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The Daily Missoulian., 1912-12-11
NORRIS IS |NDORSED
BY CHAMBER
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WANTS
WESTERN MAN AS SECRE-
TARY OF INTERIOR.

Acting in the belief that the growth
of the northwestern states can be
greatly retarded or greatly accelerated
by the administration of public lands
in the states, the executive committee
of the Missoula Chamber of Commerce
met yesterday noon, and, acting in
non-partisan manner, advocated Gov
ernor Edwin L. Norris appointment
as secretary of the interior and reso-
lutions will be forwarded to Presi-
dent elect Wilson at once, recon-
mending him for this office. 1t was
the opinion of the executive commit
tee that the interior department
should be presided over by western
man, and, if a Montana man could be
selected, SO much the better, as he
would be thoroughly conversant with
the problems Of the west.
In Frisco.
Resolutions We're passed favoring a
state display at the Panama Pacific
International exposition at San Fran
cisco in 1915 and the Montana SEN
ators and representatives will be asked
to support bill whereby this state
will be properly exploited at this
great worlds fair in a manner befit-
ting it's importance and dignity in the
sisterhood of states, Realizing that
the state appropriations will be nu-
merous this coming year the cham
ber's resolution carries the provision
providing funds are available" but
it is hoped that the legislators can
fathom some scheme whereby there
will be no question Of the Treasure
states participation.
Annual Meeting.
Matters affecting the progress on
the Flathead We're discussed and gone
over but these problems will be Of
ficially acted upon at the annual
meeting of the chamber November IS
in the Masonic Temple at p. m.
Other matters We're talked over, but
left to the secretary to handle. The
committee adjourned in body and
spent an hour at the exhibit car of
the Milwaukee railroad.
When pimples and eruptions trouble
you, don't worry; just take HOLSTERS
r. NJ. Tea, and watch your mirror each
day. George Freisheimer-Adv.
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-12-11
Show Room.

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ana VIII come to Mlssonla IN time TOR
the opening OF the show He then will
return % SPOKANE to I'LL an engage
rnent there the following week.
MORE
The Western Montana Poultry as
sociation held IT'S regular meeting last
night In the city hall and matters per
tanning to the coming show We're
thoroughly gone over There was an
other cash special added to the al
ready long lst by the offer of $500 in
cash for the heaviest chicken shown.
during snow week there Will be
posted on the bulletin board all spe-
clals not Isted IN the regular eata-
logue, Every afternoon after the
Judging is finished the ribbon winners
lof the day VIII also ne posted so that
az visitors VIII he able to find out
VINO the winners are.
The Daily Missoulian., 1912-12-11
MONTANA EXHIBITS
VIEWED BY MANY
LARGE NUMBER INSPECTs MIL
WAUKEE EXHIBIT CAR DUR
ING ITS STAY HERE.

]. II. Firey and r. G. Thompson. tho
immigration representatives, in charge
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sounds exhibit car, were greatly
pleased With the attendance Yesterday.
The car was throneed with interested
visitors from early in the morning un-
til the car left on No is. 1t was esti-
mated that Loo people visited tho car
during its stay here, "The fact that
so many people came 10 see our dis
plays shows that they realize what an
advertising feature for this country
the exhibit car is,' said MIR. Firey
Both Mr.. Thompson and myself were
greatly pleased with the large at
tendance and we enjoyed our short
stay IN Missoula immensely You have
a fine town and fine people,
M. G Kimberly, president Of the
Northern Pacific Beneficial associa-
ton, G. c. KYLE and General Superin-
tendeHt Nichols arrived in the city
yesterday morning and spent the dav
in making am inspection Of the local
hospital. The three above mentioned
men comprise the executive board of
the association1 and are making an
inspection Of every hospital on the
lime. They were very well pleased
with what they saw in Missouia and
belieYe that the local hospital is one
ct the best on the system The PARTY
leaves today ON NO. 3. II. W. Erren.
private secretary to Mr. Nichols is
with the party
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
THE CLARION ToNGUED

Mir. William Bayard Hale in the April Worlds Work characterizes very amus- ingly the mannerisms and folbles of our prominent public speakers, who are again about to take the stump in a presiden- tial campaign. To Mir Bryan, he gives the palm for audibleness.
 MT. Bryan has never spoken in build ing too big for him to fill with his voice; the whole of out-of-doors seems not too big, for it is the experience of thousands who have listened to him in the open that the only advantage gained by press ing toward the speakers stand was that something could be seen of the speaker One night out in Indiana during the last week of the 1900 campaign, when MT Bryan was making the concluding speech of the day in the county fair grounds of one of the county seats, l paced what concluded to be half mile from the speakers stand without passing beyond the zone in which his every word was perfectly clear.
 That was. if I recollect alright. his seventeenth speech that day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
On fhe NIississinpi

t'I saw story in the paper this morn ing that carried me back several years to the time when l was on the Misslssippi river" said s. H. Darnell yesterday aft ernoon. Tt was the statement that armed guards were patroing the ievee bank at Hickman, Ky, to prevent peopls from cutting 1t.
 At the first glance the statement might appear a little unnecessary. because 1t would seem that no one would wish to cut the river bank, but on the contrary would be very anxious to keep the levee intact. Which is true of those planters living on the Hickman bank of the river.
 The situation goes back to the axiom, Self preservation is the first law of 'na- ture.' If the levee on the Hickman bank of the river were cut that would let the water out and would in a large measure relieve the pressure on the opposite bank. Or if the levee on the opposite bank of the river were cut that would relieve the pressure on the Hickman bank and those Kentucky farms would be saved.
 When floods come along and threaten to destroy the work of months, planters along the river get desperate and some are willing to go to any extreme to save their farms. Hence the guards"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

natl, Wheeling, Toledo or Detroit do, and all those towns possess stop over privileges.
 The "scalping" objection is baseless so far as this city is concerned, for we have a concentrated form of govern ment that can and would act quickly and efficiently.
 Let the Chamber of Commerce take an appeal from the Southeastern asso- citation to the chief executive offices of the various railroads entering this city-to the presidents themselves. The proposition to invite them to come here to discuss the matter is the shortest cut to a solution of the ques- tion. The Chamber of Commerce should maintain the effort it is mak- ing. And it should assure every of ficial it writes to that there would be no "scalping" done here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

strength al the instrument and In mar
 vicious clearness and brilliancy' At times he plays with the unbridled i'm petuosity of a cyclone; and even while apparently dealing with the piano mighty blows, which from other hanas' would sound forced and diseordant' they never cease to be melodious' Ihis musical, penetrating quality of touch
 is as clear and sweer as perfectly atuned silver bell ana his. graduated increase or diminution of tone is the acme of artistic finish. No living plan
 ist performs Liszt's compositions SO well as Friedheim. .Ihis fact was mentioned by the critics upon his first appearance in Berlin in a Iiszt concerto in conjunction with the fear that he would not succeed as an interpreter of Beethoven and Chopin: which. however. the new yir-
 tuoso has since proved groundless. Freidheim Is one of me most enjoy able and inspiring of the great pian- ists. His playing of Liszt's second rhapsody produces an electric shock; and once heard iron. nim La Cam remains in the memory and ineneecable tone poem. To me he has made likewise indellble Chopin's lovely D flat major prelude"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
Couceruiur Early Shopping

q see," said drummer at the flor- ence last night, that MT. Laurens Block of The Parisian is engineering move ment to get the women to do their shop ping in the morning before 10 o'clock, instead of waiting till the last minute. The trouble does not seem to be con fined alone to the women of Birmingham, however, for the business men are hke- wise prone to rush much of their busi- ness in the closing hours of the day. Postmaster Aldrich is out with request that business houses send their mall to the postoffice throughout the day. I'll venture to say, that this case of pro crastination is more responsible for the higher cost of living than we realize. It seems to me that MT. Block should bring this matter before some local civic body, say the Chamber of Commerce, and se- cure cooperative support from all the merchants
 .nrhe new stores succeeded last year III inducing Christmas shoppers to do most of their buying early before Christmas with the result that but few stores were open Christmas day. Now a bother or not this same sentiment can be created al any other time then during the holiday season, however. is more than l am pre- nared to say"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
The Brightness of Spring Tide

March has been a rainy month, but spring seems to have come at last, and April will probably bring more sum- shine than showers.
 The gladness of spring has happy effect upon the business world and upon social life in general. Many things are concurring to improve busi- ness conditions. In the Birmingham district pessimism is entirely out of fashion. Optimism is all pervading now. There is already a scarcity of labor in this part of the country. In times of depression we see an army of idle men, and the poverty that en- sues is always distressing. But with prosperity here at this time, no man who wants to work will fail to find a plenty to do at good wages.
 The farmer has felt the backward season, but sunshine will make him forget soon the recent past. There is ample time for the making of good crops. There is promise of abundant harvests. Every we'll disposed person in town and country is rejoicing in this bright and buoyant spring tide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31

F. Cunliffe-Owens, writing his Me moirs of Today for the April Metropoli- tan, does not consider the famous Hope diamond an ill-omended possession. After describing its romantic history, he says
 Just why the Hope diamond should be considered unlucky it is difficult for those who know its real history to say Certainly 1t never brought any misfor- tune either to Thomas Hope, who pur- chased 1t from the diamond merchant, Eliason, in the second decade of the nineteenth century, or to his son, Hem ry Hope. For both of these men were singularly fortunate in every respect. and whatever they touched seemed to turn to gold. Old Mrs. Henry Hope, who lived to an advanced age, enjoyed every moment of her life, and certainly suf- fered no misfortune through the pos session and wearing of the jewel, until her death; while Lord Francis Hope, now that he has sowed his wild oats, is married to an Australian woman, with whom he lives happily at Castle Blay- ney, county Monaghan, Ireland. As his elder brother has no children, he will in due course succeed him as Duke of New castle
 There is no such blood-stained history | attached to the Hope diamond as per- | talns to King Georges crown jewel, the Koh-i-noor; all that is known of it is
 that it was brought by Tavernier from India to France in the seventeenth cen tury, sold by him to Louis XVI. who valued it greatly; that it was stolen from among the crown jewels of France. preserved in the Garde Meuble at Paris during the revolution and reappeared, re-cut in such a fashion as to diminish its size by a third, in 1890, in the hands of the diamond dealer Eliason. Every thing else that has been written about it is the purest fiction. There Is no reason. therefore. why its present owner, Mrs. Edward B. Mclean, should not wear the stone. without the slightest apprehen- sion."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
A NATIONAL DISGRACE

the part of the government in a manner resembling that of it's departmen of agri- culture these deaths could ere long be prevented. What has been done with the hookworm curse may be accomplished in malaria. pr. Thayer advises that educa- tion of the public through the schools and through the Boy Scouts presents feasible plan; the children may be taught to destroy mosquitoes by teaching them the habitat and mode of life of these in- sects and in this manner the grownups may be set to thinking and acting. That the saving of life and especially the con servation of the working efficiency Of the people would be ample compensation, as it is in Italy, is self-evident Here the question of a national board of health looms up large, for only by systematic and concerted action may the results achieved by smaller nations be attained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Growing Rapidly

Within the past two years l have Vls- tied every section of the United states and have been particularly interested in the larger western cities, but have not seen any city that seemed to be growing as fast as Birmingham, said Charles F- Moffet of Chicago
 My first trip to Birmingham was m the summer of 1907 That was the year which witnessed prosperity's high water mark. spent day here in the spring of 1908, and while l did not hear any body speak of hard times. there was eVl- dence that the Birmingham district s prosperity had had a back-set, just as all industrial eenters had eXperlenced dullness. But the whole country is De- coming prosperous once more. The south is attracting much attention at this time. It is considered most inviting field for capital, and every southern state will make material progress within the next F months.
 Birmingham has improved wonderfully since first saw 1t and the hustle that is in evidence now is distinctly characteris- tic of a city conscious of its great des- tiny"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
THE PATTOs OF THE OYSTER

Albert Scott Cox in the Metropolitan for
 April.
 "To me the practice of devouring any animal life in its entirety is, and always has been, most difficult. The terrible de- mand of the oyster is that he be swal- lowed as a unit, with all his hopes. his joys, his sorrows. his love- his fears, and his ears and his Gears; the thought Is appalling. I can eat large slices of a COW; and l suppose in lifetime l have eaten a number of mature oxen, a few calves, flock of sheep, several lambs, a number of turkeys, long roost full of hens, a good sized aquarium, a goose or two, and some ducks-but I did not swallow any of them whole. I took a slice at a time and enjoyed it, as any ap- petite is above the average for most dishes. don't mind seeing oysters swimming in savory stew, like their society and flavor, but it takes all of my moral courage to think of eating one. Every time I get one of the little bi- valves before me, my eyes magnify him. he grows larger and larger, an emo tional lump rises in my throat and am obliged to content myself with swallow ing my emotions of the oyster. When I look at the little fellow lying helplessly before me, with his slippery surface and yielding body, l think that should l sue ceed in swallowing him I might have even more difficulty in retaining him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
Election ana Moving Day

q notice the weather man is inclined to give us cloudy weather Sunday said Tom Rugly last night Tt occurs to me that if it should happen to rain Monday there are going to be lot of sure enough-mad' men in this town.
 You know. Monday is not only election day, but it is the official moving day Tor 1912 There are dozens and dozens of fam files in this town scheduled to be in new homes by Monday night. Moving day IS far from being a holiday at its best and now if the lord of the house is also de- sirous of going to his voting precinct and tackIng a five foot ballot and over all it begins to rain, I personally am or the opinion that there will be many re- marks made that the newspapers VIII refuse to print"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
Nearly a Full Senate

Tomorrow the new senators from New Mexico and Arizona will be sworn in, and then every seat in the Senate chamber will be filled except one in Colorado. The seat of the late Senator Hughes of that state remains thrilled, because the legislature can not agree upon a successor. The leg islature is democratic, and yet no democrat in that state could secure the needful number of votes.
 But when AS states are represented tomorrow by 95 senators the occasion will become historic. The mainland with the sole exception of the District of Columbia consists now of states. Just AS, no more and no less-states of all sorts of shapes, sizes and popu- lation. The AS states, all sovereign in home affairs, are here to stay, and no one has word of real criticism to of- fer against any one of them.
 In the Senate that will sit tomor- row 32 seats will become vacant in 1913, 32 in 1915, and 32 in 1917. Our house of lords is based, not on the hereditary principle, but as things are going, it is based on direct action by the people acting as in the case of the presidency outside of the constitution itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
CeIcrity Is never more admir'd Than by the negligent,
 -AntoDy md Cleopatra.
Conpested Polling Places

There is probably not another city in the United States where voting precincts or polling box lists are as large as those in Birmingham. For the courthouse box there are more than 1000 registered voters. For the Ensley polling place there are 700 or 800 registered voters.
 Every polling place should be lim- tied to 300 registered voters. Even with long ballot 250 to 300 voters could be polled within the space of a dav. But at tomorrow's election, with the longest ballot ever known here, it will be impossible for every one who is entitled to vote, and who desires to vote, to cast his ballot.
 There are important county offices to be filled and everyone who is quail flied should be able to vote. But there will be hundreds and probably thousands standing in line in the city of Birmingham when the clock strikes 6 Monday evening. There is no reasonable excuse for this congested condition. Time and again The Age Herald has called the attention to the inadequacy of Jefferson county's polling accommodations within the city and efforts have been made through the board of revenue to in- crease the number of boxes. But what seemed to be a very practical solution of the matter complained of came to naught when test was made before the board As things look now there will probably be no remedy for the situation until we have consti- tutional amendment.
 In the meantime voters will have to exercise patience. Every man who lives in the courthouse beat, or the city hall beat; or the Ensley beat should get in line as early tomorrow morning as possible and be as ex- pedient as possible in marking his bal lot. The overcrowded polling list at Ensley is particularly hard on iron and steel workers employed at the Tennessee company's plants, They crowd to the polls at the lunch hour and after the whistle blows at 5 o'clock. Election officers are usually experts in handling the ballots, but be the work done never so well many a qualified voter at Ensley will be dis appointed tomorrow by being unable to exercise his privilege.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-31
LOOKING TO THE SOUTH

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 To southern men there is encourage ment and inspiration in the turning or the north and west to the south for suid- ance and leadership in these trouhlous times. If we stop to consider momeat, we realize that once the political outcasts of the nation. we are now not only In our fathers house, but we sit at the head of the table in the councils of the family.
 The confidence in the soundness and efficiency of southern leadership Is not embracing only in the favor with which the candidacy of oscar Underwood has been received in the north, but in repeat ed manifestation of the confidence felt in the north and west. that in the south the country would find undetiled the purest principles of a republican form of govern ment, kept bright by constant care and practice The Underwood popularity, the fact that two other of the leading candi- dat tes for the democartic nomination are southern men, and the anxious turning of the north to the south for political help~are, in the opinion of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. ''symptomatic of north ern realization that the south remains the fountain-head of pure democracy and re- publicanism, which nourishes and must ever continue to nourish, our form of government. our liberties. our representa- tive order, and law and order themselves, if these blessings are to endure"
 The Times-Dispatch aptly quotes an editorial from the Washington Herald, a rock-ribbed republican paper, to illustrate the approval now freely granted many southern leaders and to show the confi- dence felt in the north in the helpfulness and efficiency of southern leadership. The Herald sincerely laments the volun- tary retirement of two men from the House of Representatives, Pujo of Louisi- ana, and Brantley of Georgia declaring "It is time when both parties and the country need men of experience as well as of ability in office.''
 Of the two southerners, the Herald says:
 Mir Pujo and MT. Brantley 0he retir- ing representatives) are not of the orator the greater service to the House. It has been a criticism of southern politics that
 it is too much under the sway of calm discussion. But when the Brantleys and the Pujos exhibit power, and Oscar Un- derwood-a man of thought and few words-becomes a national leader and a presidential candidate. a day which should be protracted would appear to have dawned for that section.''
 In short the surprising situation has developed, almost at once as it were, in which the north and west are pleading with southern leaders to project them- selves more and more into leadership and to stem the tide of the ridiculous yet dan- gerous theories propounded under the name of new nationalism.''