The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-08-18

ture shortages of linotype operator
through the development of an educa
tionaI program. Charles p. Howard
president of the union, denies tina
there has been any attempt on the
part of the union to cut down the
humber of journeymen in the trade
and states that definite steps will be
taken to increase the number OF
operators.
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The recent epidemic of escapes on
the part of prisoners from the Idaho,
Oregon, and other penitentiaries,
coupled with the paroles, is turning
loose upon the unsuspecting public
a considerable number of criminals.
While not all, nor even a large per-
centage of the men paroled, will again
go to the bad, there have been some
recently that have, and it is a good
thing for pardon board to know
what it is about when it turns
prisoner loose. So far as the prison
escapes are concerned, they are en-
carelessness, an insufficient number
of guards, or insecure prisons.
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Over in Whitman county the pro-
scouting attorney and the sheriff have
notified the farmers that when men
accept a job in the harvest fields,
and then after getting meal, quit,
the authorities are to be notified and
the men will be Jailed on a yagrancy
charge. This has been done in the
neighboring county in several cases
and is having a most satisfactory re-
suit, In some cases in Latah county,
men have served the farmer in the
same way, and it would seem that |
they are good subjects for action on |
the part of the officers. With a big |
crop to harvest, and fair wages being |
paid, there is no reason for an able
bodied man to desert his job.
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The tendency upon the part of pub
lie men throughout the country to
express their confidence in President
Coolidge, and to assure him of their
support, is most encouraging, and is
as it should be. Senator Borah and
Senator Gooding, of this state, both
of whom are in Moscow today, have
SO expressed themselves. They be-
Iieve that it is only right and fair
{r,c int
as he does, under adverse conditions,
should be supported, instead of en-
barrassed, wherever it is possible to
Ngive support.
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An Englishman, accustomed to his
daily toddies, came to America and
complained of govt, which he charged
to his lack of stimulants while here.
1t would have been fairer to have
attributed his condition to the in
fIuence of wet England rather than
dry America. The same comment
applies to most of the criticisms of
the prohibition law. The trouble with
the the United States is not that we
have a dry law but that we have /
been without prohibition for so many
years. Bootlegging is not the result
of the Volstead act but of the habits
formed during the years when there
was no such law on the statute books.
Yakima Daily Republic. {
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REGULATING REGULATIONS
We all consider that regulations to
be worth anything at all must be en-
forced. American law is splendid
thing but it's splendidly ignored. 7
Take for instance auto traffic laws a
Small children drive cars around S
Garfield every day, and nothing is Il
done. A boy, twelve, drove a car :
around a Garfield street corner this .
week. He had the whole street be- :
fore him, but he drove right into a n
parked car at the curb. Fortunately II
it was not an individual that was a
parked there.
wisely taught how to drive car. !,
This week he decided to drive it. =
He started out alone and drove n
through Garfield, Palouse, and Pot h
Every driver of an auto must have n
1 drivers license. Any individual
Under sixteen ancnot secure this Ii :
,ense. There you have it.-Garfield >,