The Bozeman courier., April 19, 1922, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

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THE BOZEMAN COURIER
. PUBLISHED EVERT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
By REPUBLICAN COURIER CO. lac.
Established 1871
IN THE FAMOUS GALLATIN VALLEY
'• S C. MOORE
.Editor
SUBSCRIPTION IN ADVANCE
One Yèèr :..
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Entered in the Po&toffice at Bowman. Montana, ua Second Claes Matter
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THE NATIONAL GUARD
Adjutant General Charles Sheridan * of the
Montana National Guard is doing a great deal
of hard work throughout the state in organizing
companies to comprise a regiment in the state.
The National Guard organization is moving a
trifle slowly, as there is some hesitancy among
the young men to join the guards. This is not
as it should be for the National Guard today
stands at the highest point of recognized import
ance to the nation, it has enjoyed since first in-,
The record of the world war, in which the Na
tional Guard divisions
stituted.
ing ability, their training, and . bravery, has
brought from regular army officers, of every
rank, many words of praise. In former days
the regulars looked upon the National Guard as
an organization of young fellows who were imita
fions of themselves—tin soldiers—they used to'
call them. When the real struggle came, however,,
the regulars found that those for whom they held
so little respect, were their equal in every de
partment of the game of war.
Bozeman has one company of National Guard,
and it should have two. There are enough men in
the city who might well spend one night a week
at the drill hall just for the physical training they
The company here'is composed of
as fine an aggregation of men as one might wish
to see anywhere.- ' They are taking a deep inter*
est in the drill, and in the business and social
features of the company.
tiiar s. ewspaper stories of the g*reat and val
will receive.
There are many re
sponsible duties aside from the military training,
which members of the company assume, which
in themselves will go far toward developing the
ability of the men in leadership as well as busi
ness responsibilities.
Then there are the benefits which can come to:
a state through the organized men In a National
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Building Paper -
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Peninsula Pipeless Furnace ,
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O-Cedar Mops ...........
Liquid Veneer Mops .
Snow Bird Mops ..
Liquid Veneer Polish, per
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Rug Beaters
$1.50
$ 2.00
The only complete line of flat cur
tain rods—and the only line of flat
curtain rods that has made good
through years of use.
We are showing many new pat
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Single curtain rods ....40# and 50#
Double curtain rods —75# and 90#
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Extension rods_
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Mop Cloths 35c, 60c and 8S#
Scrub Brushes.25# and 35#
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Table and Wall
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tion of the eyes—about the need of suffi
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cohol, and so on—
But the fact is, that; no precautions can"off
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whe nthese conditions are present.
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Also a nice line of Samit&s, the
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uable assistance, done by guardsmen, in varions
parts of the .country, when floods and fires have
destroyed life and property. The guards have
gone to these places and worked day and night
in the rescuing of persons exposed to danger by
floods, H^ye saved thousands of dollars worth of
property, and have through their labor in devas
tated districts helped to bring order out of chaois.
Their efficiency has been developed through the
training the armory, where they were taught to
co-ordinate their actions, to the best advantage
for results.
With development of two companies of National
Guards in Bozeman, there wiD be an opportunity
to secure.,the regimental band here. This would
a ilàrge saving in a way for the city due to
the equipment of the. band being furnished
through the war department. Concerts by the
Regimental band during the summer months would
be enjoyed Without the present cost to the city.
Then, too, there will be considerable prestige re
dound to Bozeman from the location of the band
in this city;
' Every* citizen should foster and encourage every
young man in the city who is not now a member,
if
to join Company C, of the National Guard. • It is
a worthy organization, entitled to the support and
backing of all. Visit the Legion hall on a Thurs
day evening and watch the drilling and become in
terested in the activities of the company. Through
8Uch organizations will be prepared the "million
bien who spring to arms" for the defense of the
nation, and ihe nation is thé citizen population,
come to a standstill without the tree. It
Wishes material for our ships, our cars, our ma
chinery, our vehicles, our tools, furniture, boxes,
musical instruments, pulp for oor papers and
books, for our dwellings, and our temples of learn
ing and, worship. It requires tqns of thousands
of cords of wood to furnish so small a convenience
as PMf.tooth picks; and literally hundreds of thou-;
sançîs t.p fpmish our matches. The tree furnishes
rubber, : &vi\o tires, gums, resins, spices, nuts,j
fits, dyestuffs, fuel, and many of our medi
eines. *• It furnishes protection from the winds
winter and from the burning sun in summer.'
Nothing that the Creator has given us is so largs
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A WORD ON TREES.
By Rev. R. P. Smith. .
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t _'"What a wonderful thing that was," exclaimed
an American writer, "when God thought of a
The wonder is not only in its loveliness,
but 1 'ill-Its usefulness. The human world would
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tree.
a source of utility, beauty, and pleasure for bird,)
animal and man as the tree. The man who by 1
carelessness, or otherwise, starts a forest fire j
sins against his Creator, nature and humanity. !
Bozeman may well take pride in its trees. It
has the mountain ash, the cut-leaf birch, and
these two are enough to make any town famous.
If there is anything among all the leafy family
that can surpass in delicate, feminine grace and.
beauty our cut-leaf birch, with its chaste, whiter
bpdy and limbs and its loose flowing vestments,
I have never seen it. It may be that the Creator
is able to have given us a finer miracle of dainty,
leafy loveliness, but I don't see how He could.
He certainly never did.
It is a pity that we have not more elms. The
elm is like a strong, athletic youth. It loves to
play, to grapple with the wmd with its arms and
frolic with the storm, and it seldom
If you are fond of
nature's music, listen to the sweet minstrely of
leaves when touched by the elfin fingers of à
gentle breeze. You will imagine that you are in
dream-land listening to tiny bells swung from
tains of silence on a summer's day. Or step near
the wood and listen when the feet of the storm
treads branch and limb and until
comes out
of the game with a broken limb. Other trees
come out of such frays with mangled limbs and
bruised bodies.
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Trees, if not nature's musicians, are at least
her musical instruments.
grand organ and the orchestral and aeolian harps
of the forest become accompanists to the deep
diapasons of the rumbling winds, then watch
group of poplars or quakenasps clap their leafy
hands in encore over this tumultuous symphony,
and you will understand what Isiah meant in say
ing: "The mountains and hills shall break forth
i>efore you in singing and all the trees of the field
lhall clap their hands.
• Trees, like folks, have personality—they have
fur-individuality. Many shrubs are social and for
this reason should be permitted to grow in dus
-ters—in family groups. Most trees are individu
klists, and
room enough to display their individuality. Many
sidewalks and lawns are too crowded with trees,
not only that the tree may develop in its individu
ality—for what gives greater pain than to
an ugly wound in the graceful form of a noble
tree, because an inferior one is crowding it. Be
sides, the finest lawn effect is not all shade. It
is when the sunlight can splash through the
trees, leaving the green sward dappled with iisrht
and shadow.
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Joyce Kilmer has spoken the final word on the
loveliness of a tree : - *
' "I think I shall never see . *
A poem lovely as a tree,
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast ;
À tree that looks at God all day.
And lifts her leafy arms to pray ;
-'A nest of robbins in her hair;
L ; Who intimately lives with rain,
A tree that may in summer wear
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Poems are made by fools like me
But only God can make a tree."
THE TIME TO SETTLE THE COAL STRIKE.
The coal* strike, the greatest and most com
plete in the history of this country, has now been
in effect for two weeks with hardly more than a
superficial ripple of public interest. Trains are
running as usual; factories are operating as us
supplies appear
hampered. The operators are making money,
selling off accumulated supplies with better de
mand than they have enjoyed for many months,
The miners, long accustomed to periods of kfle
cur-.ness, and with some money left from the spurt
of activity which preceded the strike, are getting
along as well as usual. The public is undisturbed
and generally indifferent,
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That situation cannot last. Supplies are being
consumed much more rapidly than they are be
ing produced from the non-union mines still op
erating/ In a month we shall begin to feel the
pinch. . In two months, if nothing is done, fac
tories will be closing, railroad trains will be taken
off, the reviving prosperity of the country will
be depressed, if not blasted. There will be a crisis
which will call for immediate settlement, either
voluntarily between miners and operators
through government intervention,
v In either event a decision will have to be
hurriedly to prevent disaster, with insufficient
regard for the facts and the public interest in
volved,, and in the nature of a compromise which
will leave the coal trade open to the same troubles
and abuses which have characterized it for thirty
: years. It is folly to wait until impending disaster
forces such a makeshift settlement. Whatever it
means to the miners and operators, it certainly
means continued exploitation of the
or
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consumer,
and a harden upon all industry. The time to go
about settlement of the strike is now, while we
still have a margin of reserves.