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Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-31

FOR SALE-Chandler auto
mobile in first class running or
der. Can be seen at the Service
Garage. Will sell at a bargain if
taken at once. 31-3
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-31

FOUND-Automobile license
plate 34473. Call at this office.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-31

FOR SALE-16-inch slab
wood at our saw mill. Hussman
Lumber company. 27-tf
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-31

FOUND = Bundle kicker"
for Deering binder. Call at this
office. 34-2
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-31

FOR SALE or TRADE-One
ton Buick truck for Ford car.
Service Garage. 36-tf
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-31
WANTS, FOUND AND FOR SALE

FOR SALE-9-foot McCor-
mick combine harvester. w. w.
Blackburn. 32-tf
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1923-08-31

N. A. Litherland and family of
Ferdinand spent Sunday in Cot
tonwood as the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. 7. C. Keith.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23

of dropping to his knees daily when the
Ange!us sounds and praying for the souls
of twenty persons he has killed, Fell
ciano Machorro, 19-ycar-old outlaw, is
being pursued through the mountains by
a special squad of police agents detailed
to the chase.
an two days Machorro is credited
with having murdered four persons and
escaping with many thousand pesos"
The Mexican outlaw processes to be-
lieve in certain great principles-and
who shall say that he does not? II he
were called upon to express his convic-
tons concerning the taking of human
life, doubtless he would say. with those
who habitually abide by the law, that it
right for the government to protect peo-
pie against murderers. Yet he finds it
to his interest-or thinks he does-to
kill and rob. He cannot resist the temp
tation presented by those "many thou
sand pesos"
Among the people who "favor" gov
eminent by constitution are some who,
in effect, belle that general profession
by their acts. II the principles which
form the basis of this country's form
of government were actually practiced by
all who endorse by word of mouth the
great project undertaken under the name
of Constitution Week. there would be
no occasion for launching that project.
Although nobody will voice opposition
to the constitution, or to the principles
which afford that great document its
only hope of continued existence. some
body is manifestly standing in the way
of its and their practical application to
governmental affairs.
The trouble, of course, is that too
many people regard those principles
merely as distractions. and are not only
unable to transmute them into practical,
concrete results, but do not recognize
those results for what they are when
other people achieve them. That is why
the fundamental principles of the United
States constitution need to be REDEEMED.
Constitution Week is means toward
that end.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
THEORETICALLY UNANIMOUS

1t would be far easier to attain the
ultimate object of Constitution Week
If there was any frankly avowed opposi-
ton. to the project. Won't somebody
atleast one person in this great common
wcalth-step boldly forth and say that he
IS, "agin" constitutional government?
Everybody, it seems, has at once
not, however, to accommodate the idea
expressed in the above question. All
profess a consuming desire for constitu-
tional government. 1t would seem a
simple matter to do or get that which
receives great peoples unanimous en-
dorsement. If everybody anxiously de-
sires government by constitution, and
not single human being in all the great
aggregation of citizens opposes it, then
why the delay? And what's the "idea'
of having a Constitution Week, any.
way?
A dispatch from Puebla, Mexico
suggests an answer. 1t may be IA
cry, both geographically and govern
mentally, from Puebla, Mexico, to III,
question of constitutional government il
the United States. Nevertheless, con
slider the dispatch:
BEST known for his unfailing custom
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23

saulted in anger by guards who through
years of handling criminals often become
hardened to finer sensibilities. Not in
frequently convicts who have committed
no serious offenses are terribly and I'M
justly punished.
But where the lash is used under strict
regulation by men of responsibility and
intelligence under control of reputable
physician, it is an excellent method of
disciplining desperate convicts who would
not yield to close confinement, bread
and water and other similar measures. If
the lash can be got along without most
certainly it should not be used. But
sometimes the issues is drawn between
management of prison by the warden
or management by outlaw inmates and
in that case, the warden has got to en-
force his rule. That is what he is there
for. Experience has proven that good
thrashing, will often subdue an unruly
and defiant criminal when all other
methods fail
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
A TRICK THAT FAILED

Judged by press summaries OF It's
nrovisions. the convention of st. Ger
main for the control of traffic i'll arms
seems to have been a crude scheme not
only to involve the United States in
the affairs of the League of Nations,
but also to bind this country TO serve
the future military needs of the sigma
tories and to close its munition store
houses to non-signatories.
1t required no little nerve on the
part of the treaty's opponents to present
such a document to America. Possibly
they thought that we might accept 1t
in the belief that it would promote the
project of military disarmament, or limi-
tation of military armament-an ideal
which many Americans have cherished.
But of course Our State Department was
not to be blinded to realities by any
mere abstraction. While the American
people as a whole would probably en-
dorse a world movement to apply to
military ornaments the principle that
was invoked to check the race for naval
supremacy, not even a fairly intelll-
gent lavman would be deceived by the
terms of the ST. German treaty.
In its refusal to ratify the convention
the United States government pointed
out very succinctly the vital defects JUS
tifying the rejection. Principal among
them is the failure of the treaty to pro-
vide for a general limitation of anna,
ments. Thus the effect would be &c
establish an arms boycott against non
signatory nations and establish an arms
monopoly for the signatory ones. The
latter, by a System of control" could
fill their own requirements in time Of
war. while the former, without a source
OF supply, would be at the mercy Of
the well-cquipped.
Another defect mentioned by the
State Department is that one Of the pro-
visions of the convention is inseparably
intertwincd with the covenant of thC
League of Nations. Therefore, il the
United States signed the convention i
would be entangling itself in the affair:
OF an institution with which it is de-
tcrmined to have nothing to do.
Some day. possibly, Europeans will
realize that their attempts to draw thc
United States into their slough of poll
teal despond are utterly futile.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
Poets Corner
PECAN TINE.

Pecans are ripenin' in the shell,
Down along the Guadalupe river;
Every Sunday, armed with buckets,
That's the way we head our flivver.
Amt much left of that old Lizzie"
But it rattles down the road,
Jumpin', bumpin' up and down hill,
Till it gifts there with its load.
Water sparklin' clear and cold,
Cypress trees a-growin' thick,
Just in back pecan trees loaded,
Waitin' for us kids to pick.
Then the chunkin' and the plunkin'
AS the nuts come showerin' down
Stoopin whoopin', gotter watch out
Lest stick fall on yer crown.
Tired, perspiring, then we 10
A-wadin' in the river
Too cold to take off ev'ything,
Cause faint no fun to SILVER.
But when we're joltin', boltin' home,
We all feel mighty well;
Bet you'd ike it down here, too, when
Pecans are ripenin' in the shell.
MILTON MALLISTER. Z
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23

gathering suspense, and It, thriDed
his diseased nerves with exultation.
But there was, from his listeners,
but one significant response at first
to the evil suggestion that he made
with such iniquitous fires in his wild
eyes and such a strange, suppressed
tone in his voice. Bess' expression
did not change. 1t had already re-
vealed the uttermost depths of
dread. Ned still held himself, cold,
now, as serpent, waiting for his
chance. But the squaw paused
single instant in her work. For one
breath they failed to hear the clatter
of her pans. But seemingly indiffer-
ent, she Immediately went back to
her toll.
Bess shook her head in desperate
appeal. "Wait till morning." she
pleaded. am tired now"
Ned saw by the gathering fury. of
their masters face that her refusal
would only bring on the crisis, so
he leaped swiftly into the breach.
"Sure, Bess, let's go to look at them"
he said. I'm anxious to see 'em,
too"
Doomsdorf whirled to him, and his
gaze was as trial of fire to Ned.
Yet the latter did not finch. For a
long second they regarded each
other in implacable hatred, aid then
Doomsdorf's sudden start told that
he had been visited by inspiration.
His leering look of contempt was al
most a smile. "Sure come along, /"
he said. "Ive got something to say
TO you, too. To spare Lenofe's feel
ings-we1l go to the other cabin"
Ned was not in the least deceived
by this reference to Lenore. Dooms-
dorf had further cause, other than
regard for IGNORES sensibilities, for
continuing their conservation in the
other cabiA. What it was Ned did
not know. and he dared not think.
And he had a vague impression that
while he and Doomsdorf had waged
their battle of eyes, Bess had mys-
teriously moved from her position.
He had left her just at Doomsdorf's
right; when he saw her again she
was fully ten feet distant, within a
few feet of the cupboards where the
squaw kept many of the food sup
plies, and now was busy with her
parka of caribou skin.
She led the way out into the clear,
icy night. 1t was one of those still,
clear late winter evenings. not so
cold as it had been, when the frozen.
snow-swept world gave no image of
reality to the senses. The snow
wastes and the velvet depths of the
sky were lurid, flashing with a thou
sand ever-changing hues from the
giant kaleidoscope of the Northern
Lights. Moved and held by this
wonder that never grows old to the
northern man, DOomsdorf halted
them just without the cabin door.
Continued i'm Our Next Issue)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
THE LOvE.KNOT.

Tying her bonnet under her chin,
She tied her raven ringlets in;
But not alone in the silken snare
Did she catch her lovely floating hair,
For, tying her bonnet under her chin,
She tied young mans heart within
They were strolling together up the hill,
Where the wind comes blowing merry and chill :
And It blew the curls. frolicsome race,
All over the happy peach-colored face,
I'LL, scolding and laughing, she tied them in
Under her beautiful dimpled chin.
And it blew a color. bright as the bloom
OF the pinkest fuchsia's tossing plume,
All over the cheeks OF the prettiest girl
That ever imprisoned a romping curl,
Or, tying her bonnet under her chin,
Tied young mans heart within.
Sleeper and sleeper grew the hill;
Nader merrier, chillier still
The western wind blew down, and played
The widest tricks with the little maid,
AS, tying her bonnet under her chin,
She tied young mans heart within.
o western wind do you think it was fair
To play such tricks with her floating hair?
To gladly, gleefully to your best
To blow her against the young mans breast,
Where he as gladly folded her in,
And kissed her mouth and dimpled chinf
All! Ellery vane, you little thought,
An hour ago, when you besought
This country lass to walk with you,
After the sun had dried the dew,
What perlous danger you'd be in.
40 ~ Nora Perry.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
A PHILOSOPHERS CABIN.

In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
not far from st. Ignace, stands a
coy little log cabin, the door of which
is always unlocked. Nobody lives in
this cabin-that is to say, there are
no regular month-to-month occupants.
Instead, over the door is this sign !:
For hunters and fishermen. Help
yourself. But please leave everything
as you find it." From week to week
the tenants of the little cabin, which
overlooks a country lane into the
wilds of Northern Michigan, change !;
but always the furnishings and the
cabin itself remain unchanged. No
windows are broken. Whatever
equipment is unintentionally damaged
is replaced. Whoever owns the cabin
has placed high faith in human ma
ture; and human nature has proved
worthy. s-r
The man who owns the Northern
Michigan log cabin is a philosopher.
Probably he uses the cabin himself
at intervals during the fishing and
hunting seasons. There are many
other cabins like it in the Upper
Peninsula. But the others are nailed
up and marked with "No trespassing"
signs. And, sad to say, some of these
other cabins are broken into and dam
aged by fishermen and hunters. The
owner of our particular log cabin, be-
ing philosopher, sat down on a pine
stump to figure out a system where
by his property would not be damaged
when not in his use. The sign. "help
yourself" is his solution of the puzzle,
and it has succeeded. Many tourists
have used the cabin this year: but
it is in as fine state of repair as
when the owner left it. Put faith in
men and 90 times out of 100 they
will justify your faith.
On a downtown Grand Rapids cor
ner blind man sells newspapers.
His customers make their own change
from cash spread out in a pasteboard
box. They can cheat. him il they
want to; but they don't. Human be-
ings like to be trusted.-Grand Rapids
Herald.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
JUST FOR TODAY,

Day has opened wide her gates in the
pearly East,
And by her winged hours she meas
ures well her tread;
She calls her children to 4 varied,
lordly feast,
As from her glorious presence the
shades of night have fled.
And now, dear Lord, we call upon
Thy Holy Name:
Just for today and all its needs we
pray;
Guide, with Thy ministering angel
bands, the flame
Of life that fills our throbbinK souls
from heaven,
Just for today, dear Lord, just for
today. ..
Lord of the glowing morning, and
that marvellous light
Which clothes the world in living
form and beauty;
Lord Of that Great Eternal Wisdom
which gently leads
Our souls along the paths of loving
duty;
"Tby kingdom come; Thy will be
Just for today, dear Lord, just for
today.
Lord Of the noontime, and that Living
Fire
Creating essence of the pulsing souls
May it "Also be in earth a. In the
heavens"
"Give usahis day our daily bread"
and then,
0 guide our feet to walk, our hands
to do,
Our hearts inspire, and our busy
brains Undue.
Send on wings of music, and tune our
hearts to sing of Thee;
Send Thou, living ray, Heart
ray" to guardian angels given,
To warm our spirits breath, and make
it free, $50 e.
With love, to conquer all the sordid
things for heaven;
Just for today, dear Lord, just for
today.
Lord of the quiet eve, and setting
sun;
When the day is ended, and our
given duty done;
By our quiet pillows, through the
brooding night,
Set Thou, a guardian group to ward
away the ills
Of evil ones, assaulting powers that
fight,
Against thy living principles Of
right,
Until Thy golden sun again 10 seen
amid the hills.
When DER the great horizon OF an
other day,
We rise up with the new and heav-
enly sun,
And in the golden airs Of the eternal
way,
o that our hearts may gladly cry.
"Thy will is done."
Just for this day, dear Lord, just
for this day.
MRS. SABINA e. HOOD.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
USING THE LASH

Resumption of the lash in the prisons
of Alabama has been ordered according
to an announcement made by officials
of that state. 1t is declared however,
that the lash is gong to be used in the
future only in the presence OF member
OF the prison supervisors and prison
physician and then only in certain cases
OF grave breach of discipline.
A Protest is anticipated from those
who advocate total adjustment OF the
lash and of the convict leasing system.
Unfortunately there is about equally as
much illogical sentimentality opposed to
the use of the lash as there is abuse
in whipping prisoners.
The use of the lash is Objectionable
only when whippings are administered in
brutal and inhuman ways. Too many
people who express Indignation at the
WHIPPING OF convict fail utterly to take
into account the other side of the ques-
tior. Everybody rightly condemns the
use OF the lash Unfortunately in the
hands of ignorant underpaid prison
guards without supervision. 1t is from
that sort of a system that most of the
barbaric outrages in the use of the lash
have come.
But people should remember, wher
they pity the convict, that prison Off
Gals are up against grave and otter
serious problem in handling the outlaw;
committed to prison. Much as we may
abhor the Use OF the lash in prison man
agement, it often happens that punish
nent of drastic nature is all that will en-
force discipline. Unless there is law ant
order and industry in the prisons the!
could not operate. Naturally among
outlaws, there is not going to be grea
deal Of law, order and industry excep
under compulsion.
The average convict, as experiment
have shown, Yields considerably to hui
name treatment justice and fair play
Yet we must not lose sight of the fac
that he had all of these outside the prison
walls and took advantage of them t
violate the law. Inside the prison, h
is chiefly moved to comply with tn
regulations by the certain knowledg
that he can be made to do so. Fo
the average convict, that is sufficient
But in every prison containing som
hundreds of inmates. there always are
few men who possess criminal courag
sufficient to DEFY all authority. The
would not obey rules or work unles
punished.
They are super-outlaws. convicts VIII
naturally possess criminal Leadership
Unless they are brought under disciplin
| and kept there, they will lead other
! OF more timid natures to revolt and
the end. precipitate serious troubl
Tile states maintain prisons, not for tn
purpose of entertaining convicts but fc
the dual purpose of reforming them an
projecting society. Incidentally prison
are maintained for the punishment
crime. Men are shut behind prison wal
because they are deemed by jurors
> to be unfit to be at large and menac
r to the security of society.
: Naturally when indiscriminate viii
e ping is allowed, convicts who are III
n able to protect themselves, are whippC
= for trivial offenses that should ents
nothing more severe than reprimar
n Tor some milder penalty. Others are a
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
A BURSTING BUBBLE

Germany to Surrender Completely
reads a recent headline. One did not
have to read the context of the dispatch
thus briefly summarized to learn ore
of the causes of Germany's plight On
the same page of THE LIGHT that bore
the report of the German governments
latest decision there appeared a repro
duction of photograph that gave visual
evidence of one of Germany's greatest
postwar mistakes.
The picture was that Of the New York
office of doll importer which had been
papered with German currency Of an
aggregate value of 100000 marks.
The value of this money, in terms of
the dollar, is-or was few days ago
just $1.02 IL. The importer thus saved
many dollars on the normal cost of wall
paper for his office-although, of course,
he probably lost on the labor. As was
stated beneath the picture, before the
war the 100000 marks would have
been worth Approximately $9,OO0.OO0
1t is reported that one ingenious and
thrifty Austrian brewer-Austria has
been having financial troubles--too--
pasted kronen on his beer bottles to save
the cost of labels. And few days
ago Texan received from an acquaint-
ance in German city letter in Which
the price of a pound of ham there was
given as 100000 marks.
Most Americans are familiar, in a gen.
eral way, with the story of currency in
flation as practiced in Germany. How
ever. it sometimes requires concrete ex-
amples to drive home the fallacy of the
financial course which the German gov
eminent has been pursuing.
One might think that the absurditv OF
such a policy would be regarded as a
matter of Course by all sane Americans.
Yet some highly successful business men
in this country have long been, and
still are, advocating currency initiation
by the United States government. Our
financial and economic troubles they as
cribe to an 'insufficiency of money in cir
culation. One of these men, in a pub
llshed statement recently undertook tc
promote this theory by saying that the
produced wealth of the nation could not
at any given time be converted into cash
because there was not enough money
in the country for that purpose.
1t might seem idle to combat such
buncombe. Yet the opponents of the
"more-money" notion have .far-flune
following. Although it may be difficult tC
offset their preachments by abstract rea
soning, because self-evident facts def,
proof, the exemplary effect of actual mis-
adventures such as Germany is exper
Iiencing cannot be escaped.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23

A Los Angeles court has awarded ali
mony to a husband on the ground that
marriage is $3.50 contract and alimony
works both ways. If this becomes gen
eral, only women in position to pay ali
monv will be popular in the matrimonial
martS.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23
CIRCULATION

SUNDAY only average. 1850
,rno .hove totals and averages are for paid cIr-
ou.tinn exclusive of all spoiled copies and any 1Eee
W. hereby swear that the foregoing statement
Of paid circulation is correct. ~ - ppoUS
Circulation Manager.
c I. BUCHANAN.
Business Manager.
Sworn and subscribed before me this Attn day
of September a. D, 1875. ,,,-- BONNER II,
Notary Public
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-09-23

Senator Shipstead says the people arc
not interested i'll present-day statesmen.
Puzzle Find the statesmen?
New Britain herald., 1923-04-07

Mrs. Philip B. Stanley opened her home on shuttle Meadow avenue Fri- day afternoon to meeting of the Esther Stanley chapter, D. A. R. Professor odeil Shepard of Trinity college gave a very interesting talk on Changing ,Heroines." Robert Haniil- ton of Pennington delighted tho guests by singing several songs The character of the discriminating audi ence was such as to especially appre- ciate the artistic finish and musical understanding of the singer. Mrs. Stanley served afternoon tea to her guests in the dining room of her home which Is unusually unique and at- tractively decorated. Mrs. F. B. Eddy and Mrs. Fortis Allis presided at the charming table which was arranged with a huge boquet of spring flowers Particularly appropriate was the poem which Miss Sally Humason. daughter of Mrs. Harris Humason of Vine street wrote to Mrs Stanley.