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The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-12-23

In pygmies and giants, beaches Of gold
and mountains Of precious stones, was
to disappear.
l stole back to my pirogue and
pushed OF and dropped downstream.
with no further thought Of visiting the
Indian village. and only anxious to be
the first to carry the news to Bienville.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-12-23
CHAPTER ii
France Sends More Rubbish.

After leaving the hills and bluffs. I
experienced that feeling which always
came to me when descending the river
alone; that is. that the river was SEN
fient and was pursuing me. Foolish
no doubt yet impelling enough to
make me swing my head frequently In
staring back over the desolate food
and its burden Of drift. / never ex-
perienced any bizarre sensation In
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-12-23
"Pemy Nails

1t should really be pounds" not
penny when you ask for a six-penny
or an eight-penny nail Years ago 1t
used to be that a thousand nails Of a
certain size weighed six pounds. Of an
other bit larger the same number
weighed eight pounds-hence eight
pound nails. six-pound nails, which,
hurriedly spoken soon became con-
tracted to six-penny, eight-penny-
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-12-23
A Nelp Precoufion

Many are convinced that the next
war will be conducted by radio. in
which event persons entering No Mans
Land should be careful to avoid the
wireless Observation-Disclosures Le-
gion Weekly.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-12-23
Value of Sport Goods

During 1923 the value of sporting
goods manufactured in the United
States was 100000. gain Of 80
per cent over the value of sporting
goods manufactured in 1921--Good
Hardware
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-12-23
.Wr.te Indian" is evidently
running into dangers Of many
klnds-the way of the spy 10
usually toward DEATH
40 BE coNrlNuEp1
Pointed Epitaph

In a churchyard in Worcester. Eng
land. Is a slab over the grave of a de-
parted auctioneer bearing the single
word Gone
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-12-23

Every time the wind raises a dis
turbance 1t is sure to blow about it
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-12-23

The small boy in the jam closet
doesn't care to be heard or seen
either.
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-12-23

When out of favor. none knew thee i.
when in. thou dosr not know Myself
Benjamin franklin
The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-12-23

WOOL YARN--ply gray. fer hand knit
ting. $lfs Per H. postpaid Write for
samples W D. n PrK- Co Mzhfo~2- Nina.
Evening star., 1925-12-13

70 a group on next to the last day of
the convention Col. Roosevelt said. eff
at any time you feel that Gov. Had
ley can lead you better than | can or
that he may be nominated where r
cannot be nominated, then / shall
be very glad to give my whole
hearted support to Gov. Hadley." And
then he added. "The only thing I shall
require is that before they nominate
GOV. Hadley or any one else in this
convention they shall purge the roll
of its stolen delegates"
The Roosevelt love to contemplate
however, is the Roosevelt of the World
War period, when his strength. his
courage and his craftsmanship made
MIN the leader of the mass thought
or the country. The sincerity and
the whole-heartedness of him at that
hour made us forget the titles with
which we had expressed his great
ness We lost interest in his reputa-
ton as a soldier, explorer, great gov
ernor. great President, and thought
OF him only as a great American. &"
No American in all our history has
possessed more angles than Col
Roosevelt possessed.
In New York they call him "our
Roosevelt" but in the Western CITY
III which I live in Kansas we have
nameo beautiful avenue and our
largest schoolhouse after him. I
know one Western city that has
named municipal bathing pool after
MIN. His name has been given to
everything, from bears to rivers, and
given with a deep sense of apprecia-
tlon of his great services to America
and to the world.
Evening star., 1925-12-13
By DIR. ELLWOOD HENDRICK,
Curator. Chandler Chemical Museum.
Columbia UNIVERSITY

When Secretary Hoover, in his re-
cent New York address to the en-
gtneers, said that instead Of leading
all other countries in the advancement
Of fundamental scientific knowledge,
the United States occupies a position
far in the rear of the majority Of Eu-
ropean nations" he uttered a profound
and true statement. Note, please,
that he said the advancement Of fun
damental scientific knowledge" and
that he did not refer to applied SCIENCE,
in which we are taking q leading part
Without this qualification his state
ment nigh well be challenged; but he
made the qualification himself, and
with 1t we are bound to admit that he
was right.
Pure science may not properly be
likened to looking for needle in a
haystack. The better analogy would
be to looking, with eyes just as keen,
to discover what there is in the hay
stack. The seeker may or may not
find q needle; he may find an old bone
and he may find q priceless jewel;
1t is all the same to him, for 1t is his
business to discover what Is there.
He must have the scientific passion
for discovery, which the New York
World In recent editorial called the
osity. unspoiled and child-like, that
discovers the unexpected things. The
tyro Is utterly useless in reseach; he
has neither the understanding, the
scientific habit Of thought nor the
technique.
Useful Things Only, Sought.
We have only lifted the lid of the
vast undiscovered continents Of
science as yet; but so long as we are
looking for specific, useful things, we
are likely to miss those that are ap-
parently useless now, but which may
have undreamed-of value later on.
An old legend Of Cambridge don
may throw some light on this. He
offered toast Ito Pure Mathematics,
which never can be of any USE" But
pure mathematics In its higher realms.
as developed right there in Cambridge.
proved the very means Of our present
illumination on the fundamental ma
ture of matter.
We have made an idol of being prac.
tical in this country, and the idol
often blinds us to what Is present and
available. 1t was the not-yet useful
things Of pure science that Mr.. Hoover
was calling for; the product of the
man OF theory. The engineering pro-
out-after they get them. The point
is to bring these ideas into being.
Pure research is not idle guessing.
The only possible start is from the
level Of very high scholarship and
clear understanding Of what Is already
known. During the war the Naval
Advisory Board appealed to the public
for ideas as to how the whereabouts
of submarines might be determined,
and they received over 10000 susges.
tions-from the public. Not one was
of any use. But when a group Of
leading physicists was brought to-
gether the problem was soon solved
They had never thought Of locating
submarines in their studies of sound
waves. But with their useless In
formation" and theoretical stuff'
that nobody could resolve into dollars,
they solved the problem.
There is no fixed boundary line be-
tween, pure and applied science; in
deed, there IL a constant stream Of
Evening star., 1925-12-13
NEW GERMAN ATTITUDE SHOWN
BY SIGNING OF LOCARNO TREATY
Much Credit Due Hindenburg for His Stand Gen.
Allen Holds-Russia Expected to Be Next
Join League of Nations.

tude OF this former faithful follower
Of the Kaiser. This near-octogenarian
was a devoted subject to his sovereign
over n long soldier life. He was an
unwilling candidate, elected largely by
a sentimental vote, to the discontinue
of many who felt that his royalist past
forbade loyal republican future.
With this background he has never
thelesS seen fit TO sacrifice his rela-
tlons with his former master TO the
welfare Of the country and the repub-
lie. In so doing he has performed n
potent part for republicanism and has
largely advanced tta cause Of world
peace.
In spite Of the attacks on the con-
stitutionality Of the Locarno agree
ments and the claims that thereby
the German Parliament becomes a
mere organ Of the league and that
the question of war and peace, vested
in the Reichstag by the Weiner con-
stitution, is transferred to another in
sutution, the Reichstag decided to
confirm the initiating done at the little
Swiss town. The vote was 800 to 174.
The efforts of the ultra-Nationalists
headed by Ludendorff, and of the
scarcely less radical heads, such as
Count Westarp, to defeat the peace
pacts by pressure on the marshal
PRESIDENT were unavailing. President
Htndenburg remained adamant to all
Nationalist and Socialist pressure
from the extreme left.
Germany will now enter the league
as a member of the council and will
share with other powers in the direc-
ton of league activities. BY virtue of
this act Of Germany We may expect
to see change in the Soviet mind in
the near future that will permit
Russia to follow the example Of Ger
many into the league. AssuredIy the
obstacles to this step are not greater
than those overcome by the German
administration.
Although the elements of the ex-
treme left in Germany Joined with
the extreme right in opposing con-
firmation of the pacts, it is noteworthy
that the executive committee of the
Socialist and Labor International. in
session In London, November 4 and S,
stated that it considered the treaties
or ltocarno as first step toward the
paclhcat1on of Europe" Ratification
by the various interested parliaments
is thus assured.
The first direct steps toward peace
and toward moral European restora-
ton as result Of Locarno is the
evacuation of the Cologne bridgehead
iio" tohiHS pace, ana FRANCES S deci-
sion to reduce materially her Rhine
forces. These are truly historical mo-
ments not only for France and Ger.
many but for Europe.
Domestic politics often take prec-
edence over national welfare and vet
oftener over international veal: but
the new era in Europe will doubtless
direct the attention of our country in
a broader way to its world responsi
bility. Our financial participation in
helping restore the ravages of war
necessarily increases our political in
terest in the assisted countries. These
new situations and the strong impulse
of moral leadership suggest that our
representation in major world actiy-
tiles henceforth be on an official par
ity with that of other sovereign states.
Evening star., 1925-12-13
THREE STEPS PROPOSED BY CHILD
TO CHECK RISING TIDE OF CRIME
Recognition of National Disgrace, Better Detection
and More Severe Punishment and Concen-
tration on Real Menace Urged.

punish as an example Of youth. They
are the revolts encouraged by degen-
crate literature and by bad movies,
against family, religious and State au-
thority. They are undesirable immt
grants, but even more the first genera
ton children Of foreign born.
These are some of the principal
causes behind our wretched record of
homicide and of violence. feebly pun
ished. But they apply to all forms
Of our crime, to the unchecked vicious
impulse as we'll as to the highly or.
ganized and skillfully managed boot.
leg, blackmail, warehouse robbery,
jewelry hold-up, and other we'll de-
fined professional criminal rings.
Prescribes Three Courses.
To effect cure-to clean up Amer
ica-we need primarily three medi-
cines. First, recognition that crime
IS our national disgrace. Society
should punish crime primarily not to
reform the criminal, but to save those
who have not yet committed crime and
do It by putting price tag on crime.
Every locality should organize to in
vestigate and clean its own house.
Secondly, we need some national
agency like the new National Crime
Commission to assist local organiza-
tions. This should be done by giving
information, by stimulating interest
and by making uniform systems Of sta
tistics, by obtaining better methods
of apprehending and furnishing and
by encouraging such cooperation be.
tween States and localities that crimi-
nails cannot "hop out
Thirdly, we need to realize that if
the choice must come between the
normal laws against assaults on per-
sonal safety. property, peace and order
and on the other hand the laws which
regulate personal conduct-the goose.
step laws-we must first enforce the
laws against violent crime. So much
of that is simply killing.
downright, 1895,
Evening star., 1925-12-13

HE changes in my own attitude
to religion have followed gen
orally and in a condensed form
Il the broader movements of
thought during the past CEN
tury. l was brought up in d coun.
try rectory and my father was
low churchman of the old school.
In those years 7 believed in hell as
firmly as believed in God, or the wis
dom of my own parents. I was, in
short. fair representative of the
average churchgoer Of the early and
mid Victorian period
The first breath of doubt crossed my
mind when l was just 81. and so
strong breath was it that in a
single evening l came over, as it were,
into the skepticism of the later part of
the nineteenth century begotten by
the works Of Darwin. Huxley and
Iyndau. ! reached, too. the same
climax Of absolute materialism: and
then, Ike SO many others, entered on
another phase Of reaction as a result
OF reading Haeckel's Riddle of the
Universe" in which matter was so
tr1umphantly proved to possess all
the potentialities hitherto attributed
to God that 1t really made little differ
ence whether one believed in the God
of matter or a material God.
Z X x
The further stages that mark the
subtler movements Of thought cannot
followed IN,
length. They include the examination
and rejection Of the phenomena Of
spiritualism. so far as the evidence
Tor actual messages from the dead
Is concerned: the opposition to modern
occultist thought IN that it omits an
essential to development by too great
a concentration on the self: and, last.
a tendency to find in recent science
strong support for the purely mys-
teal attitude-inasmuch as the fur
ther our researches are pressed into
the constitution Of matter the more
We find 1t becoming resolved into an
aspect OF force" which is merely
name for anything you please.
\ \
But though We may enlarge our
conception Of God to any extent for
saking that early notion Of Him as a
kind Of jealous patriarch and Judge.
extraordinarily quick-tempered where
his own rules are concerned, and as
Stunning Him as the essential spirit
o. the whole universe-we, the in
habitants of this one small planet.
are compelled by the accident of our
present condition to consider "reli
gion" from the point Of view Of its
Evening star., 1925-12-13

munity with which I have been as
Sociated. Moreover, the dogmaS OF
the churches appear to me to be
utterly at variance with the spirit of
Christ. To take the most obvious Of
many examples, l can find no warrant
in Christ's teaching for the doctrine
that a man shall find salvation only
by following the particular articles Of
belief adopted by one particular sect
or division of the Christian Church.
The clearest statement that Christ
made in this connection was: He
that believeth in Ne shall not perish"
And l choose to accept that at once in
It's simplest and widest significance;
not as implying he that believes in an
endless rigmarole of senseless ordi-
nances and ritual originality imposed
by priests for their own purposes;
but as he that believes in the divine
principle In himself and all mankind
II we could, indeed, accept that
single faith as the basis of a great
world religion, all our controversies
would be blown away, and the whole
life of man would have to be reor
ganized. No matter in what creed
was educated. II I believe in this Di-
vine principle in myself and act al
ways as if l so believed, I should be
compelled to load Il religious life.
To do anything loss would be to deny
my faith and relinquish the hope OF
eternal life.
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But at the present stage Of our evo-
luton this one simple creed with the
enormous responsibilities and need
for self-discipline that It necessitates
is q world too hard for the average
man and woman. If we could truly
believe in God. not as n distant super
human judge whom we must present
ly confront. but as inhabitins instant
ly and forever our own mind, we
should be incapable Of acting un-
worthily. Every mean, selfish, cruel,
cowardly. intolerant act would then
be a denial of our great faith, and
would indeed recrucify that spirit Of
Christ which is still seeking to in
carnate itself III all humanity.
This, then, in conclusion, is what
religion means 10 me-the belief
that God seeks to express Himself in
us, not by a slavish adherence to
some trifing form of worship. but by
the practice of a principle which was
incorporated by Christ in the words:
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self
But who, as yet, IS capable Of obey
ing that tremendous commandment
the essence Of all true religious prac-
tice?
Copyright. 1a25.D
Evening star., 1925-12-13

influence on our day-to-day existence.
Now. whatever may be our concep-
ton Of life after death-whether, in
deed, we believe in II or not-the
whole experience of mankind seems
to show that the true practice Of re-
hgion enforces before all else an ele-
ment OF self-denial In all forms Of
the Christian religion this element is
found in avoiding the temptation OF
what has been clearly defined for us
as sin In the Hindu Buddhism and
occultism generally the necessity for
selr-dental as a means to self-develop-
ment IS pushed to an extreme asceti-
cism. But even In the most primitive
Of savage cults we find this root
Evening star., 1925-12-13
U. S. Embassy in Toxic
Reasonably Assured

There seems now to be a reasonable
prospect Of an American embassy in
Toxic. Harold Magonigle, an architect
from New Jersey, has arrived in
Toxic He will await the coming of
Anthonin Raymond Of the firm Of
RAYMOND & Sykes, who have been
retained by the State Department to
assist in the drawing of plans for Il
new embassy, which is to cost about
sl,2500o0 Since the destruction of
the old embassy by fire, following the
earthquake Of 1923, the japanese gov
ernment, as an appreciation Of the
prompt American relief sent to Toxic.
has given the United States for an
embassy ground one of the finest sites
in the capital. 1t is Immediately be-
hind the old embassy site, but on
much higher level. Both sites will be
used, the upper for the embassy build
ing and residence and the lower for
the office and secretaries residences.
Evening star., 1925-12-13
BY HENRY j. ALLEN,
Former Governor of Kansas.

During the World War I visited for
an hour with the King of Italy. His
f1rst inquiry was about Col Roose-
veit ana most oil the hour was taken
up by the King in comment on Col.
Roosevelt. When told him that Col
Roosevelt had once said that the King
OF Italy was one Of the two monarchs
who could carry his own ward he was
highly complimented when told him
what carrying the ward meant
When / left his majesty said to me,
Tell Col. Roosevelt when you see him
that I am raising my boys so that
they may some day be president Of
Italy. That was long before the
shadow of Mussolini appeared, but
his boys are still young.
When Col. Roosevelt returned from
the African hunt and the European
trip he soon let us know that he was
not really for dignified retirement.
He was still vitally concerned in the
policies which he had turned over to
his successor and again ne became a
subject of intense worry to Old Guard
Republicans.
Time has eliminated the rancor of
the Chicago convention of 1912. The
hatchet that was dug TIP in those
tumultuous days was buried in the
days Of the World War AS one of
the men intimately associated with
the events of the Chicago convention
l believe it Is only fair to Col. Roose-
velt's memory to correct one widely
circulated statement which followed
the Chicago Overwhelmingly, that
Col. Roosevelt had refused to allow
the nomination Of Gov. Hadley of Mis-
souri, at the hands of the Old Guard
and the participation of the Roose-
Welt followers.
There are only two things tile mat
ter with that statement. One is that
the Old Guard did not, with President
Taft's consent, ever offer the nomi-
nation to Col. Roosevelt. The other
is that Col. Roosevelt never forbade
his followers the privilege of going
behind Gov. Hadley. In very dis
tinct and well remembered statement
Evening star., 1925-12-13

~ RESIDENT COOLIDGE signal
lv failed to satisfy the agri-
cultural interests as repre-
S-ented by the recent conven-
tlon of the American Farm
Bureau Federation at Chicago. His
address to the convention on Decem-
Der e. which this writer heard and
the effects of which were then an.
alyzed. has left the farmers not only
unsatished. but more aggrieved than
ever. They were in hopes that Mr..
Coolidge would meet agriculture at
least half way, either with regard to
some price-Improving system or with
regard to the tariff.
The Presidents : inability to hold out
hope to agriculture in either Of those
directions sent the Farm Bureau Fed
GRAFTON conventioniteS home in Sullen
mood. 1t was registered in their final
action-the election of S. III. Thomp-
son of Illinois as president of the
federation. Mr.. Thompson is an out
spoken "McNary -Iaugen" man. He is
an uncompromiSing advocate of some
Federal eNport-corporation legislation
and openly criticized President Cool:
idSe's Chicago speech. Thompson de-
feated for the leadership of the Farm
Federation the more conservative Q.
I. Bradfute. president of the organi-
IdllOIl lOT the past three TERMS.
Gave Capper Ovation.
In their displeasure with Mr.. Cool
idge, the Chicago farm leaders turned
10 another Of their convention speak
Ex-senator Arthur Capper of Kan
saS. The head of the farm bloc in Con
greSs carried the convention by storm
In his address at its annual banquet
Capper did not go anywhere near the
EkNr.Ir H.
prtce-flxinE for farm products. along
McNary-Haugen lines. He openly op-
posed that particular proposition. But
what he said, and what the farmers
Hked-and what they did not think
President Coolidge did-was to pledge
agriculture some concrete support in
its fight for better price conditions.
Senator Capper and the President
We're miles apart in their views Of
what the protective tariff does for the
farmer. Coolidge told the Chicago
convention that the existing tariff sys-
tenn is a boon for agriculture. Capper
said that agriculture at present doesn't
begin to enjoy the protection" that
industry. finance, labor and the rail-
roads get from Uncle Sam.
Having listened to Mr.. Coolidge on
December with respectful courtesy,
the Farm Bureau convention fairly
rose at Mr.. Capper 10 hours later.
Farmers who've heard the Kansan
make agricultural speeches for u
years said he never reached such
heights OF persuasiveness. He did
not promise agriculture the moon.
He only asserted that it was entitled
TO lot more of the moon than 1t Is
now getting, and pledged his whole
hearted aid In seeing that it is OBJ
tained. Capper, in the language OF
the theatrical profession, stole the
show" at Chicago. He was strong
with the farming community before.
He made himself absolutely solid with
It by his sympathetic talk to the fed
Grafton meeting.
Far-Reaching Political Eject.
Echoes Of the Chicago convention
will presently be resounded through
the halls of Congress. The political
echoes are likely to last far beyond
Evening star., 1925-12-13

principle OF denying ourselves some
thing that we desire.
This, then, Is what have come to
believe in as the meaning Of religion
as such; the element of faith as a
means to the practice of seIf-restraint,
since this is the common factor of all
creeds.
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From this it VIII be inferred that |
ii" not disapproye the principle Of
Christianity. Nor do l. | regard the
ethics Of Christ as being beyond all
comparison the most admirable rule
OF life ever given TO the world; but /
have never seen that ethic practiced
by the members Of any Christian COM
Evening star., 1925-12-13
Fire Ruins Russ Timber.

kavages of Russia's vast timber re.
sources by fire are so great that they
can hardly be calculated. In three
months last Summer II 900 fires were
reported in the portion of the union
within the boundaries Of the Russian
Socialist Federated Soviet Republic.
The forests destroyed covered an area
of more htan 1870 square miles,
These great, forests are practically un-
guarded and once fire starts little
can be done to check its course until
1t either burns itself out or nature
interveneS.