The Bozeman courier., May 06, 1925, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

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T. H. Sears, Business Manager.
t\ W. Egelston, Managing Editor
THE BOZEMAN COURIER
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Published Every Wednesday Afternoon at
13 West Main Stre et, Bozema n, ^Mon t ana
IN THE FAMOUS GALLATIN VALLEY"
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THE REPUBLICAN-COURIER COMPANY
Phone 80
Established 1871
Official Paper of Gallatin County
CLEAN-UP WEEK
Bozeman citizens are urged by the mayor and
the chamber of commerce to clean and paint up
their premises next week.
This is a good idea, and one which should be
heartily endorsed by everyone in the city.
We have attained the title of "The City Beau
tiful," not only by reason of the magnificent
mountain scenery hereabouts but because of our
well-kept homes and lawns, our splendid shade
trees and our beautiful garden flowers.
And the clean-up campaign has an economic
aspect of wide significance.
If the rubbish is all hauled away and disposed
of, a serious fire hazard is thereby eliminated.
So the Clean-up week will not only add to the
beauty and attractiveness of our city but will
lessen the likelihood of serious fires.
and their dependents, not only through its in
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surance feature, but with its big tuberculosis sam
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tanum in Colorado and its various benevolences. ;
The many fraternal orders have a real place in I
present-day life. Their members are assured of a
WELCOME, WOODMEN!
Bozeman welcomes the delegates assembled
here today for the state camp of the Modern
Woodmen of America. »
These men are representative citizens ,of the
various counties in the state—men of integrity
who have been chosen by their "neighbors" to
participate in the deliberations of the state con
vention.
The Modern Woodmen of America is the strong
est fraternal insurance order in the world.
It is doing a wonderful work for its members
helping hand in times of adversity and thousands, I
perhaps millions, of widows and orphans in this
country have reason to be thankful that the de
parted husband and father was affiliated with
one or more of such organizations.
We welcome the Modern Woodmen in session
here, not only as visitors from other parts of the ,
State, but as representatives of a mighty organiza
tion which is doing its share in making the path
way a little smoother for those whose feet Üre
unaccustomed to the rocky roads which must
be encountered as we journey through life.
Next week is another week
cry of the procrastinator—it's just the statement
of a fact. It will be Clean-Up week.
This isn't the
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THEY'RE STILL CRYING
Proponents of the late and unlamented league
of nations are still weeping because Uncle Sam!the
was not roped into the European shell game.
They say that Von Hindenburg's election as
president of Germany presages a revival of the
monarchy and another World war. I
They say that had the United States been in
the league this would never have happened, and
so on. ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
lut they seem to conveniently overlook the
fa< t that the league has been ignored, flouted and
otherwise treated in a rude and unkind manner
by those same nations which were so anxious for
Uncle Sam to sign on the dotted line and be for
ever afterwards bound thereby.
Had the league possessed the courage to settle
the reparations matter, the intervention of the
United States via the Dawes plan would have
been necessary.
The Graeco-Italian imbroglio was settled in
the good old-fashioned way after Mussolini told
the league to go jump in the lake or words to that
effect.
Many other wars and near wars have been and
are now brewing in Europe and the league sits
by and calmly lets 'em brew.
If the United States must be a member in order
to make the league function it seems self-evident
that Uncle Sam would be the goat when any men
or money were needed to carry out its rulings.
This country gives its neighbors a square deal,
pays its debts and leans over backwards at times
in turning the other cheek rather than resort to
war. And it scrupulously carries out its obliga
tions.
The only real steps which have been taken
since the end of the World war toward disarm
ament, the outlawing of war and the stabilization
of Europe were planned in the United States and
put over by Americans—the Washington confer
ence on the limitation of naval araments and the
Dawes plan.
The American pro-leaguers would dq well
compare their own country's record with the per
formance of those in the league, whose example
they would have Uncle Sam emulate.
They might learn something to their advantage
thereby v
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Editorial Comment
AUTO REGISTRATIONS INCREASE *
An increase of nearly 60 percent over last year
is shown by figures compiled by the state license
bureau at the close of business on April 30.
Automobile prices have decreased in an inverse
ration with increased efficiency and reliability,
so that the automobile is no longer regarded as a
luxury. It is really a necessity.
Discussing automobiling 20 years ago, the
Helena Independent says:
If you look over the "Twenty Years Ago" columns of
newspapers which feature these excerpts from the office
files, you will be surprised to find that if a man succeeded
in making 10 or 15 miles by automobile, he was con
sidered to have accomplished a great feat.
For instance, a South Dakota newspaper reproduced
some items recently and among them was one which told
how the present senator of the state, Norbeck, had traveled
a distance of a hundred and fifty miles, taking several
days to make the trip and abandoning his car and return
ing home by rail. Afterward he went back and got it.
This incident stands out as a reminder of the short time
which has clap f d aince automobile trip of 15« miles
was an unusual and uncertain aventure,
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It used to be, say 25 years ago, that an automobile
driver who could return (rom a 20 . miIe trip under his own
power was regarded as something of a hero.
In glancing back to the highways of that time, the
skepticism is easily understood. The wonder is that in-'
dividuals of vision the
The instances of getting hauled in from relatively short
trips were almost as numerous as the successful voyage.
It was not pleasing to the vanity, either, to guide a dead
car behind a pair of plodding dobbins. The great mass
of people did not own automobiles then and frankly
revelled in the recurring embarrassments of those who
did own them.
The ordinary opinion among practical folks, 25 years
ago, was that "the automobile might work out all right
traveling the paved streets in cities, but would never
be of much use on country roads."
plunged ahead.
DUSTING FOR SMUT"
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Under the above title the Montana State College
Experiment service recently issued a booklet
showing how this process could be carried out
cheaply on the farm.
Discussing the new method of seed treatment,
Helena Record-Herald
says:
At this time of year spring wheat growers before
planting treat their wheat seed with a chemical prepara
tion'to destroy smut spores. That is, the careful and
indent farmers do, and since smut has been costly to
farming in some parts of the state, the wisdom of
this procedure is beyond question. A new anti-smut agent
will be extensively used this year in all probability,
an improvement upon older smut killers. This agent is
as
carbonate of copper. «
In Valley county, a news story lately said, this agent
jdisplace formaldehyde, used heretofore. The loss
from smut annually in the county named was given at
$100,000, and authorities interested in the success of agri
culture there have been urging the universal use
farmers of the treatment.
This precaution can be taken at a very small cost it
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has been pointed out, and therefore should become a
routine farming method in Montana among wheat growers.
Since the seeds from the smut plant, which are very
among
small and light, are carried long distances by the wind,
the only safe way to deal with the pest is by treating the
seed with the chemical every year.
The new anti-smut
preparatiyi, used in dust form, is
said to have advantages in that it can be applied in shorter
time, more conveniently and more easily, differs from
other agents in that it does not reduce the vigor
, or ger
minative power of the seed, and is required in smaller
quantity. With such treatment less seed is needed to
plant an acre, and it may be planted in dry ground. The
wheat kernels, however, must be uniformly covered with
the copper carbonate dust. The grain and the dust, two
ounces to the bushel, are put in a machine like a churn,,
and mixed by turning.
We learned, in a scientific article the other day,
that greese spots on clothes keep moths alive, that
if we starve the moth our clothes will be safe:—
so—when you see a nice little moth in your new
summer suit, remove the food supply, and lei it
die gently in a natural manner.
Now Germany is sending to us a new substitute
i for alchol, said to be non-fcoisonous and with
to-wonderful kick. This, kind of German invasion
j will be welcomed by the soaks.
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The first macaroni which
made in Italy was of diverse
and Jumbled shapes. It
brought to England about 1760
by certain young men who af
fected the foreign ways and
habits which they saw in their
travels. The name was trans
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were then known as "maca
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kvNOWTNG ONE'S SELF
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean cf Men, University of
Illinois.
«T'D LIKE nothing better," Rust said
^ to me when we were hoys a good
many years ago, "than to he able to
run a farm of my own ; I know 1 could
make money," and he launched Into
a narrative of detail in an endeavor
to prove to me just what, in such a
case, he was sure he could accom
plish. Even with my boyish inexpe
rience, I felt thqt Rust's plans were
chimerical., and I entertained the grav
est doubts as to his being able to carry
them out if he were given the chance.
He has had a farm tc manage, loi
these years, but he Is still a poor man.
It is a valuable asset, and a rare
one, I sometimes think, for a man to
be able adequately and justly to es
timate his own strength and his own
weakness, to know what he can do
best, and to know also, what his limi
tâtions are.
A wise old man whom I once knew
! us ®d to say in speaking of the some
what difficult and treacherous game of
poker with which he had considerable
practice, "if a man does not know tin'
cards,
game.
he «•light not to piny the
I am sure that many men
whom 1 have observed In the game
of life have had a very faulty ap- i
predation of the value of the cards
which they were holding ln titelt
hands, and sometimes threw awa>
their ace and were disappointed when
they did not take the trick with u
two-spot.
When I was engaged in the teachUi.
of composition and an eager hoy came
to me at the beginning of t lie semes
ter with the sucement, "I know 1 am
going to manage your course all right,
because composition has always been
my easiest subject," I knew almost
to a certainty, that 1 had struck a
man who could not spell, who had no
knowledge of even the elements of
grammar, and whose literary possibili
ties were pretty hopeless.
Powers was a good illustration of the
man who did not know himself. He
was an unusually dramatic and mag
netic speaker; he had an excellent
brain, good training, and an attractive
physique. He was deeply and sincere
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1 most winning personalities I have ever
kn0W n. As a preacher he could have
1 had any crowd at his feet. He was
! obsessed, however, with the idea of be
ing a business man; yet every busi
ness which he touched collapsed un
der his hand. He began iife with a
modest fortune, but at fifty It was
gone; he had sunk it all in first one
visionary scheme and then another;
but he # still kept on convinced thaï
ultimately he would make his fortune.
There are reasons. I have no doubt,
why few of us know ourselves less |
well than we should. We all hate i
criticism;-we take advice unwillingly. '
We attempt the things that we want
very much to be able to do without
considering seriously how well fitted
we are for the accomplishment of
these things. We listen to the flat
terer with a more willing ear than
to the candid friend who sometimes
not very kindly points out to us the
ttUltS we are loathe to admit.
(fr ISS». Western Ne weeper Ualem.)
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I are «ire ■ lot of
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world.
Because you sputter is no s?gn you
are a live wire.
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i STRAIGHT TALKS
WITH AUNT ÈMMY
On Signing Papers for Strangers
"Did you hear about the terrible
thing that happened to Mrs. Thomp
son, Aunt Emmy?" asked Maud,
seems that a man came to see her to
ask her to invest in some securities
his firm was selling, and she said she
did not have any ready money. He
asked her if she had some Liberty
Bonds, and she showed him her one
Liberty Bond, a thousand dollar one.
He told her that there were a number
of counterfeit bonds about and upon
examining her bond safd there were
some marks that indicated it might be
spurious. Poor Mrs. Thompson near
ly fainted and begged the stranger to
tell her what to do about iL
"He told her not to be unduly alarm
ed. that there was a chance that he
was mistaken. His firm was indig
nant. he said, about the counterfeit
bonds that had been foisted on the
public and intended to do everything*,
in its power to run down the culprits.
They employed a man who was an
authority en counterfeits and he could
tell in a minute if her bond was good
or not. So Mrs. Thompson let him
have the bond to take to his office for
examination."
"And, of course, he didn't bring
back," commented Aunt Emmy.
"Worse than that!" Maud went on.
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should be very careful in her business
dealings, so he made her sign what
called a receipt, although she didn't
I read it About a week after his visit
she received a number of shares
stock that she says she never heard
of and certainly never bought. So she
wrote to the investment house the
stock came from and said she thought
a mistake had been made. Imagine
her surprise when she was informed
that she had signed an order for those
shares of stock in exchange (or a $1,
000 Liberty Bondi'
"First she was coming right over to
see you and then decided not to, be
cause she felt ashamed when she re
membered that you had warned her
about being taken In, now that Mr.
Thompson Is dead and she has to baa
My
brpther Tom says he thinks nothing
can be done about it, as the receipt
bearing her signature la really an of
der for the stock.
I am sorry to hear , hiSl Maud1/
said Annt Emmy. "What a pity she
did not take her bond to the bank to
have it examined if that slick sales
man aroused suspicions in her mind
as to its genuineness. She would have
been dealing with people of integrity.
whom she could trust absolutely And
yet she allowed herself to be duped
by a perfect etranger!
"Yet there must b e a lot of that sort
die her own business affairs.
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A Good Place to^Eat
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And you'll say so too after you've tried one
of our tasty meals. You'll find your favorite
dish here prepared just as you would have
it, with the service designed to make you
want to come again.
Bring in the family for a Chicken Dinner
next Sunday.
Bozeman Hotel Grill
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of thing when yon consider that over
1600.000.000 a year la being taken
) away from the honest people In the
* United States by stock swindlers. If
! the people would only learn to tmst
the guidance of their financial affairs
to their banks and never sign any*
thing they havq not read and do not
understand, there would be leas un*
happiness about money matters.'*—
Aune B. AyrnuS.
NEW ERA FOR
AGRICULTURE
New York.—A new era lies ahead
for agriculture because It now com*
mands the best economic thought of
the business world directed on its
prime requirements of better distribu
tion and marketing, President W. C.
Gordon ef the State Bank Division,
American Bankers Association, de
clares in a recent communication to
the thirteen thousand members of
the division. He seeks to enlist their
interest in the work of improving the
marketing of farm products.
"The farmer today finds himself
far removed from his consumer-cus
tomer by a long line of intermediate
agencies, which often leave him In a
position of disadvantage as an in
dividual producer." Mr. Gordon qpys.
"It Is, therefore, not strange that he
should seek to apply to agriculture
those principles of production and'
distribution found successful in in
dustry. His rightful ambition Is to
make, where feasible, a general ap
plication of successful business ex
perience to the marketing of agricul
tural products. Commanding the best
economic thought of the business
world, agriculture undoubtedly stands
on the threshold of a new era. In
lieu of fantastic panaceas, agricultur
al welfare—which, after all. is the
Nation's welfare—has need of a sane,
long range program that Is at once
practical, constructive and economi
cally sound."
He goes on to call attention to the
"long view program suggested for ag
ricultural distribution" at Washing
ton by the Agricultural Conference,
urging study of it
CO OPS
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There are many small co-operatives
throughout the Unit'ed States, han
dling wool, peanuts, watermelons,
strawberries, beans, syrup, and other
products. The government reports
that there are at least 10,000 local co
operative organizations in the United
States. The Iowa Fleece and Wool
Growers' Association does an annual
business of 62.836.259; the Ohio Sheep
and Wool Growers. 11,500.000; the
Oregon . vrool growers, $500 000;
while the New York, Texas and South
Dakota Associations are said to be
handling about a quarter of a million
; dollars' business each.
ILL GRAVEL
BOZEMAN HILL
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s * 0 ! 1 ' an improvement badly needed
{if Montana is to encourage tourists'
visits, the state highway commission
adjourned to meet on May 20 when
bids for the three highway jobs will
be opened and considered.
Th tonte mplated in the throe
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'contracts on which bids are being
asked for are the grading and gravei
ing of six miles of toad between
Drummond and Hall, in Grrfnite coun
ty; for the re-snrfacing of 22 miks
„„ the Yellowstone trail, east of Bil
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jYellowstone county, and toe
g rave kng of three miles of roadway
lover the Bozeman hill.
Highway Commission Will Open
Bids on May 20 for Three
Contracts
Helena.—After ordering three load
contracts advertised, including one for
the graveling of the Bozeman hill
read between Bozeman and Living-