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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-05-16
COLLEGE DROPS GAME

Coach Anse Cornell's College OF
Idaho baseball players dropped the
first game of a two game series to
the Idaho Tech outfit at Pocatello
Wednesday by l4-5 score, according
to information received here Re-
suits OF the Thursday game were not
known here Thursday afternoon. The
teams play in Caldwell next week but
the exact dates had not been de-
termined when Coach Cornell and his
squad left for Pocatello.
p. L. Hackney. local fur dealer, is
leaving this morning to attend a con-
ference of fur dealers of Idaho.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-05-16
CROP HAS
PUT TWIN FALLS
ON FEET AGAIN
Writer Advocates Trial
OF Crop in B o ise
Valley; June | Time
To Plant

I WAS over al Twin Falls i few
days ago. and found the farmers cheer
iul and hopeful OF the future They
are coming back over there. The iarm-
ers are making money and are pay
ing of their mortgages. One OF the
ways they are making money is by
raising beans. Not the ordinary soup
bean. but a new variety called the
Great Northern. 4 German Russian
who is now on the Twin Falls tract
claims TO have brought this bean from
Russia 10 Montana where they are
raised successfully. and are known in
some localities as the Montana bean.
This same Russian brought the bean
to the Twin Falls country where it
is a great success. Last year they had
over eighteen thousand acres OF this
bean on the Twin Falls Tract. The
average crop was from 25 bu. to 80
bu. per acre, but few expert bean
raisers made as high as 40 bu. to so
bu. per acre. They have bean Grow
ers Association over there and they
pooled their crop and sold it at around
three dollars per bushel in car load
lots. drove ont over the West end
OF the Tract with Arthur l.. SWIM OF
Twin Falls who is an old timer and
knows conditions, as well as any man
in the country lie showed me a fine
farm OF one hundred and sixty acres
that a year ago had mortgage
against it OF SIS. 10000. and the owner
could not meet the payments. and fore
closure proceedings were commenced.
The owner made one last effort to
save the place by planting one humid
red acres OF beans Last Fall he paid
of Sl2.O0000 OF that 25,00o00 mort
gage. Mr.. Swim showed me another
one hundred and twenty acre farm
at Curly just West OF Twin Falls,
which belongs to a friend OF his. II
is rented out and the main crops are
beans and Sugar Beeis. The rent
from this farm last year averaged
about 5000 per acre. We drove from
Twin Falls to Castle Ford, Twenty
two miles. coming back by way OF
Buhl and every where we saw field
after field being prepared for beans.
They estimate the crop TO be planted
this year a; 60,0o0 acres. would cut
he estimate to 40,C00 acres. but that
would be an increase over last year
oi over 200 per cent.
They do not plant their bans until
about the first OF June, bu. seem to
nave plenty OF time to mature them.
The great Northern bean is larger
han the Lady Washington, more
latlencd. does not runner as much,
,eing more OF bush type, and is a
sreat deal earlier. They are not car
led in the Seed Stores at Caldwell.
,ut are carried by the Whole Sale
seed Hoass OF Boise. The farmers of
he Boise Valley must get away from
rain farming If they ever expect to
.et out OF debt.
SO why not try beans: There is
till time to put oft an experimental
rop OF beans here and il it does any,
where near as we'll as at Twin Falls.
vii be great thing for the Valley.
leans are a quick crop and do not
equire much water and that is
rcat point in favor OF beans in
ear like the present when late water
likely to be a serious problem. So
gain | say, why not try beans'
w. H. Kolenborn
--O-
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-05-16

The annual mog.ng epidena.- hit
The Tribune Office this week when
Miss Nell Wilson took two days va
cation to assist her mother in this
great adventure.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-05-16
Coming Events

May lS-fiigh School bacca-
laureat,c sermon at Methodist
Church.
May 22-High School Com
mencemcnt exercises. Metho-
dist Church.
May 22-23-College OF Idaho
Tech Baseball.
Saturday, May 24-Southcrn
Idaho Conference track
Meet.
Monday. June 2.-Union
Pacific University OF Idaho
poultry special with exhibit
and program.
Friday. July 4-Celebra-
ton in Caldwell.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-05-16

Thursday and Friday. May
Is and l6,-College OF Idaho
opera, THE Chocolate Sold
icr.
Saturday, May l7.-First
annual Caldwell flower show,
auspices Forward club.
Saturday, May l7-Iris Day
dance, |. o. o. F. hall,
auspices Forward club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
MEN AND AFFAIRS
BY ROBERT r. SMALL.

Now that the Borah committee OF
the Senate has discovered that the
Republicans did not have such a
horrible" campaign war chest or
"slush fund" as the La Toilette Pro-
gressives chose to call 1T, there has
been demand in certain quarters
some OF them rather close to Presi-
dent Coolidge-that the committee
should go further and inquire into
the making of the wholesale charges
In the very middle of the presidential
contest. 1t is argued that the motives
behind the wild charges emanating
from La Toilette headquarters should
be 'probed and presumably the
authors OF the charges should be pub
licly castigated.
Those who have been urging this
action upon Senator Borah and his
colleagues overlook the fact that the
inquiry into election funds was con-
Quoted primarily for the purpose of
advising and guiding the Senate In
future legislation respecting cam
paign contributions and the conduct
of elections generally.
NO one in the Senate, not even the
most distinguished of the constitu-
tional lawyers, believes that a way
ever can be devised to do away with
campaign charges and prediction
rumors. 1t Is not possible to frame a
law to reach them. And besides it
would take a lot Of the color out
of a campaign If any attempt were
made to muzZle the various party
| managers. Even the taciturn Mr..
Butler, chairman of the august Re
publican national committee, would
have suffered a terrible handicap I'M
der such a statute. Mr.. Butler used
up so much language during the cam
paign it is freely and confidently
predicted he will keep a tight mouth
during the next two years in the
Senate. knowing Me. Buffers propen-
| stiles of silence so well 1t is difficult
for Washington to picture him as a
garrulous chairman of a couple of
months ago. There is just a slight
suspicion that Mr.. Butler had two or
| three pretty good press agents and
that his talks were mostly vicarious
instead of vocal.
x X x X
Modern stage plays are having a
terrible effect upon the general mo-
rality. A young lady in New York
| City invited her dear old grandmoth-
| er down from New England to spend
| the holidays. She is a real picture
book grandmother of the old school,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
that crisis, and in no wise lost the re
card of their fellow ma sculines

that crisis, and in no wise lost the re-
gard of their fellow masculines.
Ghandi's movement for the restora-
tion of the Indian textile industry was
political in it's inception, as a protest
against British dominion. The leader,
! however, has had severe lesson in
the course Of the past few years. and
is much moderated in disposition,
though unchanged in his view. He
has been released on promise Of good
behavior. His requirement, as presi-
dent-elect Of the National Congress,
that the members take up yarn spin
ming, shows that he is not entirely
inclined to drop the economic reform
which he fostered at the outset of his
agitation.
If the Ghandi idea were adopted in
this country what a variety of handi-
work American congressman could
produce in the course of the sessions!
For there are representatives of many
trades and crafts in the ranks of the
legislators. Most of them have long
since ceased from their manual labors.
For years they have been making
their living with their pens or
tongues. An exhibit of the handicraft
of congressman would make a re-
markable show.
1t has just been announced that the
late minister of labor in the MacDon-
aid British ministry is going back to
his old job as a miner, working with
pick and shovel in a colliery. He has
no private fortune, and he is now
without his official salary. He has to
earn his living. So he goes back to
his old work. This gives hint. If the
handicraft idea of Ghandi is worth any
thing it may be means of cultivat-
ing an industrial independence for
legislators, for their sustenance when
they lose their public places.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

Over in Queens County, N. Y, by di.
rection of the borough president, EN-.
ployes Of the Street Cleaning Depart.
ment recently made an enumeration
and turned in a total of 34,994 sets
The purpose of this count. was to as.
certain how many persons were being
served by the municipal broadcasting
station.
If radio equipment were only to be
procured intact and complete from
dealers it would be possible to keep
tab on the number by returns from
made by amateurs in the art who
buy their materials here and there
and assemble them. Even so, there is
chance of fairly accurate reckoning
through the number of the essential
parts that are sold, crystals and am
plifying tubes, though in the case of
the latter multiple tubes often go into
single sets, and the total of those
items would not be an accurate indi-
cation.
IL tiici dic i,UVV,VUU SSlS III use III
this country today the number will
probably reach 10000, 900, If not more,
within the coming year. Indeed, to fore
cast of the extent Of radio use a twelve
month hence is idle, for no one can
possibly tell the future Of this facility
for entertainment and communication.
1t has developed so rapidly that some
feel that it may wane. Yet the utility
of the radio is such as to make it prob
ably a permanent item of household
equipment.
In computing the number Of listen
ers-in no count is taken Of the multi
tudes who are served by radio through
amplifiers in audiences, sometimes of
several thousand on special occasions.
During the recent campaign speeches
and convention proceedings We're
heard simultaneously by as high as
80, 100000 people, according to one
estimate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
BY THOMAS II. MARSHALL,
Former Vice President of the United
States.

A Chinaman, If we are to believe
information that comes to us, is not
permitted to celebrate New Years day
unless and until he has paid all his
debts, together with any that may
have been left by his deceased father.
Before commenting upon this alleged
fact / wish to state that I never was
in China and do not know the Ian
guage of that nation. 1 merely tell
the tale as it was told to me.
If 1T be a fact that participation in
the festivities incident to the birth of
new year is dependent upon the
payment of debts. the Chinese must
live in a most pronounced material
istic atmosphere. Obligations appar-
emily have been reduced to a dollar
and-cents basis. If one owes no
cash" he starts the New Year with
bang. For him the day marks a
new beginning.
This might be a pleasing custom for
America to adopt. / can see its pos
sibilities for good. But New Years
day in our modern business life in
which credit means everything prob
ably would be a drab holiday. Many
of us, no doubt, would be denied the
privilege of burning fire crackers I'M
less we assumed the attitude of the
Hoosier who, when he executed a note
in adjustment of, an open account, ex-
claimed, We'll, thank God, that debt
is paid"
To us the chubby little fellow who
ushers in the new year is a fairy
who comes to us bearing gifts. As
we welcome him we feel that the past
year has become part of the eternal
past and that we are on the threshold
of a new career. 1t is just as well
that this is so. I would not lessen
hope or dull enthusiasm. Optimism is
more potent than pessimism. 1t is
better to believe that New Years day
beckons with a smile than that 1t re-
pels with a frown. Courage, fortitude.
hope and cheer are essentials in the
battle of life. However, ii may not
be amiss at this season to consider
whether New Years is just day on
which one is to forget the past and
look with unclouded vision upon the
future, or whether, contrary to the
Chinese view, the old year projects
into the new year obligations other
than those which may be expressed in
terms of dollars and cents
Joyous as We are at the close of
1924 and Joyous as we should be over
the hopeful prospects in the material
world, we ought not to overlook any
of our obligations. Unless we pay
our ordinary debts we shall suffer
the pangs and penalties of bank
ruptcy. This we we'll know, but the
knowledge does not depress us be-
cause the opportunities of meeting
our ordinary debts are favorable. But
what about our obligations which
cannot be met by the payment of
money? Do we have no debts OF duty,
love. gratitude, which are equally
pressing and harder to meet? l have
the Nation rather than the individ-
uals who make up the Nation in
mind now. We enter the new year. of
course, individually and as a people.
1t is as people that l note some
general observations.
X X x X
Under our flag there dwells approx
imately 6 per cent OF the world
population. This per cent has
scraped together from one-third to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
New Year Debt-Paying Idea
Worthy of Being Expanded

one-half OF all the worlds wealth. In
other words, we have at least five
times our share of the wealth when
estimated on a population basis. We
produce rs per cent of the worlds
food; 81 per cent of the worlds COM
modities; SO per cent of the world
coal; 15 per cent of the gold of the
world; IS per cent of it's silk; Al per
cent of its cereals; II per cent of its
cotton; 79 per cent of it's corn; 81 per
cent of Its petroleum. We have 40
per cent of the worlds raw materials:
36 per cent of all the railroads; 40
per cent of the developed waterpower 4;
"a per cent of all the automobiles of
the world.
The New Year beckons to us and
we feel that his smile means more
gold, more corn, more petroleum, more
automobiles. And so it does, nor
would have it otherwise even
though I could. But what of the
debts growing out of the prosperity
we have enjoyed? L refer to those
debts which are not enforceable in
the courts of the land nor collectable
by execution. A nation, let 1t not be
forgotten, may stand a lot of ruin; 1t
can safely pass through periods of
depression; it's real test has to do
with it's capacity to endure prosper
ity.
New Years may hold out every
thing that is bright, yet we may make
shipwreck of the year II we fail to
pay the debts which come to us from
the past. / eliminate the debts of
duty, love and gratitude which we
owe to God. great as they are. and
urge only the debts we owe incident
to our free institutions. All this
great material prosperity which
amazes the world has come to US I'M
der the institutions which our faith
ers formulated for US. We owe a
debt to those fathers; we should be
ashamed to celebrate New Years un-
less we vowed to pay 1t now and
hereafter. We must keep the faith
our fathers gave to us, preserve the
institutions which they establish ed
and under which we have prospered /;
and cease not to instil into the young
of the land a sense of loyalty. love
and veneration for the principles
which have made our republic the
envy OF the world.
We owe a debt of love and graft
tude to every institution IN America
that is seeking to train our young
Alright: to all the thousands of bene-
factions that minister to suffering
signing, SHINING humanity; to all the
causes. religious or social, which are
teaching the real idea Of democracy,
which is nothing more than the
brotherhood of man. Our belated
answer must be yes to Gains far
off cry. Am I my brothers Keeper
Not that any one of US would make
of another a slave in body. mind or
soul, but that we are all to believe
ourselves children of the self-same
God and of the same glorious repub-
lie. God gave US freedom. fraternity
and prosperity. We are His trus-
tees In the new year we should
spread the light of charity and de-
mocracy among the nations of the
world We should not enter the new
year fiippantly, but rather we should
pass over its threshold in a solemn
mood, glad. of course, that God has
given us opportunity, yet sobered by
the realization that Of him to whom
much has been given much shall be
expected.
Copyright. 1924, by 21st Century Press.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

sweet, simple, smiling. wiz an al
most heavenly goodness shining from
the slightly faded but aler- blue eyes
As part Of grandmother's metro
polftan education 1T was planned -
take her to see her fl st Broadway
show. For some reason, which mus;
remain more or less obscure, grand
daughter chose a certain war plas
for the Introduction. The PLAY de
picts the life in q marine regimes
during the World War. The dialogus
is just one cuss word after anuthcr
There was SO much swearing in til
piece the censors tried to stop it, bur
they made no Roadway at all. I'll.
swearing became all the more intenS.
and pointed
Well. grandmother gaspeI durin4
the first act, smiled during the sec
ond, and then during the t1ird sh.
suddenly leaned forward = I'd wen
cropping in the dark at Ter fee
Granddaughter thought shoe mus.
be united or possibly hurtin2.
What are you doing grand
mother?" she asked at Length.
Just looking for my pro
gram" replied the sweet old Lad
from Vermont.
Down in Texas they year by the
northern breeZeS that have been
sweeping the prairfes this holiday
week that Ma" Ferguson is getting
ready to run for the presidency. She
has been reading how Calvin Cool
idge had faith in Massachusetts and
eventually reached the White House
On the eve Of her inauguration as
governor Of the Lone Star State Ma l.
has written an appeal directed par
ticularly to the women, and the text
of the letter is:
Have faith in Texas"
X X
At a recent dinner Of the PennsyI-
vania Society of New York the story
was told of a price-cutting war tina,
the undertakers engaged in at a Ger
tain Keystone town. All sorts of in
ducements were offered to prospec-
tive clients during the war. Finally
the struggle reached the advertising
stage, and finally one of the keenest
of the competitors came out with a
haff-page ad with the very simple but
convincing wording:
Why go around half dead when
we Will bury you for S3750?"
From the quoted price it will be
seen that the war had reached
killing stage, or else the story is
pretty old.
Copyright, l924.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
Legislators and Handicraft.

Members OF the annual Indian Ma
tional Congress, it is announced, will
be required in qualifying for leader
ship to ESn 1000 yards of yarn
monthly, as, an evidence that they are
in sympathy with the Ghandi move.
ment for the development Of the ma
tive textile industry. So probably the
world will soon witness the spectacle
Of Hindoo statesmen gravely at work
at their spinning wheels or with dis.
taffs in hand, while they are studying
legislative problems. This will be a
reminder of the wartime, when nearly
all the women in the world were work
ing with knitting needles on sweaters
and other garments for the soldiers.
Some men even took up knitting at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28
Radio Millions.

Estimates of the number of people
in this country who have radio sets
and are listening in to programs vary
widely. 1t is, indeed, almost impos-
sible to determine the radio population
Of the United States. One authority,
who has perhaps the best information
on the subject, puts the figure at
100000. while others go higher.
Local officials here and there are en-
deavoring to count the number Of sets,
but find It difficult to keep pace with
the constantly increasing number.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

A prediction that in a few years
Christmas gifts will be sent by radio
is hopeful for the Post Ofice Depart
ment, but not encouraging to the man
who has been accustomed to depend
on the holidays for his neckties, socks
and other wearing apparel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

first employed the idea of long-dis-
lance homicide by means Of germs. At
present scarcely a week passes with
out a news item about such an Incl
dent. Scientific study is a great means
of improving the mind, but is not in
variably helpful to the morals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

Business conditions are so favorable
that Wall Street is this season using
the stock ticker for happy New Year
greetings in the form Of rising quota
tons. The cheer is chiefly for the
legitimate investors, the spectators
can lose all their financial merriment
overnight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

The assertion that jazz represents a
distinct school of music destined one
day to find expression in grand opera
is finding support in some Of the cur
rent art demonstrations. Never has
language been more loosely employed,
and, as one psychologist states it,
"jazz is inarticulate profanity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

A collapsible battleship might pos
sibly be designed that would be easy
and inexpensive to take apart in case
of scrapping as disarmament demon
stration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

The ethical situation which pre-
vents members Of Congress from rails
ing their own salaries calls on, the
American statesman to include among
his duties that of setting the world an
example in economy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-28

A dictatorship starts with great en-
thusiasm usually on the theory that
almost any style Of governmental au-
thority would be an improvement on
what the people have just been
through.