The Bozeman courier., September 30, 1927, Page PAGE TWO, Image 2

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T. H. Sears, Business Manager
W. W. Casper, Managing Editor
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- '
script! on 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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When Senator T. J. Walsh asserted before a
Bozeman audience that he voted against the Me
Nary-Haugen farm relief measure "to save Mon
tana farmers a loss of five or six million dollars,"
he either displayed profound ignorance of the
bill or trusted $iat his hearers did not know
enough about it to qftestion his statement.
But the statement was questioned, and m reply
to an inquiry as to just how the state's wheat
producers would suffer such a loss the senator
explained that on the basis of a 50,000,000-bushel
marketable crop the equalization fee of 10 cents a
bushel would aggregate $5,000,000, which sum
would not be returned to the farmers if the bill
were later declared unconstitutional, as he be
lieved it would be.
WALSH'S FAUX PAS
The absurdity of Mr. Walsh's argument can
best be illustrated by a concrete example. In
Bozeman today winter wheat of a high grade is
selling at $1.00 a bushel. If the McNary-Haugen
measure were in operation, Gallatin farmers would
be receiving that price plus the tariff of 42 cents,
or $1.42 a bushel. From this figure would be de
ducted the equalization fee of 10 cents, leaving
the producer $1.32 a bushel for his wheat. If
next winter the bill were declared unconstitutional
and the equalization fee not returned, the farmer
would still be 32 cents a bushel to the good.
In other words, if the fate of the McNary
Haugen relief measure had depended upon Senator
T. J. Walsh, that international lawyer's adverse
vote would, instead of saving Treasure state wheat
producers "five of six million dollars," have
caused them a loss this year of approximately
$20,000,000!
ADDRESSING YOUR MAIL
With an astounding statement of the waste
caused by carelessness, the postoffice depart
ment continues to urge a more careful addressing
of mail and a return address upon all mailed
matter.
The department's statement revealed that about
25,000,000 letters were sent to the dead letter
division last year. Of these, more than 1,000,000
contained valuable enclosures, the total in money,
drafts, checks and money orders being $5,317,000.
While all but $40,000 of this was redirected
from information gleaned by opening the letters,
there was an estimated loss of $13,290 in interest
on money delayed through incorrect addresses.
The department also urges advertisers to use
first-class mail with a return address so they
may correct their mailing lists and ascertain how
much of their material is reaching its objective.
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PRIVATE CONTROL
After having, as one exchange puts it, "nurtur
ed the infant air mail service to its present stage
of proved success," the government has turned
over its lines to privatg operation. The National
Air Transport corporation recently took over the
crack New York-Chicago run, the last link of the
transcontinental line remaining under government
control. This means that» henceforth commercial
air service, including air mail in the United States
will be developed by private*corporations and in
dividual enterprise. The government will, of
course, continue to assist the service in every
way possible.
As Postmaster General New put it: "The real
purpose of the business has been to demonstrate
to private capital that the service was not only
possible scientifically, but that it could be made
profitable commercially, and thereby encourage
the creation of a new industry in-the United
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Today there are more companies making air
planes in the United Stales than there are manu
facturing automobiles. There are 15 privately
owned lines flying the air mail, and thçre are
several others for which contracts are let and
which shortly will be placed in operation. Among
these is one from New York to Atlanta.
The government has put the air service on a
substantial basis and then wisely turned it over
to private capital for development. The govern
ment has built up a merchant marine and in time
this will be turned over to private shipping inter
ests for further development. Experience lias
proved that services of this kind can better be
operated by private effort.
We need our air service and our merchant
marine brought to the highest point of develop
ment, for our prosperity in time of peaefe and our
safety in time of war. The government always
will b3 willing to aid the commercial air service
and the merchant marine, because they are neces
sary to our national wellfare. And these will
develop faster under private control with the
necessary federal aid.
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RESCUING THE FARMERS
Former Governor McKelvie of Nebraska re
cently directed attention to the fact that while
the business men of the United States spend
$850,000,000 annually in advertising their wares,
only $30,000,000 of this outlay goes toward ac
quainting farmers with what merchants and
manufacturers have to sell. And Mr. McKelvie
added that farmers each year have a potential
purchasing power of $10,000,000,000.
There Vnay be reasons for this apparent dis
crepancy in advertising for the business of farm
ers. Doubtless the disproportion is not so great
as apparent, because as a general rule the adver
tising rates in papers goihg to farmers are not
so high in proportion as in magazines and news
papers which do not cover the rural fields. It
couraged by stories from agricultural states to
may be that national advertisers have been dis
the effect that the farmer is on the verge of sink
ing to the level of European peasantry.
At any rate, advertisers are making a mistake
by not paying more attention to the rural adver
tising field. Farmers have money to spend and
'they spend it. They are best reached by local
newspapers. Farmers are the most careful read
ers of newspapers and periodicals. National âdver
tisers should get acquainted with these facts if
they not already know them. The farmer is
not broke, he lives as well'if not better than his
brother in thè city, and he has money to buy the
things business men advertise for sale.
COURAGE AND FOOLISHNESS
From the Helena Independent
Nungesser and Coli were the first. They rode
the wings of the White Bird into a fathomless
night.
Since their brave challenge a dozen men and
two women have gone to join the gay little band
of daring spirits in Davy Jones' locker,
women who bear that hardy band company were
school teacher, Mildred Doran, and a princess,
Lowenstein-W ertheim.
St. Roman and Mouneyres, flying from France
to Buenos Aires; Paul Redfern, winging his way
along from Georgia to Brazil; Pedlar, Frost,
Knope, Scott, Erwin and Eichwaldt, all in the
Dole race from 'Frisco to Hawaii; Bertraud, Hill
and their passenger, Philip Payne, an editor—all
these gallant adventurers of the air vanished into
the Valhalla of courageous crusadeis of the seas!
The voice of criticism has begun to call these
long distance ocean flights foolish. .A waste of
human life. Lindbergh was brave and his deed
helped aviation vastly, but these ill-timed, mis
managed efforts are hurting aviation more than
helping it.
It is the old voice that called Columbus crazy
in the streets of Genoa. The seene has changed,
but the voice is the same.
The Dole air race was not well prepared, and
such a contest was useless, the voice declares. We
cannot deny that.
But what we want to point out here is that the
voice of criticism seems to have forgotten the
main issue. That is the conquest of the air, an
attempt to widen the boundaries of what man
has found possible in aviation, the charting of
the unknown.
All these people are heroes and they are not
They are brave past common under
standing. As for wasting human life, by the
spirit of Nero, there are worse ways to waste
human life than this!
Great causes claim life. Men die to open doors
that others may crowd across the threshold. As
long as the course leads onward brave spirits will
lead the way, and there will be always those who
watch and criticize.
That's a brave band of men and women gather
ed there in Davy Jones' locker. Don't be silly
enough to cftll them foolish!*
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foolish.
The principal thing we blame the flapper for is setting
such an example in dress and make-up for mother and
grandma.
Two New Jersey policemen are Accused of having stolen
two roast chickens. It never pays to get too familiar with
chickens.
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By National Press Service
MR. McADOO'S WITHDRAWAL
wA<*wrisirTn\r nr in an ear
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her letter of this service t^v P
0 " was made that the Democrats
with Coolidge out of the runmng as
they saw it, through their g
mand would begin to figure on a pos
McAHoo i
elimination of Smith and M (
from the list of candidates mat was
predicted has »» «"JR"*- 1
Adoo, m a heart-throbbing statement
reee nAly . ssued.has withdrawn him
cmltti to
the tiartv
follow suit m order that the party
may start fresh wt hope
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î I f^ <l0 nov^mint ,en Tt , wa. n rarefullv
pulsive movement. It was carefully
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er way can one explain the fact that
simultaneously with the McAdoo pro
clamation, Senator Harris of Geor
gia, Fletcher of Florida, Caraway of
Arkansas, Dill of Washington, while
praising McAdoo, called on Smith to
do the same. Pat Harrison and Sen
ator Heflin, who even before the Mc
Adoo retirement were pronounced in
their declarations that Smith should
get out, have also joined anew in the
demand. These maneuvers should
interest the Republicans.
Because of the extraordinary suc
cess of the Coolidge administration,
many Republicans have been nourish
ing the feeling that the 1928 election
will be a walk-over and that any Re
publican nominee can win. It is just
as well for them to understand that
the movement to have Smith make a
burnt offering of. himself is certain
to continue and grow, and may meet
with success.
Already an Owen Young campaign
is under way, and Jim Reed of Mis
souri is not loafing on the sidelines,
Either of, these men would be candi
dates who would require the best that
is in the men discussed as Repub
lican possibilities if a victory is to be
had.
TIMBER FOR CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C.—One happy
result of the determination of the
president not to be a candidate again
is the likelihood of a stronger list of
congressional candidates and
stronger congresg elected in 1928
than would have otherwise been our
With Coolidge as the probable can
didate, on the natural assumption
that he would be elected by a tremen
dous wide-sweeping vote, political
leaders in the several states had made
un their minds that they could take a
chance with weaker congressional
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-ALWAYS«REL!aBL£—
candidates on the theory that the
Çoolidge impetus or a tight grip on
the Coolidge coat-tails would carry
these men into the seats of the
mighty. Accordingly, there were cer
tai » », ,, Rep^fJ' senatorial and
..tive candidates, good fel
lows rather than able men, who were
b( . rewarded thi ti r ' und ,
With Coolidge out of the running
the s i tuatlon h as entirely changed,
Withoot disparagement of any
of the nresidential candidates now in
th field there , a growing fec , ing
that they will necd the B strengt S
they have for their own ends, and
tbat st rong senatorial representative
candidates wi „ be neede J t0 he , p
them to get the proper popular vote.
There will be some heart-burnings
among men who are now due to
be thrown j th di scard but the
P»Wic at will profit is far as
congress goes by this appreciation of
the fact that the man who wins will
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feet and carTy hls share of the load *
nouse in extra session,
For a time, Senator Jim Reed was
°ne of the most assiduous in demand
ing that the national lawmakers be
called to Washington for the primary
purpose of dealing with the problems
left by the raging of the .ower Mis
sissippi, but even he, on learning the
true state of things, subsided like
unto the waters. For weeks not a
word has the falchion of the Democ
racy of the Southwest said on the
subject,
The attitude of Speaker Longworth
ns outlined to the president, was de
termined only after consultation by
the speaker with many of the house
members—Democratic, as well as Re
publican. If the president had be
lieved that an extra session would
have been of benefit, he would have
issued the call. Had the speaker be
lieved the public interest would have
been served in any way, he would
have urged such a course upon the
president.
FLOOD RELIEF
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Assurance
from Secretary Hoover that there are
sufficient funds for the relief of flood
sufferers until the end of the year,
and that there may be a million dol
lars surpms in flood relief funds, plus
the further statement that the reports
of the engineers will not be ready for
presentation until toward the close of
this year, form the basis of the presi
dent's present feeling that there is
no need of summoning senate and
FACTS, HEREAJFTER!
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The liter
ary critic has been raising old hob in
the department of agriculture. Dur
ing the past week the examples of
his activity which have reached the
public have inclined some to the be
lief that.it is about time to take some
men from the farm and put them in
to the department and give the liter
ary experts in this department a
chance to go back to the farm.
The department, it appears, re
leased for publication an article on
the price situation into which there
was written the statement; "It is
likely that prices will decline in the
next few, months.'] This sentence ar
rested the attention of the cotton
market as it appeared in the part of
the pamphlet discussing cotton, and
sent the cotton market tumbling
$6.50 a bale.
Meanwhile another official of the
department of agriculture, discussing
trading in wheat futures, said that
of the total transactions in futures
only about 5 ner cent are based
actual wheat in hand, and "about 95
per cent of the transactions in grain
futures made on American grain ex
changes are of a speculative charac
ter."
Now the grain people are up in the
air with a demand that if
ment officials are to make
declarations they shall at least be
ready to submit sustaining facts.
President Coolidge has let it be
known that he regards government
department predictions on prices as
hazardous and a positive order has
been issued to stop all future adven
tures.
All. this brings to the front the
question as to whether government
reports should not be confined abso
lutely to statements of facts and be
devoid of prophetic or interpretive
comments.
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USE OF MILK INCREASES.
In the eight years from 1917 to
1925 the per capita consumption of
milk in the United States increased
from 42.2 gallons to 54.8 gallons.
Most of this increase was in the cit
ies, where health officials stressed the
value of clean, safe milk. In the
same period ice-cream production in
creased 53.7 per cent, but the gen
eral supply of milk increased to such
a degree that the proportion used for
ice cream merely changed from 3.3
per cent to 3.8 per cent. At present
approximately half of the milk in the
United States goes for household use.
New legislation, in effect July 1„
provides for leasing state mineral
lands.
Established 1913
H. F. WEST
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
AND EMBALMER
Personal and Efficient
Service
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