The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-01-04

Even Henry Ford cannot continu
publish newspaper at pre-wa
ices. This nlultimillionaire, VIII
arted The Dearborn Independent, a
sarborn. Michigan, few years age
tending to publish a weekly news
sper, at 81 per year, has been force'
give up the plan and announces
at, beginning January l, the pric'
the Dearborn Independent is SIS
n year Publishing a newspaper a
'e-war prices is too expensive a lux
y for even Mr. Ford to continue,
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"Pussy-Foot" Johnson, the leading
ohibition agitator, is now working
Scotland. In an interview given tt
Q press recently "Pussy-Foot" stat
| that England, Ireland. Wales ant
,otland will be bone dry in II
,ars." That is encouraging news fol
'ussy- Foot" 1t insures him steady
nplOyment for 10 years and the
merican people will dig up the coin
pay his salary and travelling ex-
snses. After 10 years, if Johnson's
iream comes true" he will probably
nd some other reform for which peo-
70 are willing to spend good money
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Pete Johnson, the newly elected
,eaker of the house of representa-
yes at Boise, is a Mormon bishop.
9 is and has been for many years,
power in Idaho politics, and was
ected chairman of the state conven-
on held at Lewiston, in 1912, when
'e Roosevelt republicans controlled
Re convention. He is a man of mark
| ability and has been in public life
southeastern Idaho for many years.
q will make fine presiding officer,
eing quick and fair in rendering his
acisions and there is no doubt that
Q will deal fairly with all in his
ork as speaker.
STUDY OF THE USEFUL CLAYS
OF IDAHO
Through the University of Idaho at
lOscOw, the state bureau of mines
nd geology has published, in COOP
'atiOn with the United States bureau
mines, a valuable and interesting
reliminary report on the clays of
laho.
The clays examined came from ~
eposits-SS samples taken largely
ON Latah county, of which Moscow
the county seat. but coming also
ON Benewah, Cassia, Kootenai.
evils, Idaho, Power, shoshone and
Twenty-eight Of the 80 deposits
rave indications of useful clay ma
rails" In quality they grade from
bite ware and high refractory
avs through the buff burning stone
are and terra Gotta clays to the COM
on red brick varieties.
There is this popularity (says the
port. In most regions red burning
ales suitable for the bulk If the |
ructural wares, constitute the ma |
rity of the clays. These shales have
t been reported from the state of |
tho and if absent must be replaced
the manufacturing Industries by
burning clays of different origin.
oh as the basaltic clays
These painstaking studies OF the
iy deposits of Idaho, made under the
ctiOn Of Professor Francis A. Thopl-
n, are valuable addition to the
ramic lore of the scientific world.
g shall catch a deeper significance
d an added interest in these studies.
we pause to recall the simple his
'ic fact that civilization literally
rang from clay bed. Savage mani
TX his first distinctively upward step
en- he learned, in a crude way, the
of manufacturing useful utensils
molding plastic clay and firing it
hardness.
Then decorative art came in as the !
1dmaiden of industry and through f
the intervening centuries they have b
le hand in hand, inseparable COM :
Mons Thus it has come about that :.
can judge unfaiingly of the degree =
civilization of ancient peoples by n
character Of their pottery. By t
ding the broken fragments of dish p
urn and vase, uncovered in thed o
historic kitchen middens of races =
) vanished, we learn the nature of
r culture, the refinement of their v
ffua1ity the degree Of their n,