The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-01-05
CONSTRUCTIVE ECONOMY.

part of the individual, the corpora
ton, the state or the nation, is the
thing which will bring about the
greatest prosperity in the shortest
time. The farmer who eliminates
wastefulness and puts the money
thus saved into improvements on his
farm which aid in his work and enable
him to produce a better crop and pro-
duce it at a smaller cost, is effecting
a double saving. The same results
from sensible economy by the manu-
facturer, the business man or anyone
else, if the money saved, instead of
being put down in a sock, is used
to increase the efficiency of the plant.
The need for constructive economy
on the part of the nation is expressed
in the following paragraph from the
Portland Oregonian:
elimination of wasteful spending
is one-half of economy; the other
half is to spend what is thus saved
on means to produce more wealth.
What the American people want is
constructive economy, whereby addi-
tions will be made to the productive
wealth of the country and the cost of !
production and distribution will be re-
duced. We do not suggest that the
government go into business as a
manufacturer, farmer or merchant, but
1t is a proper function of government
to improve and maintain waterways
and harbors, to build highways and
to reclaim land much of which is its
own property. Though these expen-
ditures are not intended as invest
tually make a return to the govern
ment in the shape of increased reven-
from the greater wealth of the
This return is now largely
direct, for the income tax is the larg-
est source of national revenue, and its
yield grows with. the incomes Of the
By making transportation
and more efficient on river,
Tea and highway and by enlarging the
area of productive and the govern ,
nent would swell it's revenue by 7
the aggregate national in s
come. s
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The Spokane subornation of per-
ury trial, in which thirteen persons,
attorneys and others, are involved,
as now run over eight weeks, prob
bly, going to the jury today. 1t is v
ne of the longest, if not the longest {
.rawn out case in the history of the "
lorthwest, and the jury will have a :
lass of evidence to consider which .
puzzle a Philadelphia lawyer. 81
two figures hat have doomed n
iggest in the trial are Judge Askren,
he presiding judge, and Fulton, the
ssistant prosecutor. 1t was evident
, all who followed the case in the
ewspapers that Judge Askren not :
My is thoroughly familiar with the D
but that he possesses the quail bt
es of fairness and firmness which M
re essential in a judge. Prosecutor =.
fought the case for the state 3
radically lone handed, against TO
,veral of Spokane's most noted attor- be
eys, and whether he wins or loses, w
Is shown himself to be a most able FL
.osecutor, resorting to abuse in a at
UGH less degree than most prosecu- bl'
rs. The outcome of the case IS ne
waited with interest by the people in
the northwest, but few cases in an
years have attracted so much Su
tention.
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The women of the Molly Pitcher
ub, the Molly Demijohn club, or ;
netting of the sort, of New York, !
ssed President Harding the other !
y because he refused to meet a
legation named to lay before him WI
e clubs arguments for the repeal Us
the prohlDltlon mendmen Inc the
in his letter refusing to me
let the committee, gave as his rea-
n that it is a futile thing to ex- 9
the repeal of the 18th amend da,
and that the interview could pui
ly result in controversial publicity up
d create a suspicion that the federal Ne
vernment is not IN good faith in p
.deavoring to enforce the prohibition Ep
re The p-ros;donts ground was ella
II taken and 1t is not probable that sT1
re is any body of women outside int
New York that would criticfse
a for it, or who would spend much !
le or effort trying to get the prof.
'ition law repealed. Z