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Newspaper
Wallace Miner
Location
Wallace, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1923
Page
2
The Wallace Miner is published weekly by Wallace Printing Company at Elks Temple Building 506 Dank Street Wallace Idaho. Editor A J Dunn lists annual subscription rates 2.50 for United States and 3.00 for Canada and all other countries in the Portal Union.
The editorial condemns lawmakers who opposed a 2100 rent appropriation for Governor Moore’s two year term. It argues a governor’s mansion is a proper state duty, given a $5000 salary and duties of entertaining and appeals. Building a state owned home would reflect dignity and prevent personal financial losses.
Senator Gooding’s bill to set wheat at 1.75 dollars died in the sixty seventh congress. Farmers mostly opposed price fixing. some farming groups supported it, but most organizations stayed silent or condemned the measure. Gooding urged one big farmer union to secure relief from Congress, arguing unity across four national groups is essential.
The piece reports farmer groups and labor organizers diverging on a federal price fixing bill for wheat. Idaho Wheat Growers’ leader H J Herman denounces arbitrary price controls, urging parity with other commodities and rejecting subsidies. It notes regional resistance to a single national farm union.
The government trims civilian payrolls by about one thousand, yet departments like commerce and justice expand efforts. Despite reorganizing under Hoover, the department of commerce has added activities to aid business and now operates with a smaller staff. Other agencies including the justice department and U S shipping board show similar patterns.
The Rochester Post Express argues that Newberry's resignation shows no wrongdoing and credits Ford's massive funding in Michigan as decisive. The piece cautions that Ford’s money and agency network may influence the Democratic nomination and implies a national campaign awaits, risking election of a candidate with vast cash resources.
National Republican argues postwar government downsizing shows large and proportional cuts across Treasury War Justice Navy Commerce Labor Printing Office and other agencies since 1915 while new federal activities and bureaus have expanded total staffing. It disputes Wilson era comparisons and notes veterans' bureau railroad administration shipping board and other offices existed only after 1915, complicating direct headcount comparisons.
A Mining Congress Journal bulletin notes sixty six factories each with over a thousand workers employ some form of employee representation or shop council. It argues cooperation benefits industry and nation, while urging a basis acceptable to both sides. It highlights mining employing over 14 million workers and calls for reasoned settlement of capital and labor divisions to secure contentment and higher productivity.
The text argues that sound cooperative policies between employers and employees secure livelihoods and raise productivity. It urges education to raise workplace knowledge, closer contact with management, and pride in merit. The American Mining Congress promotes industrial cooperation to curb agitation and reinforce Americanism and loyalty within the mining industry.
In 1922 domestic ore derived zinc output reached about 388000 tons with 1000 tons from foreign ore, totaling 339000 tons, versus 198232 tons domestic and 2268 tons foreign in 1921. Secondary zinc output rose to about 24000 tons from 17573 in 1921, with imports of foreign slab zinc at 45 tons by September 21 and no American zinc imports. Exports from foreign ore reached about 2600 tons and domestic ore exports about 28000 tons, compared with 1256 and 3569 tons in 1921.
A Senate bill proposes a presidentially appointed nine person commission to engage with movements to revive silver use in monetary systems and stabilize its world value. It limits membership to three senators or three representatives, all serving without pay but with expenses covered.
A fragmentary verse piece contrasts humility with public judgment through two anonymous poems. The first laments maintaining integrity before a child and a dog and fears fading belief or grief. The second recalls misfired actions and petty legal disputes, ending with a note on unintended harm from random jokes.
Gelasio Caetani, Italian ambassador, told the Federated American Engineering societies that his U S mining and metallurgical career yielded no millions yet earned him manhood. He warned against equating success with money, urging balance among science art and literature and noting Galileo and Newton as lasting legacies.
The Boston Transcript reports that experiments at McCook Field with the Army Air Service dropped electrically charged grains of sand into clouds, destroying them and precipitating moisture. Observers describe the results as uncanny, noting snow flurries beyond the flying field.
Researchers describe a plan to lighten rain by dispersing fog and mists using a coarser sand grain. The approach aims to modify precipitation patterns, with experiments to test effectiveness and potential environmental effects.
Arizona Gazette reports Senator Brookhart of Iowa predicting control of both houses by a coalition of farm labor soldier and mothers blocs. He calls it simple cooperation to settle economic questions, a euphemism for log rolling, criticized as reactionary and harmful to progress and welfare.
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