The Bozeman courier., January 31, 1923, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8

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Jätest accompli -.muent of wireless and
*■ hat ap|M o*imates miracle-work,
k tbs pulling of a tooth across 500
toiles of heaving seas. Dr. A. Li.
Vuod, surgeon of Um steamship
"America" W the UnitcdStates Lines,
js credited with performing the feat
Ifcat will go down through the years
È radio history. The story ot the
h-pulling by wireless became
wn upon the recent arrival in port
Ml ii«e "America."
f It wu late in Hie night and the
rAmerica," in mid-ocean, was rhyth
Jticahy throbbing lier way to the port
Mt New York, when Dr. Wood, woo
ft. ! long since retired to his cabin
»as aroused by a pounding on the
poor. The surgeon arose to be greet
td by Wireless Operator Black with
|i radiogram, one of the strangest Dr.
Wood m his many years at sea had
»ver received.
} The message was from the captain
Mi a small freight vessel and stated
Jhat he had been suffering for five
days with a toothache and that he
jksired aid 111 having the offending
toolar effectively yanked. Although
I surgeon and not à dentist, Dr, Wood
fccjded that it was an emergency in
phich he must not be found wanting.
P* would have, to live up to the best
dirions of the sea which require
friing of prompt assistance whetv
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CHOP FDR MONTANA
BILLINGS, Jana, 31.—Com is the
hub in the wheel of Montana's agri
cultural progress, says the official
bulletin of the Montana Development
Association in an appeal to each of its
4,400 tillage club members to plant at
least ten acres of com this spring.
Corn, according to the bulletin, is
the connecting link in the chain of di
versification upon which permanent
agriculture must be built. It says;
"It is doubtful if any other move
ment augurs better for Montana's ag
ricultural future than the increase or
corn growing in the state during the{
past four years. In 1919 the corn
acreage in the state was 133,000,
compared to 219,000 is 1922. The
yield in 1919 was 532,000 bushels, as
compared to 6,475,000 in 1922. It is
wtimated that 18,000,000 acres in
Montana, an area equal to three
fourths of the combined com area of
Iowa and minois, is suitable to com
raising.
"But why all this enthusiasm about
*orn? Simply this—
"1- It is practically a sure crop,
tven in regions of light rainfall. It
require; from 275 to 370 pounds of
■water to produce a pound of dry mat
ter in corn, while it requires from
£10 to 700 pounds of water to pro
duce a pound of dry matter in wheat,
èarley, rye or oats- Experience also
«bows that it is less susceptible to
damage from hail.
"2. It provides excellent feed for
livestock. As ensilage it ia invalua
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By wireless the "America's surgeon
called for a detailed history of the i
aching molar and when he had been ;
given the desired information, he de- i
ckled that an immediate extraction
was necessary to give the freight .
captain relief. The toothachy sailor
man informed Dr. Wood that his chief
engineer was prepared to puli the tor
menting molar withpa pair of wire pli
ers, providing detailed directions were
furnished.
With all the exactness, of which he
is capable, the surgeon of the "Amer
ica" sent specific directions for the
extraction of the molar. Back came
a message from the freighter stating
that the directions were fully under
stood and that the volunteer dentist,
armed with the wire pliers, was about .
to execute the job.
Half an hour later the following
message was shot through the void to
the "America" : |
"Tooth successfully yanked. Your
generous assistance warmly appre
ciated. God bless you."
And, so having participated in the
making of wireless history. Dr. Wood
returned to his cabin to complete his
interrupted sleep. Since the perfection
of wireless, ship surgeons are being
called upon more and more to give
aid to small vessels that carry no
doctor. Pulling a tooth by wirelese, ;
however, is a test that had ccver W»
for^ becn attempt^
ble to the dairyman and stockraiser.
It is the best finishing feed for hogs
and may be harvested economically by
hogging off or by threshing in a reg
ular threshing machine. It provides
the opportunity for the fanner on
non-irrigated land to put livestock on
his place. It is an important part of
the poultry ration.
"3. It is important in the
tillage program. As a successful in
ter-tilled crop it provides an income
from summer tilled land that would
otherwise be lying idle. Experience
has shown that small grains grown
on land that has properly grown corn
the previous year, yield as well and
sometimes better
ground that has been fallow the year
previous.
"4. No other crop fills as many
summer
than grains on
needs of the farmer nor as readily
adapts itself to climate and locality
as does corn."
The state of Vera Cruz, having de
cided that high schools are antiquat
ed in these modern times,
dered all of them closed.
has or
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Mexico City's board of arts and ed
ucation will receive increased funds
to carry on its work. Mr. George
Prieto Laurens, the new mayor, has
said so.
The rtew mayor of Mexico City has
decreed against city hall loafers. This
means that one class of grafters will
be eliminated.
The Huasteca Petroleum Company
has concluded to pay the state of Vera
Cruz the tax demanded, which
amounts to ten million pesos.
SHALL CLASSIFIED
SERVICES OSSIFY
When Woodrow Wilson, a former
! president of the National Civil Serv
ice Reform Association, got into
tion as a spoilman, the people of this
country gained a fair comprehension
of the insincerity of the band of up
in hotel bedrooms occasionally in*or
der to record their own belief in their
own sanctity and their deprecation of
the "corruption" involved in filling
appointive as well as elective offices
on a political basis.
Andrew Jackson was the last two
term Democratic president prior to
Woodrow Wilson. The reputed in
ventor of the "spoils system" would
have remained the last two-term
Democratic president if the natural
political honesty of a scholar and jur
ist in politics hadn't thought up the
idea of keeping us out of war until
after his second election- But in the
matter of spoilsmanship Andy Jack
son was a mere retailer, while the
former president of the National Civil
Service Reforin Association went into
the wholesale trade. No five of his
predecessors combined ever handed
out LO many jobs to deserving party
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henchmen. He not only "fired" Re
publicans out of every place available
to spoilsmen at the time of his inau
guration, but having been elected on
a platform pledge in favor of cutting
down the number of offices, his ad
ministration saw th e number multi
plied again and again. It was a
mighty Iktless Democratic worker
who couldn't load himself or some of
his friends on the government pay
roll in the halcyon days of Tumulty
and McAdoo.
A clean sweep was made of the
presidential postoffices, with a few
exceptions maintained for exhibition
purposes. Without warrant in law,
Republican rural carriers were forced
off their routes by the thousands.
When the civil service commission
presumed to mildly criticize the post
master general for his wholesale pitil
icalization of the postal service with
out regard to the rules and régula
tions, the former president of the
Civil Service Association, then presi
dent of the United States, "fired" the
civil service commission enmasse, and
appointed one that would be sure to
b e more subservient. In cases where
the law required the appointment of
men of some political faith other than
that of the administration, President
Wilson almost invariably selected* in
violation of the spirit if not the letter
of the law, former Republicans or So-,
cialists who had voted for him.
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TATiile all this orgy of spoilsman
ship was going on, the bed-room pro
tests of the National Civil Service Re
form League subsided. No cry of
horror came from that quarter, j
Whether the erstwhile purifie ationists
of thi: band of deleotablea were get
ting an occasional whiff of the flesh-;
pots through the kindness of Kheir
former comrade in the uplife cause,
or whether they were merely ashamed
to proclaim to the world the downfall
of one of the saints, remains a mys
tery. But the fact is that the whole
company of the super-pure and faith-j
ful was seized with lockjaw and writ
ers' cramp—an affliction that to them
must have seemed cruel and inhuman I
punishment contrary to the terms of;
the federal constitution
!
No sooner had their kindred spirit
departed from the White House by,
well night unanimous consent, how -1
ever, than this long-suppressed vol-i
cano of outraged virtue went once
more into eruption. The bed-room
resolutionaries began
surpris« and horror that once more
men were being appointed to political
offices on political grounds- The de
to note with
Serving Democrats who got their Jobs
through work in the trenches for the
d. o. p. were in danger, in some cases,
of being supplanted after having un
dergone that purification incident to
a time exposure to the public payroll,
The belief of the civil service reform
er that what we need in this country,
is an office-holders' caste and a civil
service that has become an ossified
service of superannuated barnacles,;
responsible to nobody for any effort
other than that involved in signing
their pay checks, began to be reas
serted.
The present president of the Na
tional Civil Service Reform Associa
tion is William Dudley Foulke, of In
diana, sufficiently blessed with un
earned increment to be a gentleman of
leisure. He is more or leas of a lit
to bad poetry and' political* piffle
HU tatest contribution to the sum of,
human ignorance is an article in
uplift journal criticizing Postmaster
General Work for disturbing some of
the numerous Wilsonian job holders
in his department with the sugges
tion that while they are a part of the
Harding administration they should
not be too offensive in their disloy
loyalty to it. Loy alty is an offensive
word to the professional civil service
reformer, whose fealty never goes far
beyond ai^ (unbounded attachment to
an enthusiasm for himself.
Like most of his fellow purifiert en
gaged in fastening upon the- country
with no small degree of success an in
competent, irresponsible, seif-perper
petuating and telf-extending bureau
cracy, *the present president of the
National .Civil Service Reform Asso
ciation has been little vulgarized by
direct contact with trade or business.
If he had either business judgment or
Experience he would know that no
terprise could be successfuly conduct
ed with an organization chosen by
scholastic examination and wished
permanently on the management by
rules which make it impossible to get
rid of incompetent or superfluous jot
holders. He would know that
terprise in the hands of employes
who are chiefly interested in balking
the boss and in seeing the adminis
tration a failure, woul/ be well on
the way to ruin.
During the war people saw what
en
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government by bureaucracy meant.
It cost the people of this country
billions of
and operators of red tape which tied
the war activities of the government
on the industrial side into a bow knot
were civil and military functionaries
who had been on the public payroll
long enough to know not only how to
do nothing, but to keep everybody
else from doing anything- There Is
not the respect there used to be for
the claim that the people exist for
the benefit of the office-holders,
[rather than that the office-holders
are the servants of the people and
should be responsible at all times to
the removable agents of the people in
responsible elective posts,
The people of this country are
ready and indeed anxious for a shake
up in the public service which will re
suit in the elimination of every use
less or incompetent place holder- They
know that such a policy will result ip
vastly increased efficiency and econ
©my in government. They see no re
suits from the labors of the profes
sional civil service reformers and/
-their ilk except the break-down of
political parties and therefore of
sponsible government, the increase
in number and the decline m effi
ciency of public place holders, chaos
in the legislative department of gov
dollars. The inventors
re
eminent and paralysis in the execu
tive departments,
Mr. Foulke as president 6 f the Na
tional Civil Service Reform Asiocia
tion Criticizes the National Repub
Bean for recommending the wholesale
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j Romance," believes that every Jack
should get his Jill and every vuiam
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comedienne, had her way. every
; story would end happily, the hero
; would always get the right girl and
, villain always rc c*! r ? his much
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villain «bouki have his hiss, j
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and he
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gets it.
"I like the happy ending, and I
wish it were always so, m life a*
well as in the photoplay. I don't
fik« gloom. Friends »r*netiiiics ask
me why I doo*t play a italic role
•ocwrionally. My answer is that
the artiste should be able <o play
C ything, brt she *bouLd ueverHb#
» play that^ whirl» she bead*
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forced evacuation from the public ser
vice of superfluous and disloyal job
holders inherited from the Wilson ad
ministration. The National Republic
an makes no apology for its attitude,
but is willing to leave Mr. Foulke
alone in his glory as an advocate of
the retention of incompetent and dis
loyal job holder inherited from the
administration of Mr. Foulke's pre
decessor as president of the National
Civil Service Reform Assoication. !
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RADIO PLANNED hOR GALEN. •
Word has been received in Boze
man that various organizations in the
dtie, of Dee* fxnige and Anaconda
are subscr.bmg to a Galen Radio
Fund," for the purpose of buying and
installing a radio set in the new din
ing hall at the stete tuberculosis san
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itanum at Galen. The xund is being
sponsored by the Wisdom Women's
Club. According to Dr C. E K
Vidal, superintendent at th* sanUar
mm, this is the one thing needed to
round out the amusements at Galen
and to help his patienta to amuse
and entertain themselves Business
firms, prominent individuals, and
posts of the American Legion have
all shown active interest in this move
ment for the betterment of the sani
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tarium.
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TURN HAIR DARK
WITH SAGE TEA
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If Mixed with Sulphur It Darker*
So Naturally Nobody
Can Tell
The old*tini€ tnixturc of SâgG Tc 3
and Sulphur for darkening gray,
streaked and faded hair is grandmoth
«r's recipe, and folks arc again using it
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j n g \ n an a g e w hen a youthful appear
ance is of the greatest advantage,
Nowadays, though, we don't have the
task of gathering the sage
and the mussy mixing at home. All
drug stores sell the ready-to-use prod
act, improved by the addition of other
ingredients, called "Wyeth's Sage and
fÄLsenÖXn disced EC
been applied. Simply /aioisten your
comb or a soft brush with it and draw
this through your hair, taking one small
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| a dies with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound, is that, besides beautifully
darkening the hair after a few applica
tio " s ' * also P rod f uc « soft lustre
and appearance of abundance which is
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