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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-10-17
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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-10-17
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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-10-17

Vote for Emory Bales for assessor
is vote fora square deal.-Adv.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-10-17

The federal trade commission doe,
not hesitate to charge Andrew w
Mellon with being the head of the
aluminium trust. In the senate there
have been many bitter attacks on Mr.
Mellon over tax matters, and Senator
Couzens OF Michigan has challenged
the accuracy of Mr.. MELONS own tax
returns, and has asserted that the
secretary OF the treasury is afraid OF a
showdown on his own taxes. Be
sides this, Mellon is accused with
being the modern Mark Hanna OF
politics, into whose sympathizing ear
big business whispers its wants.
Mr. Mellon is the only man in national
politics who completes with President
Coolidge in the economy of speech
He doesn't talk back very much, but
occasionally he fights like a lion. He
does not seem to be very much dis
turbed by the fact that political and
government interests are making a
target of him.
Evening star., 1924-03-27
What Is CONTEMPT p

Deemed in contempt by the Senate
for his recent refusal to answer ques-
tions Of the committee investigating
the oil scandals, Harry f. Sinclair
is faced with the probability Of long
legal struggle in support of his con.
tention that Senate committee is
not vested with the power to compel
testimony under certain cfrcum.
stances. The first steps were prompt
ly taken when the Senate directed
the initiation Of action by the United
States attorney. Grand jury hearings,
an indie tment, writ of habeas
corpus, rial, conviction, release on
bail and a series Of court actions until
the Supreme Court definitely settles
the question Of his alleged contempt
would tfen be the procedure.
AS was brought out in the argument
Of Mr.. Littleton, Mr.. Sinclair's attor.
ney, before the Senate committee
the authority Of congressional COM
mittees to compel testimony from re-
luctan' witnesses has frequently been
questioned and never definitely deter
mined one way or the other. The
legal contest to be waged by Mr.. Sim
clai therefore assumes larger i'm
portance than one touching a specific
case Of alleged contempt. 1t is prac-
ITALY certain that the whole struc-
ture OF committee investigation by
Congress must stand or fall on the
outcome of the forthcoming court
procedure.
The statutory provisions dealing with
what constitutes contempt before a
congressional committee are set forth
in section 102 Of the Revised Statutes
of the United States. Willful failure
to appear when summoned or re-
fusal to answer any questions peril
nent to the sutyr2t under inquiry
is declared to constitute the mis-
demeanor Of contempt, and a fine of
not more than $1,000 or less than 500,
and Imprisonment in a common Jail
for not less than one month or more
than twelve months set forth as the
penalty.
Interest will attach to the pro-
visions of section 103, which, con-
trary to the popular understanding
in the premises, sets forth that no
witness is privileged to refuse to tes-
tify upon the ground that his testi-
mony may tend to disgrace him or
otherwise render him infamous The
statute providing for what has come
to be popularly known as the "im-
munity bath" is set forth in section
$50, which provides that no testimony
given by a witness lefore a congress
sional committee shall lie used as evil
dence in any criminal proceeding
against him except prosecution for
perjury committed in giving such tes-
timony.
1t is the legality of the above in
dicated statutes which is to be tested
in the forthcoming court proceedings.
The public will follow the contest with
keen interest, aware that one Of the
principal bases of congressional pro-
cedure is under attack.
Evening star., 1924-03-27
Library Diffusion of knowledge.

The citizens associations, under
whose auspices the breaking OF ground
exercises for the new Mount Pleasant
branch library were celebrated on Mon
day, are to be congratulated that their
long-wished-for community library is
about to be realized.
Standing under the blue sky on
that lovely spring morning, looking at
the architects perspective Of the
building and listening to the librarians
description Of its. provision for COM
munity use in adult and children's
reading and reference and club rooms,
one recalled the words Of that first
lover Of the city through whose fore
sight and vision Washington is be-
coming one Of the most beautiful and
interesting cities Of the world. In his
farewell address, President Washing.
ton laid upon successive generations
the command: Promote, then, as an
object Of primary Importance, institu-
tions for the general diffusion of
knowledge. In proportion as the struc.
ture of government gives force to
public opinion it is essential that pub
lie opinion be enlightened"
One could imagine the great Ameri.
can looking down upon the simple
exercises with satisfaction that the
men Of today were carrying on" and
concerning themselves in behalf Of ''in-
Evening star., 1924-03-27
Tax Collector SsBarks''
To Ferret Out CANNES

They tell US our young folks have
grown cynical. that they believe II Is
the man with the pull who gets there
and not he who burns the midnight
bulb. So the younger generation. one
hears, is more inclined to burn the
midnight gasoline. scoffing at the old
virtues. trusting to luck to "sef hv >,
"Yeh," 1t SCOTS, "once, maybe, tba
world would have found the path to
your cabin il you built a better mouse
trap. but in these days everybody
sticks to the pavement"
This fippant attitude worries ms
And so we wish to call attention to
the fact that diligence and application
to the job still serve to get a man mn
in the world. We have in mind the
zeal Of an employe in the French gov
ernment's tax department which has
reward. It was his duty to collect
dog taxes and. knowing the disposi-
tion of French dogs to avoid taxes
he made it practice at night to ma ake
a noise like the barking of a dog out
|! side the doors of houses. II there was
ia dog inside. it generally did as dogs
are wont, and barked back, and when
he returned to his office the tax col
lector looked in the books to see if
the owner had a license.
Do you think-you drug store cow
iboys-that the world can pass by a
man like that2 Certainly not. This
Frenchman's genius has been recog-
climb up In the world Hereafter, we
understand, he is to be chief of the
dog catchers and ride up on the seat
of the wagon. Even in these maudlin
times you can't keep good man
ldown-&lvapkee Journal
Evening star., 1924-03-27

stitutions for the diffusion of knowl-
edge" appreciating their Importance
in the safety and welfare of the re.
public and their immediate service in
developing greater intelligence and a
higher plane of citiZenry.
But building, no matter how salts
factory from the architectural poins Of
view, does not make library. Service
is the Keynote OF libraries of today.
Service depends upon personnel and
book collection. Provision for both
must be greatly increased, according
to the librarian.
The estimates carry for stocking the
branch about $1,000, and since books
average q little more than a dollar
apiece 1t is obvious that this fund
must be largely increased to serve in
any adequate measure the fast-grow-
ing community. at present conserva-
lively estimated at 100000 population.
A branch accessible to q community
has much more general use than a
main library can attract, visit to
which requires time and car fare and
subjects children to traffic dangers.
Efforts must be directed, therefore,
toward obtaining from Congress larger
appropriations for the original stock
ing Of the book collection. The citizens
of Mount Pleasant, who have for years
shown their interest in the branch IL
brary project, may find a further
civic opportunity in presenting gifts
of books OF" of money to be spent for
up-to-date reference books or for books
in the special classes of literature in
which they have a particular interest
Such gifts likewise afford opportunity
for memorials perpetuating the spirit
OF those who have passed on in the life
Of the people of today and tomorrow.
For 1t is the special privilege of books
to give inspiration and liberation to
the most circumscribed life.
Evening star., 1924-03-27
The Child Labor Amendment.

All advocates of restriction of child
labor by Congress will rejoice in the
favorable report by the House com.
mittee on the judiciary yesterday of
a resolution proposing an amendment
to the Constitution of the United
States which would authorize Con-
gress to legislate upon the subject
Twice has Congress enacted laws re-
stricting child labor in response to
public sentiment, only to have them
nul1ified by the Supreme Court on con.
stitutional grounds.
The objection to restriction is largely
sectional, coming from a few indus
trial states in the south. Objections
also are raised by the ultra-state rights
sticklers, some of whom are found in
the north as well as the south.
The bill reported yesterday was Sc
lected from twenty-three pending in
the committee and was chosen because
it softens the conflict between the pro-
posed amendment and state laws. A
provision was inserted "that the
power of the several states is unim.
paired, except that the state laws shall
be suspended to the extent necessary
10 give effect to legislation enacted by
1he Congress-" This would leave to
the states power to legislate on hours
and conditions of employment.
The resolution submitting the
amendment to the states for ratifica.
ton should be promptly passed in both
houses. The subject has been thor
oughly discussed in the past and
every one should be familiar with it
by now..
Evening star., 1924-03-27
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

That distinguished white House
spokesman" who usually makes the
, front pages of the newspapers Tues
days and Fridays isn't occupying
much space there nowadays. Wash
, spending sackcloth and ashes. Their
semi-weekly seances with the Presi-
dent are ordinarily unfailing sources
of big stories. Since the air has been
so heavily charged with oil Mr.. Cool
idge has lapsed into something Of his
old-time taciturnity. Little or no in
formation is vouchsafed at the White
! House about current events. Perhaps
the President thinks Congress is do
! ing enough talking for both ends of
Pennsylvania avenue.
+ y X II
Frances tardy decision to balance
her budget by a drastic program of
taxation has arrested the political
career of NJ. Albert Sarraut, minister
of the colonies. NJ. Sarraut became
one of the outstanding figures at the
Washington conference in 1922, when
he superseded Messrs. BRAND and
lViviani, in turn, as head of the French
delegation. Like SO many statesmen
of France and the United States, Sar-
raut is newspaper man by profess
SION. With brother, he owns the
Depeche de Toulouse, one of the in
fiuential newspapers of France
sometimes called the Manchester
Guardian of that country. Sarraut
opposed Poincare's taxation policy.
He may become resident general in
Morocco.
Once in while Sarraut is mentioned
as Jusserand's eventual successor at
Washington.
Gov. William u. Sweet of Colorado
has returned to Denver after COM
muning with democratic leaders in
Boston, New York and Washington.
He was brought to the eastern coun-
try by friends who think he has
presidential blood in his veins. In
New York he was more or less under
the wing OF Col. House, who has at
least one democratic President to his
credit Colorado is sure to present
its governor to the national conven-
ton in New York as measuring up in
'westernism" and "progressivism" to
the democratic demands of the hour.
Sweet made a fortune out of the bond
aud banking business. but his poIiti-
cal strength in Colorado is mainly
with the farmer and labor element.
y K X \
Radio, the new wonder of the
world, is beginning to play role
in international politics. At the
recent Inauguration of the Radio
Austria Company, the Austrian
chancellor, NJ. Seipel, addressed a
radio message to the league of ma
tions at Geneva NJ. Seipel said:
THE full Importance of the most
modern means of communication
wireless telegraphy and telephony.
cannot truly - appreciated if ii is
merely considered as a factor in the
economic life of nations. Its great
est Importance resides in the fact
that it contributes most effectually to
mutual understanding between ma
tions. better knowledge of one
another would promote a fuller com
prehension and appreciation of one
another. 1t is our hope that radio
Evening star., 1924-03-27

Chancellor Marx. offering to the Ger
cept'th Versailles treaty in good faith
and to fulfill their obligations there
under with sober steadfastness.
Viewed from this side of the Allan.
tic, ard assuming that Germany is
sufficiently clear gisioned to recognize
at least in part the consequences of a
reversion to monarchical government,
it would seem that Chancellor Marx
and his platform of sincerity should
prevail overwhelmingly at the polls.
For the program he advocates is ac-
tually a challenge to the monarchist
group alone, being, in fact, essential to
the carrying out of the main planks in
the socialist platform. Marx and the
centrists advocate the sound policy of
playing square instead Of crooked,
and the socialist desire for industrial
benefits to the workers and rigid taxa.
ton upon capital would be an inevita-
BILE consequence should this policy be
adopted. For it should by now have
been impressed upon the amazingly
unalert German mind that that indus
trial prosperity by which alone can
the working classes benefit can only
be achieved by persuading France and
the other German creditors that Ger
many is on the level, and it is a self
evident fact that rigid taxes upon capi-
tai would be corollary to such a
course of action. Common sense would,
under these circumstances, presage a
combination of the socialist and CEN
trist groups at the polls which would
deal effectively with the monarchist
dream Of treaty Reputation.
Evening star., 1924-03-27
Fourteenth Street Extension.

Indications are that the extension
Of 14th street will soon be authorized
by Congress. The Senate has passed
the bill. Next Monday will he Dis
trict day in the House. and it is said
that "a special subcommittee from
the House District committee has ar
ranged with House Leader Long.
worth, Speaker Gillett and members
Of the republican steering committee
on program of non-controversial leg
isiation that is to be called up"
Among the measures classed as nom
sion bill, and it will be called up.
The people have had the 14th street
extension matter under discussion a
long time. When Washington was a
small town one of the main ways
leading to and from the north was
the 14th street road. 1t was not much
of highway as such things are
rated now. but it met the need for
a downtown way to the center of the
city. With the expansion of the city
the old road disappeared, though
there is a trace of it here and there
Fourteenth street and 18th street
were extended and this further en-
couraged the northward spread of the
city. A large tract far beyond the
north end of 14th street and between
the line of 18th street, which had not
then been cut through, and Georgia
avenue was taken for the establish
ment Of Walter Reed Hospital. Four
teenth street built to the south line
of the hospital grounds. Sixteenth
street built along the west side of the
grounds, and people began to set up
city homes farther to the north than
II was thought twenty-five years ago
they would do in a century or two
centuries. North of Water Reed Hos
pital the town grew and across the
District line population increased at
remarkable rate. Georgia avenue, or
that part of the old 18th street pike"
in the District became a traffic way
that is busy at all times and crowded
Glkoot VI IuS olAleeHIn street
draws from and delivers traffic 60 that
road by way Of Alaska avenue, and
14th street takes traffic from and
gives it to Georgia avenue by way of
Colorado avenue and Piney Branch
road. There is obvious advantage in
extending 14th +<veet through the hos
pital grounds and in carrying that
street north to the District boundary,
where it will be connected with the
road system of Montgomery county.
Md 1t is known to everybody that
more traffic ways are needed, and
north and south straightway highway
from the District line to the Potomac
river through the center Of the city
will tend to relieve congestion on
other streets.
Evening star., 1924-03-27
Women's Enforcement
OF Law Convention

A thousand or more women, leaders
in the principal organizations of
women in the United States, will
meet in convention April 10 and II
in Washington to institute nation
wide campaign for enforcement of
law and observance Of the Consti-
tuition"
They are just going to talk? They
can't accomplish anything? Perhaps,
if you wish to look at Ii that way.
Yet this is an important convention, a
very Iaudable convention. and IL may
be that the women shall lead this
spect for the law and support of the
Constitution.
II is well to have these conventions;
it is well to discuss this very i'm
portant question and to arouse the
whole country to understandings of
the dangerous significance of con-
tinued evasion OF law, flouting of law
This may be one of the big things
that women can do. Surely Ii is a.
commendable movement for them to
undertake.
siStent movement toward law en-
forcement must be made soon. Amer
lea must go back to respect for law,
Men in high places who break one
law or encourage others to break
II ought to realize that they have
high duty as citizens to set the
example of respect for law.
The women of America can do much
in this direction IL they will, and the
leaders among men should aid in the
York!--Albany Eveoing News
Evening star., 1924-03-27
The German Elections.

News from Germany, announcing
that the political elements Of that ma
tion are perfecting their tne-ups for
the approaching elections to the reichs-
tag. indicates in measure the general
lines along which the battle Of votes
win be fought There is small change
in the major issues involved. There
are the two extremist groups, the ma
tionalists and the socialists. the former
committed to a chauvinistic program
involving the re-establishment Of, a.
Christian, social and monarchical
state" pledged to the reputation Of
the Versailles treaty and German war
guilt, and the latter standing for in
creased Industrial benefits to the work
ing classes and very rigid taxation
upon capital. And between the two
stands the eentrist group headed By
Evening star., 1924-03-27

Will work wonders In this direction
aboiishing not only geographical bu
| also moral distances. Thus one ot
| the greatest achievements of modern
| technical science would tend toward
| the same aim as the league of na-
tions.''
| y = = =
| Frequent mention can be heard
| these oily days of the fact that few
senators of the United States repre-
sent majorities of their respective
! states. Senator Jones, republican, oi
| washington, recently read into the
Congressional Record a remarkable
| tabulation on that score prepared by
| Ashmun Brown of the Providence
Journal. Brown discovered that OF
| the thirty-four men elected to the
Senate in 1922, not a single one OBJ
| tanned as much as half of the votes
or his states voting population. Most
of them fell far below so per cent
The only one that approached 1t was
Key Pittman of Nevada, who poiled
41.9 per cent. George of Georgia
polled 5.3 per cent; Stephens of Mis-
sissippi 1.3 per cent and Trammell
of Florida Q per cent. Brookhart
vote: Wheeler, only 30.4 per cent OF
Montana's: Mayfield of Texas lis
per cent, and Dill of washington IL
per cent Even the enlightened state
or Pennsylvania was apathetic on
election day. Pepper polled 1873 pei
per cent, So 1t goes throughout the
entire list, percentages in most cases
being III the twenties.
x X * 4
Ell Club Cervantes is the name Jof a
Washington organization that has set
itself the task of bringing Latin and
Saxon into closer spiritual, economic
and political contact. 1t is now hold
ing a series of South American
nights" in the assembly hall of the
Department of the Interior, devoted
alternately to different Latin Amer
lean republics. This week an "Argen
tine night" is on the program The
average North American only knows
that the Argentine produced tango
and Firpo. He doesn't know that the
republic is nearly a third the size OF
the United States; that Buenos Aires
its beautiful capital, is city of $780,
600 souls, and that as raiser and
exporter of grain and cattle the Ar
gentine is the United States foremost
competitor in the markets of the
world. For years the British. the
have been outdoipg one another in
weaving sympathies away from the
United States. An effort of that kind
is in progress today. 1t behooves US
to sit up and take notice.
x X X
There's new Coolidge story in
circulation. 1t goes without saying
that it has to do with the Presidents
dislike of excess verbal baggage. A
delegation of political women recent
ly visited the White House. Their
spokeswoman delivered a speech at
the President, dwelling upon the sex's
desire to play real role in public
life. Her remarks concluded with a
question designed to pave the way for
an appropriate reply by Mr.. Coolidge
TO the general proposition that women
are entitled to full political equality
with men. The President made an
eloquent rejoinder, two words long
Why not?"
Copyright 1oe4.l
Evening star., 1924-03-27
Service as Well as Romance
Seen i'm Round World Flight

lon to the hardships OF the prairie
schooner days and concludes of the
Iairships, "in proportion as they are
shown able to meet emergency and
unforeseen conditions will our minds
accept them as practical and trust
worthy means of communication and
transportation"
By way OF comparison the Brook
lyn Eagle obse erves the projected
flight of the Shenandoah to the north
pole reached the zenith of seagoing
fantasy. The flight of the globe-tTot-
ting airplanes approaches something
practical as well as gallant and ro-
mantle" To which the Mobile Regis
ter adds, 'They are out to cirCumnavi-
gate the globe, not, to be sure, in
the slow and uncertain manner of
Magellan, but nevertheless with some
what the same spirit of conquest
that must have animated those six
teen tn century voyagers."
when the history of this most
wonderful of all times is recorded -
says the Kalamazoo Gazette, "a feat
that will rank with the greatest OF
all will be that Stupendous progress
In transportation and communication
which began when even adjacent
communities were strangers to con-
tented isolation and ended when the
farthest corners of the world were
made neighbors." There is little but
glory in the project, in the belief of
the Lansing Capital News, which de-
clares, Some time, some day, this
achievement will be accomplished" 4"
and adds, when it is accomplished
another chapter will be written in the
story Of aerial navigation, and those
who still adhere to the old idea of
isolation for America will have to
revise their viewpoint"
"As one studies the detailed timer
ary mapped out LOT tEese lnIeplo
|, voyagers," says the Christian Science
Monitor, "the route seems an endless
and hazardous one. And yet, at tho
end of the present journey, or soon
thereafter, there will be virtually
marked trail around the globe
which throughout the years and cen
turieS to come will be followed with
as little anxiety as trains and steam
ships today transverse their courses
on land and sea-