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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-10
CHILD MINDS
By Garrett P. Serviss

training seems to be clearly indi-
Gated. 1t is training that re-
acts upon the trainers for recognf-
ton of the need of making a child
understand that things do not
happen causelessly, and that lam
guage conveys no certain meaning
to others unless it Is logically ar
ranged, and may produce a gen.
eral reform in the mental habits
of an entire household.
Some of the observations OF M.
Piaget are curious. For instance,
there is a strong tendency in the
child mind to understand the car
dinal points, east, west. north.
south, in an absolute sense. Rela-
tivity is a hard subject for the
child-as hard as Einstein's theory
has made 1t, in different way.
for the ma jority of adults. Thus,
according to these studies. up to
9 or 10 years children carry local
geographical directions about with
them. no matter how far they
may travel from the place where
they first learned those directions
If at home a certain place was to-
ward the north. then the same
place is regarded as still toward
the north when the point of obser-
walton has been changed so far
that the place may really be to-
ward the south. Similarly chill
dren who perfectly we'll under
stand that strangers" are people
from other countries. reject the
notion that they themselves are
strangers to those. other people.
Perhaps the most useful conclu-
sion that NJ. Piaget draws is that
education is a very long process,
and that it is mistake to try to
hasten it. Begin early, go slowly,
let the mind of the child ripen its
requirements, and seek no prema-
tire results.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-10
By ELSIE ROBINSON

"They wouldn't listen" maybe
you know what that means to =
mother these days, Maybe it
would have driven you desperate
too.
It drove Minuette desperate.
They'd get into trouble yet. She
knew it was coming. 1t came.
The same old cry-'I need
money''-but this time the need
was the horror she had ex-
pected.
suppose she went q little
crazy. A mother might, in q
time like that--a mother who had
been wrung by life herself. I'm
not trying to excuse her. j can t
But tell you her answer was
like the snarl OF something
cornered.
What in the world Is the mat
ter with your" she wrote. II
sent vi SIS by wire last week
and this afternoon got arother
telegram asking for SIS. What do
you kids think / am. a bank?
Whoever got her into trouble. let
him get her out. From now on
I'm through with you all. l have
preached to you until | am black
in the face, but you are too wild
for me and you will just have to
go your merry way"
The mail man gave that letter
to Ruby as she started to work.
Two hours later she staggered
into a neighbours house.
There's a letter in my pocket
that tells it ALL" she gasped.
She died before the doctor
reached the house. So they've
buried Ruby Cors, but they
haven't buried the thing that kill
ed her. It's here-eating. Eat
ing into the body of our life, your
life and mine. Good cells gone
bad. Love turned to hate. Free
dom swollen into license. Wreck
ed homes and lives and behind
them, wrecked codes.
And no new codes to 20 by.
Only evasion. rebellion, fury and
despair. A world at war with
itself. Eating itself.
Who's going to stop it? And
how?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-10
WISE SAYINGS

When a great man dies for
wears the light he leaves behind
him lies on the paths OF men,
-Longfellow.
Atheism Is rather in the life
of man than in the heart OF man
Bacon.
Sloth, like rust. consumes
faster than labor wears. While
the key often used Is always
bright. -frahki'"'
True craftsmanship is the art
OF changing a nation from what
it is into what is ought. to be.
-Alger.
What is conformity with Justice
should also be in conformity to
the laws Socrates.
To find fault is easy; to do bet
ter may be difficult.-Plutarch
The way to gain q good reputa-
ton is to endeaVor to be what you
desire to appear.-Socrates.
Education begins the gentleman,
but reading. good company ana
reflection must finish him. Locke
When making milk buildings
good plan is to allow just enough
of the grain to lightly cover the
bottom of the dish that Is being
used.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-10
ONCE-OVERS
Protect the Other Persons Child!

You parent and such, have been appealed to
in the interests of another parents desire for the we'll
being of his child.
You know certain things about the company which your
friends boy girl keeps and the chds parent
to know what you know.
To whom are you a friend-to the parent in question
to the whose character is to be investigatedg
you parent you ought to be able to appreciate
parents interest in the welfare of the child and put
ahead of any trouble might make told the
about the person in question.
Remember this that if any objects to being inves
gated to character shows lack of standing there
is something wrong
The person who is and honest and honorable has
nothing inquiries into character and Standing
Both parent and child profit by this investigation and
the loser is the dishonest person.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-10
Exasperated Wife

Here feminine variation of the famous Peter Peter
pumpkin eater episode. You remember
Had uOife and couldn't keep her;
Put her IN a pumpkin SHE'LL
And there he kept her Uery WeL
His female mator used There she kept her hus
band very wel-so WELL fact, that he had pretty nearly
passed out of the picture after three solitary confne
rent in a haymow.
strange Germany shows that you mustn't
o wife's patience too far.
Hugo Presser did wouldn't work The courts declined
to make they wouldn't give Frau Presser divorce.
So things in her hands, made her lazy husband
prisoner and fed him barely enough to keep him alive
Every and hen it appears she administered beating
Just for good
When the police found Preser this victim of rate wife
was so weak he couldn't talk hadn't had shave bath
haircut for three years. and his fngernas two inches
aong
gentle sex goaded into erocy and then look OUT
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-10
GUGGENHEIM
DONATION

A PRECIPITATION of $4,000
"A for completion OF the aero.
nautical laboratory and for the
establishment of the Daniel Gug-
genheim Professorship of Applied
Aeronautics at the University OF
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich, has
been authorized by the members
of the Daniel Guggenheim fund
for the Promotion Of Aeronautics.
OF the appropriation. $4,000
will be used to complete labora.
tory apparatus and to construct
new testing and research instru.
ments. The remainder of the APP
preparation will be paid In install.
ments of $1,000 a year over a
period of ten years for the estab'
lishment of the professorship.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-10
Simple for Us

When the cook forges to salt the potatoes the family
mildly annoyed there salt in the kitchen plenty can
be had by walking dozen steps to the grocery and spending
few cents.
forget that salt is necessity of life that will
undergo untold hardshps, risk death, to get it.
short time ago. in Ecuador band of natives searching
for salt which very in certain parts of that South
American country stormed Government warehouse Four
persons killed
Our smoothly organized civilization " many pains.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-10
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY Helen Rowland
That "Hard.BoiIed" Girl

That lizard. Boiled" Girl
MEN are beginning to tire OF
WI the "hard-boiled" girl.
They complain that she is cold,
unsympathetic, unappealing. un
alluring! That she has lost all her
sweet clinging femininity, and
cut off most of her charm with
her hair and her skirts.
Right, dear Boy! But WHO was
it that used to complain OF wom-
ans super-emotionalism, her SEN
sitive nerves, her temperamental-
ism?
The modern girl doesn't fascl-
nate man as her mother did
but neither does she bore him as
much.
She hasn't the soft little CO.
quettish ways that caught his
heart and chung around 1t like
tendrils-but neither has she the
strangle hold around his neck
that sometimes choked the heart
out of him.
She never weeps on his coat.
laped-but neither does she steep
him in tears and send his love to
a weary grave.
She does not appeal to his
chivalry, his protective instinct
or his masterfulness-but neither
does she get on his nerves and
torment his conscience.
She has learned woman's hard.
est lesson. She has discovered,
an are always either a nuisance
or a bore to man.
"Temperamentalism" may have
been interesting. in the days be.
fore golf, automobiles and the
radio, when a woman HAD to do
something startling in order to
brighten up a mans life, and to
keep his love from going into a
state Of coma.
Woman used to "emote" on
the slightest provocation-and
she had men rushing for the
bromide. the ammonia or the
smelling salts. '.''
But even while they were pet
ting her. coddling her and wait
ing on her-they were inwardly
wondering why God made her so
unrea sonable!'
If she was sentimental and
sensitive. it bored them to tears.
If she was jealous. it drove
| them into some other woman s
arms.
| If she was doWn-hearted or de-
pressed, it drove them out to the
club--or to drink.
II she was excited and jubilant
| they called it "hysteria." If she
was angry or indignant. they call.
ed it "nagging."
| Now she just swallows her
emotions-and LAUGHS. She
never weeps. swoons. bushes ol
shudders. She is always as cool
and sweet as an ice.cream soda
and just about as stimulating
Her Temperament" has been ex'
tracted with her tonsils--and lel
"emotionaIian0" has been bante(
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-10
LISTEN, WORLD!

have been more,
much more TO
the story be-
fore she became
hard and cruel
Or w h v did
they cling to
her, even while
they flo ut e a
her? And why
did she give
and give even
w lille 3 b q
stormed?
M I'm D 3 tit b.
Gudat Cors. she
knew what life
could do. 1T
had done most
Of 1t TO her. She
tried to t ell
h Ell gi Is.
Letters like
: or ca m 8 OF
warning. B ut
t h ey wouldn't
I;rfnv1
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-10
Copper Figures

CONSUMPTION of copper in the
u manufacture OF automobiles
this year will exceed 250,000.O00
pounds, according to estimates in
a survey made by the Copper and
Brass Research Association, This
figure represents $50 per cent
increase over five years. ago. In
use OF copper and brass In auto.
mobiles, the survey point put.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-10

mH T. Z buried
u Ruby Cors
the other day.
But the problem
that drove six
teen We q o1 d
r by to a
suicides death
lives after.
Lives like q
cancer, eating
at our life
your life and
mine.
What's q cam
Ger? 20 90 d
cells gone bad, "
say the doctors
Good cells turn
ed can NIB al.
consuming the
body OF which
they are d part.
Ruby's story
is the story Of 4
anc er h e
story OF good
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26
WEEDS

Where weeds grow, there want
grows, is a trism, anyway where
they grow unrestrained. Nothing
grows faster. No product of the soil
more stubbornly resists eradication.
Left to run riot, weeds choke crops,
rob the larder and add to the weight
carried by the household, on farm or
in city.
The first effective assault upon
these Unweary Willies of agriculture
was made by the Union Pacific seed
train, which has just finished tour
of Idaho, carrying instructors and
exhibits. Stops were made at 80
towns and more than $1,000 saw the
displays. Pure seed and impure
weed lessons were carried direct. to
the grower. He disclosed a deep in
terest. The war on weeds is on; and
laws did not start 1t.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26
GILMORE COUNTY REJoICEs

Gilmore County has real cause to
rejoice at the recent storms. News
from the water shed in the Upper
Country is to the effect that there is
sufficient snow on the water shed to
assure an ample supply Of water for
the ranchers on the local project,
which eliminates an ever-present
fear of drouth. From the range in
the county comes the word that the
ground is sufficiently saturated to
guarantee good range conditions.
There are untold quantities Of wa
ter going to waste annually which
could be used in this section and no
doubt the day will come when every
drop of water Is conserved and vast
acres will then be put under intense
cultivation and man will be removed /
from that eternal realm of fear of |
drouth. All are looking forward to
a possible solution in this problem
through the proposal of Col. Hayes
to convert the waters of Stanley Ba-
sin to this section of the possible
supply from American Falls.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26
"THE FOOL ZONE

A visitor to Idaho from Alaska
said that territory possessed untold
undeveloped resources billions up
on billions"-but added that it
would continue to possess them
unless the people changed their atti-
tude. ut is only when resources
come into the hands of agencies that
can develop them that they amount
to much to the public" he said.
They are not valuable when dor
mant and used only to embellish
commercial club pamphlets"
The Alaskan went on to say that
the people of that territory were dis
couragingly divided and that petty
politics was a prime cause. "They
fight all the time" he said. "The
principal consideration seems to be
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26
SHOULD NOT HAMPER MINING


The federal government controls
vast tracts in Idaho A third of our
total is in forest reserves alone. It
has a legal right, although morally
it should reimburse the state to some
extent Whatever may be done along
that line, regulations should be so
framed as to encourage rather than
hamper industries conducted within
the reserves, notably mining.
Mining is important to the nation.
In times of stress the miner has been
called upon by Uncle Sam quite as
loudly as Others He too, has been
urged to greater production, with
costs of operation high and prices
fixed comparatively low for his out
put
Mining is important to Idaho
and just now, with the Industry
showing a most decided potentiality
n our state, comes news from Wash
ington Of proposed changes in regu-
lations that, if put into force, will
discourage, retard and, in some cases.
prevent mining operations.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26
DEVELOP OUR HOME PROSPECTS

1t may be that fortune lie in
Northern Ontario for the prospector,
but the American who goes into Can
ada to seek riches out of the ground
is foolish. Here in the United States
is the greatest mineralized territory
the world has ever known. If offers
rewards to the earnest and trained
searcher that cannot be had any
where else.
The dispatch that tells of the
probable activity at Hudson in the
spring ought to give the inhabitants
of Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Arizona,
Colorado and Utah, food for thought.
There is nothing possible in North
ern Ontario that is not equally pos
sible in these states. In Idaho alone
there lie vast areas that have not yet
been explored by tn modern prospec-
tor, although outcrops can be seen
that promise much.
Stay at home and develop the min
eral resources of the Western United
States. 1t is always within the
realm of possibility that another
Comstock, another Tonopah, another
Goldfeld may be found in Nevada,
another Cripple Greek in Colorado
and so on. We pity the old-time
placer miner in California who neg
looted the quartz mines nearby and
thought the gold had all been re-
moved when the placers were cleaned
up. Future generations may pity us
for neglecting the resources that lie
at our own doors.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26
MOUNTAIN HOME REPUBLICAN, MOUNTAIN HOME, IDAHO

who shall be gotten out of office and
who put in. The wonderful re
sources of Alaska are forgotten in
this political obscession. This has
produced a mental condition that
furnishes fertile field for the sower
of weeds. The thing seems to be to
secure political support through at
tacks upon so-called big business,
although there is not so much of it
in evidence. However, every legiti-
mate operation SENS to be the prey
of these political dynamiters, who
unscrupulously place their own in
terests ahead of those of Alaska. The
result is that little new capital is
coming in. Without it, Alaska, I'M
able to provide funds at home. will
continue to possess its wealth,
tucked away in the ground, in the
forests, under the water"
Is it not familiar story? Alaska
is going through what most new sec
tions have experieneed-new in any
event, in point Of development. OF
course, it passes away with ripper, |
more sensible age. But its passage is
lined with long periods of stagna-
tion. with hope desperately deferred,
with the sign of promised prosperity
darkly eclipsed.
In time the locust swarm disap-
pears and the land is Used; but
it is regrettable that the public
should permit itself to suffer these
through its own ac-
ton if it would only act promptly
and courageously; if it would only
discard the political and other brand
If trouble maker who thrives upon
'reation of class hatred, upon dis
iension, upon attacks designed to TO- {
nent the public mind and lead it
way from the fundamentals of
progress and individual
and who is always over
aid from the purses he has impov- !
~
We have just observed another {
irthday of Lincoln. who said all the /
eople could not be fooled all the
ime. Y
There has always been a world of '
opefulness in that declaration; but \
Thy enter 'the fool zone" at all? {
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26
PRAIRIE
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The HolVerson sheep were brought
up from Little Valley the first oil
the week and are now on the feed
ground at the elge of town, where
lambing will begin next month.
A ten by twelve iron-sheathed
frame work for the accommodation
of our chemical fire extinguisher was
begun yesterday morning by John
Helgren. It is situated under the
Buckaroo ditch near Bill Polson's
residence perhaps the most conven-
lent spot in town, available to all be-
cause of its central site. Before the
week closes the chemical, heretofore
of decidedly vagrant habit, will have
a real home. Selah
G. R. Jones, recently the victim
of a serious case of pneumonia, was
sufficiently recovered to be able to
make several visits to his place of
business during the week, and left
yesterday on business trip to Boise,
going as far as Mountain Home with
Bob Nafie.
At the home of Arthur Pence, ST.,
Wednesday evening, February 10th,
was celebrated the birthdays of both
Mr. and Mrs. Pence, which are only
five days apart. Turkey and Elk
ings" comprised the six o'clock din
ner, of which the following partook:
Mr.. and Mrs. Pence, ST., Mr. and /
Mrs. Arthur Pence, Jr., and Ruby,
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Pence, James,
Arthur 3rd and Erin, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Trammell and Ralph Morrow
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26
NOT H0GGIsH, BUT HUsTLING

Some comparisons have been drawn
between appropriations asked at this
time by the states of Washington
and oregon and, supposedly, some
not asked for Idaho. The appearance
in the national capital of active lob
byists from the neighboring states
is pointed out and the score given
thusly. Washington, so much; Ore
gon, so much; Idaho, also ran.
The appropriations asked" but
not yet granted, by the other states
are comparatively small when set
beside what Idaho had actually ere
eeived" The fact is that Idaho has
received so much for reclamation
alone as to stir the jealousies of these
adjoining commonwealth.
Idaho has been charged, as to re-
clamation, with having been huskily
hoggish. 1t wasn't that, but merely
that Idaho presented meritorious
claims and they were recognized af-
ter having been properly presented.
Idaho is hustler, that's all; but
still not endeavoring to hustle any
Thing away from our neighbors. We
nave aided and should continue to
lid, them with their worthy projects,
when such proposals point no weap-
ms at our own heart.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26

les by Franklin Consolidated Gold
Mines Company.
Marriage License, w. F. Proppe
and Helen M. Jones, both Boise.
Marriage license, Albert L. Stein
and Anna j Phillips, Boise.
Mining Deed. Bryan C. Hammack
to John T. Hammack, one half in
terest in "Nolla Girl" Quartz Mine,
Neal District.
Tax Deed, Jennie Fowler to King
Hill Irrigation District, Lot 2, block
20, Fruitland Subdivision to Ham
nett, $24.70.
Warranty deed, Twn Falls North
Side Land & Water Co. to Twin Falls
North Side Investment Co., S1k SWA
Sec. Is, T. 5 s., R. IL e.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26
GETTING EVEN

Judging from dispatches, the out
look is that Judge Wallace Mccain.
ant, now holding a federal circuit
court judgeship by recess appoint
ment, will not be confirmed by the
senate and Senator Hiram johnson
of California will have obtained his
revenge.
The Oregon delegation to the Re
publican national convention that
nominated Warren G. Harding re-
ceived instructions at the primary
election to support Johnson for
president and McCamant, one of its
members, did not do so, having prev
iously announced that he would not.
Later McCamant nominated Calvin
Coolidge for vice president. Hiram
johnson announced that he would
remember the action of delegates
from states that had instructed for
him and he has done it.
A United States senator who de-
votes to personal animosities so much
of the time for which the people
pay him salary is not setting an
example of helpful public service to
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26

the citizens of the land. There is
something about this business of
getting even" that is always petty.
1t is a characteristic Of small minds
and Hiram Johnson should be above
it. But it is his way and it has
alienated from him some Of those
who hailed his advent into California
state politics with real hope for the
improvement Of conditions in their
state.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26
o.
WHY WORRY ABOUT RUBBER ?

If 1t could be utilized there prob
ably is enough secondhand chewing
gum on the under side of church
pews and school desks in this coun-
try to supply substitute for all
the rubber shortage existing in this
country.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26
NATURE IN GENEROUS MOOD

Daffodils and crocuses are up and
around in Mountain Home yards
and to proving that they are feeling
well and sprightly, are putting forth
their shoots and buds, One will
have to go long ways south of on
the Pacific Coast to find nature in a
more generous mood.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26

Stanton Park, we'll known civil
engineer of Mountain Home was here
with Manager Brady of the Idaho
Power Company, running the line
for the power and electric service
to be rendered below town. Some
three-quarters of a mile of line is
required, contract for which has been
let.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26
Phone your news items to SO. We
always have space for news items.

DR.. Fouch, of Boise and County
Physician T. E. Evans, of this city,
made an examination on Thursday
of this week and report to the Re
publican that there now exists in
this city twenty cases of small pox
Quarantine orders have been issued
Vaccination is suggested as a good
precautionary measure.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26
MATTERS OF RECORD

Quitclaim deed, Charles E. Corker
to Pearl Rainey- SWA sWA, Sec.
SO, T. 9 S., R. 6 E.
Notice to Laborers and Mechan-
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1926-02-26

Just as we were going to press we
received the word of the death of
Mrs E. T. baltimore which occurred
on Wednesday evening. A full obit-
uary will appear in next weeks Is
sue.