Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, October 22, 1920, Page 6

Rainy Weather Signs Little drops of wetness Drop on father’s head; Spoil the parlor carpet, Dampen mother’s bed; Soak off al! the plaster With the food it mingles Sign your roof is leaking, Sign you need some shingles If this sets you thinking about your own shingle needs, don’t forget that we have an exceptionally fine stock of the best shingles on the market—and that you can find no lower prices than we make. Get our prices on all Lumber of all kinds, >< Hussman Lumber Co. “HOME BUILDERS” “400” Products are the best TO SERVE YOU BETTER, we have held back enough old wheat “400” FLOUR to supply our regular trade for a month at least after most mills start grinding new wheat and placing new wheat flour on the market. eA Order “400” Flour, Enjoy Better Bread and More of It. “It’s the flavor,” Folks, try it and be convinced. ee SACKS TWINE FLOUR FEED Vollmer Clearwater Co. N. A. LITHERLAND, Agent “You'll Always Find” says the Good Judge of That you get more genuine satisfaction at less cost when you use this class of tobacco. A small chew laste so much longer than a big chew of the ordinary kind. And the full, rich real tobacco taste gives a long lasting chewing satisfaction. Any man who uses the Real Tobacco Chew will tell you that. Put up in two styles - W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco - .* RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco | COTTONWOOD CHRONICLE oe | 1 | GEORGE MEDVED | Issued Every Friday and entered at | Postoffice in Cottonwood, Idaho as | second-class mail matter. | Subscription one year | Six months (Strictly in advance) INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS Copy for change of ad must be hand- | ed in by Wednesday to insure change FRIDAY, CCTOBER 22, 1920 The workingman who strug- gles to Jay up a “fortune” of $15,000 or so must have a feeling of dizziness when he learns from the United States luxury tax re- turns that American women spend seven hundred fifty mil- lion dollars in so short a time as 365 days to rouge their ckeeks, paint their lips, put a dab of ; powder on their noses and make | themselves fragrant with per- fume. A newspaper correspondent in Chicago, who calls the compila- tion ‘of luxury tax returns “frank and ungallant,” has dug out some very eniightening fig- ures, For instance, he has found that cosmetics and perfume for | America’s women cost more than twice as much as furs, al- | though furs were last year sell- ing at peak prices. He says further: The United States, according | to tax returns, spent twenty-two | billion seven hundred million in 1919 in luxuries. Eight hun- dred million dollars—pouf !—| went up in cigarette smoke. Cigars burned up five hundred} ten million dollars. These two items changed one billion three hundred ten million dollars into ashes and nothingness. Jewelry | that lasts and is handed down through generations as_heir- looms, cost five hunder million, | an impressive sum but only 2 per cent of luxurious expenditures. A round billion dollars disappear ed down the great American aesophagus in the form of candy Pianos, organs and phonographs | entertained the people to the | tune of two hundred fifty mil- lion dollars. | Automobiles cost two billion dollars. Uncle Sam’s definition of lux- uries is of wide latitude and proves that as a lexicographer he is a fine tax collector. The gum your stenographer chews is a luxury—to the stenoprapher The diamond engagement you slip on your finger is a luxury. sweetheart’s isa luxury. A cigar, a cake of toilet soap, a glass of soda water | are all luxuries. Here are other high spots in the nation’s total luxury expend- itures: Soft drinks, three hun- | dred fifty million dollars; toilet soaps, four hundred million dol- lars; chewing tobacco and snuff, eight hundred million dollars; ice cream, two hundred fifty mil- lion dollars; chewing gum, fifty million dollars; cake and confec- tions, three hundred fifty mil- lion dollars ; “luxurious services” (whatever that means), three billion dollars; luxurious food (and you can write your own answer to that), five billion dol- lars; joy riding, pleasure resorts and races (if this is clear to you) three billion dollars. Perhaps this sort of informa- tion gives us an idea where the billions made by American work- ers during the period of high wages, despite the high cost of living, are going. Perhaps it indicates that things, after all, are not so bad, even in the face of our rosy memories of those| haleyon days “‘before the war.” One-tenth of the population of the United States is concentrat- | ed in the three cities of New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, while one-fourth of the inhabit- ants reside in cities having a} population of 100,000 or more. | This is to big and too resourceful | a country to encourage conges- tion and crowding, with conse-| quent impairment in primary productions, and concentration | of wealth and activities. With an abundance of elbow room, it is unwise not to enjoy it, for pre-| sent tendencies are toward social ring | e The auto-| mobile that brings you to work | and economic retrogression. The | most effective remedy available | is in developing a larger interest | in community centers. An act- ive co-operation between merch- ants, business men generally and farmers to make the small town supply all requirements satisfac- | torily will assist materially in fe ing a movement that is i as essential to our national welfare. Miss Agnes Wlison, daughter of Secretary of Labor Wilson, candidate for congress from Pennsylvania dis- trict. FARMERS REFUSE = TO SELL WHEAT Walla Walla.—Practically the entire | 1920 wheat crop of the Walla Wal®% velley remains just where it was first laid—in the warohouses and grain bins on the great farms of the val- ley and up on the flat lands north of this city, according to farmers and buyers alike, who were interviewed. Farmers, coming into the city Sat- urday afternoon as usual, stated in | almost every case they were not look- ing for grain buyers, and when ques- tioned closely declared that they be- lieved little if any of the 1920 crop would be moved for less than $ | They thought that when the price came | to that figure things would loosen up considerably, and added that if the price remained down the local grow- TOM BUTLER, THE JEWELER & Watch Repairing is my specialty--Give me a trial E—2 Agent for the Edison phonograph UTUUAENUNSONUOGUONAQUONOUAUNANQUNSUUUAOAASSNNOSUUGOOOQSUDUUOOAAUOUUAOAOEAOOOUAAOAAE Com) ny Man can make temporary repairs and fix his car up to com- plete the run home, but not even every repair man un- derstands the delicate precisions and perfect adjust- ment that result in lasting satisfaction. We give careful, expert attention to every detail of even minor repairs. Try us for Automobile Repairing SOUTH & FRICK DD eeoedesdecedordeatectetecetectetertetortetordeteeeteeeeteetetentetectedecentontetvteetdoadetoedeteedeteeeteceteeted ers would hold their grain all winter, | % if necessary, to get wilt they consid- ered a fair price. i FRAUD EVIDENCE IS FOUND Prosecutor Charges Wholesale Bribery | in 1919 Race. Los Angeles.—Evidence of “whole- sale bribe of players in the 1919 season by a ring of gamblers, has been discovered according to an an- nouncement by W. C. Doran, chief deputy district attorney, who is con- ducting the investigation begun by the Los Angeles county grand jury into the aNeged corruption in Pacific coast baseball league games. Mr. Doran stated evidence already given the investigators indicated scores of games were “thrown” for, money last season. Mr. Doran made the definite state- ment that prosecutions would fol- low possible indictments under the | California statute making it a fel- | only to conspire to commit a felony. Reclaimed Supplies to be Sold Poland. | Washington.—War department of- | ficials are preparing to sell millions | Sounds nice and comfortable, but not half of the so-called “easy chairs” have a mite of comfort in them. Buy“an Easy Chair of Us and you'll have something that you'll be proud to seat company in. We have a big stock and not a chair is over priced. Nau’s Furniture Store Complete line of Funeral Furnishings carried Both Phones. Calls answered day or night COTTONW OCOD - - + IDAHO PPP aeeeere ee eeecesdeateetorse reed tease rere atonteoeortende teeter nto stead ordordoctontoatortoetestestonton of dollars’ worth of reclaimed army | = supplies to Poland. The supplies in- clude repaired shoes and uniforms, General Leman Dead. Brussels.—General Leman, defend- er of Liege against the Germans’ ad- vance early in the war, died at Liege Sunday from pneumonia. THE MARKETS Portland. Wheat—Hard white, $2 soft white, $2.10; white club, $ > hard winter, $2.05; northern spring $2.08; red Walla, $2.05. Oats—No. 2 white feed, $45, Corn—Whole, $61; cracked, 64. Hay—Willamette valley timothy, $27 @28 per ton; alfalfa, $22.50@23.50. Butter Fat—57 @60c. Eggs—Ranch, 62@63c per dozen. Cattle—Best steers, $9@10; good to choice, $8@9; med'am to good, $7@8. Hogs—Prime mixed, $17@17.50; me- | dium mixed, $16.50@17. Sheep—Prime lambs, $9@10; valley lambs, $8@9; ewes, $2.25@6.00. Seattle. @& Wheat—Hard white, $2.15; white and northern § spring, white club and hard winter, red Walla Walla, $2; Walla, $2.10; red winter, $2.12; Bend bluestem, $2.33. Hay—Eastern Washington timothy, | $36 per ton, alfalfa, $30. Butter Fat— 56@58c. Eggs—Ranch, 65@75c. Poultry—Hens, dressed alive, 21@33c. Cattle—Best steers, $9.50@10; me dium to choice $8@9. Hogs—Prime, $17.50@18; medium to soft $2.12; $2.14; eastern Walla Big | 27@38e; | Good full size Fir and Tamarac fence posts and can also supply you with all sizes of Peerless woven wire fencing. We also have some 8 and 10 foot Monitor Drills You know the Monitor Drills is the best drill made +e We can supply you with all the shorts and bran you may need from now on. We always aim to satisfy all our patrons at all time. oe Farmers’ Union Warehouse Co. Ltd. Cc. H. GREVE, MANAGER COTTONWOOD DRAY AND TRANSFER LINE ROBBINS BROTHERS PROPS. ‘Light and Heavy Hauling Done on Short Notice