
vey by Captain ]. Winter Smith of the
engineering staff of the state irriga.
ton commission.
In 1919 only 1851, 729 acres in Mon
tana were irrigated. 1t is declared to
be more probable that some of these
acres had their yields cut short by in
sufficient moisture.
Into Three Oceans.
Six rivers in Montana. Two, the
Kootenai and the Columbia, flow west
to the Pacific ocean. Three, the Mis-
souri,, the Yellowstone and the Little
Missouri, flow in a generally eastward
direction and empty in the Atlantic
by way of the Gulf of Mexico. The
st. Mary's flows north and enters the
Arctic by way of Hudson bay.
The average of water carried year
ly from this state by these ricers is
AZ, OF 900 acre feet-enough, if it could
al be used, to water 81, OO0, 900 acres.
Only Small Part Needed.
But not all of this water could be
utilized for irrigation. 1t would not
need to be. The whole of the states
irrigable land is placed by experts at
about 1000, 900 acres. Statistics say
that 2,753,498 acres have water avail
able and irrigation systems construct
ed. So only a little more TIM 4,OOO,-
900 acres remain to be irrigated.
Eight or nine million acre feet would
water al the remaining irrigable land.
This is perhaps a fifth of the water
supply that is produced in Montana
but now flows away unused. Engin-
GERS are certain that at least a third of
the annual runoff of 100000 feet
could be diverted to land.
With 10000, 900 acre feet running
to waste in the states driest year and
100000 feet running away in or
binary years, one canot escape the
conclusion that Montana has plenty
of water-but doesn't take the trouble
to use it.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-09
MINING AND POTATOES

Mining in the West is a good deal
like potatoes with the average meal,
its benefits go unnoticed until we have
to do without them.
If the western potato crop had been
practically wiped out for a year due
to various causes every citizen would
be interested in seeing measures
adopted which would produce a crop
for the next season.
While we cannot eat the ore that
is mined the work of producing this
ore furnishes employment and the
money wherewith to buy potatoes.
As the western mining industry has
been practically closed during 1920
due to adverse market conditions, the
source of employment from which
thousands of people formerly drew
revenue to buy potatoes has been
wiped out.
AS a result every westerner should
take deep interest in every measure
which will encourage the mining in
dustry.
Western representatives in Congress
are favoring protective tariff meas
ures on various metals which must
meet unlimited foreign competition.
Copper, lead, silver and gold mining
are the backbone of the western metal
industry and must be encouraged and
protected to the fullest extent.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-09
RECLAMATION SERVICE WOULD
pass THE BUCK"

There were high lights in the yer.
representative and large meeting O
the business men of the valley, a
Malta last Tuesday, that were some
what startling, if illuminating.
All of the speakers that endorsed
irrigation and extolled the produc
t~iveness of the valley, reported from
private irrigation projects.
Outsiders who spoke along the same
lines came from private or from Carey
act projects.
Although pressed to do so at many
times during the meeting, neither Mr.
Newall or Mr.. Stratton, representing
the Milk River project, would give the
cost of the project up to date.
Mr.. Newall repeatedly said that the
Secretary of the Interior could not at
this time give an estimate of the to-
tai cost.
That under the agreement made by
the water users with the government
to cost of water was not to exceed
1925 per acre.
That Mr.. Leedy, representing the
Great Northern railroad company, said
that until the price was fixed, and
something like title secured for the
settlers, he could not proceed with
any plan of colonization or sale of the
land. That this fact was Of the first
and greatest Importance.
That Mr.. Newall, while not stating
the cost of water to date, repeatedly
urged the formation of irrigation dis
tricts under the state law, which
should assume to pay the government
such cost to date, and finish the work,
as a district, at the cost of the dis
trict. Arguing in support of the wis
dom of such a plan, that all red tape
would be avoided and the "p~aralyzing
hand'' of the government lifted from
the project.
Conjecture among those present as
to the probable cost to date, was $50
an acre. If this figure approximates
correctness, comparison with the agreed
cost of $25 an acre, will furnish ample
reason for the desire of Mr.. Newall
to get from under, and shift the bur
den to a district.
Another fact in this connection
worthy of consideration, is that past
conditions would not be made worse,
if the project were at this time, turned
over to a district, and that for the
future the management could be re-
duced to a business proposition, and
the project controlled for the bene-
fit of the settlers. 1t is plain that the
Reclamation officers want to pass the
buck and admit failure.
The formation of different irriga.
ton districts may be the best thing
under the circumstances, providing E
new agreement can be made as to the
cost to date.
Taking Mr.. Leedy's statement a
its face value, nothing can be done ii
the way of settlement under present
conditions.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-09
ALL WATCHING RAILROADS

The railway situation in the United
States occupies the center of the stage.
On the front page of every daily news
paper, among the pages of the finan-
cial papers, prominent in the trade
periodicals, is the railway situation.
Everybody is waiting for something
to happen to reduce transportation
charges.
News arrives that the House of Rep
resentatives has passed the railway
funding bill, but that action by the
Senate is not expected ahead of the
recess. Early action is demanded by
all the financial papers. Reams and
tons of propaganda have been sent
out by the bureaus of the railways
demanding the passage of the legis-
lation necessary to pay the railroads
what the government has agreed they
shall have, but what Senators like
LaFollete declare to be a "hand-out."
The situation is this. The United
States owes the railroads of the coun-
try between five hundred and six
hundred million dollars, all of which
is from a year to a year and a hall
overdue. This is made up of what
the government owes for the use of
the railroads during the war. While
the railroads were in government
hands the government spent $763 ,OOO,-
900. on extensions and permanent i'm
provements. The railroads paid Off
$3.50, 900, 900, leaving $3.50, OOO, 900. un'
settled. The railroads would not have
attempted to make such improvements
out of current income. They conteno
that many of the supposed better,
ments they would not have made al
al, but that they were war necessi'
ties. In any event the railroads woulc
have financed their improvements by
the sale Of bonds.
The government must get the none!
without increasing taxes, so the plar
is for the Railroad Administration tt
sell to the War Finance Corporation
the half billion dollars of bonds whicl
the Railroad Administration is to re
ceive from the railroads in paymen
for permanent improvements. Tn
War Finance Corporation in turl
would obtain the money by selling it
own notes disposing of the railroa'
bonds when conditions become favor
able.
This is greatly desired by the rail
roads. This half billion dollars is thu
thing they need most, they say. One
they get it, they can go to work wit
a will. Rates can be reduced and
lot of things accomplished that ar
impossible under the present Difficult
conditions.
So from the standpoint of the Mon
tana farmer. it is-fir anianamilin
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-09
MAPS FOR


Up to date, with the exception OF
the Roosevelt highway maps, and some
of the blue prints of the state high
way commission, there are no maps
published, which give the roads in
this part of the state correctly.
The latest offense is that of the
Montana" publication, which gives a
road from Malta to Jordan, and COM
pletely eliminates the Air line trall
from Glasgow to Jordan, which has
long been designated and mapped as
a part of the state highway system.
The first hard work that the new
International Air Line association
does, will be to get these maps cor
rected so that tourists car follow
them through this part of the state
without getting lost.
Different highway associations are
making the same complaint as to the
road map in "Montana."
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-09

There has been a great change II
banking methods in the past ten years
People today recognize merit in a
bank not simply because it has been
on one corner for fifty or a hundred
years, but on account of progressive
business methods which meet the
needs of the community.
Banks loan money today as a bust
ness, not as a favor to a privileged
few. 1t is the volume of small loans
and small deposits which have made
possible the growth of the American
banking system. Keeping close to the
people is the secret of success in pres
ent-day banking. Banking prosperity
depends upon community prosperity.
1t is for this reason that modern banks
identify themselves with and take
deep interest in industrial develop
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-09
Banker Talks Brass Tacks.

Mr.. Sam Stephenson, prominent
banker of Montana, president of the
First National Bank of Great Falls,
speaks straight from the shoulder in
discussing economic and industrial
prospects of the people of the state,
and what he says should be given some
reflection by the public. In opposi-
ton to the many voices crying opti-
mistic and boosting propaganda to the
people, he is very conservative indeed.
In respect to future credit, he de-
clares that it will not be extended to
understanding people, and that while
the wheat crop, which he estimates
at $4,000, 900 bushels in Montana, will
help liquidate the indebtedness of the
agriculturists, it will not bring i'm
mediate good times, and that while he
concludes, from observations made
in a trip to Minneapolis, that there is
a tendency toward a lower rate of in
terest, banks and other lenders of
money in Montana will be even more
discriminating than ever relative to
whom they trust. In a dispatch from
Great Falls he is quoted as follows:
"We have a splendid crop through
out the Judith Basin. From the best
reports l can obtain I think there will
be $4,000, 900 bushels of wheat sold
from Montana, a very large portion
of which is in the northern and central
sections of the state, but | think the
~no~1n 1,,~1@ No& - no Tho
important factor in helping Montana
liquidate some of it's Indebtedness, to
my mind, business conditions are not
going to get better in the near future.
"This is the time when the whole
family ought to get to work. One can
see evidences in the Twin Cities that
families are starting to do this, but
do not see so much evidence of it in
Montana. There are a lot of people
joy riding around Montana in expen-
sive automobiles who think they are
going to borrow money from the banks
of Great Falls about the first of De-
cember to pay their taxes, and l am
quite certain that most of them are
doomed to very keen disappointment"
Mr.. Stephenson's judgment seems
to be supported by general conditions
in the state and the United States,
and it appears highly probable that
times will not improve greatly before
spring. All of which suggests that
his exhortation to prudent policies and
Industrious habits is timely, and
should be seriously considered by the
Montana public.-Record Herald.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-09-09
THE ARMAMENT CONFERENCE

That the coming conference of the
powers at Washington, regarding dis
arament, will fairly bristle with en-
barrassing diplomatic questions, is be-
coming more evident day by day.
The settlement of the questions re-
lating to the control of the Pacific are
in the foreground, with Japan's at
titude furnishing grounds for uneasi-
ness on the part of this country. The
Japanese-English alliance is a con
trolling factor, and it is very difficult
for Americans to understand the
English viewpoint, Or the justice of
British claims, at this time.
Mr.. Lloyd George declares that be-
cause japan faithfully adhered to the
alliance during the war, Great Britain
cannot now refuse the Japanese re-
quest for the renewal of the British
Japanese alliance. He says that, had
it not been for the fact that Japanese
ships chased German raiders in the
Pacific, Australian and New Zealand
troops could not have been transported
to the fighting front in the early days
of the war.
1t is an historical fact that the no.
torious German raider Emden, that
did so much damage in the Pacific
was cornered and sunk by an Austral-
ian warship. 1t is also a fact that
the German raiding squadron under
Admiral Won Spec was attacked off
the coast of Chile by a British force
of inferior strength and came off vic
t%orious, only to meet another British
squadron at the Falkland Islands and
suffer destruction. 1t may be that the
existance of a Japanese navy had a
psychological effect IN the German
Pacific raiders, but history is silent
on any blows struck by the japanese
in Kidding the seas of those pests.
Why does he not give some con-
sideration to what America contribut-
ed to the success of the war? If the
renewal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance
is to be granted because Japan helped
the allies, is it not as reasonable for
the United States to favor the disso-
luton of that alliance because of what
the United States did for France?
Mr.. Lloyd George attempts to re-
assure us by saying that the renewal
"does not mean that we are to con-
tinue an alliance of this kind on any
point against any one else, and GER
tainly not against the United States.
Of course not. Nobody suspects Great
Britain of scheming with Japan for
an attack on this country. But while
the British premier says his country
will never be against the United
States, he is careful not to state that
Great Britain would be for the United
States in the event of a war between
this country and Japan as Canada and
Australia have done. The mere X
istence of the British alliance with
Japan, and the renewal of it under
existing circumstances tends to en-
courage Japan in the aggressive atti-
tude she has assumed on many ques-
tions in issue with the United States.