Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1924-03-20
This Week
About 1000 Candidates
Vengeance is Mine"
Copper Needs Statesmen
If Daugherty Talked
BY Arthur Brisbane

planning to be president, do you sup
pose? There was a general feeling
that McAdoo had the Democratic nom
nation unless AL Smith could get il
away from him. 1t seemed certain
that Mr.. Coolidge had the Republican
nomination by an overwhelming ma
jority on the first ballot.
But q little oil makes a great dill
ference in the political situation, and
now anybody has a right to hope.
Many an ambitious American is
spending his dollars now, handing
them. to political experts" in return
for presidential promises.
There are probably at the least
1000 serious" candidates at this mo-
ment.
Friendly warning to big men In
clined to injure business and scare
little stockholders in revenge for the
senate oil investigation.
DON'T DO 1T.
1t won't pay you in the long run
and. besides. it is written, Dearly
beloved, avenge not yourselves
vengeance is Mine. 1 will repay, saith
the Lord"
Public officials have had a warn.
ing, learned lesson. Some will get
more than a lesson. Valuable truths
have come out; others are coming.
On the whole it's a small thing
which really doesn't amount to much
more than catching little Willie telling
a fib. No reason for breaking ul
the family. Send Willie to bed and
let business go on.
Another copper concern, the Inspir'
alton Copper company, followed the
example of the big Anaconda, and
skipped its dividend. That means
bad craftsmanship and not enough ad.
vertising. If the copper men would
explain, through advertising in plain
language, what copper means and
what it saves in building, no company
able to produce copper at 20 cents Q
pound, or better, need lack business
-
Mr.. Mellon, secretary of the treas
ury. SAYS the national debt has Deen
reduced $685., 100000 in the last year
and four thousand eight hundred mil
lions in four and a half years. Your
glorious country now owes $2l,7Sl,'
966. $50. 1t takes a big and prosper
ous country to owe as much as that
And while we ought to pay OF RAPID,
Iy. we could owe five times tha'
amount. and more, too, and not DE
bankrupt.
Men and women with more ser
confidence than intelligence lntend 70
produce in New York play, All
Gods Chillun Got Wings"
In this play a white woman rams
IN love with a negro, marr1es him,
and, kneeling before him, kisses the
Negroes hand. A full-blooded negro OF
unusual intelligence will play one
mart a white woman will play the
other.
There is perhaps no law that can
sion this foolishness, but common IN
telIigence and decency should stop IT,
If only for the sake OF the negro
race. ,.x,
The dullest mind connected with
that theatre must know that to snow
a white woman falling on her knees
and kissing a negro's hand is Dad
thing for the coIored people, of whom
tbere are tens Of thousands In New
York-to say nothing Of millions else
where.
Attorney General Daugherty de-
clares that "if some senator's 90 MOI
resign he, Daugherty, will cause some
splash" ,,a.oo
Mr.. .Daugherty knows the difference
between a splash" and little rip
nle. The public will watch for the
splash with interest The ATTORNEY
general could reveal more about the
real character of certain officials tnaii
half a dozen oil investigations he
knows what senators and others are
trying to do, whom they are tryiae
to shield, and whom they seek u
prosecute.
Pnblication of Mr.. Daughertys pri-
yate information would cause d
Splash" indeed.
There is even worse news ABOUT
whales than about bees. whales are
not coming up from the south pole
as they used to come, oherlng on
from blubber, whalebone from their
months. and proof of evolution, IN
the two little hip bones concealed III
their fat carcasses-although shes
no longer use the legs to which Ihose
hip bones were once attached: r.,
The whalebone doesn't matter, TOT
ladies now go loose around the waist,
as a rule. But the whaling INDUSTRY
Is in bad shape.