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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-08-26
JAPAN WILLING TO UNDO
! THE VERSAILLES TREATY
Acti ion Conditioned Upon
Other Powers al Arms Con
ference Also Agreeing
To MAX" Inori to Dispose Of Zap.
ShantunG and siberia Problems
BEFORE Meeting ConNrnrs On Arm
. isticc DAY.

. United News stan Correspondent.
: WASHINGTON Aug. 25.-Athough
. Japan considers .hc Versailles
. treaty ana its provisions as ',c-
: complished flcr she is willing to
{ consider the undoing OF The pac, at
: the deIrmtmput cuufrrcuc" If the
> other Powers si-natory thereto so
= desire. the United News has been
;mthori,auvely Informed by high
!. Japanese officials here.
Japan is Participating in THO arm
an'cnt pour uarlers with "a detcvm!n-
> ;ttiuu &, Gu .vory thlrg within Acg
: power 10 maNv II SucurSstul. il was
/. stated sine cons .l"gS the confer
= ouve of Tar greater inpor,any, TO
!. hcr future thau was Versailles and
. believe she is stalking her future
upon the outcome
4. u" send Ion Delegates
More than a hundred delegates viii
leave foxy" shortly ON special
/, steamer ana viii come 10 Washing
: ton from sam Francisco ON charter
= trIln. Elaborate ureparntions arc
!. Icing made !y h. Japanese Elm
: huSss Hcrc iu coujUnctjon WITH t,c
: state Department, for their stay.
: SpaoGi quarters Tor the half dozen
: hicf DELEGATES will I've rented. while
lcriral s;afs ana persona! attend
: ants VIII ha housed nearby. The
, thrccscorc .Npcrts from tho Army.
. Navy, Treasury ana Foreign Office
DEPARTMENTS probably VIII reside liz
: small hotel. leased for that bur
]. pose
Aside from The authorized dele
CATION. Japan expects TO send To
. WASHINGTON. as She djd to Versailles
.|
. large numher OF students" These
: lvsaE m,u. attached To the varicn,
ayHurtm,u;~ of the government. viii
uNS,rVe rather than participate.
Wni, it Is outp"jnted that Japan
s'i'i Insists up"u certain rcScrva-
i..ns tv th" agonda Of the confer
''N.,. u is specifically stated that there
.s Nn question rcgardiu.; Far East
cam mubl,mS that She VIII not dis
russ she .s even pr.pare To mako
iM.urtaut territorial CONCESSIONS.
I''"yidti IN turn She is EraNtcd
oGual economic and commercial on
.prl.tstirS.
zinc three mos; imncr,au; Pacific
.woaiems, il IS said. probably viii
) be- disposed Of before November II.
! iuvac afc regarding Inc Is!and oC
>aif, SnaurWuc ANA Sihcria
<"t \n Important Question.
S.unria. ;; WAS stated, is far from
as .m- ortar, 1t question as 1t appears.
!N'unc-, troops have Hready ovac-
Hati $3.50 provinces, trans BaiHal
: and \mnr. and remain in posses
t.t nl Duy e smai surti"l, IN the
. irfE a' NlaGiN"stoE. rho Rus
: s.ai government however. has no;
. ',n invited, nor viii i' uuyif.irJt,
/. 90 ,h conference. likewise. i Is
" S''t nah'o whether the Soyirts
. aNUr"vc amy decision rcrardin.
. wt' - yousiders Ewssia's .ntrrua,
"I''r HAT no% be reached ny IN,
: >htfiunr sun toss up bids rai,
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03
AMERlCANIZINe GRAMMAR.
Chicago Tribune)

Chicago Tribune)
It's me" probably will gain sane
. ton before lit don't" but both will
{be taken in as respectable members
'of the language no matter how hard
the purists strive to keep them out
They have too much vigor to be kept
out Even now the person who says
IL is T. is conscious of a precise eff
fort which exaggerates the ego. at
is r. is a ceremonial sacrifice to
grammar, and the person remember
ing in time to switch the locution
from the natural its me" to the GER
emonial 1T is T. feels that he is sud
denly all dressed up with nowhere to
so. Doesn't" is a barbarity in it.
self "Duzzent" is a crudity which
leaves don't" just as good a substi-
tute for docs not" The two ques-
toned phrases are in the language.
and we think they will stay, even if
in so doing they make it the Ameri-
can language.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03
San Franeisco Chronielel

Two prospectors pick up a $4,000
chunk of gold in a Shasta county
creek. but far from being inflated
by their sudden stroke of fortune.
they bark back to last year when s1S
was the total return for five months
sworS Averaging their extremes of
luck they find the aggregate to be no
more than wages for their time
But while sensibly refusing to be
carried off their feet by their find,
these men reveal the secret of their
own persistence, and that of the
Whole race of prospectors. when they
say. THE fun amt what you get but
the fever you have looking for it,"
That is the whole thing in the pros
pector's life-the hope of a lucky find.
For that he will endure long years of
bare existence. hardship and painful
toll. And that is all he ever gets out
of it SO times out of 100. He probably
knows this in advance, but still he
can not divest himself of the thought
that there is a chance. He is prob
ably right too. in saying that it is not
the fun of winning but the fever of
hoping to win that keeps him going.
When he does make a strike it very
likely means much less to him than
the dream of fortune that led him to
it. For he does not know what to do
with big money if he gets it. The dis
coverers of the Comstock sold out for
about $4,000, blew it in and went back
to work. They were probably reliev-
ed when the money was gone and
they could return to their old pleas
urable dreams. These were worth
more to them than the biggest bon
ANA in the lode
Nevertheless it is this pursuit of the
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03
TWO IDAHos.
providence az. u journal

Providence Or. ID Journal
Secession talk in Idaho may seen
to he growing serious now that a res
Olution has been introduced in the
legislature at Boise seeking authority
to set apart ten northern counties as
a separate state. But. most likely
nothing win come of it, Idaho. with
an area of over eighty thousand
square miles. is perhaps large enough
to make two states, but her small
population argues against it, North
Idaho rs projected. would have one
hundred and fifty thousand people or
fewer than the quota of a congress
sional district.
IN the legislature that united Texas
with the Union-she was herself a ma
ton at the time-express permission
was granted her to carve not more
than five states out of her immense
territory There is frequent talk in
California of a division north and
south. and i'm Florida of one east and
vest while Texans occasionally dis
cuss setting off the eastern from the
western counties
In each case the agitation reflects a
conflict of local interests. comparable
to the sectional rivalry that is some
times aired in congress
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03

make that section accessible to the
people. This does not necessarily
mean the construction of a railroad,
bui it does mean the construction of
good highways for motor cars con-
Meeting the two sections of the state
and making an outlet for ore ship
mcuts by motor trucks. These roads
would open up a section that gives
promise of being wonderfully rich in
minerals in which are mountains and
canyons Of supreme grandeur, lakes
and rivers of marvellous beauty, and
which is today the greatest big game
section in the west.
by making this wonderland access
ible, this barrier between the north
and south would become the connect
ing link that viii hold the two sec
tions of Idaho in closer relationship
and make a real asset of a vast sec
ton OF the state that many now re-
gard as valueless. What Idaho needs
is more loyalty to the state and less
talk Of secession. The leaders Of the
new state movement at this time, be-
ing men Of intelligence, must know
that its success is impossible and they
ought to know that as a club to swing
oyei the south, ii has lost its force, if
it ever had any They should there
fore arrange to move to some state |
where the boundary lines are more to
hcr liking or forget the new state
..d join Deliberately in making
IDAHO what she is endowed by nature
% be- one of the greatest states in the
Jnion.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03
HOOVER DISCUSSES THE PROB
LEM OF PRODUCTION.

In an address before a convention
Of engineers in Syracuse, N. Y, on
February IA, Herbert Hoover, who is
to occupy the position of secretary of
commerce in President Harding's
cabinet, argued that there can be no
ovorproduction provided our efforts
are directed to the production of those
things of the right character, the alb
sorption of which would result in an
improved standard Of living. On this
point he said
There is no such thing as the ma
ton overproducing. if it produces the
rsht commodities. The commodities
or services produced by the whole ma
tion are capable of absorption by the
whole nation if they are of the right
character. II we could attune the
" hole industrial machine to the high
est pitch, agriculture as well as man
ufacture, an increasing production /
would mean a directly increasing
standard of living.
when ten men or 100000 men
iiyide their united output they can, by
doubling their output have twice the
mount to divide. The problem in
doubling output is to direct it to COM
uodities or services that they can
Use.
1T is true enough that any particu-
Al commodity or service can be over
reduced, for each will reach a sat ,
ration point in demand when all the
iembers of the community have been
upplied The absorption of increased ,
lies in the conversion of p
ixuries of today into necessities of
morrow, and to spread these g
trough the whole population by
Emulation Of habit and education. n
To-day we have capacity for pro- ~
iction Of some commodities not on
in excess of our home need, but ="
EN- beyond export demand under :,
'esent financial conditions. AS e1
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03
DIRECT PRIMARY FIGHT IN THE
LEGISLATURE.

1t is unfortunate that the legislature
became involved in bitter fight over
the direct primary, because the re-
scnttul feeling engendered could not
fail to have its effect in obstructing
and possibly defeating other legisla-
ton upon which otherwise there would
possibly have been no serious division
OF opinion. The responsibility for this
condition rests upon those who under
took to force a direct primary law
through the legislature, an attempt
which must in a measure at least be
regarded as an exhibition of bad faith
ON the part of the hackers of the bill.
The present law. which is a combina-
ton of the direct primary and the
systems, is the work of
republican legislature two years ago,
ana after the first test of the law last
fall the republican party In convention
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03

at Pocatello endorsed the law and re-
commended amendments to remedy
some minor defects. That endorse
ment was a part of the party platform
and it was just as binding upon the
republicans in the legislature to carry
out that provision as it was to make
good any other platform promise For
that reason the attempt to pass, a di-
rect primary law had the appearance
of bad faith. An effort was made at
the Pocatello convention to commit
the party to the direct primary. and
it failed by a large majority. That
should have settled the question until
the next campaign, when the friends
OF the direct primary will have an op-
to go to the people with the
for it must be borne in
mind that delegates to the county con
vertions which choose delegates to
the state conventions are chosen by
he direct primary system. Thus the
people OF the state will have an op-
)ortunity to express themselves di-
ectly upon the direct primary if the
Iiends Of the system desire to make
hat the issue.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03
AN OLD-TIME PANAcEA.
John Ruskin)

lJOnn kuSkln)
II the busy rich people watched and
robuked the idle rich people, all would
be right among them; and if the busy
poor people watched and rebuked the
Idle poor people, all would be right
among them But each looks for the
fault Of the other A hard working
man of property is particularly Of
Tended by an idle beggar; and an or
deily but poor workman is naturally
intolerant of the Hcentious luxury Of
the rich. And what is severe judg-
nient in the minds of the just men of
Glitter class becomes the unjust only
None but the dissolute among the poor
Loot upon the rich as their natural
enemies or desire to pillage their
houses and divide their property None
hut the dissolute among the rich speak
in opprobrious terms of the vices and
rollies of the poor
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03
LET US JUDGE THE FARMER
JUSTLY.

We have heard much severe crit
oism of the Fordney emergency tariff
bill because it was apparently origin
ally designed for the relief of the far
n,crs, or rather for the purpose Of en-
aiding the farmers to continue to ex-
act wartime prices for their products,
while wages and the prices of com
modities generally were steadily NOV
ing downward. On the face of it the
farmer seemed to be having all the
best OF the deal which appeared to be
anything but square. But it appears
now that there is another side to the
question and as viewed from that
standpoint the farmer is placed in a
more consistent position. This view
is discussed by Jules S. Bache, a New
York business man, In a recent con-
tr.bution to the Farmers National
Magazine, in which ne says:
The farmers turnover is, at
the best not more than once
per year The average ex-
perience with crop failures and
the necessity of occasionally fall
lowing the land brings his turn
over actually to about one in
two years. The merchants av-
erage turnover is several times
per year, and the manufacturers
turnover still greater. To ask the
farmer to take a loss on one turn
over in two years because the
merchant and manufacturer will
take a loss on one turnover in a
few months, is not only dishonest
hat if at the same time you ex-
pect his buying power to continue,
you are expecting the imposs-
ible"
This is a point which we do not re-
'all having heard in connection with |
he discussion of the emergency tar
If on farm products, but it appears
% have much merit and seems to give /
measure of justification to the de-
hands of the farmers.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03
WHY WE SALUTE.
CHarvey's Weekly

Salute to Colonel F. w. Galbraith,
commander of the American Legion.
He has given us another epigram of
the war. or of the aftermath of the
war; not unworthy of a place in the
category with Lafayette, we are
here" The other day one Edmund Won
Mach a colleague of George Sylvester
Nicreck. and one Of the most offensive
OF Hunnish propagandists in America,
approached Col Galbraith with the
proposition that he. as commander of
the Legion, should ally himself with
Mayor Hylan and Justice Cohalan of
New York in harangung the public
AGAINST the alleged occupation of Ger
man territory by colored troops or the
French army. Presumably the Won
Mach person knew that his suggestion
was false. for there were no colored
troops in Germany the last of them
having been withdrawn seven or eight
months ago. And anyway it does not
appear that they considered it an in
tolerable hardship to be quartered in
GERMANY They realized that some
hody had to do the unsavory job. and
accepted it as all in the
DAYS work However that may he
Col Galbraith rose TO the occasion
With classic simplicity and force. He
leard this proposal of Won Mach's He
heard him add that his object in ad-
'ancing ii was to make the American /
.ceion a link" between the Huns and |
'inn Fein And then he spoke: /
There is the door: Get QUIT" Which |
S Va hy we say Salute to Colonel
ialhraith. He has given us a six
sorded formula useful for other APP
lcations 10 Hunnish advances.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03
cURFEW IN MIssOULA.
(Missoula Sentinel)

Missoula has a curfew ordinance
and a curfew bell. but, so far as we
can tell neither does very much good.
Three boys not more than eight years
old, broke into a Missoula store the
other night. This was done after the
unreasonable hour of midnight-un-
seasonable, to say the least, for chill
dren Of their tender years. Now, we
arc not blaming the police They
have enough to do without attending
to what is the plain duty of the par
ents of Missoula. Children should be
kept at home after dark. If a few
parents were fined or locked up for
permitting their offspring to run the
streets at night there might be an
Improvement but. as things evident
Iy are. curfew might as well not ring
tonight
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03
The Prospector's Dream

/ viii o. the wisp that has made the
mines of the west and of Australia
] and of South Africa The prospector's
fever carries him on and on to the
discoveries that make the industry
rich. though he seldom gets anything
Ou5 of it but a grubstake and the sat
isfaction of his passion. But import
ans as he has been to mining. it is I'M
fortunately true that the prospector is
usually blind seeker for treasure. He
knows nothing but what he has seen
in some proven district and he looks
only for that. Consequently he passes
more than he ever finds.
1t may be taken as fairly certain
that the mountains of northern Cali
fornia hold as much wealth still IN
discovered as has ever been found
What is needed is the trained pros
pector, the expert mineral explorer.
who knows how to recognize the var
led forms of treasure, whether of the
precious or the no less valuable use
ful metals. But this man will not be
satisfied by the pleasure of pursuing
an ignis fatuus. He wants more sub
stantial encouragement. He knows
that he will traverse much barren
ground to reach a profitable area and
he prefers to have his rewards aver
aged as regular pay. SO far this sort
of explorer is supported only by the
great mining concerns like the Gug-
genheims, who employ many such
and it is probably true
that only private enterprise can do
this. That leaves it, therefore, all the
mere important that government
should do nothing to discourage and
everything possible to encourage the
prOspectOr, who, in spite of
his limitations is responsible for the
great majority of mines
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03
NO DESIRE FOR ECONOMY.

(Nampa Leader Herald)
Every time the legislature meets
We hear a great cry for economy and
as a rule the Legislators have an earn
est purpose to effect economies, but
the people will not permit it, The
moment there is a concrete PROPOSE
ton before the legislature it hits
some community and the people of
that community at once send dele
cation to Boise to show why that will
not do at all.
Take the Albion state normal
school. What idiotic corrupt political
zeal ever located a state institution a
Albion, we do not know, but when a
state institution is located at a little
cross roads peighborhOod, 20 miles
/ from a railroad we may be sure there
was some purpose at work aside from
an honest purpose to serve the edu-
cahonal interests of the state 1t has
never had an attendance that
amounted to anything, as of course it
would not have, in such a location.
This year there was before the leg
islature a proposition to abolish the
school. In the course of The debate
on the matter it was shown that there
are in attendance about 70 students
mostly from the immediate neighbor-
hood The school is strictly a local
school high school in fact for a very
limited territory, yet the legislature |
VIII appropriate more than $1,000 per
student for its maintenance the com
ing year.
Some years ago the state created
the office of commissioner of educa-
ton It was the intention to do away /
with the Office of state superintend-
ent. II is apparent to any one that
there is no earthly need Of the prac-
tcslly duplicate positions Yet it
has been found impossible to abolish
either now. When it is proposed to
scale expenses of any state institution
there is at once an outcry from the {
town where such institution is Iocat- c
ed that it will go to ruin if expenses
lre cut a cent. On the contrary there
s usually insistent demand for a big
Increase The same thing occurs
With respect to state roads, bridges
" any state enterprise Every dele
ration is able to show that it is quite
mt Of the question to economic on
uhlic improvement in their locality. a
mi plenty Of room to do so with the C.
and improvements in the ~
Their parts of the state.
This narrow and selfish policy on u
he part of people themselves always OF
fcient and economical service. Yet Sc
hen the legislature has yielded to dr.
lese insistent demands. the people ar
III howl loud and long about the ha
asteful and incompetent legislature. to
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-03-03

prominent of our parlor socialists
conspicuous in the business world, as
printed in a recent issue of a maya
zLe circulating among business men:
$50 much absurd confusion seems
to he in the public's mind with re-
gard to the terms anarchy and so
cialism' that it may be fitting to re
mark that every civilized government
is state of socialism,"
The general public is not so ignor-
ant as some socialists assume as to
the meaning of the terms Socialism
and anarchy" Anarchy" is the tyr
amy of the individual and social
ism is the tyranny of the state. The
anarchist holds that society has no
rights that the individual is bound to
respect and socialism holds that the
individual has no rights that the state
is bound TO respect. The reason the
terms are so confused is that the So
cialist and the anarchist talk alike
when denouncing the existing order
and as we have learned from the
workings of the only socialist state
the world has ever known they act
very much alike when they have an
opportunity to put their theories in
to effect. While some socialists at
tempt to disavow bolshevism, the
term simply means the majority wing
of the socialist party in Russia which
persecutes minority members of the
same party with the same tyranny
and intolerance it manifests toward
those who are not socialists at all.
Socialism has dictionary defni
ton. and it is this: "a theory of civil
polity that aims at. the public. col
lective ownership Of land and capi-
tai and the public collective manage
mont of ali industries" To assert
that anything of this kind is invoIv-
ed in the customary activities of
modern state is, indeed, absurd" In
dividualists believe the state ought to
do what the individual can not do
will not do or ought not do. and no
more. That is not socialism. al
though socialists sophists often I'M
iertalSe to make people believe that
public schools, Fairgrounds. parks.
paths and the like are socialistic.
Socialism in operation, as has been
'learly demonstrated in Russia. in
olives the enslavement of the people
o a political machine. which. in eff
ect is able through control of gov
rnmental machinery to own the pub.
Ic and exploit it for the benefit of the
uling class A state which is the
UNIVERSAL employer, provider and
oliceman is a tyranny operated by
cheming, ambitious and autocratic
Once given control of
oVernment with such unlimited pow
they do not surrender until they
re shot out of it. The socialist mas
RS of Russia suppress every publ
'tion which does not suit their pur-
)se they kill those who appeal to
lhlic opinion against them; they
arve those who refuse to do their
dding. That is socialism as it OPP
ates in Russia and as it would op-
ate wherever the slave state for
hich it stands is put in operation.