The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-01-07

Thus Hertzian waves discovered through pure re-
search, have become radio Pasteurs bacilli have
brought about the end Of yellow fever; Faraday 8
electromagnetic have become dynamos and tele-
graphs.
The New Year is therefore full Of promise. We
may the market French device which Will
bring about the death and funeral of the gear
shift and differential In automobiles. The radio
has now been set at work exploring underground
for OIL gas. water and gold The financial world
Is Just bit disturbed over the announcement OF
German scientist that he has made gold from
quicksilver, although at prohibitve cost
The astronomers have discovered new planet
closer to the earth than is Mars. They also an
nounce that the spiral nebulae in the heavens are
In reality stellar systems, SO distant that their
light travelling at $4,000 miles second takes
million years to reach new microscope has
been made that magnihes 600OO0,OOO times, rs
compared with the 100000 times Of present nstru-
ments; If a tennis ball could be viewed through
the microscope 1t would appear about mile
and half In diameter.
And sometime during the New Year according
to the Berlin inventor Anton Flettner, the new
rotarship under power furnished by Its wnd-driv-
en- revolving tunnels will come triumphantly Into
New York harbor.
TN THE United States 1925 will see new Pres
ident new house and changed senate. To
be sure the President Is the same Calvin Coolidge.
But he will be President In his own right-whlch
Is likely to make difference.
OF course Mr. Coolidge is not going to rock the
boat because Of that And there will be new pre-
siding officer of the senate-"Hel Maria" Dawes,
who can be as suave and parliamentary and dip
lomatlc as anyone, when he wants to be. And 1t
will be fun to see him and Senator Smith Widman
Brookhart of Iowa-f the latter succeeds In hold
ing his seat against the contest to be made by
Steck The house will see new speaker Mad
den of Illinois Is active candidate for the place
and at this writing Longworth of Ohio receptive
candidate The familiar figure of Henry Cabot
Lodge will be missing from the senate; the new
Republican leader may be Butler of Massachu
setts Curtis of Kansas, Watson Of Indiana or
Borah of Idaho.
VIII the new senate discipline LaFollette and
keep him In the Republican party or will 1t read
him out? That's what nobody can say at this writ
Ing But the new congress Is quite likely to let
the railroads alone. And thing Is sure-it Will
be an economical congress, II 1t pays attention to
the man In the White House.
TT THE lot of the farmer Is not made happier
i in 1925 It will not be because do not know
what nils him The administration Is putting ag-
riculture first In Its program Of constructive eff
fort The President has appointed commission
of capable men and has told them to get the facts
In the situation If 1t takes all winter. They'll
get the facts And with our brains and our re-
sources It'll be queer II the agricultural complica
lions are not Strengthened out. s
1t looks also II we may have adequate
forestry policy The National Conference of IT'LL
xation of Forest Products thousand delegates
strong has been getting the facts In our forestry
situation They were told by the PRESIDENT that
74b 600 900 cubic feet Of timber Is still stand
ing, with an annual cut Of 25oO0,00OOO0 and an an
nual growth of eOO0,O00OOo. He also told them
that we hold the natural resources trust to
be used for the benefit of the present generation
but neither wasted destroyed. The coming
.,y~o bo iptor IN
ests. SO it's up to the experts to devise ways and
means to bridge the fatal gap between cut and
growth And 1t looks II the people were scared
enough the situation to insist that 1t be done.
In any event the timber shortage is already acute
enough to force eanDstit'0n In better methods.