The Bozeman courier., July 04, 1923, Image 7

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A Kansas harvest-sun best down on President IXajdfug as he gave *er the gas and threw the tractor
to start the wUeat-cuttiug season near Hutch. ason. June 28, Then the President gathered up
shocked" them with the remark, 'This Ut Ih»w ere do it In Ohio.'*
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EXPOSURE OF NEW
YORK WORLD LIE
ABOUT MILLION
DOLLAR JUNKET
For some time the New York World
has been making sensational attacks
upon the coming trial trip of the Lev
iathan. It has been alleged the trip
would cost $1.000,000, and had been
arranged by A. D. Lasker as a jun
ket for his friends. The Democratic
national committee has been parrot
Mr. Lasker completely exposes the
falsity and mendacity of the World's!
campaign in the following statement:
"I have refrained from answering
what seemed to me an absurd criti
•cism of the trial trip to be taken by
the Leviathan next week, but I feel
the recent statement issued by the
Pemocratic national committee is
such an unfortunate utterance that it
should not go unchallenged.
It will be a matter of great re
gret to the American people, I ami
sure, when all the facts are known,
to learn that a partisan political com-i
mittee has so far forgotten patriotism
as to play party politics on a matter!
which should be obviously non-par-j
"What I feared would happen has
happened. I was one of those who
advocated a ship subsidy because I
believed it was the only way to in
sure a merchant marine in competi-!
tien with the private shipping enter
prises of foreign countries. I feared
that if we had government operation
it would merely mean that our whole
shipping problem would be continu
ously a football in party politics- The
Democrats played their part in fili
bustering against ship subsidy,
guing that government operation was
the solution to our merchant marine
problem. Now, however, at the very
first opportunity, when we are
launching what we aspire to make
ing these charges
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the greatest ship in the world, when,
indeed, the heart of every true Amer
ican should beat proudly over the
achievement in reconditioning of the
incomparable Leviatahn, we are con-1
fronted with the spectacle of a polit
ical committee picking flaws and en-!
deavoring by gross misrepresentation
to muddy the waters
"What are the facts? It would ap
pear, on reading the statement of the
Democratic national committee, that
the trial trip of the Leviathan was
suddenly conceived, and that guests
were invited purely as a private jun
ket. If that were true, the criticism
would be fully justified, particularly
in these days when, as President
Harding rightly says, economy in
government is the paramount need of
The truth of the matter is that
America,
this very trial trip was fully provided
for by experts engaged in December,
1919, by a shipping board headed by
John Barton Payne, under the Dem-j
ocratic administration. If the critics
had only taken the trouble to look
up the records, they would have found
that the plans and specifications for
th« reconditioning of the Leviathan
were not hastily made, but that every
detail, including the testing of the
great ship in the proposed trial trip,
was worked out long in advance, even
to the last dollar that would be spent.
The experts who,pi'epared the plans!
and specifications for the recondition -1
ing of the Leviathan and who still;
have sole charge of the work, were
engaged by the board under John
Barton Payne in December, 1919.
More than 100 draftsmen worked
' continuously under the Payne con
tract until October, 1921, in the prep
! aration of the plans and specifica
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printed volumes, requiring over 1,500
j be taken. One reason for both runs
[ was that only half-power should be
generated on the trip to the dry
dock, where the hull was to be
a
tions. These were embodied in three
pages. Before the board accepted
thés« specifications, they were re
viewed by experts from all the big
ship-building companies in America.
Included in these specifications was
provision for the moving of the ves
sei from the reconditioning yard to
th dry dock, to be followed by a trial
trip on the high seas such as now will
scraped, which had not been done for
years
"In January, 1922, the experts re
ferred to, having in charge the recon
ditioning. asked the present board,
among other sundry items required
for the completion of the Leviathan,
to appropriate $120,000 to cover the
cost of the trial trip, which sum in
eluded the cost of guests. The ex
perts then, as now, contemplated at
least five days for the trip. At that
time—fully 16 months ago—the
board, consisting of four Republicans
and three Democrats, unanimously
accepted the recommendation of the
experts and made the appropriation,
At the same time, at a hearing of the
house appropriations committee, in
reporting the various items that went
into the total of the Leviathan's re
conditioning cost, the board included
"The cost of reconditioning the Le
viathan was more than $8,000,000.
The cost of the trial trip, as proposed
by the experts and authorized by the
board fully 16 months ago, was $120,
000, of which $107.000 would have to
be spent, irrespective of whether
single guest was carried. It has been
the universal custom on the part of
shipping companies throughout the
a trial trip.
the Leviathan during the war, the
navy, first having made sure her ma
chinery had not been tampered with,
but in face of some necessary repairs
which are minor compared to those
now made, sent the ship on more than
a five days' trial cruise in southern
waters—five precious days neces
sarily lost to war transport,
"It would be futile to array the
opinion of the Democratic national
; committee alongside that of practical
ly all the experts of our navy and
American ship-building and operating
companies- Fortunately the respon
When the government took over
sibility for a thorough test of the Le
viathan is not upon the shoulders of
the Democratic national committee,
but rests solely with the United
States government
It is customary practice the world
over to have trial trips for all vessels,
but particularly extended trips before
passenger ships like the Leviathan
are put into .the regular service
need only recall the extensive trial
trips taken by the Lusitania and the
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world to invite non-paying guests on
the trial trips of new vessels, in or
der that the complex organization and
service machinery of the ships might
be broken in. For that purpose the
experts insisted that 400 to 500 guests
be asked on the Leviathan's trial trip.
Invariably shipping companies invite
as guests th« people whose good will
it is desirable bo win—journalists,
legislators, freight
men, exporters and importers, and
others who could later be of aid to
the ship's business.
Just because the American mer
chant marin« is a government enter
prise does not permit us to ignore
and avoid the best business methods
of private
holders of a private concern would
not dream of challenging the invited
list of its board of directors, and that
is why the expenditure of only $13,
000 to pay for the food and comfort
of approximately 400 to 500 guests
is ap item that sound business judg
ment ought not for a moment to chal
lenge, especially when the total cost
of $8,000,000 is considered as the in
itial investment and tie $13,000 spent
in this way will be returned to the
shipping board beyond measure in
the future.
"If the Democratic national com
mittee had only shown the same so
licitude a few years ago for the $2,
000,000,000 of American taxpayers'
money, much of which was wasted in
careless management by a shipping
board, under a Democratic administra
tion, we would perhaps today be pay
ing less money in income taxes and
the Harding administration would be
less burdened with the necessity of
raising vast sums to pay interest on
the national debt
and passenger
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companies. The stock
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FEDERAL HIGHWAYS WILL
COST $258,000,000 THIS Y EAR
TH« federal aid road construction
for the calendar year will be about
the same as last calendar year,
cording to preliminary reports re
ceived by the bureau of public roads.
The read building season is well
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SMG TO HARDING IN VOTE TEST FOLLOWS
WESTERN SPEECHES MADE OY HIM ON TRIP
FORD HAS BIG LEAD IN
THREE - WEEK TOTALS
Returns from Twenty - Nine
States In Nation - wide Ball
oting Furnish Interesting Fig
ures for study
A noticeable steadying of the Hard
ing vote was the outstanding feat
ure of the third week returns in the
nation-wide presidential voting test.
Coming as it did with the presi
dent's start on his Alaskan trip and
his speeches enroute to the Pacific
coast, it indicates that majority piled
up by Ford in the first weeks of vot
ing does not mean so much when his
chief opponent swings into action.
It also indicates that the president
hit home on some of his recommenda
tions and policies when he himself
could explain them to the voters.
Ford maintained a steady pace in
all sections of the country, but in few
places, except in the Democratic
any,
majorities, which
choice in doubt until the last vote is
counted,
This presidential voting test, which
is being conducted by the Publishers
Autocaster Service of New York,
closed last Saturday. The final re
suits from all states, and especially
the far western states, will be pub
lished in these columns at an early
date
would leave the
While Ford is leading Harding at
this writing, 91,044 to 39,453, it is j
very likely the returns from the west
and northwest, where Harding was
making speeches during the last week
of the voting contest will cut down
the lead very materially.
Ford majorities are very positive
in Florida, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania,!
Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan (his
home state), and Idaho. But in other
states, where he is not led by the
president, the vote is fairly even, and
can not be accurately judged until
the final votes are in.
Harding has a lead over Ford in
New York, Illinois, Washington, Ohio,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts and
Maryland.
Early returns from Idaho gave
Borah (its favorite son) 961 votes
but went to Ford with 1,117. The;
president is running \a poor third
there, with 112 votesj
The remarkable vote piled up for
former President Wilson is of course
a complimentary vote, inasmuch as he
will not be an active candidate for
office.
The vote for McAdoo indicates a
strong sentiment which Democratic
leaders will undoun .eily give sericus
• ,i.s:deration.
True, A1 Smith, f New York, is
in third place and running close to
Harding in this thi'ri week tabula
tion, but it must be 'onsidere j that
his own state. New York, has given
him more than two-thirds of his total
vote to date- In the country at large
McAdoo is running far ahea' 1 of
Smith—and it would seem that he
stood in a fair way to carry the Dem
der way and these reports indicate
that federad aid work now under con
struction will cost about $258,000,
000 as compared with $233,000,000
last year. The general outlook is
better because a year ago the railroad
and coal strikes were disturb
ing factors. An >ther reason for more
road building this year is the fact
that the system of federal aid high
ways under the new law has now been
completed in 33 states and O. K.'d by
the government, thus making it possi
ble for the first time to proceed un
der a definite program.
Quart of Water
Cleans Kidneys
Take a Little Salts if Your Back
Hurts, or Bladder is
Troubling You
No man or woman can make a mis
take by flushing the kidneys occasion
ally, says a well-known authority. Eat
ing too much rich food creates acids,
which excite the kidneys. They become
overworked from the strain, get slug
gish and fail to Alter the waste and
poisons from the blood. Then we get
sick.
trouble, nervousness, dizziness, sleep
lessness and urinary disorders often
come from sluggish kidneys.
The moment you feel a dull ache in
the kidneys, or your back hurts, or if
the urine is cloudy, offensive, füll of
sediment, irregular of passage or at
tended by a sensation of scalding, begin
drinking a quart of water each day,
also get about four ounces of jad Salts
from any pharmacy; take a tablespoon
ful in a glass of water before breakfast,
and in a- few days your kidneys may act
fine.
Rheumatism, headaches, liver
This famous salts is made from tkt
acid of grapes and lemon juice, com
bined with lithia, and has been used
for years to flush and stimulate the
kidneys ; also to help neutralize the
acids in the system, so they no longer
cause irritation, thjis often reKevujg
bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; makes. £
delightful effervescent lithia-water drink
which everyone should take now an^
then to help keep the kidneys clear
and active and the blood pure, thereby
often avoiding serious kidney complica
tions. By all means have your physv
dan examine your kidneys at least
.wice a year.
ocratic fanner if Ford is- not the se
lection.
Pirst returns from California snow
Ford and Harding in a neck-and-neck
race, the former 235 to the presi
dent's 221. Hiram Johnson, the fa
vorite son, is running third with 175,
while Herbert Hoover, another Cali
fornian, is given 24 votes.
Senator Reed, of Missouri, is a
red-hot favorite in his own state. He
leads Harding 1,537 to 341, but is
himself topped by Ford with 2,473.
Oklahoma is overwhelmingly for
Ford, but casts consistent ballots for
former Governor Haskell.
Every one of the twenty-nine states
so far heard from casts many and
varied ballots for state sons and local
favorites. The total of 5,291 votes, so
cast, have been classified under
scattered votes," and it would be
an almost endless job to make entry
here
The seventh week of the Collier's
Weekly fact-to-face straw vote, as
438; Hoover, 8 933* Leonard Wood,
4,652; Borah, 3,48'?; Underwood, 3,
will be announced
4-7,
Ford 73,724, to Harding's 45,596.
Then comes McAdoo, 17322; Cox,
14,447; Smith, 12,684; Hughes, 12,
232, and John W. Davis, 2,898.
The final vote in Collier's balloting
next week. Its
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Thrift is the opposite of improvidence and waste.
Thrift means better homes, better food and clothes;
more comfort and enjoyment; less waste and anxiety.
Money is the msigrnia of labor. It represents an investment
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Not only one, but several of your friends as well as your
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vote is from all states except Neva
da and is indicative of city aad larger
town choices, while the voting
test being conducted by the Auto
Caster Servie« is representative rtf
the smaller town and rural America's
choice for president.
Studying the
vote with the
shows Ford the majority choice «I
the voters in both city and country
at this time. It must be admitted,
however, that election is more than
a full year away, and as to whether
the voters will feel the same way
and can force their choice through a
major party convention is of course
another story.
latter nation-wide
Collier straw vole.
Nation-Wide Vote at End df Third
Week.
.91,044....
_39,453
.33,387
.15,270
.11,82*
_ 4,896
_ 3,70ft
. 3,592
. 3,084
_'... 3,003
_ 1,943
..1 915
Ford _
Harding _
Smith _
Me A doe _
Wilson .
Johnson _
Underwood .,
Cox
Bryan .
LaFollette .
Pinchot _
Hughes ...
.. 1,901
_ 1,550
_ 1,534
_ 1,079
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Hoover _
Reed .—.
Debs _
Capper -
Haskell (open)
Scattered .
820
680
281
Total _
.222,217