The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-08-16


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No, Mary, the fact that all the con-
ventions, democratic and republican,
declare vociferously for economy in
public expenditures doesn't mean
that we won't have to pay any taxes
next year. Neither will the fact that
in the United State senate down to
the candidate for constable are crying
economy, result in our taxes being |
brought down to a mere whisper The
some years to come will be reason
ably high, and the politicians will be
with us just about as long as the poor. |
There is an honest tendency, however, |
down expenses and their efforts will |
slowly bear fruit, if the public will |
cut down it's demands for public ex-
penditures. The present condition is
Cll1llAoi " CAdL VI a i11dA WILL d nSdfy
mortgage on his farm. He may cur
tail his expenses, but the mortgage |
must be paid.
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Thus comes a coal rationing pro-
gram in midsummer, remarks an ex-
change 1t is with us now, and will
1~o 90, u, |
upon the ground before those orders
are lifted. Winter will come and pass
and spring will come again, and prob
ably find us still upon ration OF
coal. The months will surely length
en- to a year before we know the end
of the coal calamity of 1922; and I'M
less mining is speedily renewed New {
Years Day Of 1924 will find us still
reaping our sorry harvest from the
seeds of indifference we have been ,
sowing in the spring and early sum- l
mer of the present year.
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England is a little bit peeved be-
cause we insist that she shall pay '
back what she has borrowed from us. I
The chancellor of the exchequer even I
wants to get together a vast quantity y
If gold and ship it over to us in pay !
gold would just about ruin us. 1t S
night be, too, that the result would
)e disastrous. But anyway, we don't \
iced to worry about it.
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While the crop j. the Moscow dis
riot, just as in all parts of the Inland F
ave been worse. The story told by L
he threshing machine is a more OPP "
imistic one than was expected and
onditions here. as compared with
are. We can still say that we live d
4 a most favored section. u
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There is no climate on earth so near c.
1eal as that of the Palouse country :.
fter the first rains of the late sum- Ia
Ter. From now until November ideal 4
FEATHER may be expected. is
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THE MYSTERY OF FOOD PRICES tn
Retail food prices in Is American
tiles during the month of June Is ca
uly Is exhibited gyrations of rise -
nd fall which, while they may offer RI
o obstacles to statisticians, must yet ur
e the despair of economists. Thus WI
lere were increases of 4 per cent in ~
N H., and Portland, Me-, te
f 3 per cent in Bridgeport and New
aven and lesser increases from Fall GO
lVer 70 onicaso' DenSer anu oai' ST
axe City AT the same time decreas-
$ of per cent occurred in Phila- LIZ
elphia and Richmond and of ! per Tn
emit in Cincinnati Detroit and Kan 90
cranton and Washington were bene-
Charles of a decline of less than half st
: 1 per cent by
1t is a trifling reduction of the cost -
fl1v1ngWhlch is vouchsafed TO New &C
ork, but the New York World asks III
by that city should be favored with 40
while Bridgeport and New Haven, ~
4 the very borders of the metropol 80
an area, have to face an increase?
One lesson of the varying figures, it ct
lrmises, is their illustration of the NJ
fficulty of adjusting wage scales to -,
cd prices with any degree of per-
anecy, and it asks, what genius for Ne
atistical averages is capable, on the 20
SIS OF price liuceua'ions u 'iiis Aino' Ri
finding an index figure to serve
+ comparison for any length of time? r
tail food prices remain, indeed, the
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