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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-02-07
I..urosnt. Busy Underwood Rule

Warrington, = Democrats ana Nc.
publican insurgents combining against
the Republican house leaders, Mon-
day won the first round Of a rules re-
vision fight BY mastering majority
for repeal Of the Underwood rule
which restricts amendments from the
floor when revenue and tariff bills are
under consideration. The Democrats
and insurgents cast 20S votes. against
III cast in support Of tie Republican
organization.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1924-02-07
Mre. Rooseveit Received

Tokio,-A representative OF the i'm
perial household Monday paid Visit
to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow OF
the late president OF the United Stat
es, following her arrival here. Mrs.
Roosevelt accompanied by her son.
Captain Kermit Roosevelt, IL touring
the orient.
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THE SCOUT OATH

On my honor l will do my best
1. To do my duty to God and m,
country, and to obey the Scout law
2. To help other people at al
times;
8. To keep myself physically
strong, mentally awake and morally
straight.
| The Scout Law
| l. A Scout is trustworthy.
A scouts honor is to be trusted
If he were to violate his honor by
telling a lie, or by cheating, or by
not doing exactly given task, when
trusted on his honor. he may be d.
rected to hand over his scout badge
| 2. A Scout is loyal.
He is loyal to all to whom loyalty
is due; his scout leader, his home,
and parents and country.
| 3. A Scout is helpful.
He must be prepared at any time
to save life, help injured persons,
and share the home duties. He must
do at least one good turn to some
body every day.
| 4. A Scout Is friendly.
He is a friend to all and a brother
to every other scout.
s. A Scout is courteous.
He is polite to all, especially to
women, children, old people and the
weak and helpless He must not
take pay for being helpful or court
eous.
/
6. A Scout is kind.
He is friend to animals. He will
not kill nor hurt any living creature
needlessly, but will strive to save
and protect all harmless life.
7. A Scout is obedient.
He obeys his parents. scoutmaster.
patrol leader, and all other duly
constituted authorities.
s: A Scout is cheerful.
He smiles whenever he can. His
obedience to orders is prompt and
CHEEKY. He never shirks nor grum-
bles at hardships.
9. A Scout is thrifty.
He does not wantonly destroy
wastes nothing, and makes the best
u6c VI Lib OppO1 14O Dow 90
his money so that he may pay his
own way, be geherous to those in
need, and helpful to worthy objects.
He may work Tor pay, but must not
receive tips flor courtesies or good
turns.
10. A Scout is brave.
He has the courage to face danger
in spite of fear and has to stand up
for the right against the coaxings Of
friends or the jeers or threats Of
enemies, and defeat does not down
him.
IL. A Scout is clean.
He keeps clean in body and
thought, stands for clean speech,
clean sport, clean habits, and travels
with clean crowd.
IL. A Scout is reverent.
He is reverent toward God. He is
faithful in his religious duties and
respects the conviction of others in
matters of custom and religion.
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NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING

The Wearyrick Ditch company,
place of business Riverside, Idaho,
will hold its annual meeting OF
stockholders on Monday, the third
day of March, 1924, at Riverside
hall, Idaho, at the hour of 2 o'clock
p. m. for the purpose of electing Of
ficers TO rthe ensuing year and for
transacting any other business that
may come before the meeting.
THE WEARYRICK DITCH co.
L. P. ADAMS, Secretary.
February 6, 1924. adv. 6-7-S-9
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In the series entitled Reflections
of the Editor The Republican Office
is offering 1920 in cash prizes this
month for your judgment. tt
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Republican want ads bring results.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
The Wonderful Visit.
Ry DR. FRANK CRANE.
The Wonderful Visit.

YyHERE are two kinds Of people who 60 to theaters
One kind to the same thing over and over; the
- other kind to something new.
The lower the order Of the theaer and the it ap-
peas to the vulgar mob the attempts only to show
the audience what it has before and expects to
again. Managers Of vaudeville know that the spectators will
not tolerate anything They certain things. They
want dance, song, monoogue, payle acrobatic
performance trained animals and instrumental music.
People to vaudeville because they know exactly what
they going to see.
The thing Of the large portion Of what is
called the legitimate stage Those audiences enjoy grand
opera the who know the operas by heart.
successful playwright who puts show that will
fnr three years who deals with situations that
% been consecraed by long The people used
=" All Te and understand them.
- - not necessarily wrong People 60 to the theater
$780, ~ Most Of them live surface lives and only
Bnt there ;s Is ano,cc can entertain them
sany searching the stt for some ne u for tbe
spirit; some new glimpse 10 the inscrutabe problems of
This class is not large because links and loves to think
in ryur to for%e it, # loves life and sway from life and
Once ina blue moon play is presentet that is sheer,
beautiful, creative imagination '
goers do not for it, Professional critics are as hostile
| towards 1T as bishops are toward heretics
But 1T is this kind Of play that justfies the heaer IL
theatcr stand FALL the long rum by the value of
its contribution to e The test of play is does it widen
the horizon does deepen and enrich the sympates does
sharpen the vision does it, the whole refresh and i'm
prove the human SPIRIT
The theater at its BEST ought to mankind
than the pulpit for it appeals strictly the imagination
and the imagination the real of character and
morals Besides the heater charges admission
we pay for always does good than what given
away for nothing.
quite amazing play which illustrates the better type is
The Wonderful VISIT by H. G. Wells and ST. John
Ervne 1t depicts angel who visits an ordinary English
village AS he he is shot for he is taken to be
some strange bird The week two he spends in the
village gives brilliant picture of what tragedy would
ensue from the contact of conventional life with pure
ideals and intelligence.
Tn fho Ter ~
show us the sordd and repusve things life as though
these were the most real The truth however that the
most real Things are the things that the greatest
contrast to tn hypocres of conventions the nobes and
beauties of life.
1t doubtful whether human nature is enriched or i'm
proved certainly not gaddened by representations of
venesS horror and cruelty Such things only tolerab
when they to relieve and emphasize the
and power of goodness of beauty
oopynght 1874 by the Mcclure Newspaper synaicasl
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"a San FranclscO Jury gave girl Verdict
The Metric System
) Good Thing, But 1t Is Probably Long Way Off

One of New York recent Commissioners Weights and
Measures urged the Importance of the metric ystea
that would do for in weights and measures what the
decimal system does for in money.
Each OF us knows how much better it is to have dollar
divided into one hundred cents than to have something like the
English pound, with its shings pennies and hapence The
metric system which the decimal system under another
name, time.
1t would much time in weights and measures as it
does in money.
But those of us that grown up KNOW understand
our present odfashioned stupid system We do not know
metric system
And being grown and having control do want
the trouble of LEARNING.
the next generation could make laws we should have
ne metric system tomorrow for would the next gen.
Grafton time and trouble.
But dull and reluctant to learn as we are the metric svs
tenn will probably have to the next generation and
then perhaps until the next.
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history. The whole story Of hu-
man emancipation from human
oppression Is told there, more
clearly, more Interestingly, and
more consecutively than anywhere
else. There liberty, attained
through law, most plainly reveals
itself.
r. 1.-THE Romans" said John
jacques Rousseau, ARE the people
that least often transgressed its
laws, and no other people has had
such good ones"
The founders Of these United
States learned more lessons from
ancient Rome than from any
other source. The French revolu.
ton was started and maintained
by thinkers who drew their in
SEPARATION from the edifying literar
ture and the historical examples
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IVY HAT America needs above
w all is good citizens. l con-
w meet with this truism an
educational note that comes from
my alma mater, Cornell Univer.
sity. There they have lately
opened new courses in the Greek
language, and now hundred
students In that birthplace Of
Sigma XII are studying Horneric
Greek and more are pressing for
entry into the classes, while there
are Indications that q similar op.
portunity to study Virgilian Latin
would meet with an equally eager
welcome.
The professor who us credited
with having been the chief agent
in the creation Of this new edu.
cational vision at Cornell says
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that Greek and Latin, as studies,
are good, above. all, the training
in citizenship"
That is the exact truth. For
pure mental training / cannot ad
init that any language EQUALS
mathematics. And / do not think
that either Latin or Greek, nor
even any living" language, ex-
cept, of course, ones native
tongue, furnishes as important a
study for the average educated
person as elementary mathe.
MATES. But, on the plane OF citI.
zenship, the two great classics.
which supplied nearly everything
that our forefathers regarded as.
learning" remain supreme.
The most important of all his
tory for intensive study u Roman
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of the Greeks and the Romans.
One great reason for preferring
these classical writings Is that
they are, most Of them, and all Of
the strongest, Of an edifying ma.
ture. They are not composed of
the froth that today abounds un-
der the name Of pure litera-
ture," claiming to be the only
thing that should be called litera.
ture, and disdaining any other
purpose than mere entertainment;
the literature taught by some col.
lege professors Of English" who,
confeSsedly, go to bed with q
coverlet laden with the latest
novels.
But Homer and Virgil, although
supreme poets. did not disdain to
be 'luFtructive. and the historians
Of Greece and Rome. toa Aher
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28
Mr.. Eastman's Monopoly"
Not Such a Bad Thing, Perhaps.

United States Court has decided that Mr. Eastman Of
rochester musn make large share of raw film materials
IHSt decision Tas Will meet heartfelt approval IN EUROPE
N Eastman may be violating the antitrust aw-hat is
for the courts to decide Just at present he is MAKING and
tors can sell it. F 0P0O1
And foreign moving picture concerns bound nv
Of low Eastman prices. 00O""
Eastman has cut rates Ford has rates. making his
money o producing more cheapy than his competitors and
keeping the business in United States instead Of Iettn
60 TO Europe The average feels that he useful
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appreciated by a stranger who
has learned the language in
which 1t 10 written, cannot be per-
fectly reproduced by him, or any
body, in the words of another
tongue.
Even a merely elementary
knowledge of the original Ian
guage helps in the Comprehension
and assimilation Of the transla-
ton. If you have once read but a
little of Cicero or Tacitus in the
original Latin, you find that little
knowledge Is leaven which tends
to make a whole mass of heavy
TRANSACTIONS "rite."
I wish l had studied Latin and
Greek more than / did. / didn't
love work in those days as well
as do now. I didn't know then
that work furnished the only true
recreation.
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A HEROINE OF NAPOLEONIC ERA
WHOSE ADVICE GUIDED
EMPEROR
IWH ANON

power that the friendship of
Madame Vergennes and Jose
Prime, who had been q friend of
the former when she was Madame
Beaucharnais, was renewed. And
It was through this association
that M. de Remusat was installed
at Fontainebleau as a member of
Napoleon's suite, while his young
wife was honored as lady-in wait.
ing to the Empress Josephine.
1t was at court that this bril-
liant young woman shone. She
was a woman of exceptional char
acter and was cherished as the
most helpful of all Of the women
Of the court of the Empress.
Madame de Remusat was not
only a woman of the highest
qualities of womanhood, but she
was brilliant as we'll. 1t is said
that Napoleon and the great Tai
leyrand valued her opinions
highly and that she was sought
after to discuss many affairs of
importance, for her wisdom was
unusual.
For many years every evening
Madame de Remusat entered in
her journal the happenings of
the day. She was a born writer,
and it. was a very natural thing
for her when her official life
was over to write her memoirs
Of the Empire" This was fol.
lowed by splendid volume.
"The Education of Women"
which was a prophecy of what
has taken place today regarding
the Improvement of such educa-
ton.
But Of all her distinguished at.
tainments, she took pride only in
being a DEVOTED wife and mother.
She died at the age Of forty-one,
and of her at the time Of her
death her confessor, the Able
Duval, said:
"She served God in the world"
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a good wife. She's much vampire as any marauding
female who leeches fool male That husband does
belong to her alone He belongs the World and to Him
SELF and he should those other interests well her
interests.
way Yet I'm going romp right along with my little
ton) Moreover if she doesn't allow him to those
other interests if she doesn't urge him to them
she and the home will suffer in the long It's wise
wife that gives hubby night off with the boys at least
once a week.
And the same advice goes for John Henry and The
Little Womn at Home. It's very delightful to pose as
sturdy oak during the honeymoon but believe me- john
u be mighty sick of being tres after she's hung on
your neck for fifty years. God gave that Little Woman
nice strong spne with brain at cad and two hind
legs other upon which to stand Then let her use them
Syndcat
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with the philosophers and the in
vestigators Of nature, were
crowned with the same laurels
that were awarded the poets. I'm
agine Plato's look, or Aristotle's,
or Livy's, IL q modern scribbler
should say to him: "You are only
a unitarian writer, but I possess
the divine afflatus and produce
literature"
or course, the greater part of
the Greek and Roman literature
has been translated, and all can
get much of it's substance, with.
out having to learn the languages
in which It was written. But
everybody who IL competent to
Judge affirms that there n some
thing In the structure of the
classic languages that stamps
their literary products with a
character which. though II can be
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BY ELSIE ROBINSON
Oo1gslIA aseA = CO oeapaAN.

a owS her rn nan IVA Mace un Mnen sh BOBBY
they're "heavily married" Bobby's strong
for marriage, as am |. But she knows it
was never intended to be a chronic COM
plant 1t is an excellent means to a most
worthy end. The end is to make homes for
loving couples and their children, and help
full community centers for society. Mar
riage is meant to serve humanity, as all
human institutions are meant to serve hui
manity It should broaden and strengthen
life, net gum it up. When it fails to broaden
life it becomes a destructive rather than
constructive agency. Too much romance
is exactly as bad as too little.
The wife who diverts all her husbands
interest. time and strength to the home ism t
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Various Things
All Short.

President Coolidge goes to New York by
special train will be time before President travels
Dy apane King Albert of Belgium iourneyed through
the sky but few, if any, other heads Of government
Queen Mary has taken a great liking for
Premier MacDonalds daughter and father and daughter will
be the weekend guests the King and Queen at Windsor
Castle What's the use trying to be radical?
Surgeons are to open the skull of a dead
actor and study his brain because was able to commit vast
quantities Of Shakespeare to memory This the big
test of brain power It's important to write one inn
mortal line than to commit million immortal lines to mem
ory
And it's almost as important to be good
forgotten good rememberer It's important to forget
hate and folly is to remember thrift and industry And
it's almost bad to let mind as to cord it up with
mass Of junk.
The King of Spain says he didn't want the
We agree with him. It's hard to imagine du]ler
job than such lifelong Punch and Judy performance He
says he would rather be soldier We agree with him
We can't imagine penitenary sentence than to be
confined in uniform and lug lot of hardware in the midst
Of profound peace.
The blacksmith and the hod carrier and the
preacher and the business have both the King and the
Soldier beaten mile The King and the Soldier are Just
animated statuary looming up of past and before
long both may go out of business
Again the opponents of faceology are con-
founded The bobbedhair bandit doesn't look bit fierce
Her face wouldn't Sherlock Holmes reach for his
gum in fact she has the appealing of young lady
selling books to pay her way through college.
A Chicago doctor tried to hold fourteen
baby until paid for treating and settling its hos
ptal bill The Court said he might hold horse piece of
baggage but not baby It's mother had offered pay the
Dill, week by week, as she made the money
Gradually society is getting to regard chill
dren as assets rather than necessary evils but society will
never be fully qualified to look down savage unit it
stops child labor and regards every little fellow entitled
to fair start in free field.
Unless all signs fail, those who framed Sen
ator Wheelers Indictment will be running to cover
It's a pretty safe bet that no State will send
TO the United States Senate whose past merits
grand jury Indictment Gentlemen may betray the people
after they get into the Senate but they it they get
to Washington, they II seldom get there,
nineteen-yea boy of Jersey City mar
r1ed two girls and stole automobile according to the
charges against him. Youth often goes wrong result of
suggestion and this young may have been affected by
reading OF the wholesale grabbing Of ex-Secretary Fall
A San Francisco jury gave girl verdict
Tor $l18OO0 for permanent injuries resulting from being
struck by street This said be the biggest personal
injury verdict rendered the United but nobody
in his right mind would trade his health for any
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craWed Under the orange blossoms From that time all
bets off for both Of them. They plunked into Ro-
nance right to their knees and they've been able
to yank themselves free since They don't yank
to be rapde real estate salesman But now he spends
most of his time talking about The Little Woman at Home
He can't spend evening with the boys because The Little
Woman might be lonely And if any of the old gang plan
trip, The Little Woman must along.
And The Little Woman is just devoted to her Bill
Whatever she does she must ask Bills permission She no
longer has opinion of her any subject on earth
What does she think of the Socialist government of Eng
landH Does she approve of capital punishment How
about child aborG Well, Bill says
All of which makes me think of expression dear to
my young friend Bobby Bobbys years aren't many but
she has wise in her head and she keeps rolling She
(CopyrRh Ee
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By MARK STUYVESANT.


TN PARIS In the last half of
the eighteenth century q very
u happy family lived. They
were aristocrats. The father
held an official position at court
and he was the nephew Of a min
lister to the King, Louis XVI.
His name was Vergennes, and
In hisN home with his wife and
two charming young daughters
all was peace and happiness.
Then came the terrible year of
49," Vergennes left his post
with the royalists and enlisted
with the revolutionists. Because
of his adherence to the cause Of
liberty he gave his life, and was
guillotined in 1894.
Paris was not safe now for
anyone who had ever been an
aristocrat-no matter what their
allegiance was-so the stricken
widow and her two daughters
fled to the quiet valley of tho
Montmorency.
Here grew UP the two girls in
the quiet Of the country, their
education being directed by their
mother and q former friend Sc
their fathers, M. de Remusat.
During the long winter even
ings and in the lovely summer
French twilights the elder daugh-
ter and the cultured friend spent
many happy hours together,
which resulted in their marriage,
for Claire Vergennes, much to
her mothers delight, married M.
de Rumusat.
Claire was sixteen. Her hus
band was eighteen years her
senior. When she was seven.
teen she was a mother. And
as one Of her biographers writes:
Her education under the tuition
of her husband continued at the
cradle of her SON."
1t was while living in the coun-
try after Napoleon came into
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LISTEN, WORLD!

I've nothing against marriage. It is the
most necessary and, when properly con-
n Quoted, the most delightful of social
institutions. But when it hits em as it has
the Hunters, I could boil Cupid in oil and
grin during the process. Prior to marriage
the Hunters were human beings They used
to call Bill Hunter "Toad when he was
kid. He was that kind of a kid. A Reg Tar
Guy, all freckles and flop ears and cussed-
ness. He had bright and shining interest
in everything from crullers to corpses. In
short, he was Abnormal male who gave every
promise of being credit to his country.
The same might be said of Dolly, bar
ring her gender. She was always bit on
the cling; but she managed to have an idea
or two Of her own, nevertheless, before she
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28

President Coolidge goes to New York by
special train will be time before President travels
BY aplane King Albert of Belgium journeyed through
the sky, but few, any, other heads Of government
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28

Queen Mary has taken great liking for
Premier MacDonads daughter and father and daughter will
be the weekend guests of the King and Queen Windsor
Castle. What's the use trying to be radical?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-04-28

Surgeons are to open the skull of dead
actor and study his he was able to commit
quantities Of Shakespeare to memory This not the big
test Of brain power It's important write one i'm
mortal line than to commit million immortal lines to mem
DRY.