The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-12-05
CMEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS

Just what the so-called progress
i've bloc in congress has to gain b.
preventing organization OF the house
is not just now apparent. If they d.
not care to stand with the republi
cans, they al help the democrat
elect a speaker o fthe house, and per
NIT congress to get down to business
No work can be accomplished if thes,
men refuse to join with one side o.
the other. We predict, however, tina
these men will not care to shoulder
the responsibility of a deadlock fol
any length of time.
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The Occur d'Alene Press rightful-
ly says that William Kirkpatrick
former sheriff of Bonner county, who
was found guilty in the federal court
of having uniawfully %conspired to
possess and sell intoxicating liquor,
is doubly guilty. Not only was he
expected to obey the laws an an Am
erican citizen, but when assuming Of
flee, he ook oath to support the %
stitution and uphold the laws of the
land. Officers who have conspired
with bootleggers have had very much
to do with making the prohibition
law difficult of enforcement.
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A woman in black unknown to
those who thought they were the
only legitimate mourners, attended
the funeral of j. Wheelock, Memphis
bachelor, killed at the age of SO in an
auto accident. She old the mourners
she was his wife and showed apers
to prove it. One was an agreement by
which Wheelock n his wife separ-
ated two days after their marriage.
the woman being given $150,00O in
lieu of any future claim on her hus-
bands estate. Copies of the agree
ment were found in the papers of the
man. The widow declined to
explain the secret marriage and sud-
den separation, saying 81 came mere
ly to show him the same respect in
death I held for him while he was
l know that in his last mo-
ments ! was uppermost in his mind"
Romance is something hard to kill.
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MANUFACTURING ON THIS COAST
Indications of what the Pacific
coast can do are to be learned from
- hoe ,1rooI- o<to.-0 %o<1
output of more than
So, 200, OOO, 900 in 1919 was reported
or the Pacific states in the census
or 1920. In so short an interval as
he two years which followed, a rel
tive improvement in the position of
'oast industries al be noted, as the
census of manufactures for 1921
hows that more than 5k per cen of
he country's manufactured products
on the coast against 5
er cent in 1919. Relatively high sta S
ries of that section. The decline in /
alue of all American manufactures
rom 1919 to 1921, a period which +.
Iosed with declining prices, amount +
i to 80 per cent, while the value for Il
lie three Pacific states declined only p
per cent.-National Bank of Com u
cree Bulletin. =
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BUREAUCRACY AND BOLSHEvISM b.
1t is probable that most Ameri- q
ms have not figured out any con-
.ction between bureaucracy, which +
IS developed SO rapidly in American
affairs in the past few
ars, and b~olshevism. An editor Dc
in a recent issue of the Kansas til
oman's Journal, points out rather az
the relationship, and shows co
at one may very easily lead into re
otho iy.
W.
Here is the Journals editorial:
This will be known in profane his IN:
y as the age OF printed p%ropagan ab
Thousands and tens of thousands int
tons go out of Washington every nc
nth for every conceivable sort of ~
1T. It seems that every depart vid
Mt has within it some place the
~pagandist who is using our gov att
ment machinery to promulgate his str
emes. Remember the illustrious una
es who became famous because
paid the freight-well, he's at it
in. z:
If Uncle Sam does not have a
out Of his bureaus some OF N
'e days he will not have enough
ley left to finance a secondhand 'seN'