The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-01-21

The Palouse Republic has decided
that it is a good idea to let wei
enough alone and to reflect Congress
mar John w. Summers from the
Fourth congressional district Of
Washington, this fall. Summers has
made good in congress, Not, how
ever, because he had possessed all the
qualities of a statesman, but because
he is a tireless worker. No request
from his state or district was too
small to receive his attention and nc
Job too big for him to tackle. He is
just simply eternally on the job. He
is getting results in congress just like
he got his election the first time. He
made up his mind he wanted to go to
congress and without any %organiza-
ton, and with rather a small ac-
quaintanceship in the district, he went
out after it. Several others went out
after it too, some of them with APP
parently formidable organizations
back of them, but Summers won. He
went to the voter personally, told his
story, and pocketed the vote. Two
year later it came easy, and there is
every reason to believe that it will
come easy again.
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General Economy, riding a horse
starved down to an effective point,
will soon be marshaling his forces for
the coming campaign. The several
political armes will be under the di7
rection of the same general. All will
promise to cut your taxes to a
whisper. Don't believe a word of it.
The debt has been created and must
be paid. 1t will be possible to get
rid of some expenses, and to cut out
for the time expensive public i'm
provements. This, owing to the string.
ent financial conditions, pretty nearly
any bunch of men who might be
elected would do. We are at a point,
however, where we can and must
economic, but where our ecOnOm-
izing will o for several years make
any appreciate difference in our tax
statements. Officials are wanted who
will make an intelligent and honest
effort to curtail public expenditures,
rather than men who make long and
loud promises of impossible things
during the campaign.
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We have all been good roads boost
ers from Maine to California and hun
dreds Of millions of dollars of the
taxpayers money have been spent to
build what would have been consider
ed perfect roads five years ago. To-
day our hard-surfaced roads are being
torn up by truck traffic just about as
rapidly as III macadam roads were
torn up by automobile traffic from
seven to ten years ago. 1t is a ques-
ton of how far the state is going to
go in providing permanent highways
to be destroyed by overloaded COM
vehicles long before the bond
which built the roads, have
been paid off.-Northern Idaho News.
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The men who are back of the sue
poultry show which is now on,
are doing something of value for the
community. They are stimulating an
interest in good poultry and those who
wish, are able to secure, during the
days, a pretty fair education in
he selection and care of poultry. The
len, rightly cared for, is a profit pro-
in the P%a1ouse country, either
IN the farm or on the small tract.
even the man in town, with two lots,
an raise chickens with profit and
pleasure, if he can manage to keep !
hem out of his neighbours garden. {
The poultry industry is we'll worth
ttention. :
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1t is a question of whether the +
of the miners shall be cut and {
hey and their families allowed to
to death, as they claim they !.
ill, or whether the price of coal shall +
up and the poo people of the I
Duntry be allowed to freeze to death. b
. cheerful problem, either way you !
,ok at it, but one that will be solved Z
-ithout anyone starving to death or
to death.
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WAR TRIBUTE TO ROOSEVELT :
Colonel Watterson, when Colonel .,
heodore Roosevelt offered to raise G,
/ army division and lead it to fc
rance, was among the first American :
.itors to lend the proposals his sup I,
'rt. He wrote: "The Little Corsi- re
MS of history defy all rules. So does sc
r Teddy Bear of Oyster Bay, and -
at is what makes him SO interest =,
Turn him loose in the Low Coun- nc
es and Quentin Durward will live
ain. He will carry the flag and !,
d the boys across the Rhine-no by