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Evening star., 1923-04-04
Civil Service Annuities.

The civil service retirement fund
built up by the percentage payments
Of employees having reached the sum
Of approximately $4,000 900, it would
seem practicable to increase the an
nuities Of retired employees and the
annuities to be paid employees when re-
tired. The matter has been brought
again to public attention by Senator
Sterling, chairman Of the Senate civil
service committee, and it is the under
standing that he will introduce q bill
in the next Congress to increase the
maximum and minimum annuities to
be paid civil service employees on re.
tirement, and to increase the annui-
ties now being paid retired employees.
The contribution by employees Of
21a per cent of their salaries since the
act became operative in 1920 has built
up a retirement fund considerably
larger than was calculated. 1t was
computed that the contributory sys-
tenn would at the end Of two years re-
suit in a retirement fund Of between
So, 900, 900 and 10000, 900, and the an
nuities to be paid were based on fund
Of that size. The fund has grown
faster than was thought it would, and
is now about 17.000,0 900. 1t is, there.
fore, capable of providing higher an
nuities. The annuities are low. At
present the maximum is S720 and the
minimum $3.50. These are small fig.
ures when one takes into account the
range Of rents and the cost of food
and clothes. The plan that is being
put forward by Senator Sterling would
raise the maximum annuity to $3.50 or
81 900 and the minimum to $40.
Another matter which the senator
has in mind is that in future an an
nuity should bear some relation in
amount to the salary paid the en-
ploye before retirement, the man with
salary Of s1,S00 having contributed
to the retirement fund twice as much
as a man drawing a salary Of 5000.
However, these are matters to be
thrashed out at the proper time and
in the proper place. Two things seem
clear. The first is that the annuities
are very low and should be raised if
this can be brought about, and, sec
ond, that the fund raised by the 21a
per cent salary deduction of en-
ployes is large enough to provide for
higher annuities.
Evening star., 1923-04-04
Slaughter of Priests.

Execution by the soviet government
Of Mgr. Constantine Butchavitch, vicar
general of the Roman Catholic Church
sentence Of death was carried out in
defiance of a worldwide protest.
Slaughtering of priests has been a IA
vorite pastime Of the goddess crew
which has constituted itself the gov
erning power in Russia. Hundreds of
the humble white" priests Of the
orthodox Russian Church have been
done to death. and scores even Of the
black priests, constituting the higher
order of the orthodox hierarchy, have
faced firing squads by order of this
so-called government which the
United States is asked to recognize on
terms Of equality.
The charge that the priests, either
of the orthodox or the Roman Catholic
Church, were 'disloyal'' is so thin a
pretext that assumption that the world
will accept conviction on this charge
as justifying death is only another
instance Of the amazing affrontery of
the bolshevik despotism. The truth is
that the soviet government has
planned deliberately the complete wip-
ing out of religion. In this it is actu-
ated by two reasons. One is that it
fears the rival influence of religion
and religious teachers, and the other
that it covets the wealth Of the
churches. The only offenses it pre-
tends to have established against the
priests it has slaughtered are that
they have persisted in their ordained
task OF religious teaching and have
sought to protect the property in their
care from the despoilers. But the so.
Wet government DEGREES that these Of
fenses constitute treason" and are
punishable with death.
Up to the time they passed sentence
upon the Roman Catholic prelates the
bolshevists had carried on their priest.
killing with comparative impunity.
This has been possible because the
orthodox Russian Church has been so
utterly crushed by them that it is
without the organized strength to re-
sist or even to make its protests heard.
The Roman Catholic Church, on the
other hand is virile and strong, and
if not in position fully to protect it's
priesthood it at least has centered
world attention upon the outrage Of
their sacrifice. 1t is to be hoped that
this will operate to soften the lot Of
the priests Of the eastern church. 1t
certainly will serve to enlighten civil.
ized peoples as to the outrageous
wrongs which have been done them,
and with this accomplished the martyr
hood of Mgr. Butchavitch will not
have been in vain.
Evening star., 1923-04-04
The Drama of the "Poor Boy" Who
Cleaned Up Wall Street.

When Piggy Wiggly went to mar
ket-the stock market-the curtain
was rung up on one OF those poor
boy who cleaned up Wall street
dramas that Americans love. And
the whole country is watching with
interest and amusement the perfor-
nance in which Clarence Saunders OF
Memphis, who, the Chicago News
says. was politely referred to in
market dispatches as the boob from
Tennessee" has been making the
| bears dance on that gigantic little
street which begins at river and
ends at a graveyard" An apprecia-
tive part of the audience is composed
| of editors all over the country. who.
apparently with a warm sympathy
| for the cafeteria grocer. are enjoy
ing the spectacle of the lamb doing
! the shearing.
From the first the career of the
young Memphis grocery clerk who
started the chain of selr-service
grocery stores with the ridiculous"
| name has been meteoric," the Nash
VILE Tennessean says. Crazy as the
| idea appeared when it was first put
| forth, "the name OF the store and
the manner of merchandising caught
the popular fancy, ard the store
| was a success from the first day.
His career "has been somewhat SIM
liar to that of Henry Ford" the
Tennessee paper goes on to say-"in
fact, the two men have many char
acteristics in common. Each is a
business genius Each conceived a
great business idea, worked it out
succe ssfully. and then had the finan-
cial shrewdness and ability to man.
age the corporation" And each, ap-
parently, other writer's point out, can
give Wall street a few uneasy
moments.
A few days ago "Piggly Wiggly
stock was a moderately active issue"
the Decatur Herald reports, bu,
Financial reporters and journals paid
no attention to it, But, observes
the Chattanooga News, cit seems to
have been the purpose of somebody
| to take the control of the corporation
out of Mr.. Saunders hands. And in
stead Of bidding for the stock the op-
posite course was taken. The stock
was sold short in the apparent hope
that 'Mr. Saunders would break in
attempting to buy" Whether or not
II was a. concerted drive to break the
Piggly Wiggly Corporation, the
Houston Chronicle considers "unim-
portant," in any event "the raid was
made" And because cit was impos-
sible to suppose that Memphis man
could take up the slack when New
Workers began to SELL" the program
called for the "stock to be broken"
But, the Houston paper adds, "a cog
slipped somewhere" Unluckily for
Ithe Wall street raiders, the Chicago
Journal explains. "the boob from Ten
nessee had some ideas and a cash
Evening star., 1923-04-04
Lord Robert Cecil,

Lord Robert Cecil, on his mission to
the United States in support OF q plea
that this country join the league Of
nations, may find his undertaking at
tended with embarrassment. He is
talking to a nation whose traditions
have run contrary to the policy he
urges upon US. In the presidential
election Of 1920. by q remarkable and,
indeed, overwhelming majority. the
voters emphasized their adherence to
our policy Of abstention from mingling
in European politics, maintained un.
devtatingly throughout the years. The
precedent set by Washington was re.
affirmed in no uncertain tone. So
this distinguished visitor, recognized
as the chief and most admirably
sSuipped advscate Of the league Of
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not be the natural and right thing to
give this out to the public before
the department, or somebody for it,
begins to answer 1t in the public
prints? There isis there not?-a
possibility that the organization al
legged to have made such a protest
did not do any such thing as ask the
War Department to prevent Army
officers from speaking publicly In re-
gard to their profession" unless, by
some unfortunate tendency, their
profession" has come to include the
business of misrepresenting ahd ma
ligning the character of high minded
and highly citizens. A good
many people in Washington know the
executive secretary of the National
Council for Prevention of War They
know that he believes both sides Of
this war and peace question should
be candidly discussed in the most
open way possible. Why were not
the names of those who joined Mr..
Libby in this protest given out /?
There are many people hereabouts
who cannot believe that the Secre-
tary Of War approves or Is going to
approve of Army officers making per-
sonal attacks upon other citizens who
are not fully in harmony with all the
activities OF certain individuals con-
nected with the War Department.
IA. c. WATKINS.
Evening star., 1923-04-04
Call for Information.
Controversy Over Army Officers
Speeches Discussed.
To the Editor Of The Star;

To the Editor Of The Star:
Dear Sir: have read your edito-
rial In the issue of Monday. April q.
entitled mo Gag for the Soldiers"
and the little article that preceded It
in point of time by appearing on the
flrst page Of Sundays paper, April l..
T have also seen some articles in the
Army and Navy Register for March
81 referring to a protest that had
been made by the executive secretary
of the National Council for the Pre-
yention of War and others against
speeches recently delivered by Army
officers criticizing the. objects and
Other references of this sort have ap-
peared, am told. in the public press.
AS an interested citizen, / am won.
dering what this movement Is all
about. If the War Department has
received any such protest, would 1t
Evening star., 1923-04-04
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

the Veterans Bureau, is looking at
former service mems needs. Hines,
son Of Utah. enlisted in Salt Lake
City battery for the Spanish-Amsri-
can war. He liked soldering 30
much that he remained in the Regu-
lar Army and had arrived at captains
rank when the United States went to
war with Germany. Hines is one Of
the exclusive group of two or three
men who emerged from the war br1ga-
dier generals and retained their rank.
X * \ X
Another impending departure from
the Washington diplomatic corps is
that of Signor Andrea Geisser Ce-
Iesia de Vegliasco, secretary of the
italian embassy. Celesia, as he is
informally known. has had two
periods Of service in the United
States He was an attache of the
embassy when Italy entered the war
and then returned to Europe to fight,
serving with the artillery in the
Dolomites campaign, in which the
present ambassador, Prince Caetani,
won renown. In 1915 Celesia return
ed to washington, where he has been
one of the most useful men Italy ever
sent here. In 1919 he annexed a
charming American wife, formerly
Miss Margaret Huntington Erhart OF
New York. Signora Celesia herself
saw active war duty, having been at
tached to the ambulance service OF
the Queen of the Belgians, and later
to the American Red Cross. france
bestowed upon her the Reconnaissance
Franchise. Signor Celesia mas oeen
ion off
He leaves Washington with uncon-
cealed regret.
X X y
Fred c. Kelly, Washington writer
who specializes in holding up
whimsical mirror to the foibles and
frailties of human nature, has stirred
the ire of the medical world with
frontal attack on doctors. His thesis
is that the human family keeps well
and gets better not because OF NJ. DIS,
but in spite Of 'em. Kelly denies any
personal antipathy to doctors; de-
poses that at least two-thirds Of his
best friends are pill-mixers or bone
savers. But he is sincerely or the
opinion that while they occasionally
make a patient more comfortable,
their claims of ability to cure disease
Comprise a gigantic hoax A food
of comment, pro and con. is inundat-
ing the Kelly home in Chevy Chase.
X
Luncheon guests at the Shoreham
one day this week saw well known
Washingtonian drenched with cream
the result of a head-on collision be-
tween walters. The famous 'Tumulty
table" was the scene of the disaster
It's the first time 1 was ever salts
factorily whitewashed," was the COM
ment Of the victim, after a rescue
party had resuscitated him. Where
upon Tumulty observed that II was
the first spilled milk over which he
had ever cried-with laughter.
Copyright, 19@3)
Evening star., 1923-04-04

John. D. Rockefeller's Bureau of So
cial Hygiene has established the fact
that a majority Of girls spoon" Now
somebody ought to make the amazing
scientific discovery that majority of
ducks swim.
Evening star., 1923-04-04
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
rn@L1x~as r1- -y.ar-


We've had a fathers congress down to
Pohick on the Crick.
Since the mothers went an had one,
why we thought we'd try the
trick.
We didn't draw designs fur patent
scientific cribs,
Nor ornamental fasteners fur holdin'
on to bibs.
But we studied up the question Of
what people ought to do
To have their boys an girls turn out
strong men and women true.
An or Zeb Somers he rose up an
said that he'd allow
That gatherin' round an talkin'
wouldn't do it, anyhow.
He says, says he, "a mother who is
home, an home to stay,
Is wuth a half a dozen out debatin'
any day.
The little chickens chances fur sur
vival is the best
When Mrs. Chick don't cackle, but jes'
sfAusgles to the nest"
Zeb Furthermore remarked that con.
crosses is sometimes run
By folks that claim they're studyin'
when they's merely havin' fun.
He made motion to adjourn; twas
carried purity quick.
An they'll be no further sessions down
at Pohick on the Crick.
Evening star., 1923-04-04

By insistence, upon taxing supplies
donated by Americans for refugee re-
lief, the Turks are enlightening the
present generation as to what Glad
stone meant when he termed them
"unSpeakable.
Evening star., 1923-04-04

Whatever the practical achievement
of Lord Robert Cecil's trip to the
United States may be, he proves him
self-in the words Of Edward Everett
"a warrior intrepid and unselfish." !"
Evening star., 1923-04-04
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Evening star., 1923-04-04

The way the peace organizations are
going after Gen. Fries is an excellent
proof of the fact that even they still
retain the elemental fighting instinct.
Evening star., 1923-04-04

Kansas simply could not resist con-
tributing a tornado to this springs
assortment Of weather.
Evening star., 1923-04-04

/. That South Carolina town which is
to have a blind mayor lacks much Of
being in a class by itself.
Evening star., 1923-04-04

Farmers are advised to raise less
wheat. The price of sugar is likely to
induce them to raise "cain" instead.
Evening star., 1923-04-04
A Little Bit Of April.

n lkbtlc DiL Ol faPu.
Little bit o. sunshine,
An little bit O. breeze;
Little bit O. smilin'
An little bit o. sneeze.
Little bit o. singin'
BY the robin on the limb;
Little bit O. April
Hangin' on the storm-cloud's brim
Little bit o. rnurniur
Where the wakening waters run;
Little bit O. showerin'
An a little bit o SUM-
Little bit o. April,
Like the echo Of a tune
That shows the world Is marchin'
Toward the radiance Of June.
Evening star., 1923-04-04

that the President is plain, busi-
ness-like individual with a genius for
stabilizing. He is not the man to do
his work with a brass band" The
attitude of the political managers is
that after the work has been done
there is no use to put it under
bushel, where tho public cannot see it.
What the managers want Is that he
exercise his recognised genius for
stabilizinG on the voters Of tho coun-
try and stabilize the prospects Of the
republican party in 1924.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-10-19

The Matching results for the season
of 1928 were very poor throughout
most parts of the United States. There
are doubtless number of contribut-
ing causes and, according to DR.. NJ.
A. JUL, in charge of poultry investi-
cations of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, one of the causes
of poor matches has been the use from
year to year OF pullets as breeders.
In general sense it is apparent that
the hatchability OF eggs depends upon
the constitutional vigor of the breeding
stock producing the eggs. If the
breeders are healthy and vigorous and
are kept in comfortable quarters, then
the eggs should hatch we'll, providing
the methods of incubation have been
satisfactory. Taking the country as
a whole, however, Doctor JUL believes
that the Matching results from one
season to another are not as good as
might be expected.
The use of pullets as breeders may
affect this situation in the following
manner: The practice of using pull
lets as breeders frequently leads to
the use of immature birds. In this
way Matching results are affected be-
cause the young pullets do not seem to
have the abundance of constitutional
vigor possessed by older birds. More
over, all birds as pullets usually lay
a smaller egg than as yearlings. Since
the size of chick Matched depends to |
a considerable extent upon the size of
the egg producing the chick, it is OBJ
vious that as rule, larger chicks are
produced from the eggs OF yearlings.
Then again, it has been a matter of
common observation among poultry
men that the chicks from yearlings
ire usually stronger and grow better
han the chicks from pullets.
Another very important matter to
which poultrymen should give more
Ittention is the influence of forced
eeding on hatchability. Many fiocks
# pullets are fed heavily throughout
he fall and winter to induce heavy
gg production, and then in the hatch
ng season the eggs from these pullets
re used for incubation purposes. This
a questionable practice, says Doctor
ull, since heavy egg production is
eavy strain upon the stamina of the
en- and the eggs from birds that have
cen fed heavily are very apt to be
Nv in Matching quality. Finally, it
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-10-19
Scism Items

Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Tyler left last
Thursday for Oakland. Calf
A large crowd attended the Frank
Drury and Ray Moon Sale Thursday.
Mrs. Frank Kesler and children left
Sunday evening for Huntington Beach
where she will spend few months Wis
ting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. II. {.
Moore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Moore are the
proud parents OF 10 pound girl born
Monday. Oct. 8.
Mrs. MN. Chambers was a dinner
guest at her brothers home, Mr.. I.
A. Chitwood Tuesday.
Mr.. c. S. Wood has rented the Tom
Drury ranch for the coming year.
Miss Hill the primary instructor
spent the week end with her parents
of Bowmont.
Mrs. l.. A. Chitwood was a Boise
visitor Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Drury spent
Sunday with the former sister OF Nam
pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Chitwood. Mr.
and Mrs. ID. Z. Chitwood and Mrs.
VIM. Chamber spent Sunday afternoon
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-10-19
Boys Successful
With Hog Venture
Pig Club Work Paves
Way for Big
Herds

Two farm boys of Muscogee county
Georgia, have succeeded so well in
their pig club work that they have
been able to purchase a moderate
priced automobile and by this means
attend high school, which is a con-
siderable distance from their home.
These young stockmen, Webster and
Dana CARTRIDGE, have been practicing
the feeding and care OF pigs under the
direction OF their county agricultural
agent since 1919, when they secured a
purebred boar in partnership. This
they grew into prize-winning ami
NAL. In 1920, each bought a gilt, Civ
ing his personal note for the purchase
price. and later they together invested
in young boar to replace their old
one. From these purchases they have
shown their sows and litters at num-
built up an excellent herd. They have
Der OF community. county, and dist
riot fairs, and have sold many of the
young pigs.
In 1922. according to reports to the
United States Department OF Agricul-
ture, in addition to winning a scholar
ship to the junior short course at the
State Agricultural college, they re-
ceived over $3.50 cash returns from
their stock and had on hand more
than 5000 worth OF hogs.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1923-10-19
POTATO INJURY
To Be AVOIDED
High Quality Seed Re-
quires Care in
Handling

The average seed-potato grower
does not fully appreciate the import
ance OF using every means to prevent
injury to the tubers from rough hand
ling during the process OF harvesting
and storing, says the United States
Department of Agriculture. Mechani-
cal injuries to a tuber are sources for
the entrance OF infection which rapidly
spreads to other tubers which come
in contact with the injured one. If
the crop is grown on land which con-
tsins many small stones the tubers are
almost certain TO be more severely in
jured than when grown in a sandy
loan soil. Hand digging is not al
ways feasible, but it is believed that
where small stones abound in the soil
it will be desirable to harvest the
home seed plat by hand. Much in
jury will be avoided If the seed stock
designed for planting the field plat for
the ensuing year is picked directly into
crates in which il is allowed to remain
throughout the storage period
Storage conditions necessary to in
sure vigorous seed at planting time are
more easily provided in the North
than in the south. In the former re-
gion a well-constructed cellar, pit, or
cave serves reasonably well. The main
thing is to keep the room tempera-
ture sufficiently low to retard germina-
ton. The ideal seed tubcr is one
which has not wasted any of its stored
up energy by excessive loss through
sprouting. 1t should be firm with the
first sprouts just showing Such tub
ers can be depended upon, If suitable
conditions prevail. to start quickly
when planted and to make vigorous
growth.
The general practice among south
I'm growers of securing seed from the
north involves, in the absence of suit
'ble storage conditions, one OF two
Kings: Either getting the seed pota-
oes late in the fall and holding them
'ver in dugouts, pits or cellars, with
sprouting before planting.
'r the risk of having the seed chilled,
rozen, or overheated while in transit
midwintcr. In the opinion of de- ,
'artment authorities, the greatest need !
t present is that of suitable storage
ABILITIES for handling fall shipments !
I seed potatoes. This would do away T
nth the risks of midwintcr shipment I
nd enable them to buy seed in the c
all when the price is usually much S
Glow that of later shipments. v