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NEW YORK, agosto /. Omitted
Press) Davis, candidate la pre-
sidencia de la naci6n por el Partido
Dem6crata, ha hecho publicamente
manifestations, en- las cuales sos
tiene la politica que Sc ha trazado
el Gobernador Bryan, en- 10 que Sc
refiere a los planes de la admins
TRACTION para celebrar ell Dia de la
Defensa. Davis ha manifestado, que
no hay ninguna necesidad de hacer
que los paisanos suspendan sus ocu-
paciones diarias, para hacer demos
traciones que incumben tan solo al
elemento militar de la naci6n y que
no tiene ningdn fin practice nj edu-
cacional
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IIustres persOnalidades...
(continuaci6n de Ia 10. pAgtna)

su sequito episcopal, unos cuantos sa'
cerdotes gordos rechonchos, q quie-
nes Ell reporter hubo de interrumpir en-
una especie de rezos en- latin que los
religiosos Sc traian sobre cubierta
Monsefor, juzgar pcr 10 que Sc
nos dijo, va de paseo para Roma, He'
vando Ell prop6sito de vtsitar al Pa
pa Y los lugares hist6ricos de Ia pa
tria de don .Benito.
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Ayr Sc ceIebr6 en- esta ca.
pital la convention socialista
para elegir candidates por el
DistritO Senatorial de
San Juan
FuerOn designados los seiores Paz
Granela y Fernando j. GeigeI, pa.
ra SenadOres y los sefiores Bolivar
Pagan, Andres Arus Rivera, Epifa.
MO Fiz, GuariOnex ApOnte y Adolfo
DOnes Padr0, para representatives

DOnes Padr6, para representatives
En- los salones de Ia Federation Lii.
bre, Sc llev6 a cabo, en- la tarde de
aver, la Convention socialista para la
designation de candidates al SenadC
la camara por Ell distrito senate.
rial de San Juan para 1igurar en- ell
ticket por Ia coalici6n electoral de los
socialistas y los repubHcanos puros.
Presidia la Convention ell dce-pre-
sidente del Partdo sefior prudencio Ri
vera Martinez. Estaban presentes de-
legaciones representando todas Las di.
ferentes secciones correspondientes a
todos los pueblos que componen Ell
Distrito Senatorial de San Juan,
En- primer lugar, Sc fueron reunien.
de los deiegados en- convenciones par
ciales por distritos Representatives pa
IA designar los candidates la CANA.
IA.
En- primer t6rmino fue designado
unanimemente el Lcdo. Bolivar Pagan
para representante a La Camara por
Ell distrito representative, por San
Juan.
Sc ratified luego la designation he
cha por los repubhcasos puros en- IA
vor del Lcdo. Adolfo Dones Padr6
para figurar como candidate a la Ca
mara por Ell Distrito representative de
Santurce.
En- Ell distrito representative de
Rio Piedras, Carolina y Trujillo Al
to, fu6 nominado ell senior Andres
Artis Rivera, sociaista.
Por Bayam6n v Guaynabo fu6 nom
brado Ell sehor Epifanio Fig Y por
Ell distrito representative de Naranii-
to, Corozal, Toa Baia Toa Alta fue
ratificado el candidate republican, pu
70 Guarionex Aponte. ...-
Hechas las anteriores designaciones,
Sc reuni6 la Convention senatorial y
Sc procedi6 a la votaci6n de los can
didatoS al Senado.
El seiior Paz Granela fue electo por
mayoria; pero su contrincante Ell Sc
nor Aybar solicit6 que sus votos Sc
sumaran en- favor. del candidate vic
torioso para que resultase electo por
unanimidad, y asi Sc hi2o.
Fu6 ratifcada la nomination de los
repubHcanos puros en- favor del Lcdo.
Fernando J. Geigel para ocupar cl
otro puesto en- ell Senado.
Sc adopt6 el acuerdo de que ell Sc
nor Alfonso Torres fuese recomendado
al Comite Executive para sustituir al
sefior Paz Granela como candidate pa.
ra Ia Com1si6n de Servicto Publico.
Fu6 adoptado tambien el acuerdo
de que Sc constituyese un comite de
campafa en- ell Distrito senatorial que
Sc encargase de La direction de las
elecciones en- todos los pueblos del
distrito.
En- la Convention hicieron uso de
la palabra todos los candidates, ei Sc
fior Fariza Ell sefior. Aybar.
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SMITH vUELvE A INGLATERRA

LONDRES, agosto 8. Omitted
pressl.--Smith, uno de los aviadores
americanos, yolvi6 otra vez, despu9s
de haber salido rumbo Irlanda,
porque perdi6 a su companero Mel
son, quien tripulaba otro aparato, de-
hdo 10 intense que era la niebla.
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ADULTERADORES DE
LECHE, CASTIGADOS

La Corte de Distrito de Ponce die
to las siguientes sentencias per adJil-
terar leche; Isaac Rosado Ladis-
lao Perez, de Ponce, y Clemente L6-
PEE, de Yauco, Is dfas de carce1; Ra-
fael Sierra Y a Pedro Ortiz, de Ponce,
siete tres dfas de carcel,. respective
mente.
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torias al sr. Agacinoy Armas.
A las s de la tarde iev6 anclas ell
''Manuel Arnns'', sllevandose en- su
vientre desde los curas rechonchos has.
ia el hombre de los bigotes piratas.
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ven doctor, fleicitandole por sus me
recidos triunfos, y deseandole al mis-
mo tempo los mejores exitos en- el
ejercicio de su profession en- Ia Perla
del Sur.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1924-08-04
Ell, CONCURSO DE STMPATIAS
DEL "RIALTO"

profundo inter6s ha despertado en-
ell ptfbiico selecto que asiste a las re-
gias funciones del "Rialto", el Con-
curse De Simpatlas iniciadO por la EN-
presa de este popular Teatro. ! ese
inter6s que desde el primer momento
acogiese Ia idea de la celebration de
un Concurso de Simpatfas entire sus
mnltiples favorecedores, sigue crecien
do de dfa en- dfa, quedandO demostra-
do por ell nlimcro Quasi fabuloso de vo-
tos con que cuentan las agraciadas da-
mitas que van la cabeza de las can
didatas mas probables.
FL nltimo escrutinio ofectuad0 AFRO
is eI resultadO Siguiente:
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PEDRO LAGRAvA

(Corresponsal de la United Press
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nos de 400 votos.
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Impuesto INFERNO provincial $780,
Impuesto inferno nactonaI $780,
Derechos de aduana (aproxi- 4
mados) $40
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EXPORT LEVY

Continued from page u
be divided equally between the state
and county road funds.
1t was recommended that the law
governing the killing of squirrels and
gophers be amended to include grass
hoppers and crickets.
A resolution advocating taxation of
hospitals was defeated.
For Term Of Six Years
The commissioners favor holding
over two members and elect a new
one every two years, according to a
resolution voted. 1--WE feel that the
present plan of county commissioners
term of office expiring every two
years is faulty. In many instances
entirely new boards assume charge of
county affairs without any previous
training, which is detrimental to the
best interests of the state" they said.
Change in the constitution to re-
quire commissioners to meet each
month instead of quarterly is recon
mended in another resolution. The
commissioners should allow all
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-31
M'NARY BILL

Continued from page II
ing wheat on the protected higher do
nestle market and selling it ON the
lower world market, the corporation
IS empowered to issue scrip stamps.
which will he made available at post
oihces and banks, and which will be
/ purchased by first buyers of affected
| commodities from farmers The farm
er would be paid in cash not less
than the world price, and would re-
ceiye scrip for the difference. AT
the end of the crop year. when the
intrinsic value of the scrip has been
determined, the amount due him would
be paid somewhat as a patronage div.
idend is paid, by redemption of the
scrip; its value being based upon the
relation between the total crop. the
amount exported, the domestic price
and the world price.
The agricultural export commission.
not the corporation, in cooperation
with the departments of agriculture
and. commerce, will determine the
probable exportable surplus, and this
VIII govern the total purchased by the
corporation in any crop year. In so
lar as feasible, these purchases will
ne maze ON a monthly quota basis and
at a figure which will give the grower
a price in consonance with the month
ly average during a corresponding
monthly period for the years 1906 1914.
inclusive. Should the domestic price
fail to respond within ten per cent
above or below the desired level
the corporation may buy future month
~ quotas or sell in the domestic mar
ket.
The bill proposes, in short, to mar
ket surplus wheat and wheat products. |
cotton, live stock and live stock pro-
ducts with the assistance of a govern,
ment agency, protecting the home mar
ket by an effective tariff. Doing so
may necessitate the government sell |
ing abroad at the lower world price.
and to reimburse itself the agency |
wouM assess on the entire crop the
oss sustained on the fraction export !,
ed. Thus by paying a small amount I
20 the export corporation, the farmer
would receive three or four times that
mount additional for his crop.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-31
JOHN STEPHENS DIES
IN SOUTHERN IDAHO

On Thursday last, a telegram was
received by the secretary of Mt. Idaho
lodge No. z, I. o. o. F., that one of
their members, John Franklin Steph-
ems, who had been ill some months.
had died at Wilder, in Canyon county.
Idaho, on January "a.
John f. Stephens was born In Nc
Donald county, Mo-, ON Nov. IT, 1878.
He came to Idaho county in 1886 and
resided continuously in Idaho county
until 1918. He left Grangeville to
recover his health and had been prac-
t1cally an invalid for two years or
more. During all his sickness he was
of a happy and sunny spirit. John
Stephens at the early age of IS united
with the Baptist church and was
constant and devoted Christian. He
was highly respected and had a host
Of friends in Grangeville. His family
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-31

the Portland chamber of commerce
Ihey base their objection entirely OF
the statement that the chamber Of
commerce is not in favor of any legis
lation, or political device or expedient
to alter the operation of any funda
mental economic law.
| have now before me a letter adj.
dressed to the Portland chamber OF
commerce, one or two. paragraphs OF
which read as follows:
Since the chamber of commerce
has taken this firm stand against any
device or expedient which tends to
after the operation of any fundamen,
tai economic law; we presume they
VIII Immediately send resolutions to
the Oregon delegation in congress, in
structing this delegation to do every
thing in its power to eliminate all
tariffs, immigration restrictions, inter-
ference by interstate commerce com
missions, the Esci-Cummins act, ana
all of the many, many, thousands of
other legislative or political devices or
expedlents through which our govern
ment has been so gratuitously alter
ing the operation of fundamental econ.
omic laws in order that our industries
and labor might be justly protected
from the death dealing competition
of the rest of the world.
"As a matter of fact, our good old
government has never had the habit
or reslgning our people and industries
TO the unrestricted operation of natur-
al and economic laws. On the other
hand our government has a wonder.
fully commendable habit of utilizing,
restricting, and amending these natur.
al and economic tendencies and laws
to the betterment of our industries
protection of our labor, and preser-
vation of our distinctive natural adj
vantages from the demoralizing con. |
lltlons in foreign countries.
"All we are asking as wheat raisers
IS the extension of this policy to in.
,lude the wheat industry"
| sincerely hope, Mr.. Brookhart that
you Will give due consideration to
ny rather lengthy discourse and also
i've us your assistance to put this
ill across.
can assure you that / would great.
appreciate your dropping in on me
ome evening, after my chores were
lone, to discuss these matters. How
yer, you will have to hurry or / will
lave no chores to do. /
Thanking you for your attention,
eg to remain,
Very truly yours,
WILLIAM POTTER.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-31
WADE APPOINTED
TO FEDERAL JOB

Jess w. Wade, for the last three
years local manager for the Nez Perez
Roller mills, has been appointed as
sistant marketing specialist, bureau of
economics, U. S. department of agri-
culture. Mr.. Wade has departed for
Portland, Ore, where he will be tenn
porarily located. His work entails in
speetion of federal licensed ware
houses, and much of his time will be
spent travelling. Mrs Wade and daugh-
ter will remain in Grangeville temper
arily.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-31

bills against the county, and pay all
salaries due, it was contended. This
resolution was copied from those
passed in 1923.
Laws requiring the counties to make
settlement and pay to the state their
portion of taxes due on the second
Monday of July should be changed to
require the counties to make settle
ment and pay to the state only such
taxes as the county may have collec-
ted up to this time,' it was resolved.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-31
Potter Writes Brookhart
in Support Of McNary Bill

poIative TO the wheat situation and
rosnacts of relief, William Potter, OF
liz city. has written the following
ptter to u. S. Senator Smith w
rookhart, of Iowa, at Washington,
c.:
Myself and others have been much
,torested in your remarks on agricu1-
,ro1 conditions, as printed in the
pngressional record of January II.
AZ farmer | can assure you that
with other farmers have long felt
,ot in YOU we had a friend. Bearing
lis in mind you will perhaps excuse
for any criticism | may make in
lord TO the remarks referred to as
.inted in the record. We are after
FORMATION as much as anything else,
al as a representative farmer / wish
inf before you exactly what the
brmer wants and needs.
/ Referring to your remarks on the
forris and the McNary bills on page
|no6 of the record. have not seen
| copy of the Norris bill and from
mr. remarks I cannot make out ex-
Ertlv what it proposes to do. My inn
ression was that it proposed to fin
&nce farmers to enable them to fur
her diversity, and further assistance
br cooperative marketing.
Along this line the presidents mes
bge to congress on the 23rd, has just
een called to my attention. Mr..
krookhart, | believe it a crime for
bngress to approve any measure for |
banning the farmer more money, with |
hi first assuring him a profitable |
Rice for what he produces; and the |
hly good thing about a movement of |
his kind would be that the farmer
Fho really needed it could not get it. !
And to impress you with the sin
erity of my remarks I will state that
am not one of the retired class. /
bn an active farmer on rather a
Irge scale and have always been con-
|dered a fairly good one, as farmers
b: and if something is not done i'm
pediately to increase the price OF
arm products, / will find myself at
he age of Sc working for daily
Rage, providing / can find a job.
Mr. Brookhart, in this talk of finan-
Ing the farmers, do you not think
re are overlooking ON ordinary econ.
mic law?
There is no trouble about financing
he manufacturer. Why? Because
hose who have money to loan him
now that there is an assured profit
the business. There is no trouble
bout financing the merchant. Why?I ,,
ecause unless he is In a farming
and extending credit there /,
a sure profit; they are simply buy.
g at one price and selling at an
creased price.
Put the price of farm products up :
that they will bring the cost of q
oduction and a little bit more and !
ere will be no trouble about finan. +
ng the farmer. Really a farmer o
no would accept a loan now is in h
e same position as a banker who 8
cepts deposits when he knows the +
nix is insolvent. !,
Referring to Investigation. I am Il
closing under separate heading state t
ant showing relative purchasing
wer Of wheat and relative value O
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-31

OF cattle and hogs at this interior
point, 1915--1924. This statement is
as accurate as it was possible to
make it, and by the same you will
note that cattle and hogs are even
lower in price compared with wheat
in 1924 than they were i'll 1915.
In the president recent message
in speaking of the farmers he saws
They are unable to undertake the
diversification of farming that is fun.
damentally necessary for sound agri-
cultural reconstruction. What a
nonsensical sentence. If the president
can show the farmers any line of pro.
duction to which they can turn to
make profit, the farmers will make
the change without any federal aid.
Show us conclusiveIy the profit, and
we will get the money. Surely it is
not in cattle; neither is it in hogs.
If very many more of us go into
dairying it will knock the bottom out
of that.
We cannot successfully grow corn
here in the west; and even if we
could, If there is not something done
for the price of wheat, there will be
enough farmers in the corn states that
Will cut wheat out of their rotation
and substitute corn to make corn the
cheapest fuel we can obtain next fall.
Wheat is the key product of the farms.
The reasons for this / have tried to
explain in another article under sep
arate heading, inclosed herewith.
%
Europe now sets the price on wheat |
ana through ordinary climatic and |
economic laws of production, wheat
sooner or later sets the price on all |
other farm products. The remedy Is
the reversal of the tariff idea, and
putting bounty on export wheat, or
The repeal of all tariff laws, G lowing
he farmer to buy in the market where
nc is compelled to self In this case
We would require a new set of farm
RS, as under this defation the present
'et of farmers could never pay their
iebts. And there would have been
what Abraham Lincoln said
vas the worst crime a government
'ould commit, "To allow a people to
contract a debt under imitation. and
ompel payment under defation. -
Referring to the McNary bill; this
Whole northwestern country is boosting
"a tbdt, DduhCISy incICllduIS, IdDOTorS 4 ,
nd farmers almost to a man. / do
ot have a copy of it, but when it
tarted out from the west here in it's
mbryo state it called for a reversal
t the tariff idea and an export boun- I
? on wheat sufficient to bring wheat
p to its pre-war purchasing power. +,
provided for tax ON all wheat
old by the farmer OF sufficient
mount to pay this export bounty. The
70 million dollar appropriation was {
imply loan to be refunded by this {
TX on all wheat sold. 1t was not 1
temporary measure, but as perman- II
ut as any legislation could possibly
=. If these points are not incorpor- '
ted in the McNary bill they have e
zen lost by the wayside and someone c
lould Immediately get busy and in. t
'oduce a bill which does contain b
lem Give us law of this kind and
lie country banks and merchants will q
Ike care of the finance. n
The only organization I have heard n
so far that objects to this plan is C
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-31

was well known. His brother, George
Stephens, served Idaho county with
distinction in the state legislature
John Stephens was buried by the Odd
Fellows at Caldwell. Idaho, in their
Home cemetery in that city, last Sat
urday.
Mr.. Stephens was also a member of
the Idaho circle No. 100, of Grange
vile. He is survived by his aged
mother, three brothers and three sis
terS
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-31

DR.. Charles J. Smith, president of
Roanoke college, Virginia, has this to
say about the modern girl. Reading
it, you will hope that nothing I'M
pleasant was left unsaid:
'Some women in every age drank
liquor, few even enjoyed a smoke
many of them threw away their hon
or, but the world has never known the
turning loose of such an army of har:l-
drinking, cigaret-puffing, ncentious
amazons as walk the streets and in
wade the college campuses today
1t may be or seem true, but, as usual
the next generation will be a little
better than those before it. Provi-
dence attends to that, and makes good
mothers of the "licentious amazons''
that worry good Doctor Smith. He
must remember the famous Olympias.
who danced stark naked, with SER
pents wrapped around her, consulted
magicians, killed the baby of her hus.
bands second wife.
But she was the mother of AIexan.
der the Great.
People talk of "saturation" In the
motor industry. There lis no such
thing as 'saturation" in the automo.
bile world. People buy cars, use them
up, buy others.
The farmers in the country used to
buy two million buggies every year.
We only manufacture four million
automobiles year now. AT this mo-
ment the country ought easily to alb
sorb six or seven million cars a year
Every car pays for itself in time-sav.
ing and represents economy.
The four greatest race horses in the
world-or at least the four best adj
vertised-Zev, Papyrus, Epinard and
Grey Lag, will race this year at AS
cot.
Any one of those horses would sell |
for at least 100000.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-31
SUES FOR DIVORCE

Alleging desertion, Israel Harris has,
through his attorney, M. r. Hatta-
baugh, filed suit in district court for
divorce from Altha Harris.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-31

The automobile show, not far off,
will show you various cars, selling for
few hundred dollars, any one of
which could take the four greatest
race horses, one after another and
run them all to death in one after
noon.
Once fast horses were important.
Now they are part of gambling ma
chinery, and they won't last long.
For real news Of Europe watch the
exchange market. What the world
thinks of a nation s money tells what
the world thinks of that nation and
its position. Recently the franc fell
below five cents, the lowest record.
The French public debt, in three
years, has risen from 200 billion to
400 billion francs. War does not
pay, especially if you keep it up af-
ter it ought to be ended.
1t pays to save little things. And
some very rich men are rich because
they know it. But suggest saving to
a young man Who hasn t got anything
he smiles compassionately and passes
on.
Henry Ford doesn't do that. His
plant in Detroit saves waste paper,
string, used-up heads of mops, broken
pals, nuts bolts, etc AT the end of
a year the saving equals a million
dollars a month.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-31
TEN BEST PICTURES


The ten best pictures of the year,
according to ballots of dramatic crit
les of the important newspapers, as
compiled by the Film yearbook, ranks
The Covered Wagon first; The Merry
Go-Round second; and Robin Hood
third. The others in their order of
Importance are given as follows /:
Hunchback of Notre Dame the Green
Goddess; Scaramouche; Safety Last !;
Rosita; Down to the Sea in Ships ;
and Little Old New York.
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Continued from page II
en-, and to make men gradually more
decent.
We should be even closer to the
monkeys than we are now, but for
the institution of marriage, which has
trained men to suppress the monkey
within them.
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-01-31

Februar,|
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|oor of TIL
|rangeville|
|edience Il
gree ota|
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