The Bozeman courier., October 03, 1923, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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The Bozeman Courier
"PUBLISHED IN THE FAMOUS GALLATIN VALLET"
THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF GALLATIN COUNTY
Phone
Established
80
1871
Published Every Wednesday Afternoon at No. 43 West Main Street,
BOZEMAN, MONTANA
REPUBLICAN COURIER COMPANY
Enter in the Postoffice at Bozeman, Montana, as Second Glass Matter
Under the Act of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL — PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
$2.00 Six Months
$ 1.00
One Year.
.$ .50
Three Months
LIVESTOCK AND THE FARMER
The fact that the country has absorbed the great increase
in the livestock supplies without a corresponding reduction in
prices is occasion for greater confidence in the immediate future
of the farming industry. Statistics show that the receipts of
hogs at five leading western markets for the year to date are
nearly 4,000,000 greater than for the same period a year ago.
Gains in both cattle and sheep were more than 500,000. In spite
of this tremendous gain the market has strengthened and live
stock farmers are beginning to make some profits, if not to recoup
the losses of previous years.
The Armour livestock bureau, is an analysis of the trade for
the first six months of the year, shows that during the six months'
period the total consumption of beef and veal amounted to 2,494,
000.000 pounds against 2,375,000,000 during the same period in
1922. The consumption of mutton and lamb during the first half
of 1923 was 229,000,000 pounds against 209,000,000 pounds the
previous year. For the 1923 half year period the domestic con
sumption of pork was 3,330,000,000 pounds against 2,633,000,000
in 1922, a gain of 25 per cent. For the same length of time
exports increased 46 per cent. The domestic per capita consump
tion increased from 24.2 pounds to 30.2 pounds or six pounds per
capita.
The figures indicate that the livestock industry has a better
future before it. Unless production increases very materially,
there should be a good market for all classes of livestock with cor
responding hardening of the prices in the next year or two, es
pecially if the foreign market opens up as it appears to be doing,
judging from thé increased exports. In spite of the European
troubles the export demand is likely to increase, and as conditions
improve on the continent the consumption of American food stuffs
will increase. This should be a very favorable factor for the
American farmer.
On the other hand imports of European manufactured articles
increase and are likely to continue to increase, making more com
petition for our home industries. It may be increasingly difficult
to compete with the low prices of European labor. The increased
consumption of meats at home is due to some extent to the excel
lent condition of the manufacturing industry generally, making
it possible for the wage earner to buy freely from his high earn
ings. If, how r ever, industry lags and unemployment ensues the
inequality between the returns for labor on the farm and that of
other industries may be equalized. Industry itself will survive
only when it makes a profit, for lacking that it languishes and
dies. That would come only when low priced foreign labor pro
duced goods below the profitable price here. In that case, how
ever, the farmer would be in the better position, since his fore
ign customer w r ould absorb the decline in the home consumption.
On the whole the livestock industry, as an index to the condition
of farming generally, points to a better condition in the future.
He was taking it seriously and arguing that "every
oc y ^ ® s J )n J etl m e an( \ can * WOi 'k- One of his companions
LIVING RICH, DYING POOR
When the man was waiting for his train in the depot the
other night he overheard a discussion between three men of per
haps 35 years of age. One was being jollied for his stinginess
and thrift.
remarked, \\ell I am t saving a cent but I d rather live rich and
die poor than live poor and die rich."
Sounds cute doesn't it? Catchy turn of words don't you think?
Sententious and all that rather live rich and die poor than
live poor and die rich " Epigrammatic and all that. Snappy.
u , end help the man, does he know what it means to
die poor?' To drag out the last few years of life in poverty and
utter helplessness, the recipient of grudging charity,' so called.
To be neglible to other men and women except as a liability and
a burden. To eat the bitter bread of charity in utter helplessness.
Smart talk all right. Sounds bold and pert while the blood
free and the muscles snap into action at the command of the
will. But he doesn't know.
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runs
It would do that man good if he were to know more about
the old people who die very poor through misfortune or lack of
thrift. If he could realize the humiliation and -helplessness that
looks out of their eyes; could know the tearful gratitude for
help, that gratitude that one sees in the eyes of a hurt and
wounded animal when it turns to its rescuer; if he realized the
dumb agony of it all that smart sentence would lose its smartness.
The man is selfish. The impression that he has no doubt
that he is a liberal fellow isn't true. First if he had seen and
noted the condition he flippantly refers to he wouldn't use the
phrase. Chances are that he isn't making any personal calls on
those who are dying poor. Otherwise he wouldn't have said it.
He'd have known. And when he slammed the thrifty man he
threw a rock at the very people who must, in human kindness and
with human responsibility care for him when he "dies poor.
There comes a time in most men's lives when they must retire
without dying. It is then that a man and his aged wife will be
independent or a public charge according as to how he has lived
his life. A veteran salesman, known in nearly all Montana towns,
resigned last month after twenty-seven continuous years of ser
vice. He started life as a newsboy in Butte. Because of his thrift
he had been a shareholder and a director in the building and loan
association of his home totvn for nearly twenty years. He owned
stock in a local bank and had money loaned out. He could retire
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in comfort and independence and let younger men take up
traveling man's daily battle. He is neither a charge on the public
or a dejected old man worrying for fear his employer will dis
cover a decline in his earning power. A younger man on the force
wished that he could retire too, when this independent veteran
replied, "Invest your salary in a building and loan association for
the next eleven years and you can then retire and draw that same
salary from the association for the rest of your days without
another day's work on your part.
About the worst indoor sport in the world is
a
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dying poor."
CORN AND HOGS
With more and more farm attention being paid to livestock,
it is significant that hogs and corn were the two most important
products displayed at Montana's two biggest fairs, the Billings
and Helena expositions. Time was, and not so lopg ago, when
automobile was given for the best bushel of wheat and attention
was given to all sorts of crops. But now it is getting back to
corn and hogs.
The visitor at Billings could not but be impressed with the
hog show. It was a show that would have done credit to
an eastern fair. Big, growthy pigs, well grown for their age and
possessing all the select blood lines of eastern winners faced the
judges. At Helena it was the same thing though the show
somewhat smaller. There were good hogs, lots of them.
At both of these fairs the balance of the livestock show
about as usual. There were fat, sleek beef cattle ; dairy matrons
with all the fine points of the milk producers ; fat sheep and sheep
so wrinkled it was hard to find their heads; a few—very few—
horses and there were hogs. Hogs everywhere, in the horse barns,
in tents, in crowded pens of the regular barns. At both fairs it
was the same, the big gains in the livestock division in the
an
many
was
was
hog stalls.
In the exposition building corn was king. The many entries
in the once popular wheat classes have dropped away. True many
still show wheat, wonderful wheat with quality even better than
in the old days—for we have some real wheat breeders in this
state—but the quantity was not there. On the other hand there
were hundreds of corn entries. Almost every county in the state
showed corn.
There was red com, white corn, yellow com, the
spotted gehu, every kind and type of early maturing
Hogs and com. The outstanding features of Montana's two
Wheat a back number. Men buying boars and
looking into the merits of purebred breeding stock. Men studying
types of corn ears and methods of seed selection.
It all means that Montana is going to raise hogs and the feed
to grow them. We cannot grow com in the Gallatin but our barley
is every bit as good. The educational value of the two fairs, the
point that each drove home was the same. Hogs and com. Hogs
and com.
com.
largest fairs.
McADOO ADMITS IT
Mr. McAdoo, one time director general of railroads under
government operation, insists that propagandists have overstated
the amount of deficit that government operation of the railroads
cost. He says that the deficit does not exceed $714,000,000.
Congress has already paid out m6re than that and is not yet done
with its bill of expense. Competent judges predict that the de
ficit will be twice Mr, McAdoo's estimate before railroad claims
will be fully satisfied.
However we have Mr. AcAdoo's admission that the deficit
was three-quarters of a billion. How will Mr. McAdoo explain
why there was any deficit at all?
He might tell us why it was that wages on the railroads were
boosted way beyond the wage scale in other industries and
freight rates during the democratic administration cut down. It
must be remembered that wages went up during government
operation and continued to create enormous deficits many months
before freight rates went up.
Demagaogs today are making political capital out of the fact
that the freight rates went up soon after return of the railroads
to private control and the present railroad law is blamed by them
for the rise in freight rates. They conceal from the public the
fact that freight rates should have been increased during govern
men t control when wages were boosted. Had this been done there
might not have been such a huge deficit for taxpayers to pay.
Jt was not done so let Mr. McAdoo tell us why freight rates
did no t g0 U p on sam e day that wages went up.
Republicans are mean enough to say that it was politics.
McAdoo put wages up and kept freight rates down in order to
ge t votes from railroad unions and farmers alike. Brookhart says
he will put freight rates down without cutting wages on the
railroads. McAdoo admits that his plan post the government
$714,000,000 in deficit so he leaves us wondering what Brook
hart's plan will cost,
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PIONEER MERCHANT
DIES IN THE EAST
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Howell, returned to St. Louis, and in
the fall of 1866 returned to Montana
bringing a stock of goods,
built a store on the farm an con
tinued in business there until 1869,
when Dr- Lamme bought Mr. Howell's
interest and moved the merchandise to
Bozeman, where he ecame associated
in business with John S. Mendenhall
whose widow Smother of Harry L.
Smith and S. A. Mendenhall, of Boze
man, still resides in Bozeman. DT.
Lamme died in 1888, and his wife
several years later.
After completing the course in the
public schools of Bozeman, Edwin B.
Lamme took a commercial course in
San Francisco, California. He was.
associated in business with his father
in the firm of A. Lamme and com
pany for a few years, and in 1882 he
ecame connectedi with the Raleigh
Lamme company and the Gallatin
Valley Mercantile company and re
mained with them until 1895, contin
uing the business himself for about
six years.
He became a stockholder in the
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Bozeman Milling company in 1895,
and served for several years as sec
retary and general manager of the
company
In politics he was a staunch demo
crat, and was the choice of his party
for several positions of responsibility.
He was chairman of the board of
county commissioners of Gallatin
county from 188& to 1890; a member
of the city council from 1898 to 1900;
a member of the Bozeman school
board for seven years and for some
time a member of the exécutive
board of Montana State college, being
appointed by Governor Toole.
Mr. Lamme was a member of Boze
man Lodge No. 463, B. P. O. E., and
was the first exalted ruler of the
order. He was for many years an
active member of Pythagoras Lodge,
Knights of Pythias, and had served
as a grand chancellor of this organiz
tion.
Mr. Lamme was married October
12, 1880, to Miss Susie Welch, a
daughter cd Mr- and Mrs. William
Welch, pioneers of Gallatin county,
For the past few years they have
been spending most of their time in
the east, making;, their home tem
porarily in Maplewood, New Jersey,
where he died. Besides his wife, he
is survived by one son, Maurice A.
Lamme, and by 1 ; two grandchildren. 1
He leaves four sisters, Mrs. W. B. |
McAdow in California; Mrs. F. K.
(Lora) Armstrong, of Bozeman; Mrs
Arthur (Frances) Place o£ Minne
apolis, and Miss Georgia Lamme of
Pasadena, California.
DEPUTY SHERIFF
CAUGHT BY CUPID
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water county the details were earned
The new Mrs. Patterson is a sister of
of Undersheriff Orville Jones' wife;
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and still no word of what was to hap
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pen reached the sheriff's force, which
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goes Iro show there are some women
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who can keep secrets.
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Mr. and Mrs. Patterson returned
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home the latter part of the week
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and were given a warm welcome by!
their many friends, thought Mr. Pat,
terson's associates in the sheriffs
office have not yet forgiven him for
the trick he played upon them.
the high school Monday and Tuesday,
October 22 and 23.
TURKEY MARKETING PLANS
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On the afternoon of the first day,
a number of birds will be killed and
picked- They will be cooled over
night and the following morning in
structions will be given on proper
methods of packing for shipment
Suitable containers for shipment of
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birds will be used.
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e oun as year a many o
our turkeys were shipped in poorly
constructed contain** or in boxes
often weighing more than the con
tents. If the demand were sufficient
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we could get new poultry barrels
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shipped in by the carload from Spok
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ane at a very reasonable tfrice
Growers of turkeys are urged to call |
up the county agent, informing him
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of the approximate number of
turkeys and when new barrels are
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when they plan on marketing their
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turkeys and yhen new barrels are
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desired for their shipment.
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Likewise, if you would like to at
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tend the demonstration, call the
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County Agent immediately so that
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enough turkeys will be on hand for
every one to practice on. This will
be the only demonstration this year
in this and adjoining counties.
The county agent would like to
hear from breeders who have a fewj
turkeys they would like to have killed,
picked and packed. These will be
used in the demonstration.
save one.
At Heliena GaHtin county was
better represented. All the breeders
who showed at Bil hngs made the trip
t °- the state f ? ir f™! continued their
tion In JaiuTlJ^r'
Bozeman showed a few head of his
GALLATIN LIVESTOCK
WIN PRIZES AT FAIRS
(Continued from page 1.)
Billings but at the last moment were
unable to make the trip. There was
a goodly representation of local poul
try at the Billings show, Elmer Huff
and several others winning numerous
The turkey show was the
prizes.
strongest in the history of the fair
and H. P. Griffin of Bozeman was
fortunate in winning every first prize
eflered on turkeys and all the seconds
Herefords and won a number of cov
eted ribbons in competition with
of J- he beat show herds in America.
his Brown° JhiI a stnn " of
very strong competition winning
however, the large majority of the
one
and met
premiums.
F. O. Cooper of Willow Creek show
ed a fine herd of Poland Chinas and
in one of the strongest Poland China
shows ever staged in Helena, more
than held his own.
land Herds showing from three dif
ferent states and it is to Mr. Cooper's
credit that he made such a wonderful
show.
The Montana State college showed
a number of show and sale sheep and
made a creditable display 1 , C. E
Sime took over a number of Ram
bouillet rams and won several prizes,
as well as making a number of very
satisfactory sales.
There were Po
HARD LUCK BEATS
BOBCAT FOOTBALL
(Continued from page 1.)
took it slowly down the field, the
march ending by Foster passing to
Romney for another touchdown. In
the attempt to kick goal after this
touchdown the ball hit one of the up
rights and bounced back, making no
score.
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With three minutes yet to play
Montana started an aerial attack
^ith telling effect. One long forward
pass found Rivers with a clean field
before him but he unfortunately
dropped the ball and the game ended
by Utah's winning by the
margin of one point
narrow
Floyd Romney was the most con
sistant ground gamer for Monta?; a
and played phenominal ball ail
through the game. Knight, veleian
tackle, played the best game of his
long career and Rivers distinguished
himself at end, derpite his unfortu
nate fumble. Benton made several
sensational runs and Harma played a
stellar game. The chief weakness of
the local team was that the line sim
ply.would not hold, giving the backs
little chance to organize effective
interference.
A big crowd of Ott Romney's Salt
went to Pro vo to boost
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On Saturday the Bobcats will p»ay
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the strong Idaho Tech team in Poca
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tella on their way home. They are
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spending this week in Salt Lake and
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expect to reach Pocatello Friday. Tne
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team is expected home on Sunday,
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Despite the unfortunate result of
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the «»me at Utah the Bobcat rooter, -
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Yom * r 15 aa,d 40 h \ ve °" e , ° f „ the
strongest teams in the Rocky Moun
tain conference. The local team is
expected to show far better form in
the coming games of the season and
the faults displayed in the Utah game
were chiefly those which chaiacter
ize early season play.
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(Continued from page 1.)
FARMERS' WEEK TO
BE IN JANUARY
Some the mo8t imporW author .
^ on different branches of farm .
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mg have been featured by the col
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lege m years past and while as yet
^h e outside speakers have not been
selectcdj the loca ,
hopeful t0 Ret the hest available ul .
ent jn the United States
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a he railroads allowed reduced rates
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last year and it is expected that the
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same can be secured for this season's
Farmers - Week
Another feature the therj „
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the meetings of the different agncul
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"f al " nd >'™atock associatmns. which
take this occasion to hold their annual
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meetings. Last yeat the Farm Bur
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eau, btate Dairymens association,
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Montana Seedgrowers' association.
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Potato Growers' association, Bee
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keepers' and many other gathered in
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Bozeman during Farmers'Week,
institution is
DANNER CASE SET
FOR OCTOBER 22
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practically certain a jury could be
secured for this the first trial, which
is the most important case to be
tried in this county for years
Also the object in drawing such a
large venire and the setting of the
Danner case for the first on the dock
et, was to be able to dismiss a great
majority of the panel as soon as the
first jury was obtained. This is said
to be in the nature of economy, and
will relieve the expenses considerably.
GALLATIN NEEDS
COUNTY LIBRARY
(Continued from page 1.)
Amos Hall welcomed the guests and
expressed the hope that the weather
during their stay in Bozeman would
be such as to give them an oppor
tunity to visit the many points of
interest within the immediate vicin
ity and to see for themselves what a
delightful community both Bozeman
and the Gallatin embraces. Re
sponse was made on behalf of the
association by Mrs. Laura Zook, state
president from Miles City.
Following te felicitations, the con
vention began its business with a roll
call. As each delegate's name was
called a response was given showing
some outstanding feature of the
year's work in her particular field.
The rest of the morning session
was taken up with the business meet
ing and the reports of committees.
The opening meeting at the Presby
terian church in the afternoon when
the county library plan was discussed
was a feature of the convention, and
while not a part of the general pro
gram, was oppurtune
Tuesady morning, at 9:30, the first
session of the second day's program
was held in the assembly rooms of
the chamber of commerce. The fol
lowing program was arranged.
Historic Spots Around Bozeman—
Dean J, M. Hamilton of Bozeman.
— Conducted by
Elizabeth Powell, Missoula public
library.
Reference Books—Elizabeth Pow
ell. Business Man— Florence Lewis,
Livingston.
Reliable Book Reviews—Elizabeth
Forrest, Montana State college.
Best Books of the Year—Josephine
Haley, Helena.
Our New University Library—Ger
trude Buckhous
At 12:30 Tuesday afternoon the
delegates book luncheon at the Three
Bears' Inn up Bridger, being the
guests of the city library board. The
luncheon was followed with a drive
through the valley. ,
At 4 p. m. tea was served at Hamil
ton Hall, M S. C.
Book symposium