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palms and perfumed breezes. He
failed to pass the examinations for
a naval cadetship and entered the
merchant marine as pilots ap.
prentice. His first voyage in this
service enabled him again to see
the tropics. That was in 1865. In
1868 he Joined the French navy, en-
listing as common sailor. He was
with the navy until the end of the
Franco-Prussian war.
| THEN, like the Strickland of
4 -fhe Moon and Sixpence,"
Gauguin became a stock broker. He
was stock broker for eleven years.
He married Danish woman, the
daughter of a Protestant clergyman
of Copenhagen, who may or may
not be considered as the model of
the wife in the Vaughan novel.
With this responsibility Gauguin
settled down to his brief period of
respectability. Finding employment
in a banking house. he speculated
on the Bourse. The Paris stock
market had naturally been COM
pletely disorganized by the events
OF 1901, but after peace France
was making one of those rapid re-
coveries that have been so common
in her history. Gauguin found
making money to be quite easy
Stocks were going up and trade
was booming. In one year he made
10000 francs. With his family he
lived in fine apartment in the Rue
Lafitte. For pure diversion he be-
gan to dabble in art. He bought
brushes and colors and spent his
Sundays and holidays painting in
the environs of Paris. Then came
the time when he made the decision
of his life. "Henceforth 1 will paint
every day" 1t meant the loss of
wife. family and the material COM
forts of life.
plunged into the drab
- equalor of Bohemia. He
haunted the cafes of the Latin Quar-
ter. He became hanger of adver-
tisements of the Care du Nord
pour le sduUer de mourn de faim."
II have known" he wrote in a
small notebook dedicated to his
daughter Aline, extreme misery
that is, hunger and everything that
follows upon hunger. 1t is moth
ing, or almost nothing. One grows
accustomed to it and, with will
power, one can end by laughing at
it. But what is terrible is to be pre-
vented from working, from develop
ing ones intellectual faculties. 1t
is true that suffering sharpens ones
abilities. But it is necessary not to
suffer too much or suffering will kill
you" Aline was one of his five chill
dren. But he rarely saw them.
Artists were his only companions,
and at night, no matter to what
straits he had been reduced during
the day. they met at the Cote dor
or at the Cafe Guerbois for long
hours of talk before the little
glasses of absinthe.
/ NEZANNE, Van Gogh and Gau-
guin were the three great lead
ers of that new art which, following
upon the enchanting color harmo-
nies of the Impressionists, has had
81 profound an influence upon con-
temporary painting. Gauguin's
friendship with Van Gogh was of
long standing, and in one of the
letters in the present volume, which
is made up of the painters letters
to Georges Daniel de Monfreid, he
tells, harping on the odd mixups of
lis life and his reputed "evil eye,'
of the Van Gogh incident, more
generally known as "FincideRt de
FOreille coupee." Briefly, the story
is this: Van Gogh, on the verge of
] ir sanity grew moody and irritable
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( HERALD, SUNDAY,
guin had from him was written in
Antwerp. He said: Dear Master.
it is better. after having known you
and wronged you, that I die in a
clear mind rather than in a de-
graded state" He shot himself in
the stomach with a pistol and died
few hours later. lying in bed,
smoking pipe. his mind as clear
as ever, loving his art and hating
no one. That was the Van Gogh
incident. which haunted Gauguin
till the end of his days.
M EANWHILE for Gauguin the
A'A years have been passing, years
full of heartbreaking disappoint-
ments, of ambitions unfulfilled or
incompletely fulfilled. For a period
he forsook Paris to live at Pont-
Aven on the Brittany coast. But he
was weary of the struggle: sick of
the husks of civilization. of what
he called zee sale Europe. One
day he listened to a lecture on
Tahiti. 1t pictured the land as a
terrestrial paradise, where money
was unknown, where life mean.
singing and making love-" and
where, under sky without winter
upon an earth of marvellous fertil-
ity, the Tahitian has only to lift
his hands to gather in his food"
He resolved that he would be the
first painter of the tropics. With
the help of his literary and artistic
friends, he held a sale of his belong
irgs at he Hotel Drouot, realizing
from it $3.50 francs. With this
sum. in April, 1891, he sailed for
Tahiti. There was brief return
t. France, and then he went again
to the South Seas, this time to adopt
thorough savagery instead of asso.
citation with Europeans, and to re-
main till his death in 1893.
THE Georges Daniel de Monfreid
4 to whom these letters were
written was not only close friend
and fellow artist but he was also
the man who made what little case
and comfort Gauguin had in the
South Seas possible. He was Gau-
gums banker and his counselor.
He interviewed dealers. dunned
debtors, placated creditors, sold his
friends pictures and exhibited them
in his own studio; ran errands for
him, provided him with everything,
from artists materials to flower
seeds and shoes and strings for his
mandolin. Without De Monfreid's
help Gauguin's life in the South
Seas could barely have lasted out a
year. Gauguin's last letter to him
was written month before his
death. 1t presents vivid picture
of misery. Gauguin tells of sending
three pictures and needing 1900
francs. Il am the victim of a fright
full trap. After scandalous happen
irgs in the Marquesas 1 wrote to
the Administrator. asking him to
make an investigation. l had not
thought that the police. were all-in
connivance. A lieutenant
ordered me to be prosecuted and a
bandit Of 4 judge has SEN
fenced me to three months of prison
and fine of 1000 francs, all on
account of one particular letter.
+. 1t will be said that all my
life I have been fated to fall, only
to pull myself up and fall again.
s. each day some of my old
strength forsakes me. All
these worries are killing me-"
OF course there was another side
~ to the story. Gauguin was
rebel against constituted authority
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THE spirit of revolt dated from
his birth. His ardor for the
tropics came only little later, for
at the age of three he was taken
to Peru. His father died on the
way out from France, during the
terrible passage of the Straits of
Magellan, and the body was taken
ashore and buried at Punta Arenas,
the southernmost town in the
world. For four years Paul, with
his mother. remained in Peru. and
then returned to France. At eight
Paul was placed in a seminary at
Orleans. staying there till he wan
seventeen. hating his studies, be-
coming more and more rebellious.
His heart was not in the school
room. He was always dreaming OF
the sea and of islands with wayfns
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OF course there was another side
~ to the story. Gauguin was
rebel against constituted authority
in the South Seas just as he had
been in zee sale Europe" Every
where he imagined persecution In
Tahiti he drove from. his hut, in the
belief that she had robbed him, the
native girl who had been his wife,
companion and model, who had
rursed him in his illness and pro-
cured him food when he was unable
tc walk. In Tahiti he fought the
Protestant missionaries. In the
Marquesas he fought the Catholic
missionaries. Their insistence upon
monogamy, upon European dress.
upon mission schools and religious
observances, infuriated him. He
made statue of nude woman and
set it up in his garden. The Bishop
protested, whereupon Gauguin made
a caricature in clay of the bishop.
with horns on his head like the
devil, and set it up facing the
statue. In Tahiti he fought the
Governor, the law courts and the
gendarmes. In the Marquesas his
attacks were directed against the
customs authorities, whom he ac-
cused, probably not without reason,
of corruption. 1t was that that
The New York herald., 1922-05-21

William ]. Locke has delivered to
his new publishers, Dodd, Mead &
Co., the completed manuscript of his
latest novel, "The Tale of Triona."
Ii is announced for publication in
September.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-17
GUARANTY OF BANK DE-
P0SITS.
Some Facts And Opinions
By GUY FLENNER.
BRINGING 1T HOME TO THE IN,
DIVIDUAL.

What is good for the goose ought to
be good for the gander, we are told.
If thep rinciple underlying guaranty
of bank deposits affords a protective
panacea, why not extend it? Why
not avoid all losses by requiring each
individual to contribute to an assess
ment-raised fund from which to pay
the debts of any insolvent member of
society? Why not assess every COM
pany doing business in Idaho to pay
the debts of every company that can
not meet its obligations?
When we bring the principle to our
own door it does not appear nearly so
desirable. And yet it is at the door
of every home and of every business,
farming, merchantile and all, when it
is at the door of our banks
If guaranty of deposits could pre-
vent panics, then we could lift our
selves over the fence by our boot
straps and usher in Utopia.
Panics result from deep rooted
causes, and it is doubtful if any law
could prevent them. The country had
suffered from an inelastic currency, a
cause of financial disturbance.
Emergency legislation, which got us
nowhere along the line Of permanent
relief, under took to solve the problem.
The Aldrich-Vreeland act providing a
more bounteous supply Of currency,
prevented a panic in August, 1914, that
would have impaired to the panic of
1907 the comparative aspect of a wave
let of prosperity. But for that relief
the guaranty states, as well as all 9TH
ers, would have found themselves in
the CONCLUSIONS of a currency famine,
with most disastrous results. Their
guaranty laws would not have saved
them or their banks.
Being purely a sedative, the guar
anty law cannot root out financial di-
sease. The use of narcotics t re-
lieve pain is always attended by de-
structive consequences. Permanent
ease cannot be procured without re-
moving the cause. And the state bank
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-17
NOTICE TO POLITICIANS
AND PARTIES.

The Press, being the only paper in
the county, the only advertising me-
dunn, realizes an Increased espon
sibility as compared with two years
ago when there was a champion of
the Democratic or Nonpartisan party
as well as the official Republican
organ
A special effort will be made this
year to keep partisanship out Of the
news columns of the Press, in order
that he reading public, the voters,
may not read biased articles regard
ing campaigns or candidates.
If the theory back Of the primary
law is carried out, the candidates Sc
lected on both the Republican and
Democratic tickets in the county are
the most representative men and wo-
men we have All should command
the respect and consideration of the
voters who will elect or defeat them
in the November election.
If this is true, then it should be the
ain of the Press to see that every can
didate has an equal newspaper oppor-
tunity in order that the merits of all
shall be properly presented.
With this purpose in mind the Press
offers thee ounty chairman of both
Republican and Democratic parties
the free use Of a news column every
week for the exposition of party plat
forms, campaign issues, and partisan
discussion. The column is not to be
used for individual candidates how
ever or for defending or attacking in
dividual candidates. Candidates have
equal access to the columns of the
Press through the medium of adver-
Using.
This offer is made in a spirit of fair
ness to both parties and with the
hope that the space offered will be
generously used. Any candidate feel
ing that he or she is not receiving
fair consideration form the Press
should see the editor at once.
This offer of eours does not apply
to editorial columns, as that section is
always reserved for the sole use OF
the editorial office.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-17

guaranty could no more do that than
the proclamation of a governor could
end a national turmoil.
4 =
Every well administered bank today
has every needed means for self pre-
servation, and the bank that cannot
now stand on its own bottom, and
merits, and exist on the nourishment
of it's own character, and the ability
and honesty of its officers, is a men
ace to the welfare of it's community.
When a worthy banking institution
can secure all credit reasonably need
ed it is a sad commentary when any
bank cannot keep its doors open with
out being doped with the oxygen Of a
lame duck law
Banks that would have t o close to-
day unless artificially supported by
a guaranty system, are undoubt4dl
those that are suffering from internal
disorders, excessive loans to favored
interests, to large frozen credits
those who do not look ahead, the type
that is not entitled to protection. Any
community suffers far more from the
going practices of such instrumental
tiles than from direct deposit losses.
The leveling tendencies of guaran-
ty legislation is as Objectionable as the
Socialistic doctrine of individual
equality-the destroyer of competi-
ton, initiative and progress; and it
must be remembered that in the he
ginning of Socialistic government only
a small part of institutions and indus
try are involved. The bad apple is in
the barrel, however. To level the
rights of enterprise pulls down char
acter and ability causes merit and ell
terprise to become an unknown guam
tity. That is not the true American
way.
The writer Of these articles has
touched only the high lights of the
subject, making no brief for any bank
or banker, but for the state of Idaho, to
which he has c-onsecrated whatever
ability he may possess He hopes
that at least his observations will as
sist in any discussion Of the impor-
tant subject.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-17

Since we are all out helping to
make the world better why not do
it in half the time? If we put the
time spent in kicking into correcting.
gee, what a hole we could knock in
the things we don't likel Most peo-
pie who don't kick say whats the
use?" because they think they are
! powerless. SO they waste their time
grumbling. That's not it. There's
no use kicking because there nev
can be an end to the cause for kick
ing. AS soon as one things cured
another hobs up. When we're shaw
f, ing by wireless there'll be a kick
because the static shakes the razor.
+! Meantime suppose we all butt in
an better things, and meantime also
smile.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-17

After a satisfactory adjustment Of
these four matters has been made the
strikers demand reinstatement of all
seniroity rights.
The railroads agreed to the first
and fourth propositions, and to a re-
hearing on the wage scales, but could
not agree to restore the strikers to
their seniority positions as against
men who stayed on the job.
The strikers insist on return of Sc
niority rights before they will call off
the strike.
This leaves responsibility for the
strike solely upon the leaders of the
strikers.
The stage is simply being set TO try
and force government operation of the
railroads. If radical labor leaders
could force such a situation they feel
it would be easier to secure their de-
mands than from private management
which cannot fall back of the tax
payer to cover deficits as the McAdoo
railroad administration did.
The public has not forgotten the
bill it paid and is still paying for the
W years u railroads were under
political control.
The cunning campaign that is now
being waged to nationalize the rail-
roads has no support from the aver
age citizen who is not in favor of radi-
cal leadership which incites men to
refuse to obey court orders and gov
eminent rulings. Let people think
The Manufacturer
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-17

Monday-tuk a little trip and had a
lot of Tire trubble and it was late af-
ter mite and pa was mad and swetty
and We was all hungry and dissided
we shud ought to eat a lunch. Ma sed
wat will we eat and are cuzzen sed If
we had sum cake we cud have ice
cream and cake. If We cud get the
Cake
Tuesday-Pa a y he never will
have a Est handed otto again. He
says they are like a mite shurt. It
is Handy to ave around but you hate
Wednesday-Are neighbors has got
a new baby. / asst them where they
got it frum and they told me they sent
it frum hevven. 1t is no wander they
sent it out of hevven. The way it
balls all the time.
Thursday-A farmer tryed to bor-
row some money frum pa. He sed
he had had a awful lot of hard Luck
this yr. haveing lost 2 horses ahd /
wife in side of a mo. And the horses
was wirth a 100 S a peace.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-17
Columbus of Today
BY Richard Lloyd Jones

Amundsen recently sailed from Seat
Tie to become i~ce-locked in the hope
that he might drift across the north
pole.
What's the use, you wonder. Man
has recently been to the north pole and
there wasn't anything there but a lot
OF cold weather. 1t was a lonely place.
Why go agin?
Columbus was Jeered when he sailed
against the whole worlds unbelief.
He set out to find new seas. To his
own amazement he found new shores.
Even when he returned to tell his tale
wise men declared the venture inter
esting but what's the use; the new
found land was so far away no one
would ever go there.
Recently some mountain climbers
seeking to set foot on the roof of the
world" assembled the unexplored al
titudes of Mt. Everest. High up in
the Himalayas they found vast pla
teaus, rich in soil with forests and
lakes and grasses such as are found in
the north tier of American states.
These were not little pocket spots in
the mountains but a vast region that
would measure out Minnesota and
Montana.
But what's the use of it all? We
say, we can't get there. Mile high
precipices prevent.
The legislature of New York cam
within two or three votes of refusing
to grant the Delaware and Hudson
company the right to build a railroad
because it would scare the horses.
But it was the railroad and not the
horse that made possible this great
nation of homogeneous people more
than three tousand miles long.
They jeered at Fulton's boat. at
moves" they cried. To their amaze
ment it moved up river.
When the first steel ship was
launched foolish folks went down to
see it ink. The crowd saw only he
iron hull; they know iron sinks. The
inventor saw the air in the iron hull
he knew the air would float.
The world today is full of out of the
way places which tomorrow will be as
much a part of the busy world as the
shores Columbus found.
Aeroplanes will lift us into the
Minnesotas and the Montanas of the
Himalayas. Rich farms will be three,
towns, colleges, cities like Billings
and st. Paul
Radio is an amusing toy. Wonder
full, we say. We wisely predict the
time when it will carry music from 4
great operate center to even the most
isolated and humble cabin homes. We
talk wisely of its educational powers.
These are near enough to be calcu-
liable. 1t is going to carry c%onyersa-
ton around the whole world. 1t is go
ing to give all nations one tongue.
Now scientists talk of sending heat
waves that will modify inhospitable
climates. These heat waves will make
possible not merely Montanas but
whole A~ustralias where Amundsen is
going and where Shakleton has been.
It is a wonderful world we live in.
The laboratory is the mighty mission
airy. And there is many a Columbus
serving a vast future by beating
pathways into the painless regions of
today.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-17

of this awful malady. They are no,
willing 10 cooperate with anyoasr
who is trying TO reform the ansuse-
ments now being used for She de-
s~truction Of society.
The Hoporabie William n. Hays
deserves the unseinted praise and
support of all Christian people In
his efforts to clean the filthy Green
and wash ouf the oesspooas Of nov
ing pactrre studios.
EVERY virtue4ovSR@ woman IN the
land ought 10 come 10 his support
and demaad the closing Of every
theatre wRxsch exhibats nny pictuse
with an immoral subSess o. taAse
coaorin@.
If you a@e NOE willing DO sssppo@e
men who are trying to cure tfs@
poputace of their mad azrrssemezxa
insanity then Jon should prepare tina
funeral oo~teae for the wrecked
bodies OF your SONS and daughters
Help us 30 treat your malady, sw-
fosm your snnusements, and direct
the people in the road Of sanity suA
moral development .
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-17
IDAHO. HI NEXT
GREAT DAIRY i

Great Importance attaches to the
Dairy Excursion that is now touring
Idaho. With the older dairying states
at the peak of their production and
the demand for dairy products show
ing a steady INCREASE, Idaho is looked
upon favorably as the new mecca for
the dairy farmer. 1t is said that the
feed and forage of this state will care
for a much larger number Of COWS per
acre, than is possible in the older
dairying states. =
The specialists and farm paper
writer's have been brought to Idaho
in order that they may see the Won
derful advantages of this state in the
dairy products field With first
hand knowledge of the conditions here
they will not only be able to give us
much valuable advice and assistance
but will also spread the word as to
the possibilities in Idaho.
The effort to get this valley out
of the on-pay-day-a-year class and
into the class where there is a stea-
dy monthly income from "the COW,
the pig and the hem is bearing fruit.
Upon those three factors rests the
prosperity of u state.
According to a recent report from
the Seventh Federal Reserve Bank, it
is true that the sections of the coun-
try where dairying is a prominent part
of the farm operations, are no in
need of financial assistance beyond
that which can easily be extended by
local banks which furnish a constant
and regular income, bridge the dairy
farmers over the lean periods. Where
crops and meat production are depend
ed upon the income is irregular and
there must be outside credit to tide
the farmers over.-Idaho Falls Post.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-17
SAFETY FIRST.

Il want" said the little girl, enter
ing the general store, five pounds OF
sugar, a bar of chocolate, a bottle OF
mike, a pound of butter and a pound
of shelled nuts. Then / want a roll
Of cotton batting, some cause, a tube
of vaseline and a bottle of olive cl -
why, what's going on up at yoer
house?" asked the storekeeper. Some
body sick?"
NO" replied the child, sisters GO
ing to make fudge
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-17
RAILROAD STRIKE
CONVENTIONS.

AS nearly as we a figure it out
here is a plain and impartial state
ment of the contentious of the rail-
roads and the strikers.
-Four questions are involved:
/. The letting repair work to out
side contractors.
2. Protested rules embrased in
wage board decisions
3. The recent reduction in wages
ordered by the wage board.
4. Establishment of a national adj
tustment board.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-17
AuToCA9TFE

The old people have become m
sane ON the subject; the middle
aged T intoxicated; and the youth
OF the land are hopelessly engulfed
Babies r born in the mad house
of Jazz and are being rocked IN the
cradle of indecency.
The amusement mania on pleas.
ure insanity seems 30 have afflicted
eighty-hve per cent of the popuia-
tion. They are today spending mil
lions and millions of dollars for a
day of folly or a nightride of moral
fatality.
They do not seem to agree with
anyone who is trying to cure them
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-08-17
SOMETIMES A SWAPPING TURTLE
ANSWERS US.

The young girls-"Ma, why do they
keep animals at the telephone?"
Mother-HWhy, child, what gave
you such an idea?"
The Young Girl-'Because when ]
called pa up the lady told me the
lions busy