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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-12-19
Early Shoppers.

EVERY year, newspapers and other
publications ding dong at the public
asking, nay, beseeching, that Christ
mas shopping be done early 1t is a
regular annual propaganda They
may as we'll shout at the wind
Of course there is every argument
for early shopping. Goods that have
not been picked over new stocks and
more Of them, better service and more
comfort in buying are all arguments
for early shopping.
But the public goes its way unheed-
ing Every year the final days be-
fore Christmas are the big days for
merchants. Clerks, tired from long
hours and ovcrwork, find an unwel-
come climax in the hours that closely
precede Christmas.
Mere man, who usually never has a
bright idea until the last minute, is
probably worse than the woman shop
per. Women try to get ready for
Christmas. But even they find a last
minute raid on some attractive gift
shop indispensable. For women are
never ready until it is too late. But
they always do their best to get ready
in the final precious seconds.
There is something physiological,
too, in last minute shopping. Man is
a gregarious animal. He likes to go
in herds and droves. Women are at
their best when they can participate
in mild riot at sale They like
crowds. They enjoy the hustle and
jam and inconvicnces that go with
shopping when other people shop.
Morning hours are always quiet
business hours. And they are quiet,
not SO much because women cannot
get down town in the morning when
the quiet and comfort of pleasant shop.
ping would far more than recompensc
them for the bother of shopping at
that hour, but because they like 10
see others shop. They like to be part
of the crowd.
Advocates of early holiday shopping
had best direct their efforts to remold-
ing, not public opinion and practice.
but individual character.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-12-19

dustry seemingly cannot meet, the
situation will not improve.
1t is the one dark spot in America
today. Coal mines are producing.
Railroads are working almost at the
point where care is necessary to avoid
one of the periodical car tieups in big
terminals and the consequent break
down Of the entire transportation sys-
tenn. Unemployment has decreased to
the point where today it is doubtful
if there remains man who is UNI
willingly idle
Hope is the handspring of life.
Next year Idaho farmers will again
tackle their job of producing bumper
crops, and all Idaho hopes they sue.
coed, not only in producing the crops
but also in marketing them at prices
that are just and right
There is lot of phsycology in the
business world. AS some one ha!
aptly written in The Recorder:
A naturalist once divided an
aquarium with clear glass par
tition. He put lusty bass in one
section and minnows in the other.
The bass struck every time min
now approached the glass parti-
ton. After three days of fruit
less 1unging which netted him only
bruises, he ceased his efforts and
subsisted on the food that was
dropped in. Then the naturalist
removed the glass partition. The
minnows swan all around the bass,
but he did not strike at an single
one. He had been thoroughly sold
on the idea that business was bad.
There's moral here-take another
shot at the partition. Maybe it
isn't there any more!
1t pays to keep plugging.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-12-19
Flags At Washington.

REVERENCE for the flag of our
country is the foundation stone on
which patriotism is built. A child oil
six can learn to salute the flag, un-
derstand what its bright colors mean
and honor its starry folds, long before
it can understand what America, is. II
stands for.
But you can't teach child to rever-
ence flag unless you have flag with
which to teach.
An American flag should fly over
every public school in the land, and
be draped upon the walls of every
school room. 1t is the least expensive
way of teaching patriotism, and the
most effective.
/ Not all municipalities put patriotism
above dollars. We have known in
stances where civic bodies had to come
to the rescue of schools, and give the
flag the city fathers were too penurious
20 buy. And now we learn that in
the nations capital, the very seat OF
Americanism, the home of the gov
ernment more than half of the ele-
mentary school rooms have no flags,
and many others have, flags in tat
tered, torn, and dirty condition.
An American public school without
"a flag, church without Bible. a
child without mother pitiful
examples of things that should not be.
But there is no way to give mother
less child back its mother. And il
there was ever Christian church toe
poor to buy Bible. we have never
heard of it.. 1t remains for this, the
richest, most prosperous, supposed.
most enlightened government in thu
world. to deny to the schools of its
own capital city, the few dollars neces'
sary to teach its own children to hono'
and reverence its own flag!
Washington is waging a fight fol
justice for her schools. for justice fol
her children that every American car
support. II is almost imconceivabi'
that a government. fostering educa
ton as the American government ha'
done. should SO signally ignore the re
sponsibilitics so close at hand. Blu
it seems to have done just that.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-12-19
Keep Plugging.

THE economic situation in the
United States today is peculiar one.
Everywhere in the industrial field
there are unmistakable evidences of
renewed business. Steel, the real
barometer of American business, has
been turned onto receptive markets at
a terrific rate. And the markets have
demanded Il more and more. Building
is at its highest ebb in history with
indications that construction will con-
tinue for years-at least until the
marked shortage of houses has vanish
ed and rents, in more populaous cities
have again reached a reasonable plane
But basically the nation and the
world at large are sick. Two years
ago we heard a great deal about pros.
perity for the farmer, that agriculture
was the real foundation stone Of Am.
erican economic conditions. Recog-
MIXING that fact, the American govern
ment has taken into its hands the
problem of finances for farmers. But
that is at best only temporary re-
lief. And economists arc agreed nov
that unless something is done 70 re-
move the cause of agricultural de
flation, rather than salving over IL
effects with further obligations the in
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-12-19
Thirty

Two men were reviewing the art ex.
hibition at the Grand Central palace In
New York. One looked at the WORK
critically, but the other fidgetted about
and seemed In hurry to move on or
backward or out. Finally his compAn-
ion needed his discontinue. "Don't
Hike the work. eh?" he asked. NO In
terest, whatT I'm interested Bit
answered the fidgetty one. "It's not
the art I'm complaining of. It's this
suit I've on. It's lew and all that.
Doesn't fit; uncomfortable; conspicu-
Gus bosh !" Ills companion surveyed
him. "Not at all," he said. "Inlagina-
ton, pure Imagination. Looks we'll,
feels bad. That's all. If you don't
want people to look at 1t. wear a top
hat and tan shoes. There's always a
way, old dear. Always a means. old
top. Use your mind, old thing"
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-12-19

OUR BOY REFORIER q

Fare an warmer an Mister Jack Vining told my /
fother they are goin to be sum buddy murders
round this here mans locality of these days if
people whats two fresh don't get sailed down
pretty soon.
Mister George Newcomb wus here lookin up
sumthin. Mister McBurney wus here also.
Jim Dash
Mister Burger wus here tellin bout the 9.
Clucks clan my fother went to hear him an he
sed if the people whats pade to make people be-
HAYES thare sells wood work the Q. Clucks clan
Good take nap for its>self. | CESS the g. Clucks
lclan can find deers witch has bin swiped also.
Jim Dash
Mister Peckham an Mister Keleher Mister
Harmon's gon to help out the farm burow see
whats the matter. don't mean bout deers
|gettin swiped It's to help out the farmers to see
who's maxim all the munney from what they grow.
Jim Dash
| Mister Jess Gowen got letter from sum buddy
up to Boise asst him are they emmy men in the
Kiwanis club what's gon to the legislacher an
Mister Rae he told Mister Gowen to rite to him an
tell him all the Kiwanis members here is gentlemen
an you cant be in the legislacher an be gentle
men also Is that so Mister Botolfsen sed up to
Arco witch wus to see my fother what runs paper
down to Arco Him an my fother node each
other when they went to school wun time together.
| Jim Dash
! Mister George Peters he'd of the G. A. r. now
witch is men witch wus in the war They are goin
to have insulashun Jan. g.
Jim Dash
| My Mother seen clock witch she wants to get
for Christmuss up to Cupples so CESS my fother
will get it for her. CESS he will get me wun of
them pocket knifes with the bone handles. hope.
Jim Dash
If you see hog watts bore whats a wife belted
pig from N. Hampshire will you please call up
/ Mister D. G. Ruby an tell him an keep eye on
the hog also till he gets thare
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-12-19
Sunless and Sunlit Rooms.

No article OF furniture should be Pat
In q room that will not stand sunlight,
for every room In a dwelling should
have the windows so arranged that
sometime during the day flood OF
sunlight will force itself into The apart
ments. The Importance of admitting
the light Of the sun freely to all parts
Of dwellings cannot be too highly es-
dmated. Indeed, perfect health Is
nearly as much dependent en- pure sun
light as 1t is on pure air. Sunlight
should never be excluded except when
SO bright as to be uncomfortable to the
eyes. And walks should be in bright
sunlight, SO that the eyes are protect
ed by veil or parasol when inconveni-
emily intense. A sun bath Is of more
Importance in preserving a healthful
condition of the bod than is general
y understood.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-12-19

Lsle Canter's doin hem stitchin now for Christ
muss You don't pernounce the in her lst name.
Jim Dash
Mister HURT wus up to Boise to see a bout the
chicken show Why don't he stay home see
the chicken show here Mister Bowen sed whats
got the jewry shop.
Jim Dash
Lillian Smeed's got job in the fone office up to
Boise jess like she had here keepin books an
clerkin. | CESS she wants a job ware its quiet.
Jim Dash
Mister Jones up to the Rivola hotels out agen.
| don't no if he's bin sick. The cheef sed he Jess
throde fit bout thare new baby witch is a girl
Nell she sed she hopes to goodness the baby looks
like her Mother ennyhow the cheef sed you
an me also.
Mrs Coles gone down to Florida to see her
fother witch is down thare to get we'll from bein
sick. My Uncle Jim went down thare to die Is
yeers ago last winter my Mother sed he liked it
so good he forgot all bout yin ans got orange
grove at a place called Fl. Lauderdale or sumthin
like that witch is on river witch is deep as the
dickens.
! That's enuff for now the cheef sed. NelPs got
sum new silk stocins on. 1t wusn't for Christmuss
/ it wus jess for pearunces she sed Good mite you
cant see holes in them when you have got on
your shoes.
/ Thirty
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1922-12-19

.srhere Is one bad thing" remarked
the manager. gloomily. 'ahout these
muxxling ordinances" "what 10 thatf
asked Ills stan. THAT their operations
are not extended TO the critics Of tn"
dog towns"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-08-03
THE "GREAT-I-AM" POLITICIAN
AND POLITICAL ORGANIZA-
TTONS

1t is becoming quite the fad these
days for men who have come to pub
lie place through party support to
play to the galleries with declarations
of their own independence of party
doctrine and organization, once their
election has been brought about.
The right of any man to be indie
pendent in politics is unquestioned,
but the courageous and consistent
public man will assert his freedom
from party allegiance before an cleo
ton as well as after it.
There is not man in public life
in this country today who could get
into office running on his own per
sonal merits without party endorse
ment of some sort But it is not diff
cult for many politicians to get it
into their heads, once elected, that
what sent them to Washington was
their own overwhelming personal
popularity. They then proceed to
make virtue of their own unwilling
ness to go along with their party
when it comes to voting on public
measures.
The great menace to public affairs
today is the complete breaking down
of political parties and with it the
breaking down of responsible govern
ment. Those who are helping along
in this process of dissolution are not
only demonstrating their own ingrat-
itude toward the party which made
their public service possible, but are
contributing toward the creation of
chaotic conditions in politics and gov
eminent. "a
Party men and women of the rank
and file must begin to take note of
the names of chose who appeal to
them as Republicans on election day,
and the next day begin to try to work
both sides of the political street with
loud professions Of their freedom
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-08-03
WHEN THE CRISIS COMES

Some time or other there comes to
every man real crisis. He is faced
with a decision that must be made
often made Immediately. He must
find out for himself whether he is a
big or little man-whether he has the
stuff in him that will win, or whether
he will remain a coward or a gutter
all his life.
Sometimes this trial is of his will
ingness to face a responsibility which
the sacrafices of what he believes is
his happiness or success for a course
that he knows is right. always it is
a difficult time. Always it needs cour-
age. If he faces it bravely and makes
the hard decisions, he is big. If he
shirks, or runs away, or makes what
he knows to be the cowardly decision,
he is little-in soul at least, although
he may physically be bigger than
Jack Dempsey.
Such decisions men often make
when they are unhappily married
or fancy that they are-and there
are children whose happiness depends
on their continuing their marital re
lations. Thousands of such decisions
were made in war time, when men
who were perfectly able to go found
themselves seeking reasons why they
should stay at home. Fortunately
the number of cutters in that time
was comparatively small.
But wars and great calamities do
not come into every life. Most men
must End their opportunity for decis-
ion in affairs big to them but I'M
important to the world Indeed, few
people outside their own intimate
circle will know how they decided, or
whether there was anything to de-
eide. But they themselves will know.
Their own conscience will tell them
what to do. If they fail they will be
mental sneaks for the rest Of their
lives ashamed to look themselves in
the face and feeling inferior to every
man that they meet.
Life is not always happiness; it IS
not even all stern battle. There are
many bridges that must be burned,
many resolves that must be made and
kept. The man who meets all the
tests is the man who wins in the end,
and knows that he won. The man
who fails is of little use to others,
and of no use to himself for the rest
of his life.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-08-03
HOYES
DGGC GGGGssGHGGG9GG

Mr.. and Mrs. Lazzell and son and
Mrs. Lemuel Friend and son, of Nor
gantown, spent Sunday at the home
of their cousin, Mrs. Arthur Dewitt
at this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wiley S. Friend and
family, of near Oakland, We're here
Sunday as guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Custer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Smith, of Oak
land, spent last Sunday at Hoyes
where they were guests of Mr..
Smiths parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Ian A. Smith.
Mr.. Gilbert Enlow and family, for
merly of Sang Run, who now resides
in Zion City, Illinois, are camping at
Sang Run for a short time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace R. Dewitt, of
Oakland, were dinner guests at the
home of Mr.. Hamilton Friend re-
Gently.
Many people of Hoyes were de-
lighted on Sunday in again meeting
Mr.. and Mrs. Burns Lowdermilk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hamill Casteel and
family spent Sunday at the home of
Mr.. Truman W. Casteel near Oak
land.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-08-03
GOVERNMENT is ON A PAYING
BASIS

The substantial benefits derived
from the conference for the limitation
of armament can now begin to be dis
cerned in the financial report of the
government which shows that the
United States is at last upon a paying
basis, with income exceeding expenses
by three hundred million dollars in a
single year. The public debt was also
reduced last year by more than a bill
lion dollars.
First of ALL attention is directed
to the reduction of armament The
purpose of the conference was avow-
eddy to relieve humanity of the crush
ing burden of taxes to maintain
armed forces to annihilate one an
other. If there is skepticism about
the effectiveness of the idea, read the
financial record of the United States
for the year just ended, in which ex-
penditures for the army were reduced
ninetyfour million dollars, and ex-
pCilulLuIeS lOI IHe navy were TeuuCeu
a hundred and eighteen million dol
lars. The total of more than two
hundred million dollars is a direct
saving for the people of the United
States. From the people comes the
money to keep up the armed estab-
lishment of the government; on the
people rests the burden of war when
war comes; to the people comes sur
cease from the crushing burden by
reason of the movement which origi-
mated in Washington to put an end to
war, movement that was carried
forward to brilliant success.
In the second place, attention is
directed toward the tendency in both
federal and state governments for a
return to sane financial conditions
after the excuses of the war period.
In both the United States and in New
York state the budget system has
been adopted, which means that the
expenditures are cerefully estimated
and pruned at the outset of the year,
and that departments are limited to
their appropriations. This is so much
more businesslike than the old method
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-08-03

from party trammels. The motive of
such men does not rise above the low
level of personal selfshness and a
greed for power which is willing to
disregard and repudiate all obliga-
tons.
Let the politicians who pride them
selves on being bigger and better than
their political parties and who make
a speciality of defying them, make the
experiment of putting their names on
the ballot hereafter without party
designation Then let them wait and
see how the populace will not rise up
and elect them to anything In the
absence of a willingness to do this
let them as beneficiaries and repre-
sentatives in public life of a political
party, pay some attention to the obi
cations that go along with office get
ting and office holding.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-08-03
PLAYING POLITICS WITH THE
INDUSTRIAL PROBLEM


/ That there are political motives
behind some of the important moves
being made in the industrial field by
certain so-called labor leaders who
habitually think in terms of politics,
is undoubtedly true. 1t is not entirely
an accident that there is an attempted
tie up of industry at this particular
time, in the middle Of the Harding
administration, with election day ap-
preaching, and with a revival ofindus-
try in evidence, which, if permitted to
continue without interruption, would
interfere seriously with the opposi-
TONS prospects of success.
The leaders conspicuous in the at
tempted industrial tie-up are now and
have long been committed to the task
of discrediting the Harding admins
tration. Their publications have
reeked with abuse of the President, of
| Congress and of Federal courts. These
leaders are enlisted in the cause of
/ government ownership of mines and
railways and ultimate state socialism
Their maneuvers must be interpreted
with this thought in mind. Whatever
they can do to cripple and handicap
private business enterprise and to en-
barrass and discredit the Harding ad-
ministration these leaders believe will
help along the cause in which they
are most interested.
Hence the mo compromise" ''no
arbitration" attitude of these politi-
clans posing as labor leaders. A
peaceful settlement of the trouble
would not be to their liking. They are
ready to tie up the country in bow
! knot and starve and freeze the people
of this country in order to improve
the campaign prospects of the men
and things they stand for in politics.
There is no reason to believe that
these politicians do not correctly
gauge the temper of the American
people. When ten or twenty per cent
of the American people declare war
upon the remaining eighty or ninety
per cent, the outcome is not sure to be
that the tail will wag the dog. There
is a growing Impotence in this coun-
| try with the sub0rdination of indus
trial to political ends by misfit labor
leaders of a certain arbitrary and am
bilious type. Instead of beating the
administration and the American
people into submission they may find
the situation reversed before the tro-
BILE they have melted and are egging
on is over.
President Harding and the national
administration are not partisans Of
either side in the contention. The
President has sought to induce both
sides to submit their cause to tribun-
ais representative of the government
and of the whole people. Failing in
this he will do his sworn duty by pro-
tecting the public in its rights. If
there are those who do not intend to
mine coal or run trains until they
have imposed their will on the public,
let them step aside and permit others
to do the work, if they can be found
These others must and will be pro-
tected in their right to work by state
and federal governments. The issue
involved is fundamental The duty
of government is clear, and there will
be no lodging of duty at Washington.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-08-03

sum of Five Hundred ($5O0) Dollars,
payable to the State Roads Commits
sion.
The successful bidder will be re-
quired to give bond, and comply with
the Acts of the General Assembly Of
Maryland, respecting contracts.
The Commission reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
BY ORDER of the State Roads
Commission this 9th day of July,
1922.
L. H. STEUART, Secretary,
JOHN N. MACKALL Chairman.
Advertisement-23 ct.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-08-03
State OF Maryland
STATE ROADS COMMISSION
Notice To Contractors


SEALED PROPOSALS for building
one section of State Highway, as fol-
lows:
GARRETT COUNTY-Contract G
-22-One section of State High
way from Gortner toward Red
House, a distance of 20 miles
(Concrete) will be received by
the State Roads Commission, at it's
offices, COL Garrett Building, Balti-
more, Maryland, until IL M. standard
time, on the 18th day of August, 1929,
at which time and place they will be
publicly opened and read.
Bids must be made upon the blank
proposal form which, with specifca-
lions and plans will be furnished by
the Commission upon application and
cash payment of $1.0O, as hereafter
no charges will be permitted.
No bids will be received unless ac-
companied by certified check for the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-08-03

of permitting departments to dip into
the public purse with little regard to
consequences that the tendency to-
ward economy can not fail to make its
impression on tax figures for these
two governmental units.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-08-03
Commissioners Meeting.

The Board Of County Commissioners Of Gar
rett County, MARYLAND. will meet in their Of
hce in the town of Oakland on
MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1922,
For the purpose of transacting gen.
eral routine business.
By order of the Board =
WALTER G. MEYERS. Clerk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-08-03

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