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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15
Pinchot.

Clifford Pinchot was probably the
most popular man amongst the speak
crs who addressed the congress. In
his first appearance he stated his posi-
ton in no uncertain words.
II stand for the Roosevelt policies
most of all because in them the plain
American always and everywhere holds
first place. And | propose to stand
for them while | have strength to
stand for anything.
Equality of opportunity, a square
deal for every man, the protection of
the citizen against the great concen-
trations of capital. the intelligent use
% laws and institutions for the pub
lie good and the conservation of our
natural resources. not for the trusts.
but for the people: these are the real
issues, the real problems.
1t was expressions like these that
won the day for the chief forester. An
other ana interesting phase of the
conservation question was presented
by T.. J. Dalton OF South Carolina.
The following brief extract is terse and
significant:
ests. but both are being hourly ire
parably damaged by wanton deforesta-
ton. We have magnificent navigable
waterways from the heart of our re-
speCtiNe states along the Atlantic sea-
board flowing down from the noun
tain tops and into the Atlantic, But
dcforestation and lack of proper care
are running these forever for proper
practical and commercial USE. We
have thousands of acres of as fertile
land as the valley OF the Nile can
boast Of which needs only the employ
ment of intelligent drainage methods
Ia render it habitable and healthy.
Were there nothing to he consid-
cred but the fact that this drainage
area breeds the malariai mosquito. ii
were u government function from
the standpoint of the public health t.
take action.
In some portions of this area the
malarial germ is developed to such an
extent that even the frogs have the
fever. 1t has been proven that drain
age eliminates this pest
Fl. ii. Newell. director of the re
clamation service. made the following
summing up of conditions:
THE present situation in national
irrigation is that homes are being pro-
Vided for thousands of self supporting
citizens at no cost to the taxpayer.
Seven years have elapsed since the
passage of the reclamation act. Under
its operations irrigation works have
been built in IS western states and
two territories. by which waters are
conserved and distributed. and nearly
100000 acres already brought under ir-
rigation, with returns To the fund
already to over $1,000. 900.
This success attained may be said
to justify the hope of the most enthus-
iastiC of the early advocates OF the re
Clamation act
A Conference.
There was a conference between
Clifford PinChot and the lumbermen of
the west that is likely to result in good
to both parties, II was mutually
agreed by those who are supposed to
have many conflicting interests that
disputed questions should be referred
To committees. Thus they have intro
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15

Harold Blake was another returned
wandercr who was cordially greeted
yesterday afternoon. II
ANOTHER was his first visit here
WELCOME in three years: since
then he has located at
the national capital. where he is now
clerk of the Spanish war claims COM
mission. He Is summering In Mon
tana and the friends of his early
home were glad to see him when. yes
terday. he reached this far on his itin-
crary of the state. He is looking well
and /. does not seem possible that
he is not still student at the uni
versity.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15
A Conference.

There was conference between
Clifford Pinchot and the lumbermen of
the west that is likely to result in good
To both parties, II was mutually
agreed by those who are supposed to
have many conflicting interests that
disputed questions should be referred
IL committees. Thus they have intro
duc"d the principle of arbitration.
The street parades We're one of the
especial features of the convention.
These were of different character. One
of the most interesting represented the
industrial progress of the country.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15

There was no formality or splurge
yesterday about the opening of the
new Crescent store for
A GOOD business. The Norquist
OPENING \ Tinkel company.
which has opened the
establishment as the successor IL the
Martin company. is already planning
extensive changes and Improvements 10
bc made as soon as the addition tn
the Higgins block is completed. In
the meantime the Crescent will enter
the local mercantile field. making the
best of limited quarters. Yesterdays
start was suspicious. Speaking Of
his first day. Manager Light said last
night: We have had an excellent at
tendance Of customers today. The
crowd this afternoon and evening has
@ratified us much and NE are enc"ur-
aged in our venture We have appre-
ciated the reception which Mlssoula
has given us and We expect To HAY,
nur,. friends all the time"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15
ON e NOR E
DEPARTS

schlossherg is accompanied by his
wife. and will spend four or five weeks
i'm the wholesale cities. visiting. as is
his custom. the manufacturers of the
lines in which he deals specially. He
left word last night that he will have
more and better goods than ever. He
will visit New York. Chicago, Balti-
more and other cities before he re
turns.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15
ANOTHER
WELDON e

While the reunion was I'm progress
George Barker blew In from Sand
point and participated
BARKER in the festivities. He
ARRIVES ton. has been away from
Missoula so long that
the city has grown away from him.
and he didn't know whore he was at
for a time. He found Vic Skinner after
bit and got his bearings and then
proceeded to look up his friends in
the newspaper business. He is pros
pering in Standpoint and he deserves
H. He will summer in Missouri.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15
BARKER
ARRIvE S

u. j. Donohue IL on his way to New
York and other eastern markets. where
he will spend six weeks
OFF FOR in the supply CcntrrS,
NEW YORK purchasing fan and
winter goods and holi
day wares. AS usual. Mr.. Donohue
expects to give special attention 1"
the ready to-wear department Of the
ladies section of his big store, and he
IL planning Ia make an unusually at
tractive showing I'm this line. He will
express some late summer shipments
that are desirable A. soon as he
reaches the market. and then will fol
low the tedious work of selecting goods
for the autumn business and the win
ter trade.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15

There was no formality or splurge
yesterday about the opening of the
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15
OFF FOR
NJ EW YORK

ON In" North Coast limited this
morning Morris Schlossb"rg viii he IA
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15

what am | going Ia do with it, That
j. the question | have been asked a
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15

Pans for the establishment Of a
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15

Harold Blake was another
wanhercr who was cordial
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15

passenger, bound on his
summer purchasing trip
tai the eastern and
southern markets. MIR.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-08-15

While the reunion
George Barker blew
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-11
It Worries Them

Section ? of the proposed amend ment to the constitution has given the amenders no end of worry. It put them on the defensive from the start and 1t will keep them explaining until the 29th of November
 Politicians who are advocating con- stitutional prohibition realize that 1 thousands of liberty-loving Alabamians who had been friendly to the prohi- bition side do not like the wording of that second section. This legislature which was elected on a local option platform enacted a statewide prohi- 1 bition law. But fanaticism became rampant and the drastic Fuller law was the result Then immediately fol { lowed the amendment proposition-all these radical measures coming from a 1 legislature and a governor elected on the democratic platform of 1906, which declared for local option.
 It is known that one of the aims of the prohibition party. as declared by it's national leaders, is to drive liquor out of the home, and section ? is so worded as to give the legislature the power to designate the home as one of the places where liquors may not be stored or kept
 Does any sane man familiar with the record of this legislature doubt that an effort would be made, should the
 amendment be adopted, to make it un-
 lawful for a bottle of beer to be kept i in a mans dwelling? If the amend ment Is carried look out for another special session of the legislature, in order that the final and logical step of the fanatics may be taken. No wonder that liberty-loving Alabamians do not like the wording of Section 2.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-11
0reeOl'S Proposed Departure

No one has explained why Oregon has a large progressive element that is constantly evolving new government tai plans. It was she who made the primary system and the initiative and referendum constitutional obligations, and she stood by those obligations even when a republican legislature was compelled by them to elect dem- " ocrat United States senator. Governor Chamberlain, democrat, sits. serenely in the United States Senate, although his state is and long has been repub- lican in national politics.
 The Oregon progressives are not, however, content with past achieve ments, for they have devised a plan of state government that is unlike any other in the country. It proposes in the first place to invest the governor with authority to appoint and remove all executive officers, including sheriffs and district attorneys. It then pro poses to create a board to be known as the peoples inspectors of govern ment to be chosen by the people. This board would inspect and investigate all Branches of state and local govern ment and would report quarterly in print how affairs are being conducted. It proposes to have every initiative and referendum measure considered by the legislature before it can be submitted to the people. A county board of directors would be elected to watch the conduct of county affairs, and proceedings in the courts would be simplified and shortened.
 These changes have been put into the form of five amendments to the state constitution, and the people are engaged in discussing them prepara tory to digesting them. The chances are that the entire programme will be tried out in the progressive state. Ore gon is proud of her progressiveness for no reform in that state is consid cred radical. It is simply styled pro prassive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-11
Public Library Hours.

'T don't mean to make any complaint about the Public Library said a young man. ''but I think the hours that it is open could be changed with advantage to suit people like me.
 'I am engaged at work until 6 o'clock every evening and from then on my time is my own. If the library were open until 10 o'clock I could spend nearly three hours there every night instead of lettering around the streets. By open- ing the library at 12 o'clock instead of in the morning it could be kept open until 10 o'clock at night and by that means afford the working young men in the city an opportunity to attend and pursue some course of study l don't know who goes to the library in the forenoon, certainly not any one who has to earn his living and I hope the H. brary will not become a resting place for idlers, who should be at work or looking for work
 There are some very fine books there. especially those treating on mining and iron making and such are the books that young men living in this district should read. It might also be found possible to form class of students who would pay for course of lectures on these subjects. But. my chief request at pres- ent Is that the library be open every night until 10 o'clock"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-11

would be midway in a second term i'll that case, and he would in 1915 be kept busy in attending expositions and celebrations. As things stand at pres ent 1915 will be first and foremost a canal year. If things do not gang aglee the canal will be opened five years from January 1 next. and the country will greatly rejoice over the completion of the largest commercial job ever carried out by any nation.
 But suppose the dam at Gatun proves unequal to the pressure against it. Suppose the cost of the canal is car ried to figures that outrun present es- inmates. Suppose, too. the democrats and insurgents carry the election of 1912, what then? The present plans of the Pacific coast would then be badly upset, for no exposition is seeking a mere citizen as an invited and hon. ored guest.
 The tariff question is to come up for review in 1912, and very little at tention will be given to Panama, es- peeiaify if dirt continues to fly there. All hope and believe the canal will be completed and opened early in 1915, but the exposition managers should remember there is many a slip be- tween the cup and the lip. There may be slip in 1912 that will make the Pacific coast invitation to Mir. Taft a misfit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-11
Win straying souls Cast None Away.
 king Henry VIII.
Mir, PInChOt'S Great Task

Clifford Pinchot chief forester, has determined to hold his place. He will not resign, and the Ballinger crowd will be compelled to push him out of office by force if they are determined to get rid of him. He is a confessed obstacle to all exploiters whether the subject be the national forests or the national water powers.
 Just at present he is endeayoring to prevent huge trust from securing all the available water powers. In this age of exhausted coal mines and cleo trical power the water powers of the country are rising in value yearly. A trust that could control them would become a trust over trusts. MT. Pin chot is endeavoring to save the people their water power sites. He hopes his action may lead each state to act in like manner, so that the efforts of the huge water power combine will be thwarted.
 What Congress will do remains to be seen. What the President will do is uncertain. He stands at present by Ballinger and he is but lukewarm when he speaks of Clifford Pinchot. The latter will not, however, resign, and the administration dare not per haps turn him out He won the confi- dence of the country when he fought for the preservation of the national forests and he will no doubt do his ut most toward keeping the water pow CTS of the people where they will serve, not the few, but the many. It is a great issue, and the steps taken in it by either side will be closely scruti- nized In such an issue the present Congress-especially the Senate-can- not be trusted. The action of the Pres . ident will prove all important. Watch him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-11
ON BEING A CONJURER

articles used in them were not the same.
 At the present time the love of conjuring is widespread that the conjurer who has any regard for his reputation dare not perform a trick taken straight out of book. He knows that in all probability there are at least half dozen amateurs in his audience, and that they would re- gard his performance in the light of a valuable lesson in the tricks whose se- erets they know There are, of course, brilliant exceptions to this rule One of the leading American eoniurers made his reputation with a little trick which i% centuries old. Last year the Indian con- iurers ah the White City performed it with such effect that nearly 1000 copies of the trick were sold at one shop alone in London, and one may safely say that not per cent of the people who bought it were capable of doing it properly al- though 1t is comparatively simple. The main idea of the trick is that an egg, when placed in a small bag, mysteriously disappears. The history of this trick fur nishes one more proof of the old saying among conjurers that it is not what you do but the way you do it" that matters
 Some performers get new tricks by the simple method of having small pocket tricks made in Q large size for storage use, and very few of the leading ,conjurers proceed in much more mysterious way. . They are known to a few, inventors and makers of tricks-men who never adver- tise and who are quite unknown. even to the well-posted amateur conjuror. The inventors spend their lives in thinking out new effects and making experiments. they know that leading performer will always pay a good price for really new trick on sthe understanding that it Is not to be sold to any one else for certain period of time.
 Unfortunately for these inventors and the performers there is no copyright in trick, and as there are very few tricks that are not "seen through" by other eonjurors, it follows that an inventor often has the modification of seeing his best new trick copied by man who has not paid one penny for the idea.
 The inventor of conjuring tricks usual ly consults the performer who employs him before completing any trick for there is another old and very true saying among conjurers, that. it takes two men to invent a new trick.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-11
NUDE STATUTE OF HUGO.
e Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 Auguste Rodins statue of Victor Hugo, recently unveiled at Paris with elabo- rate ceremonies, marked the beginning of a weeks celebration to commemorate the fftieth anniversary of the appear ance of the Story of the Centuries" It also marked the final triumph of the nude in art. Clad only in the fitful breezes, the. figure stands on a rocky shore with extended hand and listen ing ear to catch the voices speaking across the sea-"
 This is sansculottism with a venge- ance. It is also French. But 1t may be doubted whether either the republican tendencies Or the temperamental weak nesses of the great Frenchman whose memory is thus honored would have sanctioned such extremes. As a remem- brance of Hugos long exile from his native country, the rocky shore and lis- tening attitude may be regarded as be- ing historically, as well as aristically appropriate. In writing of himself and his greatest political enemy, then also ip banishment, Hugo uses the express sion of lone tomb calling to another" But this figure of speech does not imply that the gifted author of Les Miser- ables' had returned to first principles in the matter of clothes. Super egoist that he was, Hugo was not negligent in dress, the few indications to the con trary being only those eccentricities of studied disorder peculiar to men of ge- nius. A workman once chided the friend of man. for wearing kid gloves. They are luxuries for you, but necessities to me-" was the calm reply of the aristo- crat-republican.
 There is nothing prurient or immoral in the erection of a nude statue in mem- -ory of a great man of modern times. Good taste and the artistic verities, rather than morals, are outraged. As Napoleon once said of military faux pas, Ut is worse than crime; 1t is a mistake" The same rules of art that call for winged heels to a Mercury and the bare flesh in a dying gladiator re- qulre that the figure of Hugo be repre- sented as clad in the conventional garb of his time. We have not been without our own monstrosities in art in this country For years the marble figure of Washington braved the chill of winter on the Capitol plaza, clad as Roman senator preparing for the bath. In course of time, however. the comment of the critic who interpreted the attitude and attire as signifying. You have my coat and vest; take my sword, also, , had its effect, and the statute was re- moved to a more secluded place.
 At the unveiling ceremonies in Paris the French minister of education de- clared that Hugo had shed as much glory on France as Dante had on Italy and Shakespeare on England This state ment will hardly be challenged All the more reason that his memory should have been suitably celebrated. In return for such services he deserved better treatment. A Hugo by the rock shore Is a fit conception. A listening Hugo in the altogether is silly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-11
TAFT AS FRIEND OF SOUTH.

Robert G. Hiden, Associate Editor of Bir- s-mingham News, in Leslie's Weekly.
 Birmingham Is the only large city in the south that has no memories of the Civil War or the hardships and humllia. tions of reconstruction. The community, which has surprised the world in it's re- markable growth and enrichment is con. sequently not influenced by political tra- ditions or habits growing out of those experiences.
 There is more independence of thought and more independence of action political ly in Birmingham than in any other com munity of the south. Hence when one of its leading citizens of the Grover Cleveland school of democracy, acting as spokesman for delegation of representa- tive business men who went to Angus ta, Ga. last spring to officially Invite the President to Birmingham. declared in a speech that the business interests of the south, and especially of its chief in- dustrial center, regarded the election-o of Judge Taft as benediction from God | Almighty Himself over their own pro- test" practically the entire business com munity applauded him in this utterance, 1 despite the unfavorable criticisms of newspapers in the rural sections of the state, and of some citizens out. of touch with the new spirit of progress, and al most without exception indorsed the can l dor and substance of his declaration Even | outspoken democrats who voted sincerely | for Bryan, as we'll as many who sup l ported him merely as q matter of record some because their fathers fought in the ] Civil War and suffered for years the in- | dignities of reconstruction under carpet bag and scalaway domination; others 1 from force of habit or under the inf1u- ence of environment-were admittedly contented with Judge Tafts election for business reasons. Not few strict party democrats were forced to acknowledge that President Taft has manifested fair and wise treatment of the south.
 The preparations being made for the reception and entertainment of President 1 Taft are more far-reaching and signifi- | cant than as expression of honor to 1 the man solely in the capacity of Presi- l dent, They strongly suggest a link of
 sympathy between an industrial Presi- dent and an industrial district. It will
 be the most pretentious thing of the | kind ever witnessed In southern city. For several months plans have been ma : turing with this end in view and there | is friendly rivalry among many of the most public-spirited and influential bus ' mess men as to who can contribute the most to the success of the occasion. Be-
 hind 1t all will appear a distinct effort to honor the distinguished guest not sole 1 ly because of his position, but also be-
 cause he is regarded as the leading ex- 1 ponent and sincere adherent of protection
 to American industries. In no southern city will this be carried so far as in the
 south's chief industrial center-Birming-
 ham. Ala.-a fact that bids fair to open
 the eyes of the nation to the progressive
 spirit that is steadily gaining strength in the south's attitude toward national
 nnlitics.