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W. W. Casper, Managing Editor
THE BOZEMAN COURIER
Established 1871
Official Paper of Gallatin County—Phone 86
Published Every Friday Morning at 43 West Main Street, Bozeman, Montana
-"IN THE FAMOUS GALLATIN VALLEY"-
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der the Act of March 3, 1879.
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A New Year's
Prayer
Let me do my work each day; and if the
darkened hours of despair overcome me, may
I not forget the strength that comforted
me in the desolation of other times. May I
still remember the bright hours that found
walking over the silent hills of my child
hood, or dreaming on the margin of the quiet
river, when a light glowed within me, and I
promised my early God to have courage amid
the tempests of the changing years. Spare
from bitterness and from the sharp
passions of unguarded moments. May I not
forget that poverty and riches are of the
spirit. Though the world know me not, may
thoughts and actions be such as shall
keep me friendly with myself. Lift my eyes
from the earth, and let me not forget the
uses of the stars. Forbid that I should
judge others lest I condemn myself. Let
me not follow the clamor of the world, but
walk calmly in my path. Give me a few
friends who will love me for what I am ; and
keep ever burning before my vagrant steps
the kindly light of hope. And though age
and infirmity overtake me, and I come not
within sight of the castle of my dreams,
teach me still to be thankful for life, and
for time's olden memories that are good and
me
me
my
sweet; and may the evening's twilight find
me gentle still.
Max Ehrmann.
FUR ANIMALS DECREASE
Fur is an important commercial commodity and
more of it is consumed in the United States than
in any other country in the world, according to
Frank G. Ashbrook of the United States biological
survey. These facts lend weight to his statement
that the supply is diminishing and the demand in
creasing. •
The logical way to supply the demand for furs
and prevent still further shrinkage in the source
of supply, Mr. Ashbrook says, is to produce more
fur animals. This can be accomplished through
the enactment of better laws and through a strict
er enforcement of them.
Many trapping laws have been made without
consideration of the- economic problems involved,
declares Mr. Ashbrook, "and the majority of laws
on the statute books do little to prevent the de
crease of fur bearers in certain sections of our
country. A keener appreciation of conditions, as
shown by studies of the habits, breeding seasons,
and periods of prime fur of the various species, on
the part of those concerned with the framing of
laws and regulations governing trapping, would
have the result that a greatly increased quantity
of pelts with fur of superior quality would reach
the markets, thus increasing the financial rewards
to the trapper and at the same time allowing in
creased numbers of breeding anynals to remain.
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"KEEP THE LOÔTERS OUT!"
A concerted effort to take from the American
people for commercial purposes a corner of Yel-
lowstone National park will be made at this ses
sion of congress, declares The Outlook in its issue
of December 15. The land involved is the Bechler
Meadows, 8,000 acres of natural feeding grounds
for elk, moose, and deer and one of the fmestl
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HEN New Year Bells peal o'er the land May they ri
Their joyous, merry chimes,
in for one and aR
good times.
A year of
approaches to Wonderland's unrivalled scenery,
Idaho wants the Bechler Meadows for use as a
reservoir to store water for irrigation purposes,
Adopting as its slogan, "Americans, Keep the!
Looters Out !" The Outlook early last fall began
a vigorous fight against Idaho's scheme to de
spoil one of Yellowstone's most valuable wild life
refuges, and is still on the firing line. It points
out that before Idaho was a state this land was
reserved for the people of the nation ;• that no
state has any right to it; that no special interest
has any business there, and that a breaking into
the boundaries of Wonderland will endanger the
integrity of every national park and monument
in the country.
"When commercial thirst is slaked by seizure
of national property reserved by the people for
national purposes," says The Outlook, "the thirsty
everywhere who hope to get something out of
the American people for their own satisfaction
will be encouraged to make their demands.
We sincerely commend The Outlook for its
splendid battle against this barefaced attempt to
loot a playground that is the property of all of
the people. This effort to despoil Yellowstone
park is not the first, but thanks to such courage
ous and forward-looking publications as The Out
look and to wideawake congressmen and citizens,
the integrity of Wonderland has so far been main
tained. As Horace Albright, superintendent of
"We cannot yield a part of
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Yellowstone, says:
the park, if it is worthy of being in the park at
all, for any commercial need. If we do yield to
local interest on a thing like that, the parks are
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bound to go.
The effort of Idaho, at the behest of financial
interests, to grab the Bechler Meadows for com
outrageous attempt to steal from the American
people a property that by every moral and legal
right belongs to them, and we join The Outlook
} in denouncing it as such.
When the matter in
mercial purposes is nothing more or less than an
When the matter comes up in congress we
expect that Montana's senators and représenta- 1
tives will not hesitate to align themselves on the
people's side and aid in defeating such a nefarious
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proposal. They should help "keep the looters out
of Yellowstone and every other park, and we be- 1
lieve they will, for to do otherwise would be to j
betray the trust the people of Montana have re
posed in them.
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Secretary Wilbur's call to the nation to save
Old Ironsides" from the naval junk heap should
have an immediate response. Less than half the
amount required to recondition the ancient war
AMERICA, SAVE "OLD IRONSIDES"!
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
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ship and to preserve her in the form in which she
won her battles and shed immortal luster upon
American sea power has been subscribed by the
people to whom the original appeal was addressed,
Patriotic Americans in this instance ought to set
an example to their representatives in congress
who have failed to realize the historic importance
of the ship or the educational value to the youth
of the nation of her preservation. What the con
this provision for the U. S. S. Constitution, the
people now have the opportunity to do directly by
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3 »500,000 tons of print paper consumed here annually,
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Insurance is the factor which enables a man of moderate
means to build a home with money borrowed from a
gress has refused or neglected to do, in making
their subscriptions.
of oil a day for each resident of the United States.
The United States produces only about half of the
bank or individual,
A New York literar y organization is planning to arouse
" ew , intere8 ' in Shakespeare. Why not have Rupert
Vesuvius is on the Job Again
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is a closenp of the active cone emitting* a great column of fire-lighted smoke.
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I The fact that a group of college
P rofessors of Cohunbia un i ve rsity
has solemnly declared and proclaimed
that the United States should at once
By National Press Service
! cancel European debts, will not have
an y serious effect on the thoughts
and the lives of the people of this
country.
j Beginning with Barney Baruch,
îinan< i ial P dlar of the Wilson admin
istration, the campaign to force Un
cle Sam to make a free gift of our
1 money, owed to us by European peo
ple ^ has now J 6 ®" gomg on for se y
the college professors is therefore
really an incident. It can be said
om e and for a11 that the pres iden
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the decision, if ever a decision
to forgive and forget is made, must
orig^te with congress and the presi
dent. They have the facts. Any
shift in our position can never result
from pronunsiamentos, no matter
deUveredT^^ written or impr6ssively
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The opin
ion here in Washington which it must
be admitted is often times one far
distant from the opinion generally
prevailing throughout the country, is
to the effect that if the farmers
would rid themselves of some of the
P olltlca * advisors who have elected
tion that t he work of stabilizing ag
riculture as a basic industry would
be . v ? sü y improved. The Washington
opinion today is, for example, that
while the McNary-Haugen bill has
been introduced, many of those in
t f rest f d „ m , Washlngton » pushing
that they do not want it to go through
at this short session of congress,
The y pr * fer postpone it till the
ïn short , i n the minds of these
people, the passage of the McNary
Haugen bill has become secondary to
the development of a political cam
paign to embarrass thel president,
There is no other way to construe it.
Th . u . 8 , . tbe banning an unhealthy
spirit is introduced. It is rather a re
lief to read an editorial by Henry
Wallace in Wallace's Farmer, which.
^K nor ' n K underlying determina
tion to use the farm business as a
political rather than an agricultural
instrument, commends the presi
dent's message to congress, and sets
forth that while eastern correspond-
ents have been endeavoring to assert
that the president's words do mot
1 mean what they say, he prefers to
take the president's statements at
their face value, and to give the
president full credit for a generous
interpretation of his phrases. More
talk of that character and less of
building up an agricultural chib to
I worry the president, is what the
farmers need.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—In Repub
lican political circles a general feel
ing of satisfaction: is being expresse
j over the determination of the leader
of the senate to give the Democrat,
a taste of their own medicine. F
wo years or more the Re tu
ecanse of their pledcre to a
onstructave progra
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nment, have held the r
'thin their teeth. The
emocrats to fill the
iry which they did
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the enactment of constructive legis
lation.
The time has now arrived when the
Republicans feel that at least they
can make a counter attack without
endangering legislation. Their plan
is to have a special committee ap
pointed which will begin to function
in December, 1927, the opening of the
Seventieth congress, to examine with
the right also to summons persons,
hooks and papers, just how elections
are run in the southern states. They
are ready for a full examination with
out fear or favor of the distribution
of southern offices under the Repub
lican regime, but they also want in
formation as to what was the prac
tice under the Democrats. They will
let the
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also whether senators and represen
tatives elected from the southern
states and from districts in which
elections are not even held, are en
titled legally to their seats. If the
Democrats want a shillelagh fight,
the Republicans think they are also
entitled to employ a similar weapon
of offense.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The priv
ileges of the senate should be pre
served. The right of members in the
senate, when the public good de
mands it, to speak freely and without
fear of restraint, is a most sacred
right. But when, as recently, Sen
ator Heflin of Alabama used the sen
ate floor and the immunity privileges
for the purpose of uttering in pub
lic, charges of murder and robbery
against his fellow citizens, and
such a way that they were denied
an opportunity of equal access to
public attention, one cannot escape
the feeling that the sacred right
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ofuomWants
It's the dollar, after all, that enables you to obtain those
things which make life worth while. But you can't get
rich overnight. Money doesn't accumulate unless you
help it—by regular saving.
SAVE AND HAVE — SPEND AND WANT
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II. S. PROSPERITY
BASICALLY SOUND,
COOLIDGE'S VIEW
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President Coolidge, without dis
cussing the future, has pronounced
A*merica in a fundamentally sound
condition, according to Associated
Press dispatches from Washington,
D. G.
The president is well pleased with
the situation at the end of the old
year, although he is making no fore
casts.
Secretary Davis of the labor de
partment has informed him that the
opportunities for employment seem to
be increasing, notably in the east.
The president feels that the coun
try is well supplied with capital, with
natural resources and with raw ma
terials. Manufacturing is going on
t at more than the ordinary rate, he
understands, and transportation is
moving rapidly.
Mr. Coolidge feels no one can tell
when these conditions will change. It
was recalled at the White House that
before the present year began many
experts believed a depression likely,
but that, on the contrary, the year
proved one of the most prosperous in
history.
Mr. Coolidge realizes that some
farm commodity prices are not so
high as a year ago, but he believes
that this is an offset in part for the
gains in the previous three years.
being woefully abused. There is air
so a basis for doubt a s to the sin
cerity of. the senator. In the speech
in question he charged that one Jess
Smith, a .friend and associate of At
torney General Daugherty, was mur
dered in Washington! because of a
fear that he might tell what he knew.
He also made the charge that $5,000,
000 was contributed by Mellon to the
Republican National campaign fund,
and that a criminal plan of reim
bursement was set up.
Crediting Senator Heflin with a de
sire to see that justice is done, he
surely must have known if he had
information of this sort, so well
founded that he felt justified in
broadcasting from the floor of the
senate, that for real action his state
ments and supporting affidavits
should have been filed also with the
law officers of the ration. The sen
ator surely appreciates that genuine
indictments which result in criminal
prosecutions are procurable in jury
rooms and we have yet to find a
criminal indictment made effective by
a senate speech. .
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