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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02
One-C Cent Letter Postage

This l have done upon the insistent
demand of many thousands OF people
of all classes throughout the country.
An organization known as the. National
One-Cent Letter Postage association,
with headquarters at Cleveland, O., has
been formed to support h movement.
The immense profits made on first
class letters are a direct tax on every
person who writes a letter. That this
view of the situation is reasonable,
no one can doubt. In no other depart
ment of the government does such a
situation exist-the reaping of an alb
normal profit from a public service
which is supposed to be merely self
supporting. Although all letters pay
two cents apiece, only a very small
portion weigh the full ounce permitted.
This is at the rate of about $3.50 per
ton, which is an unwarranred charge
for transportation in these days of
easy communication between cities,
states and continents. First-class mail
supplies only IA per cent OF the total
tonnage of the mail, yet 1t pays at the
present time IS per cent of the total
revenue.
Hon. John Wannamaker, former
acknowledgement, and the merchant
king of Philadelphia and New York,
is a firm believer in one.-cent letter
postage, and thinks that the govern
ment would derive a larger revenue
from it than from two-cent postage,
when people realize the cheaper facil-
tiles afforded for communication, with
each other.
One reason which has been advanced
against cheaper letter postage has been
that its Inauguration would prevent
the establishment of a parcel post
system. Now that we are enjoying the
advantages of parcel post in active OPP
Grafton this argument loses its valid
ity. 1t is my firm belief hat one-cent
letter postage will be the next import
ant postal reform inaugurated by con-
gress.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

EQUAL RlGATS--The British suf-
fragettes have, evidently, not earned
that 1t is easier to catch flies with
molasseS than with vinegar. If we
could spare them, we would like to
send some of u Montana equal
rights advocates over to London, Just
to show the brick-throwers how the
thing should be done. If a mob of
men were to parade up one of our
venue and fire bricks through store
windows, the men would be branded
as hoodlums. If the police could not
handle them, there would be a call for
troops. The men would get their
rights, all right; they would land in
Jail. If this struggle is really for equa,
rights, the disturbing women have nc
warrant for their course in rioting. Il
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02
(By Theodore e. Burton.)

Without doubt the time has arrived
when the people of the. United States
are entitled to one-cent letter postage.
The present tWo-cent rate has been
in existence since 1888, and no Inn
portant changes have been made since
that date, despite the fact that the
population of the country has increased
immensely, and there has been an as
tonishing increase in the amount Of
letter communication between our peo-
pie.
The most important reason, how
ever, why the. citizens of the United
States are entitled to one-cent letter
postage Is the fact that although we
are charged two cents for the carriage
Of letters, it actually costs less than
one cent each for the government to
handle them. This results In the accu-
mutation of a surplus of over $62, 000,-
600 each year on first-class mail.
Two-cent Postage a Tax.
The p%ostoffice department was never
intended to be other than self-support-
ing. The government is entitled to
sufficient compensation for the actual
coEt involved in carrying first-class
pcoeo6S Jul a. dAS Aolc iiit Aoiio aP
so enormous a surplus is little less than
a tax upon the users Of postage stamps
throughout this great country.
In 1S43, the rate Of postage on a let
ter weighing one-half ounce or a frac-
ton thereof, carried from the city of
New York to Buffalo, a distance OF less
than five hundred miles, was 25 cents.
BY successive ana frequent reductions,
this rate was lowered, until on Ocro-
Der l, 1888. the two-cent rate. became
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

This beautiful monument to the
men who wore the blue" and those
who wore the gray" is to be erected
in the city of Fitzgerald, Ga. From
the base to the tip of the winged fig
ure of Peace, the monument designed
by E. M. Viquesney will be 1875 feet.
Its base will be SO feet wide. The four
granite steps leading to the entrance
typify the four years of war. There
will be four doors, each surmounted
by an inscription, the one on the
north reading, Grand Army of the
Republic;" that above the so 18th door,
ITO the Confederate Veterans;' and
those on the east and west. T the
Daughters of the Confederacy' and the
"Woman's Relief Corps"
Inside the monument, facing each
other, there will be life-size statues of
Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln.
The immense bronze statues over the
north entrance represent Lee and
Grant shaking hands. On the opposite
side of the monument will be statues
p%ortraying a northern and a southern
soldier supporting a United States
flag. On the east side there will be
statues representing Prosperity, while
on the west side statues portraying
Progress and Opportunity will be
shown. The winged figure of Peace at
the top will be IS feet high and will
hold aloft a palm branch, while in
the other hand she will hold a wreath
of myrtle and olive leaves.
This monument will be the first of
it's kin in existence. 1t viii cost APP
proximately $3.50, 900, and will be con-
structed Of granite, bronze and glass.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02
PASSING EVENTS

This is Grounding day. Those who
believe in shadows and who seek to
give them substance will affect, at
least, to be guided for a few weeks
by the weather conditions which pre-
vail today. Such have but a shad-
oW's bliss" was what the great poet
wrote in characterization of those who
find substance in thin shadow. Well
enough it is to keep watch of the
shadows which coming vents cast
ahead, but the intangible things upon
which some of US place so much stress
are not worth the time they take for
consideration. There are shadows and
there are shadows. But there is so
much else that is substantial and
worth while hat it is wasting time
to worry about the groundhOg's shad-
troubles are imaginary, anyway and
the sooner We stop worrying about
avn NV ttNNN We oiI"il 81 ill'fit.
There are enough realities to keep us
busy if we attend to them. And
there are enough of these realities
which are pleasant, to make life a de-
cent sort of experience. There is a
lot of grief ana there is a lot Of evil
in the world, but there is less of it
considering how big the world has be
comedian there used to be and there
are more people working hard to as
suage the grief and to put down the
evil than there ever were before. So.
even if the little grounding does see
his shadow today, there's no use fret
ting about il. The thing to do is to
be glad Of the sunshine which makes
the shadow; the sunshine is real and
the shadow lacks substance utterly.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

operative on letters weighing half an
ounce or a fraction thereof. This rate,
with Slight changes, has existed for 30
years. The weight has been raised from
one-half ounce to one ounce, but no
other change Of any moment has been
made since 1888.
In the meantime, the correspond
ence of the country has increased enor-
mously; transportation facilities have
improved in proportion.
Big Demand for Cheaper Rate.
I have. introduced in congress, a bill
providing for the inauguration OF the
one-cent letter rate or July /, next.
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MlSSOuLA OFFICE
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Hamilton Office
POI Main Street. Hamilton, Mont

The Missoulian may be found on
sale at the following newstands out
side Of Montana:
Chicago-ChiCago Newspaper Agen-
cy, N. e. corner Clark and Madison
streets.
Minreapolis-World News Co. 21s
North Fourth street,
Salt Lake City-MacGillis & Lud
wig.
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Observation-Disclosures News Co,
Seventh and Washington.
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First avenue and Washington; w. o.
Whitney.
Standardization News, Co,
Tacoma-Trego News Co, Ninth
and Pacific.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

chicken as the surest sign OF all, but
practical Chicago doesn't overlook this
symptom and assurcs us that the sea-
son is here, even if it has not been
officially inaugurated. In England, the
suffragettes may have caused the
siXty-day advance of the season-but
they are. il We get the news straight,
no chickens.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

THE great hishroad Of human
welfare lies along the old highway
Of steadfast wellbeing and welldo-
ina, and they who are the most
persistent and work in the truest
spirit will invariably be the most
successfuI; success treads on the
heels of every right effort.'-Sam-
uel Smiles.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

IN MONTANA-It is a week since
Governor Stewart signed the Montana
suffrage bill and placed the question
of votes for women before the people
FOR their determination. The bill be-
came a law with very little opposition
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

.(Senator Burton of Ohio is leading
the campaign for one-cent letter post
age, and has introduced a bill in the
senate, providing for the inauguration
of the new rate on July 1, 1913. He.
tells in this article, some reasons why
the people of the United States are en-
titled to the lower ra~tes.-Editor).
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The Muscular is anxious to give
the best carrier service; therefore, sub
scribers are requested to report faulty
delivery at once. In ordering paper
change to new address, please give
old address also. Money orders and
checks should be made payable to
The Missoulian Publishing Company.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

SPRING SiGNS-Spcakiug # the
grounding suggests that the east re-
ports other signs of early spring.
From England, despite the suffragctto
agitation, We are getting the first Of
the years spring poems. The London
Times has been printing a lot Of them;
they are not So very different from
the domestic product, they hail the
blackbird as the narhinger Of spring,
while we welcome the bluehird; there
is practically no other distinction so
far as we have seen this years sam
pies from across the water. The
British poets Of the spring run
the gamut of the crocus, the dog
violet, the robin and the narcissus and
even TALL back upon the little swallow.
If they had cut u the D]!ackbird, they
might have been writing for western
continent consumption for all the diff
ference we can see. Even the poets OF
England admit hat it is a little early
but they say the season warrants i
this year; it is April as far as tn,
outward symptoms go. And from Al
ton, H., we get word that a hen ha'
brought forth the first brood of chick
produced without the aid of kerosen'
oil, and Chicago papers rejoice tina
spring has struck the Sucker state
The poets have ignored the spring
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

Also the reactionaries. Wall street
and the rest, might note what hap
pened to Turkey.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

Yet, the senate r~ecactionaries will
have to meet the folks at home one
of these days.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

investigating federal departments
Will keep legislators out of mischief
it's harmless.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

William Rockefeller is probably
listening attentively, even if he can
speak.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

The Missoula visitors report tina
Angeles has recovered from frost,
bite.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

measure come 80 near to receiving
unanimous support as did this one.
But 1t is not to be supposed for q
minute that there will be as little OPP
position as this whe the question
comes before the people. The women
Of Montana have a stern battle before
them. We believe they will win. The
spirit OF their celebration in Missoula
last night adds strength to this belief.
They and their friends discussed the
situation hopefully and reasonably.
there were no bricks thrown. The To-
cal phase OF last nights affair made it
all the more pleasing. Miss Rankin,
in whose honor the dinner was given,
is leaving this field to engage in the
national battle; at the dinner table.
last night, she received the assurance
of her home friends that they are
proud of what she has done and that
they expect her to win further hon
ors for herself and for the cause which
she has SO acknowledgements, we
almost said, but perhaps it will be
better to say aided. She will return.
Of course. for the final struggle ii
1914. In the meantime her home folks
wish her all the success in the world.
There will be no cessation in the ac-
tivity in this state, but she need not
fear that her comrades will get to
burning mail boxes while she Is absent,
A REVIVAL-Today will witness
the opening of another campaign in
this city-a campaign against the dew
ii and his works. The evangelical
paign a come from the Bitter Root
country, where they conducted a Sc
ries of meetings which reused Ham
ilton and Corvallis. In this city they
will have the active cooperation of
the ministers. The indications are
that their work will receive the sup
port Of an earnest lot of people. A
correspondent of The Muscular, in a
letter which we published about a
with a large church in the city, had
rented a dance hall for the revival
meetings. The ministers have not an
swered the question. as far as we have
noticed. But it Is easy to answer, it
seems to us. While the revival meet
ings are being held in the dance hall,
there will be no dances there-that is
certain. And if the correspondent OBJ
jects to dancing, as she evidently does,
this should be an argument with her.
Then. too, these meetings held in a
hall, will each a good many people
who wouldn't go into a church. I'm
less we are mistaken in the whole
plan, it Is these non-churchgoers whom
the meetings aim to reach. We used
to know a bishop, down in Wyoming
years ago, who held highly successful
meetings in a saloon. In this state,
long before that, good Bishop futile
had utilized gambling houses as
places of worship. Such criticisms as
that contained in the letter of this
correspondent are a greater setback
to the cause of religion than all the
attacks of the ungodly. Defend me
from my friends; I can defend myself
from my enemies" said Marechal VII
lars. He must have had some such
experience as this.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

If the county high school can hire
a gymnasium, why can't it lease school
room?
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

The quarrel between the school
boards Is unWarranted.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

1t would be a calamity if Colonel
Cocktails yielded and entered politics.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

War hath her deadlocks no less
than those of peace.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

Pledges are made to be kept. Some
of h folks at Helena have his tc
learn.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

Missoula will be glad to have the
people Of the state visit the univer-
sity.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

The robins are here-put out some
feed for them.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

A clear conscience is good protec-
ton against shadows.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

The reactionary tendencies of I'm
derWood become more conspicuous.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

A convention of first robins woul'
be a pleasant gathering.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

1t is no more foolish to run from
a shadow than to stand and fight it.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

The grounding is not the only ami.
that fears his shadow.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

And h last half of the session is
when most of the mischief is done.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

However, it is some relief to have
it half over. - issS
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

With a third judge, this distric'
should be long on Justice.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

DIR. Wilson has backed up again.
He will ride in a special car.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-02

4 sure you're wrong, then go
observation-disclosures motto.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-21

instruments of the age? 1t is Tx.
same with books. There was a time:
when the father used to read Dickens
in the evening, and the young people
grew up with q knowledge of Scot
and Thackeray that would not mlsbe-
come a scholar. Here and there the
same good custom is still observed.
In other homes the novels that de-
lighted our fathers are esteemed old
fashioned and dull. How much of
the. responsibility for that view is to
be laid to the fathers and mothers
Napoleon once said that what France
wanted was mothers. 1t will be a
sad day for America If that can ever
be said of us. If the parents AMI
children go different ways, the result
will be a coarsening of the moral
fibre of the country. 1t was not faith
ers and mothers who did not know
where their children We're at nighs
that made these United States what
they are. 1t was men and women for
whom it was IL delight to make homie
so truly homelike that the boys and
girls thought it's atmosphere prefer
able to that of any other place in the
world.-Rochester Post Express.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-21
Effects Of Titanic Disaster.

Near the first anniversary of the
sinking of the Titanic are two events
strongly effective of the influence OF
that memorable disaster for greater
safety in ocean travel.
The huge Vaterland, launched yes
terday at Hamburg, will carry SO life
boats, and 20 of these can be launched
from either side of the ship and can
accommodate the whole capacity, Of
the vessel in human freight. No list
of the ship can put out of commission
half the boats.
The reconstructed Olympic starts on
it's first voyage with an outer shell to
take the force and damage Of such a
CHANGING blow as wrecked the Titanic
and leave an inner shell to keep 1t
afoat 1t was held unsuitable before
this reconstruction. 1t is now called
unsuitable. but carries more than
double it's old number of lifeboats In
Difference to the truth of bitter ex-
perienee as against the claims of ma
rine architects,
So passes the modern myth OF the
sea. There is no such thing as an
unsuitable ship. But at what cost T..
human life has the Illusion been shat.
tered.-New York World.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-21
Kappa Sigma Men
At Joint Banquet.

Fifty of the loyal sons of Kappa Sig
ma fraternity, representing the Psi
Chapter of the University of Maine
and the Alpha Rho Chapter of Bow
dain gathered III the board of The
Elmaeod, Saturday evening, for their
third annual joint banquet. The ma
iority of the members of both chap
ters arrived early IL the day.in order
To witness the exhibition game between
Colby and University of Maine. Al III"
banquet which WAS held i'll the SPA
cious dining room. Burleigh c. Rodick
was toastmaster. and the following
toasts were given; Joint Banquet.
William II. Spinney;" Psi, OsWa'"
Burnett Higgins; Alpha Rho, Robert
Devore Leigh: Kappa Sigma" Elson
HartMel I,igelow. The committee of
arrangements from Maine consisted of
Winfield p. Dillingham;. Harold {.
White and Henry /. Brown. while the
Gowdoin representatives. were Ray
mond X Hagar. Leon L. Jones and
George II. Talbot.
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Parents w anted.

II may sound old fashioned to say
that the proper place for boys ana
girls in their teens is home: and up
holders of revolutionary ideals would
lauph the statement To scorn. Eat
who afetr all. exercises the greatest
influence ON the young? 1t is the
narents. The impressionable young
mind cannot but take it's color from
the groWn-ups and, if the influence Is
not GOOD, then it VIII be pad. inc
mere fact that the father does not
care what his boy is doing is most
serious thing. for it means that TIE
hoy is forming his ideals in the COM
nanv of people who have not the same
reason to see to it that those Ideals
,ro bonest. 1t is the same with
girls This generation has outgrown
the tendency to find fault with moth
ers for belonging to clubs. but, IL theS
feel that the club has legitimate
claim on their time, women Will 90
well to see that their daughters either
accompany them or are equally use
fully employed. If the questions CT
tho dav concern the mother. they con-
Germ the daughter as WELL and. II the
voung generation does not get ideas
from the parents, it will get them
from nersons who may not care What
evil seed is sown. What is more de
liehtful than to see mother an"
daughter so closely knit in aHection
that people often think they are SIS
ters? And what sight is more en- :
couracing than to watch fathers ana
sons Cumming together? Men
will not try TO corrupt lad when ne
is in his fathers company
Young people like to go to the
"show." How many parents make II
their business to find out what man
ner of show ii may be? Surely the9
know that for good or Ill, the stage Is
one of the most powerful educational