The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-04-05

Fer Year Si.O
(MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
The editor of the Garfield Enter
prise has concluded, n so expresses
poor way to do business. He says
Thai it makes a man poor, makes q
community poor, clogs circulation and
brings about disease in h body poll
tic. He then quotes a former Gar
field business man, who had just re-
turned from a short stay in the Will
lamette valley, and who brought back
the information that conditions were
fairly prosperous there, giving as the
reason that the farmer pays cash for
what he buys, bringing to town
enough produce of various kinds to
pay for the goods which he takes
home. AS a result the incubus of
debt, the presence of which harnesses
the life out of the farmer n bust
ness man alike, is missing. The En-
terprise man says then that diversi-
fled farming makes all this possible
and that it can be carried on in the
Palouse country as well as anywhere
else on earth, which is true.
Fa "a ~
WE ARE SHIPPING IN HOGS.
Some idea of the decrease in num-
Der of hogs in Idaho since the World
war began was given in a report early
this year made by John t. Montgom-
ery. live stock specialist of The Mini
doka project. Mr.. Montgomery's re-
port shows hat there were 2O,174
hogs on the project in 1915 n only
7143 in 1922. But the latter yea
showed an increase over several pre-
ceding years. In 1917 there were only
6134 head and in 1921 the number
was 4435. 1t is believed that this
showing is about what would be
found in nearly every section of Ida
no if a census of the hogs were taken.
1t is claimed that Idaho has less than
o%ne-third as many hogs as in 1914,
despite the fact that the state is pro-
ducing more hog feed than ever be-
fore in its history, and prices for
hogs are higher than at any time
before the World war.
These facts have added significance
when we remember that during the
last year the three Pacific northwest
tern states shipped about $4,000 00
worth of hogs in from the middle west
to supply pork and bacon require
Idaho does not want to over
do the hog business, to be sure, but
why not raise enough for at least our
needs?-Idaho Farmer.
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WAYS TO GET HURT.
One insurance company paid 799
claims last year to people upon whose
automobile doors had been
slammed. Accidents in the cranking
If cars produced 897 claims. Nearly
LOO persons were paid none because
hey were "jolted to a degree they
prove injurious. Slips and in
while making repairs were
responsible for 1927 claims. More
han 200 car owners met with painful
IOuUlC III llCll OWn SdIdSSO. 4N1IlSly-
,ix drivers were unlucky enough to
ret foreign objects in their eyes, and
we're reimbursed by the insurance ,
The claims for overturning, !
%skidding, and collision |
mounted altogether to 1885. One :
iced not fear that if one is going I
be hurt by an automobile it must ]
e in some commonplace way. There 1
5 a variety of methods to choose /
rom, some of which nearly classify
s exclusive.-Toledo Blade.
Pa - - /
While we read daily of b~urglaries, l
0rgeries, ETC., we of curse do not I
ave any realization of the grand /
)tal in dollars and cents of the opera 8
of the dishonest gentry, which
confidence men and thieves
enerally. Insurance statisticians
K the amount taken from the people
the United States last year,
these various dishonest meth
Is, at $500, 900, 900, an amount equi-
tlent to the internal revenue receipts
the federal government for 1922
i'd is greater, by a considerable mar
n, than the imports Of the country
1921, n is an average tax, ac-
riding to the statisticians, on every
woman and child in the country,
$40 q year.