The Bozeman courier., April 23, 1924, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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The Bozeman Courier
"PUBLISHED IN THE FAMOUS GALLATIN VALLEY
THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF GALLATIN COUNTY
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Published Every Wednesday Afternoon at No. 43 West Main Street,
BOZEMAN, MONTANA
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REPUBLICAN COURIER COMPANY
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Entered in the Postoffice at Bozeman, Montana, as Second Class
Matter Under the Act of March 3, 1879
SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL — PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
.$2.00 Six Months
One Year
$1.00
Three Months.
$ .50
In an address delivered recently before the Bozeman Kiwanis !
club, at one of the regular weekly noonday meetings and lunch
eons of that popular organization, Mayor Edmond Burke, head
of the chemistry department, and also in charge of the weather
bureau at Montana State college, presented some interesting in- 1
formation on the subject of weather prognostication and stalls
tics, much of which is news to the average lavman.
Accurate and scientifically constructed weather indicating in-'
struments, automatic recording thermometers, sensitized barom
eters and the like, all have contributed toward the changing of a
public institution, which was at one time the butt of comic writers i
on a par with the mother-in-law jokes, into one of the most reliable !
and beneficial of all our governmental activities.
Not only are farmers and stockgrowers guided by local
weather reports showing precipation by rain and snow, the length
of the growing season, in days each year, and similar statistical!
information, but many thousands of dollars of actual loss is pr e
vented through the proper use of the weather forecasting bureaus
by fanners and stockgrowers, in many agricultural activities, who]
take advantage of the reports in guarding against loss from i m -!
pending storms in transporting livestock, grain, etc., to market
or shipping point, and during lambing time.
Perhaps no branch of our national department activities, not
even excepting the farming and crops reporting service, has done
more good and accomplished more real lasting benefits for the
farmers than the United States weather bureau, through its
thousands of local reporting bureaus scattered throughout the
United States, working in conjunction with state and college sub-'
bureaus.
WEATHER REPORTS BENEFIT FARMERS
FOREST PROTECTION WEEK
By proclamation, which will be found printed elsewhere in
this issue, President Coolidge has designated and set apart the i
present week, April 21-27, inclusive, as Forest Protection Week.
forest Protection Week this spring will mark the fourth annual
observance of an intensive campaign to acquaint the public with j j
the serious and unnecessary damage caused by forest fires and.
enjoin those contemplating a trip to the mountains to be care-.h
ful ^ ^ re * M° re than 36,000 fires are reported in the United
States every year, three-fourths of which are man caused, and
an area of about 11,000,000 acres is swept by the flames.
Col. William B. Greeley, Chief of the Forest Service, in dis
cussing the President's Proclamation said:
The President of the United States has designated the
week of April 21-27, inclusive, as Forest Protection Week. In so
doing he has again made this matter of burning up the woods
a subject for serious thought by every citizen.
Unlike so many 'weeks' that adorn the calendar, Forest |
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Protection Week is not calculated to benefit any single class of
citizens or any particular kind of business. On the contrary,
every citizen is a consumer of timber, and the heavy burdens
caused by burning up America's fast diminishing supply of timber
fall alike on all shoulders.
Forest Protection W'eek offers an opportunity for State
authorities, public and semipublic organizations, business men's
clubs, The Boy Scouts, The Girl Scouts, all outdoor and recreational
societies, Arbor Day Clubs, and audubon societies, to properly 1
take an active part in bringing home to the American people the
great lesson th?t forest fires must be stamped out. Fire in the j
woods is an outlaw just as much as it is in the home. Fight it and
Fight it hard!
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That sterling and successful train robber of former days, Mr.
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lated to him by his intimate friend and associate, Jake Hamon,
who, in November, 1920, was murdered by his mistress, under
such circumstances of just ficLtion that she was promptly ac
quitted. The story in brie, .s that the late Mr. Hamon had paid
$1,000.000 to secure the nomination of Harding at the Chicago
Convention in 1920. One-fourth of this sum was given to Senator
Foies Penrose, of Pennsylvania, Mr. Jennings says hls friends
told him, and $25,000 each to Harry Daugherty and Will Hays,
The little balance of $700,000 is not accounted for.
Editorial Digs.
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A MOVING PICTURE
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
AI Jennings, of Oklahoma, now appears before the Senate Oil
Investigating Committee—on the invitation of the committee
presume—and tells a melodramatic story that he says was re
Upon his arrival at Washington to appear before the commit
tee the distinguished citizen from Oklahoma told the reporters
he would have a "whale of a story" to tell. In round figures it is
* a whale of a story, indeed. And what a sensation it would make
upon the screen! A plot to capture the pres*- r»cy of the United
States. Title: "A Million for a Pawn." The c:. t: Jake Hamon, a
master political cracksman ; Clara Smith, his mistress ; Ai Jenn
ings, an innocent bystander ; Senator Penrose, the big boss ; Harry
Daugherty, sales agent; Will Hays, a smocth manager; various
and sundry political leaders ; some hundreds of crooked delegates
merely for mass effect. One can easily visualize the concoction of
the dastardly plot in the luxurious quarters of the cracksman ; the
wiles of the tempter displaying a million dollars in large new
bills before the eyes of the weak and impecunious politicians. One
can see the conspirators invading the sick chambers of Boies Pen
rose, who didn't have more than ten millions to his name and
.probably didn t know where to raise the money to pa\ his doctor
bills. One can follow the plot breathlessly through its sinuous and
sinister developments until the delegates are enveloped in the
'chains of inescapable circumstances, and the dire deed is done.
And then the thrilling climax when the fruits of evil are wrested
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from the hands of the arch conspirator by death at the hands of
ibis female accomplice.
A whale of a story it is. And about as credible as any other
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moving picture. This much is true : There was a Republican con
vention in 1920 and Warren G. Harding was nominated for presi
dent. There was no mystery about the nomination.
clear that neither Wood nor Lowden could be nominated. Harding
happened to be one upon whom the delegates could unite and
when L °wden released his following and Connecticut threw its
vote to Harding the end came with a stampede. Whatev er the in
^ uence °f Penrose over the Pennsylvania delegation it did not sup
P° rt Harding until the progress of the tenth ballot had made the
nomination of Harding already certain. Undoubtedly there werej
political conferences every night among the leaders, but it was
no * un ^ d Lowden recognized the impossibility of hi.> nomination
and threw his vote to Harding that a choice was accomplished,
The claim of mone y influence is obvious nonsense, and the story
of the reformed bandit is utterly preposterous, though it may be
* rue Hamon told it to him.
t^ 8 committee oi the Lnited States Senate permitted this
rnan to come betöre them and not only listen with gravity to this
ab?urd yam, involving the honor and integrity of the late Presi
dent and of a11 who were concerned in his nomination, but quesr
tioned him solemnly, by their action giving an impression of au-i
th ° rit y and credibility to his tale. Was there ever a greater farce,
in a P^tense of judicial inquiry? Was ever a partisan spirit ex-1
ercised in such a shameless way? President Harding is dead. In
his lite he ma > r have made mistakes, and no doubt did, but no
ione has charged him with conscious wrongdoing. If any wrong
! was < lone b Y hlm or in hls behalf common decency would direct
1 that credible evidence of truth be secured before a charge of such
I character is dignified by an official hearing. A committee of the
United States Senate listening to an ex-train robber unfolding
a tale of slander against the national convention of a great Party
and against the president of the United States! It is indeed a
moving picture, but one that moves to indignation.
It became
RANKIN EARNS THANKS OF BUTTE'S CITIZENS
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From the Butte Miner.
Let there be no doubt in the mind of anyone in Montana that
^e overwhelming sentiment of the people of Silver Bow county
f or j aw enforcement.
Unfortunately for the reputation of Butte, local officials here
ave been signally derelict in doing their sworn duty, with the re
j^ that the prohibition law has been openly and flagrantly vio
lated, and the lawless element has appeared to exercise far greater j
influence upon the peace officers than the law-abiding residents of
the city have been able to do.
Conditions catne to such a pass in this community that a com
mittee of loyal citizens made a direct appeal to Attorney General
Rankin to take supervisory control of the situation, because it was
found to be hopeless to get the local officials to take any effectual
steps in this direction. *
The evidence presented to Mr. Rankin was so conclusive' of
arrogant violation of the law that he has not hesitated to come per- .
son aUy to Butte with the announced determination to clear up the
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In his statement, given to the Miner Friday, he well said : "it
is time for us to find out whether criminals are greater than the
law.
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In response to that declaration, Attorney General Rankin will
fmd that he has all the law-abiding citizens of this community
standing squarely behind him and ready to give him their
divided moral support.
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Frequently in the past the Miner has called attention to the
fact that no official ever has to apologize for enforcing the law,
but it is the officers who fail in this respect who are continually,
called upon to make excuses for their failure to do their duty, and
these excuses invariably are so pusillanimous as to arouse nothing
but contempt for the individuals making them, in the minds of
the decent citizenship of their community.
It often is surprising to notice what a poor opinion derelict
officials invariably have of the pul He intelligence.
They never seem to realize that the average citizen is wise
enough to know when any laws are flagrantly and brazenly violated
that the law breakers have been given to understand that they
: be protected, and this is prima facie evidence that grafting is going
on in the community where this condition obtains.
When officers go into partnership with criminals,
ity is left in an almost defenseless condition.
F° rtuna tely for Montana, this state has an attorney general
of sufficient fearlessness to do his duty and to stand up manfully
for law enforcement.
It is nothing short of an outrage that he should feel compelled
to intervene personally in a situation of this kind, for in addition to
being the legal adviser of the state, he also is chief counsel for the
55 counties in Montana, and all the other municipal subdivisions,
and yet he has smaller office force than that granted to the county
attorney of Silver Bow.
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Mr. Rankin has given his word that his "office will
concen
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and that c :ainiy is a gratifying assurance to the law-abiding
citizens ol this community, who far outnumber the lawless and
criminally disposed.
it is only just to the attorney general to say that he is the
only official, not excepting the federal ones, whose duty it should
be to enforce the prohibition law, who has shown a sincere desire
and taken vigorous step« to purge Butte of its lawlessness.
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•THY NAME IS WOMAN" ,
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passionate love, a backeround of great
tcenic b ® auty * pI ® yed by a
dostry>g deverest djrectors . -Thy
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tre for two days, beginning Sunday,
P TOmise? to be onc ' of the most thrill
in *I r ''. rod " ct >n f ' of yea ^
It !s the latest film t-- be turned
out by ^ Niblo the director who
has such successes to his credit as
" Th<i Mark of 7x,rro » " The Three
Musketeers," and recently. "Strangers
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Kar , Schoen!lerr . ? stage play the
American version of which (by 3en
jamin Glazer) had a very successf il
run on Broadway last season, with
Ma T Nash and Jose Rubens in the
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Auction the care wb i c h has been
taken to assure the authenticity if
the Spanish atmosphere. Ben Carre,
";*>«* probably the best known of
design the interior?. And as if this
were not enou?b . Mr. Niblo also en
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Pyrenees section, to advise in mat
tors o' research,
by Boss Meredyth.
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hf- Par 1 county was a busir.es
visitor in Bozeman yesterday in th
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Barbara La Marr, Edith Roberts,
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Î Niblo production, presented by Louis
B. Mayer through Metro. The screen
adaption and continuity were mad?
Victor Milner
Î and Three Fork? before returning
home. He said he recently had some
specimens of his beautiful Gardiner
granite analyzed by the government
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