The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-09-18
THE INNOCENT BYSTANDER

News print ana OLuer paper prices
went up this week. Other com
modities are on the road upward. JUS
as markets were returning to pre-wal
conditions and things began to lool
bright again along comes the shoI
crafts strike, and the producers who
have articles the people must have
find good excuse in the strike to ad-
vance prices. There will be some
more predatory wealth" made as a
result of the strike conditions, more
WAR fortunes" for nothing from a
new tariff law to a strike of the set
ting hens on Mars escapes those who
make the public's extremity cause for
a raise in prices.
While the tariff will protect" the
sheep producer, the amount OF the
tariff will be taken not from the wool
len manufacturer but filched from the
pockets of the wearer of clothing Not
only will he pay the tariff tax but
the clothing manufacturer Will add an
extra profit as he charges in the
tariff cost
Not only will manufacturers put up
the prices of commodities as re-
suit of the strike conditions but they
i'll add an extra cost for their trou-
BILE.
Innocent bystander sometimes
thinks he is not interested in strikes.
He is not interested in "big things"
because he feels that they are too big
for him to tackle. But innocent by
stander is always there when the prof
its are being made up by the other
fellow. He is always there to pay
for strikes. He not only pays for
strikes but an added profit to all the
producing fraternity down the line
who make Of the strike sufficient
cause for boosting prices beyond
where the natural results from the
partial freight embargo may entitle
theh to go.-Pend d'Oreille Review.
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RESULT OF CLEAN LIVING
AS a result of clean living which
put him in the pink of condition, Allen
Robert, w. S. C. '22, is making phe
nomenal recovery from an automobile
accident in which he suffered frac-
ture of the skull, both jaws, and
double fracture between the collar
bone and breast bone. He was two
hours and a half on the operating |
table without anesthetic and was not
expected to live, but participation in
college athletics had kept him in such |
good condition that in twenty days I
he was free of all splints and band
ages and able to take two-hour auto
ride with friends and talk to them.
He expects to assume his duties as
physical director for the Colfax high
school in a fortnight or so.---La-
Crosse Clipper.
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1t is commendable for any commun-
ity to do it's best, through its COM
mercial organizations or other agen-
:ies, to bring in new industries. 1t is
also commendable, and probably more
that the industries which
ire already in a community, espec-
ally outside the great factory centers,
,e fostered. There are many payrolls
n a city like Moscow which the pub
ic over1ooks, the public mind focusing
N the factory which would afford
york fort a hundred men or more.
We forget that the merchandising
establishment of any kind with it's :.
rev Of clerks and bookkeepers has .
considerable payroll, all of which is +
pent in one way or another in Mos Il
ow, making permanent renters for a
1oscow houses, and aiding in main
aiming the city's various Institutions;
hat the local shops and factories all T
fford work for a considerable num- b
er of people, and really make up the
own. When these institutions cooper =
tie with each other in the city, they .,
re deserving of local support and it Fl
more important that they receive G
lpport than that some extensive Z
anufacturing industry be brought n
ito the field and fail. Get new in y
lstries if possible, but first supports
yally the institutions that are in the
ty. b
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When the coal strike first develop q
last spring, it looked more or less el
rious and if the public could have F
rseen that before it was terminated u
railroad strike, much more serious, 81
,uld be upon us, there would un-
have been much apprehen- m
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