The Bozeman courier., February 25, 1927, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

About The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954

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W. W. Casper, Managing Editor
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THE BOZEMAN COURIER
Established 1871
Official Paper of Gallatin County—Phone 80
Published Every Friday Morning at 43 West Main Street, Bozeman, Montana
-"IN THE FAMOUS GALLATIN VALLEY"
By
THE REPUBLICAN COURIER COMPANY
Advertising rates on application. Sub
scription rate, $2.00 a year, payable in
advance. Single copies, 5 cents.
Entered in the Postoffice at Bozeman,
Montana, as Second Class Matter un
der the Act of March 3, 1879.
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AN UNWARRANTED ACCUSATION
When he declared that American intervention
in Hayti and Santo Domingo, as in Mexico and
Nicaraugua, was at the dictation of New York
mercenaries" to further their schemes of "bri
bery and corruption," Senator Burton K. Wheeler
of Montana made a most serious charge against
President Wilson and Colonel William J. Bryan.
Both Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan, thus accused
of being servile agents of Wall street and "im
perialism and theft," are no longer living to make
The truth is that their intervention in
answer.
Santo Domingo and Hayti was in the interests
of the people of those republics, which had for
many years been exploited by military adven
turers with a total lack of responsibility for either
national or international obligations.
Santo Domingo had, up to the time of our inter
vention, produced only one president who didn't
die with his boots on. The climax came with the
action of President Sam in confining several score
of his political adversaries in prison and murder
ing them in cold blood. The government was
bankrupt, foreign life and property were threaten
ed, and it was necessary for the United States to
restore some semblance of order there or let some
European government do it.
The result of American occupation was the
creation of solvency in government, the building
of roads and schools, the establishment of sanita
tion. The politicos who make an industry of kill
ing and burning have been out of jobs, but the
masses of the people have enjoyed safety and
progress.
President Wilson and Colonel Bryan were not
imperialists and the tools of crooked and design
ing interests. Such a charge is an unwarranted
reflection upon their memories. No more are
President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg, who
are continuing the policies of the Cleveland, Roose
velt and Wilson administrations in Latin America.
RESPECT THE FORESTS
Forest week," originated in the Northwest, is
fast becoming of national significance. The last
week of April will probably be designated as such
this year. The object is to interest everyone in
the forest as a friend, partner, and protector.
Fire fighting, wood using, tree planting, forest
recreation all come under the general purview of
Forest week.
The forests employ hundreds of thousands
throughout this country; they fill the harbors
with ships, the freight yards with loaded cars;,
they build homes and businesses all over America
—even though no tree may grow within 100 miles
of the farthest user out on the arid plains. The
forests conserve the birds, the river waters, the
health of the nation. Last year nearly 3,000,000
people visited the national forests of the two
northwesternmost states.
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LAME DUCKS STILL WADDLE
Laws and appropriations are now being made
by congressmen who were defeated at the election
last November. The
lame ducks," who were repudiated by the voters
at home but who are still recording yeas and nays
in Washington.
The women of the country, under the leader
ship of the Woman's Home Companion, have for
two years been endeavoring to remedy this ridi
culous situation, which is a relic of the early and
slow-motion days of the republic. They are
urging the passage of the Norris amendment,
which would bring not only the congress but also
the president and vice president into office in the
January after their election in November, while
the issues and the pledges of the campaign are
still fresh in mind.
Under our constitution the congress chosen by
the people does not meet, unless a special session
is called, until more than a year after its election.
Our Seventieth congress, picked last November,
Will first get into action next December.
The Norris amendment to which the women of
the country have given their support would get
rid of the "short session" such as we are now
experiencing, and which is always responsible for
some bad laws and much waste of taxpayers'
money. For those very reasons, perhaps, the
professional politicians do not want the amend
ment passed and will continue to oppose it as
they have opposed similar reforms for half a
century.
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MORE HORSEPOWER
Fourteen per cent of all New York farms are
electrically equipped, whereas but 3.5 per cent of
the farms of the nation as a whole are so served.
The 7,411 miles of rural service lines have cost
nearly $14,000,000.
Five important recommendations on farm elec
trification are: That the companies finance the
rural lines, establishing a minimum service charge
to cover the cost; that service be installed im
mediately after ordering ; that current rates shall
be the same as for cities, the minimum charge
covering the extra distribution cost; that the
farmers be definitely informed of the financial
conditions, and that the companies establish farm
service departments to help patrons get the best
results out of their installations.
With increased use of electrical service, the
New York farmer is fast acquiring competence.
Where electrical power can be used, it is far
cheaper than manpower. A one-horse motor that
costs only a few cents an hour to operate has the
strength of several men.
The astonishing growth of electrical develop
ment will place within the reach of millions of
farmers the current they can utilize. It should
easily be possible for the New York record of 14
per cen^ of farms electrified to become a national
record within the next few years, if the farmers
themselves would seize the opportunities given
them.
THE DEATH PENALTY
(Dawson County Review)
The North Dakota senate the other day refused
to restore the death penalty for murder in that
state. A few others have also abolished the ap
propriate penalty for the taking of human Tîfe.
Last week we were regaled with the story of
William N. Coffey, who had a taste in his leisure
time for welfare work, and who left his wife and
children, married another woman without bother
ing about a divorce from his first wife, and then
killed his second wife with a baseball bat and ham
mer, having first possessed himself of her money,
dismembered her body and buried the parts in
various graves.
When the crime was proved on him he finally
admitted it after telling many stories but the
one vital point of his confession upon which he
insisted with the most dogged persistence was
that the crime was committed in Wisconsin, rather
than Iowa.
If committed in Iowa the murderer might hang
while in Wisconsin life imprisonment is the max
imum penalty.
Coffey admits that he lied copiously about the
crime but on one point he insists there was no
lying—he committed the murder in Wisconsin.
They do not hang murderers in Wisconsin and he
prefers life imprisonment to death.
Some people believe that it is wrong for society
to take a life in punishment for murder. There
never was a murderer who was not of that opin
ion. Some people believe that life imprisonment
is a sufficient punishment. Every murderer
agrees that it is quite sufficient and usually too
much. Hanging is the one punishment that the
murderer does not want.
We think that if punishment is primarily or
even secondarily to deter others from committing
similar crimes, the case of Coffey makes its own
argument.
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RAILROAD ACCIDENTS REDUCED
In no respect have the railroads of the United
States made greater progress than in the preven
tion of injuries to employes.
Reports of the interstate commerce commission
show that in road freight service, which repre-!
sents the most rugged type, there has been a}
gratifying progressive reduction in both fatalities
and injuries per 1,000 men employed for each
Succeeding year for the last nine years.
In 1918, when the railroads were controlled and
operated by the government, there was an aver
age of 169,819 employes in road freight service,
of whom 847 were killed and 23 023 injured, or a
rate per 1,000 killed of 4.99 snd '35.57 injured.
In 1926, the average number employed in
freight service was 148.267* the number killed
per 1,000 was 1.97 and injured, 82,47, a reduc
tion in killed compared with 1918 of more than
60 rer cent and in injured of about 31 per cent.
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were in our minds at 20. The boy
is father to the man, and the man of
maturity who regrets must blame the
boy who gave him birth.
Mountains of obstacles are disre
garded only by the dreamer, and he
who sees no visions must leave the
building of palaces to the child of
ambition and hope.
Optimism is the ability to see the
other side of the mountain, and to
decorate the edges of storm-clouds
with silver.
The pessimist sees difficulties in
every path, the optimist sees a path
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it will not waste any more time fool
ing with the radio bill. Even after
the bill is enacted and the commission
established, there will still be trou
bles in the air. The radio business is
so vast and has so many ramifica
tions, that even though a dozen arch
angels were secured as commission
ers, perfect peace is something which
can only be sought, but we must be
ready for disappointment. The prac
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through every difficulty; and op
timists are those who press Mor
pheus into service by dreaming with
out jbinmi their master, and
by thinking without making thoughts
their aim.
Moreover, when they dream in the
day-time they do not sleep. Hitting
the hay while sitting up is the quick
est way of making connections with
the county poor farm and watching
the River Styx from a reserved seat.
The boy who wears the coat of
many colors will continue to wear it
when he becomes a man and has put
away childish things; and its predom
inating hue will be purple, which is
the color of kings.
We do not dream of mediocrity.
When imagination tints the visions of
tical point is that at present whether
the small boy or the head of the fam
ily tunes in, in a farm house in Iowa
or in an apartment caravansary in
the city of New York, every time con
fusion develops it is attributed to the
failure of congress to act in provid
ing control over the air. Even static,
which in the past we generally ac
cepted as one of the unfortunate fea
tures of radio listening, and which we
believed was purely a physical phe
nomena, is now being credited in
many intelligent households to this
the soul, our thoughts are at their
highest and their best; and they set
for us a direction and a goal.
Success is a process; heaven is here
and now; and when we walk in the
direction of our dreams, we walk with
God. Work is the source of happi
ness, and when work becomes a
wearniness we are sustained by the
memory of what we dreamed when
the mountain was removed and all
we could see was the glory beyond
it.
David Starr Jordan said this 30
years ago, better than I can say it;
Emerson said it before he did, and
Shakespeare, who said everything,,
preceded him with the same idea.
But 15 centuries before Shakespeare
came into this breathing world, fully
made up, Saint Peter said it; and if
that is not sufficient authority upon
the value of the vision to the man
who is to be, I refer you to the
founders of all the religions we know
about, in the days when history was
still in the dawn. We have it from
nearly all of them that the voice
from heaven came to them in a
dream, and that they arose and
girded their loins, und did the thin^r.
Dreams are the basis upon which
actuality is built, and the young m^n
who have them are nominated for
the great accomplishments of life.
delay of congress in enacting legisla
tion. Therefore without a radio bill
it may as well be admitted that a
large portion of this country will de
cide the entire session of congress
has been a failure.
WASHINGTON, D. C.— The record
of economy and of efficient business
administration which President Cool
idge laid before the country in his
address at the twelfth regular meet
ing of the business organization of
the government provides a main rea
son why the chief executive of the na
tion is "strong to the contrary" says
the Detroit "Free Press," and why
political attacks upon him in and out
of congress fall flat. The nation
knows that Mr. Coolidge is delivering
the goods, and is doing so painstak
ingly and conscientiously, whereas the
members of the Order of the Open
Mouth that orate in other public
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