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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-03-24
GOOD SEASON FOR
OAKLEY FARMERS

Oakley is to have an abundance
of water for irrigation this year.
Tps indications are that the water
will go over the spillway before
May. And with the farmers get
ting something more than starvation
wages for their crops, it looks as it
prosperity were coming back.
OAKLEY RESERVOIR REPORT
Date gauge height
March 20. 1922 1920 feet
Same day last year SS.s feet
Increase over last year 18.1 feet
Storage
March 20. 1922 41,390 acre +.
Same day last year 27.774 acre +.
Increase over last y. 1856 acre I.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-03-24

James Haynes was an oakley cal
Ter from Basin Tuesday.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-03-24
Claim Promptly Paid

Virginia daho
March 1921.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.
Myron Porges, District Supt.
Pocateo
Sir:
Your check ss1sOO much appreciation as
really thought due on this policy as
after the policy destroyed ana pre-
mum had paid therefore hetaed to
out Immediately taken up
and full payment desirable and i wish to
say THAT Company of New York ranks
as a Number One Company
Yours
fsigned) MRS CATHERINE BENNETT
In many companies there would have been no IN
sllrance under above conditions
After years premiums have been pald theAuto-
matte Clause in all Mutual Life Policies continues 10
carry the insurance for certain number OF years
No lapsing.
See me at once. We arrange the Premium
70 fit your condition.
L. j. ROBINSON Jr, Special Representative,
Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N Y.
OAKLEY IDAHO PHONE 1O7
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-03-24

H. E. Allen and family left for
Washington Wednesday.
DR. Rains it out of town on busi-
ness this week.
Darrell whittle was a visitor at
the home of Harry Allen last week.
Page Layton and "Gib" Lee were
down from Goose creek last week.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-03-24
LOCALS AND PERSONALS

James Haynes was an Oakley cal
ler from Basin Tuesday.
Parks Mcintosh was business
caller from Basin Tuesday.
James Port has nearly recovered
from his recent illness.
Leslie sCrofts OF Cottonwood was
a caller here Sunday.
Charles Ryan was visitor from
vipont Saturday and Sunday.
Jesse Boren and Kimball Elquist
were Burley callers Sunday.
Miss Viola Uric left Tuesday for
Twin Falls, to visit her father.
James Fairchild of vipont visited
his mother in Oakley a few days
this week.
WANTED "A first-class, well
broke. saddle horse, See Byron
Nelson. (Adv't)
The general report indicates that
someof the boys were feeling their
oats" too strongly last Friday night.
H. G. Garrard, principal of the
Locust school, is expected to be able
to resume his duties at the school
Monday.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-03-24
CARD OF THANKS

We desire to thank all who assist
ed in any way during the illness and
death of our infant son. Mrs. and
Mrs August Larson.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-03-24

]. Irwin Webb was business cal
Ter from Moulton last Friday.
Miss Zelma Poulton of Burley is
spending the week at the home of
Mrs. Dan Iyerson.
U. S. Marshall Sutherland was in
town Saturday, summoning witness
es for the Federal court at Pocatello.
James W. Toomey, manager OF
the West Pearl Oil and Gas Compa-
ny, transacted business in Buriey
Thursday.
Miss Ruby Holt returned to Bur-
ley Thursday, after spending a few
days with her brother Ivan and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lewis, who
left here in the winter for Utah, ar
rived Thursday and will spend some
time here, attending to business
and visiting friends
John Dudler, deputy sheriff of
Boxelder county. Utah, came from
Brigham City, Wednesday, to which
place he accompanied the victim of
the recent shooting at Vipont and
man who is alleged to have been
implicated in the affair. The vic
tim is in a hospital at Brigham Ci-
ty. Further eyeidence at to the
crme is to be gathered at Vipont.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-03-24

TRADE AT HOME"
MARCH 81 TO APRIL 80
(And, of course, at all other times. J
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 Ones temper improves with disuse. Even tai lman may not be above criticism. Money would go farther did it not travel so fast.
 People who know but little always tell a little bit more.
 Economy is hard road to travel that leads to the land of riches.
 The printing press is responsible for many of the revolutions of this world.
 There is vigorous demand for device that will compel a man to shut up when he has said enough.
 Only s few years age people sszed in won der at the first gas light. New they gaze in wonder at the last gas bill.
 When . man is sued for breach of premise and his love letters are read in court, he can nearly always get off on the plea of temporary insanity. >
 Cheap notoriety is an expensive luxury.
 Nothing rattles the timld belle like an en- gagement ring.
 We never knew man te marry a woman to reform her.
 What we need Is more scheels that will turn out self-previders.
 Weigh the average man and he will be found wsnting-the earth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
CATS TO MATCH
From the St Louis Post Dispatch.

From the St Louis Post-Dispatch
 There might have been numerous grave points for determination in the case of the fair young singer, Margaret Owen, who was haled into court for dying her cat blue to carry out the color scheme of her draperies. But the dyed cat died. This seems rather to have serapped the issue of coloring cats, since a dead cat of any hue is hardly to be classed as decorative. This point bore weight with the court to the extent that the prisoner was released following her assurance that she would subject no more cats to the indigo treatment.
 But what nice point of disputation if only kitty had assn1ated the pigment intended, in the spirit of true art As matter of pure esthetics may the colors which nature selected for cats, whatever the environment, be inl- proved upon? Here is a question which ladies of high degree, as applied to their own persons, already have decided in the affirmative. The consensus of boudoir opinion long has been that nature, in all her bounty, has been bit stingy in the matter of tints.
 As point of ethics, what fair-mnded tabby could object to that winch her mistress long has accepted with all but religious adoration that is, provided it didn't kill her? Alas that kitty did not live and match the draperies. The wiping out of her nine lives in a single dying Drocess forever debars the determination of certain fine points of art and feline rights.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20

York City, says; "The years building move ment has opened month ahead of normal years. March Is usually marks the opening of the construction season in New York and vi- cinity More actual building operations are being reported as going ahead in February than have ever been recorded in February of recent years"
 This is not only true of the east, but the same kind of report comes from Chicago, and there is a very general building activity in the south. Birmingham made good start in Jan- uary and will report total of more than $1,- 100000 in permits this month
 Added to the general construction work there will be a larger amount of highway building than has ever been done in any one year in the history of the country, especially in the southern states. Alabama will be we'll to-the front in her road building program.
 Birmingham producers and handlers of building material do business with six adjacent states This means a large production in Bir- minghsm mills this year of water, gas and sanitary pipe; face common and paving brick i; slag, cement, hollow tile, roofing materials, iron and clay culverts, structural steel and con- crete steel products
 The chances are that by early spring prac- tically every interest in the district catering to structural work in one form and another will be doing normal-Or more than normal business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
Reforming the Flapper
From the Montgomery Advertiser.

'What can we do to protect our boys from the depredations of the flapper?" was ques- tion seriously discussed at a meeting held Thursday at the home of Mrs. Otto Kahn on Fifth avenue, New York, in the interest of the Girls Protective league.
 The object fthe league is to protect the old-fashioned girl and old-fashioned standards of virtue But it quickly developed into dis cussien of protecting the boys from the young vamps.
 q believe" said speaker, with an ef- ficial position, "the way to solve the problem of the young people today is to approach them through the boys, If the boys agree to boy colt the girl who has violated the social code, she will soon mend her ways. I have asked the boys why they did not do this and they always say that they are afraid the girls will not dance with them if they are too prim and old-fashioned, but it is nevertheless the boys who hold the power in their hands. The boys social code of conduct is very much higher than the modern girls, and he is very much shocked by the way the girls act.'
 We are a bit skeptical of the lady's premises, and we are unconvinced by her arguments. Her plan would shift large responsibility upon the boys; we doubt their ability and inclination Co meet It. her planS uH0ouDtSulyp Wouiu De effective if she could get organized action on the part of the boys for the boycott of the flappers. But getting united action from the boys is an impossblity. Some renegsdes, and we fear that their numbers would be large, would be certain to flirt and gambol with the flappers The flapper has the usual femi- nine instinct; she knows whether the boys like her ways or not. The boys not equal to thei task of reforming the flapper; that needed job is the job for parents. If the boys thought she needed reforming, the flapper would cease to be.
 Another speaker at this same meeting said, and doubtless truly, in spite of appearances, that it was the manners, and not the morals, of the flapper that needed reforming. Most of her troubles were on the outside. While this was fact, it was nevertheless true that the manners of her brother much more con servative, and it is through her brother that we must approach her, said a speaker at the meeting
 The boys are doubtless able to take care of themselves, but the job of reforming the flap per is beyond them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
ENDORSES HONEST ADVERTISING

''The Age-Herald not only struck popular topic, but made a commendable step in it's announcement of censorship of future adver- tisements before the public through its paper" said W. John Durham of Knoxville, commercial traveller who includes Birmingham in his territory. Tt would perhaps be well if other advertising mediums would take like steps.
 "As an illustration I saw a window sign in local market offering bacon at 20 cents per pound. The price, though low, thought, was not out of the question for high-grsde products, so after making a number of pur- ehases and, too, asking their quotation on the bacon to make sure 1 was not myself deceived, was informed 20 cents the correct quotation. in totaling the figures l asked the merchant why the 40-cent charge, and he replied the bacon was 40 cents, which resulted in little repartee in which he replied he had the 20-cent brand, but it was not the best which goes to show that truth in advertising is the best policy, in my judgment, as for me, my patronage in fu- ture will not go to this deceptive merchant.
 "The policy as outlined by The Age-Herald, I am sure, will receive the approval of honest merchants"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
HARNEssINc THE FLAPPER

From the Chicago News.
 Pessimistic views about the flapper are so common and so depressing that any optimistic and constructive thought on this phenomenon is not to be sneezed at. As a contributor to certain flapper magazines, Cosmo Hamilton has perhaps iron in the fire but comfort must be picked where it grows and MT. Ham ilton has distinctly comforting views about the flapper.
 Students may differ with this theorist in his opinion that the flapper is merely product of postwar restlessness. Is it not more reas- enable to regard the flapper as an example of post-suffrage effervescence? The Allies, as it were, are feeling their votes. The comforting thing is MT. Hamilton's supreme confidence in the flapper. She is bursting with unutiized enthusiasm and vitality, high-power engine in a flvver body, or, as an older poet put it before the days of automobiles, "a fiery soul that, working out it's way, fretteth the pgymy body to decay"
 The flapper, then, is only another instance of unutilized natural resources. The power to run thousands of homes is Tapping past every door, to large extent unrealized and undeveloped. Harnessing the flapper seems a comparatively simple problem in domestic engi- neering which may safely be left to an aroused masculine intelligence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
FOUR BITS or NEWS
From the New Orleans ItSm.

From the New Orleans Item.
 Here are four bits of nsws, worth reading by people who believe that "easy money" is net an unhealthy object of search:
 1. New York bucket shops" are estimated to have caused loss of over s5o,ooo, 900 to the trusting and uninitiated many victims be- ing women;
 2. A second "Ponzi" sought refuge in Chi cago jail from enrased Lithuanian stoekyards workers from whom hs had obtained four te five million dollars of their savingsI
 3. A brokerage house operator in Philadel= phia vanished, leaving $2oo,ooo in debts and $1oo,o00 in assets. He had tried to play the game himself.
 4. A business man in New York caused the arrest of bookmaker. on the charge of being illegally in possession of $14,36S won by him from confidential clerk of the business man, who had stolen from his employer the money with which to play-and having lost, had killed himself
 While you read the newspapers, nete the news that deals with incidents such as these There is moral in them beyond the powsr af mere unpointed meachments,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
E N CONDITIONS IN COAL INDUSTRY AFFECT MINERS WAGES

One important point the public is apt to over look, in wage controversies between coal miners and their employers, is the actual number of working days in a week.
 The miners have been criticised for refusing to accept lower wages when other classes of labor are being reduced. According to the scale in force miner may apparently receive high wages, but if the coal business does not justify his employers in using his services for more than two or three days in the week, then he is receiving less than other workers, quite oftenznot enough to provide his family with the ordinary comforts of life. The miner in that respect is much like the vaudeville actor who is paid salary of $10o or $15o week. If he could get engagements that would keep him em- ployed for 52 weeks in the year he would have a fair income, but unfortunately, he is apt to be idle a great part of the time. When he has paid his own travelling expenses and hotel bills he maybe compelled to take shelter in theatrical boarding house and stand off' his landlady.
 There would not be so much wrangling over wages in the coal industry if continuous em- ployment could be insured to every miner, but conditions make that impossible. When there
 demand for his coal the operator is not eai to run his mine at full tilt and lose IaoreT. As he is business man and not a phiisnthropist, he.cannot be e'expected to do so. The coal industry is subject to many fluctua- to probably more than any other business part ularly where operators are dependent on puti, consumption.
 Enforced periods of idleness, or at best linn tied production, cause most of the trouble, for which the law of supply and demand is 10 blame, and not the operator or the miner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
FORCED TO MODEL SEVERED HEADS


 New York,-To young Swiss girl, Marie Grosholz fell one of the most gruesome tasks in history, that of modelling in wax the heads of French revolution victims, fresh from the guillotine, says the February Mentor Magazine.
 Marie Grosholz later married Francois Tus- saud and moved her collection of waxworks to London where they may be seen today. Among her portraits were those of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Robespierre, Charlotte Cor day, Marat, and Danton.
 Many of the guillotine's victims had been intimate friends of the young woman. Her own death would have been the penalty had she refused the revolutionists' orders. Upon entering the studio one afternoon she found the executioner's basket awaiting her. She withdrew the lid and gazed into the dead eyes of Robespierre with whom she had dined few days before!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
BACKWARDNESs IN EUROPE
February Worlds Work

From the February Worlds Work.
 The late Walter Hines Page wrote home in September, 1914, describing his idea of con ditions in Europe:
 ''What impresses me, through it all, ,' he said, "is the backwardness of all the Old World in realizing the true aims of government and the true methods. l can't see why any man who has hopes for the progress of mankind, should care to live anywhere in Europe. To me it is all infinitely sad This dreadful war is a logical outcome of their condition, their thought, their backwardness. think l shall never care to see the continent again, which of course is committing suicide and bank ruptcy When my natural term of service is done here, shall go home with more joy than you can imagine. That's the only home for man who wishes his horizon to continue to gruw'wider.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
LAWYER WITH A CONSCIENCE
 SETS FREE A CLIENT

A good "human interest" story comes from Denver, Col. Acting Governor Earl Cooley has pardoned a man named Lafayette Jones who was convicted of horse stealing and sentenced to the penitentiary in 1917. Cooley was the mans lawyer and he granted the pardon be- defended"
 ''The conviction of Jones has been worrying me all these years," said the acting governor. .T always was convinced he was innocent. was young, inexperienced lawyer at the time, and am convinced that it was the poor defense of my client that sent him to the penitentiary."
 It is not often that professional men will ad- init their inefficiency mistakes so frankly And it is still less rare that fate gives lawyers such an opportunity to make amends to a client who intrusts his property, his liberty or perhaps his life to them in the belief that their skill will enable him to get justice in court It is the common impression that the inexperienced doctor buries his mistakes and the novice at law forgets that he has ever made one.
 Lafayette Jones may thank his lucky stars that while he had lawyer who was ncompc- tent to defend him, the lawyer had a con science. And it is still more fortunate that horse thieves no longer lynched out west, as was the custom in the spacious days of the past Otherwise, he might never have lived to see the inside of penitentiary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
MUSIC WEEK SUCCESS

Music week in Birmingham has proven a great success" said o. Gordon Erickson, com- munity sing director, land the object in view to which the idea was incepted has proven equally as successful
 "Good music is essential to the we'll being of happy and contented people, and aside from the entertainment and pleasure derived from week of special musical programs in the churches theatres, hotels and parks, those who have had the privilege of attending any of the concerts are of the almost unanimous opinon that much for the furtherance of good music has been accomplished. The program, which extends through Wednesday of this week, should prove of great interest to lovers of the art"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
BUSINESS CONDITIONS BETTER

"A current slogan heard among many, Prosperity is just around the corner,' is about to prove itself, in my opinion, as relates to local business and the Birmingham district, is surely coming into its own," said J H. Lattuille.
 q see no cause to complain although l agree that depression was once upon us, it is slowly passing Our records show an increase of more than 63 per cent over February of last year up until the 18th of the month, and in- dications are that by the last of the month this increase will be absorbed in an 88 per cent increase, which is no iH-omen by any means when considered that the original 63 per cent in business is itself 10 per cent increase over the period for the year preceding, when everybody agrees the very bottom dropped out of business the country over.
 Optimism, hard work and thrift will usher in that era of prosperity we've heard much of, and which the country is looking forward to in eager expectation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
A cRoGGY CONGRESS
m the New York Herald,

From the New York Herald,
 Washington is giving us the spectacle of groggy Congress. A week ago Congress had everything rigged for tobogganing through the soldier bonus to the tune of "Let the People Paw" week ago Congress had everything rigged for five billion dollar loot of the treas ury-fve thousand millions of dollars. week ago Congress had everything rigged to cinch the bonus vote for this falls elections.
 But something has happened. The nation is aroused and in bitter protest has bombarded Congress as it has never been bombarded be- fore Counting on a patient, supine public Congress went ahead and committed itself to the bonus propagandists without knowing where or how it could get the money to pay the bonus And the bonus propagandists committed tbem- selves to vote right in the fall elections.
 Now Congress finds itself in tight place with an aroused public the one hand ranged against the bonus bill, and the bonus propogan- dists on the other hand demanding that Con- gress keep it's word.
 If Congress doesn't deliver the goods to the bonus propagandsts it sees itself losing the bonus vote in the elections this fall. If it does deliver the goods to the bonus propagandists it sees itself buried by public avalanche. This is what has made for a groggy Congress, so groggy that it can't see straight
 It is good rule in business and should be a good rule in politics when one finds he is in wrong to get out before he wrecks himself and get back on right lines. This is what the pres ent Congress should do. It is its only chance to continue itself in statesmanship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-20
ARRESTS SHOW DECREASE

''The number of arrests by the city for the last 30 days have decreased very much," said Charles E. Glover, warden of the Northsidc prison.
 "On Monday, February 6, 1s22 we fed 1se prisoners, while on February IA we only fed 165, a noticeable difference.
 "The average number of arrests per day for the period between January l, 1921, and Feb ruary 15, 1921, was 40, while the average for the same period of 1922 was only 25.
 Violation of the prohibition laws is the leading charge, more having been arrested charged with this offense than any other"