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The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-11-23
A Song Of Thanks.

Ts the fall of the year, the grasses are brown
The leaves are all sere, the nuts falling down.
But, spite of it all, there's song in the Fall!
Not the song of the Spring, in woods newly green,
Where happy birds sing and flowers seen
Not Spring song at all is the song of the Fall
Nor Summer time song, with sunshine of June
Just dreaming along drowsy sweet tune
No Summer time song the Fall would belong.
Nor gay Winter rhyme, all tngling with cheer
OF sweet Christmas time and Happy New Year
Not gay Winter rhyme for the brown Autumn
time;
But Thanksgiving hymn the brown Autumn sings,
Of church windows dim, of sweet folded wings,
Of praise and of prayer, and our thanks for Gods
care!
--1ranees lNeK1nnou Norton in Girls Conspanfon.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-11-23

Warning was issued Nov. Is BY
David Burrell, state com missioner OF
public welfare, to avoid cider made
from apples not thoroughly washed.
Analysis of sample OF cider submit
ted to w. V. Leonard, state chemist,
showed heavy content OF arsenic.
This poison is the residue of sprays
used by orchardists, and unless the
ripened fruit is cleaned remains as .
menace to life,
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-11-23
CEUR D'ALENE

Mrs. Cora Best received total of
SlSl8, 500 from the City of Occur
d'Alene and $ll18 from Andersen
Brothers, o a settlement made out of
court of the damage suit brought
against the city and Anderson Bros.
to recover $l3, 900 damages alleged to
have been received when she trlpped
on the cover of defective sidewalk
chute 10 front OF Anderson Brothers
store last winter. Mrs. Best and
Charles Best, her husband, filed the
suit.
A man endorsing himself as j e.
Miller. operating 10 Spokane, forged
checks to the total amount of 1897 so
on M. B. Sampson through a Occur
d'Alene bank. The banker suspected
forgery and protested the checks as
they came in. FIVE Spokane firms
were victimized $79 so each.
The Consumers company has
asked for retrial of the case iu
which the jury awarded damages in
excess of $4,000 to Delvina Osier for
injuries alleged to be due to falling
over projecting water service box.
A Hudson super-sx speedster and
% sacks OF intoxicating liquor were
brough to this city Friday from
Bonners Ferry. where it was seized
week before, aud turned over to
United States Marshal Frank
Breshears.
Ezra R. Whitla is suing A. A.
Crane and Fred Crane to recover
$500 alleged due on promissory
note, which through a series of
transfers became the property OF the
plaintiff.
About 200 attended the fathers and
sons get-together meeting at the high
school buiding.
Mrs. r. @. Egbers received word of
The death of her father, 9, r. Bard |
we'll, at Long Beach, Calf.
Frank Young, arrested in cafe by |
a federal officer on charges of being |
drunk and disorderly, was fned $25 |
and costs q probate court.
The 10 day open season for hunting
Hungarian pheasants in this county
closed Nov. 15.
Harold Bailey fell from trapeze In
the high school and was unconscious
30 minutes.
The Atlas Tie company is now
operating with both day and night
shift.
The district court jurors were
dismissed last week for the term.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-11-23

the logs and stuls are in the woods TO
be hauled out on the snow.
Farmers on the peninsula ale ship
ping out few cars OF grain. They
are sowing less land to grain and
more TO grass this fall
The Rose Lake Lumber company
has completed the North Fork rail
road TO the mouth OF Big Creek, a
distance of two miles.
Thomas Homme, rancher on
Harrison flats. lost his barn by 1re
last week. All his hay, feed, harness,
and other things in and around the
barn were destroyed
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-11-23

1. w. w. prisoners in the Idaho
state penltentiary will complete their
full sentence, despite efforts to obtain
their release. it was declared last
week at the office of Governor c. c.
Moore.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-11-23

Paul Tirnell has purchased Il 9
Myrtle Clifford Green house at the
intersection OF Post and Gray
streets; consideration &aoo. Mr..
Tirnell has leased the ground the
house and yard occupy from the
village for FIVE years at 81 per
year.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-11-23

Ernest Burrie, taxidermist Of
Buhl, was flned $25 and costs In a
Justice of the peace court. for having
in his possession, without state
permit, skins of game birds. This is
the first prosecution to result from
the strict enforcement CT the law
regulating taxidermy.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-11-23

ThirtY-seven arrests on charges of
violating the game laws Of Idaho.
with fines aggregatiDg 1896, was the
result Of activity Of the game depart
ment 10 October, according to a
report submitted to Governor G. q.
Moore by R. E. Thomas, state game
warden.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1923-11-23
HARRISON

Henry Metz reports about four
million feet Of timber cut in the
Medimopt section this year. Most Of
Smyrna times., 1923-02-28
DREAM OF MANY INVENTORS
Much Time and Thought Wasted on
Machines Meant to Attain
Perpetual Motion.

Perpetual motion has been the
dream Of inventors for many cen
turtles. By perpetual motion is usually
meant a mechanical device which will
operate Of its own power without such
external or internal aids as wind, gas,
steam or any other element of force
Some have come very near to attain
ing a kind Of perfection by a series
Of weights and balances; also by the
use Of quicksilver, but while these
machines will operate for a time, they
are unable in that time to develop
sufficient power to work machinery or
be Of any real benefit. In the town of
MinnedOsa, Man, an old gentleman
had for some years a machine of his
own Invention operated by a series of
weights by which he was said to have
run a small lathe. A scientist named
Strut has invented an apparatus
which takes advantage of radium
emanations upon o gold leaf electro
scope. This perhaps comes near to
an endless motion, but Is maintained
at the expense Of the molecular en-
ergy of the radium.
Smyrna times., 1923-02-28
LOVE THAT IS TRUE AND KIND
Some Will Say Il Is Considered Soms-
what old-Fashioned by the FLAP
pers" of Today.

As David Mann, in Charles D.
Stewards "Valley Waters" listens to
"LOrena," he visualizes the theme,
thus, of the old song of Civil war
times:
"The woman was beautiful. He had
found her to be beautiful in every way.
He had fallen in love with her in her
girlhOOd and had received her love in
return.
And, having once loved her, he
could no more forget than he could
forget himself.
"What a man experiences has be-
come part of his possessions; it must
remain a part Of his life
David could see that the man
would not only continue to love LOr-
ena, but that his love might grow
stronger and finer as time went on.
Having lost her, she would become
a cherished ideal, vision which never
grows old. And as time passed, in
stead Of forgetting her, he would be-
come more conscious of the lost years
the years that had not been passed
in her company"
That's the way when love is true
and kind. To an age OF fiappers and
fiippancies is it an Old-fashioned way?
Smyrna times., 1923-02-28
BANANA INDUSTRY IS YOUNG
Importations Began in 1870, and Now
Fifty Million 5unehes a Year
Are Brought Here.

How the dietary of a people can be
changed by modern transportation
methods is shown by the banana indus
try. writes Edwin +. SlOssOn in the
Worlds Work. In 1870 Captain Baken,
coming back from Jamaica on his
schooner, brought to Boston a few
punches of bananas as curiOsities.
They attracted the attention Of A. w.
Preston, a fruit dealer of Boston, who
in 1885 started with an investment Of
$1,000 the enterprise that became the
United Fruit company, which now runs
a fleet of about a hundred steamers to
the Caribbean and owns large planta-
tiOns on the islands and in Central
America. These localities have been
transformed from a sanitary and in
dustrial standpoint and supply us with
some 5O,OO0,OOO punches of bananas a
year, half a bunch, or 72 bananas, for
every one of us. The bananas are
picked green and delivered at various
points Of the United States in such a
state as to ripen within two days from
arrival. All the bananas have to be
eaten within three weeks from the
time of picking in the West Indies.
Smyrna times., 1923-02-28
Color Grades for Hnnev-

Samples of honey are being received
by the United States Department Of
Agriculture from beekeepers in all
parts of the country in connection
with the work of establishing reliable
color grades for extracted honey. A
new type Of spectraphotOmeter will
be used in this work. which will be
done by agriculturists of the depart
ment in cooperation with the division
of grades and standards of the bu-
reau of agricultural economics. It
Is also planned to use the hOneys ex-
amiDed in other investigations. The
pollen content Of the honeys will he
identified by the microchemical labora-
tory Of the bureau of chemistry.
Smyrna times., 1923-02-28
Telephone in Bathroom.

For years hotels have been cOmpet-
ing with one another to provide the
ultimate in a guests comfort. But II
is only recently that anyone had enough
Imagination to think of anything so
sensible as a telephone extension in the
bathroom. What is more annoying than
to have to get out of the bathtub all
dripping and stand by a wall tele-
phone? One hotel | saw recently has
two telephones in each room, one by
the bathtub and the other on a stand
by the head Of the bed. Excellent
places for phones, but think how long
1t took for hotel men, even MOTEL men
with the best Of intentions, to quit
putting them on the wall where a
guest can't even sit down. For that
matter, it is not many years since
phones in private homes were placed
where one could talk and be comfort
able all at Once.-Fred Kelly, in the
Nations Business.
Smyrna times., 1923-02-28
Engine Sets New Worlds Record.

Realizing that the most important
present development in aircraft en-
gines is their durability, the naval bu-
reau Of aerOnautics recently Increased
the endurance tests to as much as 300
hours, in three runs of 100 hours each.
The purpose Of such long test was to
run the engine to destruction, and thus
determine its exact length Of life. But
TO the surprise of the bureau, one en-
gine, instead of being run to destruc-
tiOn, was still in perfect condition at
the end of the 30O-hOur test Experts
Of the bureau say this new aircraft en-
gine has established a worlds record
for fuel economy, as well as for dura-
billty. It is. they say, the best air
craft power equipment ever developed.
The engine. described in Popular Me
chanics Magazine is Of the elght-cylin.
der V-shaDed type, and develops an
average horse power Of 175. This
would be sufficient to prOpel a FIVE
passenger airplane at a speed of so
miles an hour, which in 300 hours
would be equivalent to flying around
the world.
Smyrna times., 1923-02-28

Candle" gang of thieves, and have
implicated, according to the author
tiles, a third man, for whom sheriffs
are now hunting. At least 100 rob-
berries of houses and stores within the
last two months have been laid upon
the gang, who always left greasy
trails of pink candles in the places
they looted. At Coolspring Wednes-
day night they forced entrance to the
general store of Clifford NAPLES, steal
ing $40 from the cash register, but
taking no goods. Tell-tale drippings
from the inevitable pink candles were
left in the store.
Smyrna times., 1923-02-28
New Menace to the Automobile.

In the Fresno court a man is being
sued for damages as a result of fail
ure to hang a tail light on a black
heifer. 1t seems this heifer had de-
velOped a penchant for wandering
about country lanes and roads after
curfew time and a stranger in an auto
mobile bumped into her. We are left
in ignorance as to the fate Of the
heifer, but the automobile was dam
aged to the amount Of $22952. The
owner of the automobile thinks the
owner Of the heifer should pay.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Smyrna times., 1923-02-28
GOT NAME FROM TROJAN KING
History Professor Says Britain Was
Ancient Land Before the Land
ING Of the Romans.

Professor Gordon. Merton professor
of English literature in the University
of Oxford lectured to the English as
sOciation at the London School of Eco
nOmics on "The TrOjans in Britain"
and the report of his talk given by the
London Morning Post, sets forth some
statements new to the general public.
Professor Gordon said he found it
difficult to understand why so often the
history of Britain taught to schOOlbOys
began with julius Caesar, for Britain
was quite an old land by the time the
Romans arrived. The first Britons
were the TrOjans, and Brutus, the first
British king, gave his name to the
island.
Brute, or Brutus, great grandson Of
Aeneas, gave Britain its first estab-
lished population since the flood. He
founded a second Troy in Britain. On
his voyage he encountered sea monsters
known as sirens, which Godfrey imag-
ined to be species of whale.
Brutus landed in Britain, where he
found nobody but a few giants, whom
he rounded up in their caves. One
giant was clothed in furs made up Of
the boards of the kings he had killed.
Lud, one of the associates of Brutus,
gave his name to London and to Lud-
gate. The Trojans represented the
best blood of Europe; hence it was
quite natural that Cymbeline's son
should marry a daughter of the em-
perOr of Rome.
Smyrna times., 1923-02-28
LAD Wronu PaIr shrInkInu.

She evidently was a new clerk In
the department store, and was doing
her best to please. The customer
asked to see wool hose. Two pairs in
a size she wished were shown her.
One pair was a trife larger than the
other.
The customer remarked that she
liked the smaller pair better, but that
she was afraid they were not quite
large enough. She wished they were
the same size as the others.
The clerk promptly replied: "Oh
that Is all right, madam. These. the
smaller ones, were made to shrink.
and the others we're not. They were
made to stay the size they are"
Smyrna times., 1923-02-28
Lord Iveanh Rutt for wits

Lord Iveagh, whose family name Is
Guinness, recently passed his seventy
fifth birthday, and the occasion was
seized upon by the press to recount
stories of the earl. The best concerns
a conversation between two pOrters at
a railway station in Ireland. "Whos
this saloon fOr?" That's for the lord
lieutenant" And the porter chalked
"Hls y" on the side of the saloon
"And who's the next fOr2" That's for
Guinness" "Is Il; bedad! Then here
goes-'His XN.' London Mail.
Smyrna times., 1923-02-28
Complains Air Has Been Stolen.

The air is free, however much the
rest of our environment may be in
the possession of other folk, is a con-
soling thought that may now be de-
MED to us. At any rate, an American
citizen has become so depressed In his
mind that he has entered court and
declared that even the atmosphere
and all of its contents and component
parts have passed into the hands of
conspiratOrs who violate the Sherman
act by hOgging up all of the 25,OOO
ether-wave lengths available to his
broadcasting statiOn.-The Nations
Business.
Smyrna times., 1923-02-28
GOOD ROADS ARE AN ECONOMY
Old Type Roads Cost Motorists $780,
100000 a Year for Gasoline is Esti-
mate of Automobile Manufacturers

Estimates of automobile manufac-
turers place the number of cars of all
types in operation in America last
year at more than 100000. One in
every ten individuals in the United
States is represented, comparatively,
as an owner. Almost every family,
figuring on the same relative scale,
would be affected by economic changes
in motor operation. For that reason
the lower cost of fuel consumption
made possible by hard surfaced high
ways is of dominant interest. Actual
tests made by several states show that
the following differences in fuel con-
sumption exists on three existing
types of roads: Cost per ton mile for
gasoline at "a cents a gallon on
Dirt road ...... $.0171
Gravel road ..... .O1l5
Concrete road .... .0077
Thus the difference in pull required
on concrete pavement means an actual
saving in gasoline of S0.0094 fol
every mile travelled. Almost all mo.
torists average 14O miles a week, Ol
20 miles a day. The majority of cars
are of the "light-type" and one tor
weight can be taken as a fair average
for the car itself. This would NEAR
that in a week the car owner woulC
save about $1.32 cents on gas and il
a years time would save $68.43 if i
was possible for him to drive on moth
ing but concrete pavement all tn,
+ time. Thus it is fair to say that ole
type highways are costing the Amer
lean motorists more than a quarter o
a billion annually on his gasoline bill
He can drive 81 miles per ton pc
gallon on concrete but only 21 mile
per ton per gallon on gravel and /
on dirt.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-04-05

put into effect, 1t viii destroy the lib
erty Of the people. their self-depend-
ence, their sense of Initiative and per.
sonal responsibility for self-govern-
ment, and transform them more and
more into dependents upon the federal
government. thus killing the spirit Of
democracy"
The advocates Of the new depart
ment, It Is believed, are mainly con-
cerned about the question Of constitu-
tionality, since the power to direct or
control education Is net delegated to
the United States by the Constitution
Anyway, Senator Norbeck Of South
Dakota read into the Congressional
Record before congress adjourned an
address with the title: Constitutional
and Political Significance Of Federal
Legislation on Education" by his col
league, Senator Sterling, who intro
duced the bill.
Senator Sterling analyses these
parts of the Constitution which have
bearing on the general welfare"
sets forth federal legislation as en-
bodied In the several Morrill, acts, and
concludes thus:
"There are present-day exigencies
not within the scope of existing legis-
lation to aid In meeting which Is, Up
my judgment, the imperative duty Of
the general government. They cannot
be met by a submerged and unrelated
bureau In the Department Of the In
terror, empowered to gather and dis
tribute statistical information. nor
can they be adequately met by fed
eral contributions only for specific
objects to be matched by equal con-
tributions on the part of the states az
cepting them. The vital Importance
of the subject, Its intimate relation to
the well-being and safety of the peo-
ple-and this is the highest law-as
well as the dignity Of the subject, all
combine to urge as the next great step
the creation of Department Of Edu-
cation, with its secretary member of
the Presidents cabinet, whose proper
function 1t shall be not alone to adj
minister funds apportioned to the
states, linportdht tnoush this may pe,
but through investigation and re-
search to cover the whole field Of our
educational resources and needs; and
which, without dietation, without ig-
noring state plans or eneroaching upon
the freedom Of state initiative, shall
from its higher vantage ground en-
courage, stimulate and lead in every
constitutional cooperative educa-
tional enterprise that will enhance the
general welfare"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-04-05

No formal overtures have yet been
made to South China by the British
foreign office and none will be made
until reports are received from diplo-
matte and consular officials in this
country who are now endeavoring to
find out just how far the Sun govern
ment is able to 60.
In the meantime. however, the
municipal authorities of Canton are
declared to be negotiating with British
interests with view TO floating a $1O,-
100000 loan in England for the i'm
provement Of the Cantop harbor.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-04-05

1t is learned authoritatively, according
to advices received from London by
the International News Service.
Exclusive announcement of the
plans Of Sun Vat Sen and other South
China leaders to enter into political
and business relations with Great Brit
ain. following their failure to get aid
In the United States, was made by In
ternational News Service. The British
government is understood to be pro-
ceeding upon the basis Of information
to this effect published then for the
first tlme
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-04-05

partment, the Department Of Educa-
ton and Welfare.
The coordination Of the military
and naval establishments under q
single cabinet officer as the Depart
ment of National Defense.
The transfer of all nonmilitary
functions from the War and Navy
departments to civilian departments
chiefly Interior and Commerce.
The elimination of all nonfiscal
functions from the Treasury depart
ment.
The change Of the name of the Post
Office department to Department OF
Communications.
The attachment to the several de-
partments of all Independent estab
lishments except those which perform
quaa-judicial functions or act as serv'
Ice agencies for all departments.
According to the recommendations
of the President and cabinet the new
Department of Education and Welfare
Will have four major subdivisions, each
under the charge of an assistant sec
rotary, as follows: Education, health
social service, veteran relief.
Existing bureaus and offices to be
transferred to the Department Of Ed
ucatlon and Welfare are as follows:
From the Department of the In
terror: Bureau of education, Indian
schools, Howard university, st. Eliza.
beths hospital, Freedmen's hospital
bureau of pensions.
From the Department of Labor
Womens bureau (part). children's
bureau (part).
From the Treasury department
Public health service.
From the War department: Soldiers
home.
From the Department of Justice
Office Of the superintendent Of prisons.
Independent establishments: Smith
sonian institution Qf 1t can legally be
done), federal board for vocational ed
ucation, national home for disabled
volunteer soldiers, Columbia instItu-
ton for the deaf. veterans bureau.
This article, 1t should be understood,
is Informative only.
Although this reorganization plan is
not formally before congress for con-
sideration, legislation for the estab-
lishment of a Department Of Educa-
ton and Welfare is pending under the
SterlingTower bill. So there has
already been considerable debate over
the proposed new department. An
extension Of the remarks Of Repre-
sentative Caleb r. Layton of Della.
ware, for example. cover fifteen pages
of the Congressional Record-ap.
proximately 10000 words-in opposi
ton to the new department.
Mr.. Layton Incorporates In his re
marks letters from college presidents
state superintendent of education
and newspaper editors opposed to the
new department. He sets forth In de
tail twelve reasons why the new de
partment should not be established
His eleventh reason is as follows:
Eleventh. The plan is plainly un
constitutional and In clear conflic
with the reserved rights Of the states
under our national organic law.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-04-05
Unhurt by Long Fast

Scottish history tells of certain
John Scott. who In 1881, having failed
In law case, abstained, presumably
by way of protest, from all meat and
drink for 80 days. The king having
heard of this and being resolved to
test the truth of the report. ordered
Scott to be locked up In a cell In Edin-
burgh castle with only small supply
OF bread and water. After 81 days 1t
was found that the bread and water
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-04-05
Rare Volumes

A writer on rare books says
sometimes the rare books of the
world have owed their pre-eminence
to oddly of size. There have been
the abnormally little books. In the
palace of the Escorial In Spain there
were volumes six feet In height by
four feet in breadth. The Thumb
Bible is the size of postage stamp,
yet 1t contains copper plates. The
Midget New Testament. printed IN