Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-05-01
This Week
INDICTMENT OF WHEELER
BIGGER PORTS COMING
WOULD MIRACLES DO
GORILLA IN HOTEL
By Arthur Brisbane

! Some enthusiasts out west, stimu-
lated by large pocketbooks, have in
dicted Senator Wheeler trying to dis
courage his able investigating. BY
this time they probably regret it,
for the senator is investigating them
tc find out just what and who are be-
hind the Indictment.
Washington knows that when Sen
ator Wheeler entered public life in
Montana he found two political part
| les out there, one called Republican,
one called Democratic, both owned by
copper mines
When he ventured to oppose the
copper capitalist he was informed
| that he would he run out of Montana
But he had other plans, got himself
| elected to the senate of the United
| States, and now the people are hear
ing from him.
| Even the latest pocketbook ought
to realize that this is no time for fin
ancial trough stuff"
Dr. Chapman, excellent scientific
worker for the American Museum of
Natural History returns from the
Andes mountains bringing a bird that
brays like a donkey and a duck that
can't fly.
Before amazementl carries you away
at thought of a duck that can't fly,
ask yourself how many human beings
there are that can't Think
New York is proud, learning from
United States authorities that New
York's port handled more than one
half of the total ocean passenger traf
fic of the United States. Seattle, Bos
ton and San Francisco were next.
Well. that's today's news. How
long do you suppose it will be before
Jacksonville, Fla, and Los Angeles
both have an ocean traffic bigger than
that of which New York is so proud
today? This country is only starting.
land the really big ports and cities are
still to find their place.
Those that rule the oil market say
there won't be any big advance i'll
gasoline prices this spring because
DluuUA IOduS Will lOlu uONh tht
price" Muddy roads diminish auto
mobiling Less automObiling means
smaller demands for gas, and smaller
demands mean that the rulers don't
put up the price. In other words.
what will the traffic bear| not
what does the gasoline cost? is the
important question.
Henry Ford will buy a trolley line
connecting Muscle Shoals with the
gulf at Pensacola, Fla, according to
report. He might utilize the gas en-
CINE trolley car that he once showed
this writer i'm his Dearborn labora-
tory. Light in build, his car could
cross the continent at the rate of Six
ty miles an hour without taking on
fuel, and at less than half the present
cost of transportation. That ought TO
interest railroad men now. If II
doesn't, the kind of competition it will
give them will interest them later
an& too late.
Robert Il. Towne Says religion is
handicapped by a 'lack of good news.
There are no more firm assurances
such as the one given to Peter ana
Andrew: Follow me, and | will make
you fishers of men," There are no
definite assertions about hell, II you
are wicked, and heaven, if you behave.
| Clergymen split hairs. Each one be-
lieves part and denies a part. The
simple mind wants to believe every
thing.
Perhaps a few miracles would help
to revive faith and fill the churches.
Suppose the Rev. DR. Straton snoulu
say: 81 warn you dissenting clergy
men that you are all bound for PERIL
ton, and to prove it l shall now
change DR. Jones into a stick OF pep
permint candy" Would not that CON
vert all if DIR. Jones did stiffen up ana
slowly turn into striped peppermint!
You'd think so, but the human
heart is hard. You remember the
Arabian philosopher, who said 10 the
holy man: you may say to me-
Twice two are five, and to prove IL
Urn turn this walking stick into i've
serpent, but, even if you change your
stick into a serpent I'll still say, that
is interesting, but twice two are not
| FIVE"
A gorilla, Just arrived. is living III
| a fine New York hotel. How it would
surprise him if his dull, worried BRAN
could realize that the hotel was built'
according to Darwin. by the goriilas'
a small feeble tribe Of his own rela-
tions, weak in muscle, teeth and claws
and therefore, compelled to fhink.
Thinking, they became rulers OF the
world.
/ o.
Frederick lands says that TINS
country instead of admitting gorillas
that come here to die of Inconsistencies.
ought to admit more of the right KIND
of European immigrants that. would
come here to build up the United
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