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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-31
EXPENSE GUT
ACH|EvESEND
LONG SOUGHT
Records Show Net In
come at Rate of 6 Per
Cent for the Period.
Augurs for Revival in
Many Lines of In
dustry Is Belief. 7
BY WILLIAM P. THELM, JR.
Special Correspondent of The Tribune

Copyright, 1921. by The Tribune.
Washington, July 30.-Thre is every
reason to believe that on the thirtieth
day of July the railroads Of the Unit
ed States, taken as a whole, can look
back on a month when their net income
has been at the rate of six per cent
annually of the value of their proper
ties. Such a condition has not existed
before for years-even at the height of
the country's wartime prosperity.
Reports of railroad activities for
now are pouring into the interstate
commerce commission at such a rapid
rate that almost every hour of the day
changes the totals.
Biggest Month of Year.
AS this is written there have been
footed up the totals for 1872 class one
carriers, (those doing a business of ST.
100000 or more annually and the foot
ings show the biggest month, from an
income standpoint this year. The re-
suit is bigger than the more hopeful
element of the carriers executives had
been looking for and has frankly sur
lprised even them. =.
How did the roads make such q good
showing for June? By the old expe-
dent Of cutting down their expenses.
The tally for the 1872 roads shows that
they reduced their expenses in June
more than 20 per cent as compared
with June, 1920. Part of this was due
to the lessened cost of supplies; part
to decrease on the working forces and
part to the fact that during June the
roads kept their maintenance and way
equipment expenses down to mini
mum.
Cut Expenses $3O,000,0O0.
Coming to July we find that the wage
cuts and the abrogation of the nation
al agreements both are effective on the
first day of the month. That saving in
expenses has been estimated at more
than SIC, ZOO, 600 monthly.
Such a condition augurs for reviv-
al almost Immediately in many lines of
industry.
Another thing that is going to help
business nightly in the opinion of
economists here is the $400,O00,OO0 or
more which the government soon will
pay the roads for rental during the
period of federal control
But this $4OO, 100000 to go from the
government to the roads, will hardly
be available in less than 80 days. When
it is, the months receipts is expected
to act as a stimulant to industry.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-31

Terms Personal
Liberty Argument
Only Soap Bubble

Washington Grove, Md, July 80.
Prohibition Commissioner Hayes,
speaking here today at the WASH
ington Grove summer assembly, de.
clarad, ''he is a short sighted Amer
lean who fails to see in the boot
logger Of today both the spirit of
the anarchist and the bolshevik."
The bootIegger, whether he be
in the highest or the lowest walks
Of iIfe," he said, sis In the last anaIy-
sis a law violator, and stripped Of
his social prestige and political in
fluences he Is criminal"
The personal liberty argument
against prohibition was described as
only "soap bubble" by Commits
sioner Hayes.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-31
Motorists Treated
to Real Wild West
Holdup at Williston

Wi1liston. N. D., July 3O.-six cow
boys, wearing chaps, spurs, and firing
forty-eight calibre revolvers 'held up'
sixty motorists who are making a
tour of the Roosevelt National Highway
from Duluth to Glacier park near here
at $50 o'clock Saturday, forcing them
to get out of their cars and line up,
John Heffernan, 63 year old COW
boy, led the group. The cowboys then
passed a hat and told trembling men
and women that it was all joke and
returned the $1.78 they collected from
their first victim.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-31
AVIATOR C0NQUERs
HIGHEST PEAK Of
SWISS MOUNTAINS
Dourafour, Daring Swiss Flyer,
Lands on Top of
Mount Blanc.

Chamonix, France, July 3O.-(By The
Associated Press. Mount Blanc, the
highest summit Of the Alps, was CON
quered Saturday by an aviator.
The successful airman was Durafour.
a Swiss flier, who had previously fail
ed in two attempts to land on the sum
NIT. Saturday, setting out from Lau-
same, he rose to great height and
ultimately effected landing on the
mountain peak 1892 feet above sea
level.
Taking off from the summit Dura-
four made a favorable descent. finally
landing at Chamois.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-31
Will Inform British
Of Experiences Of
Ocean Air Flight

London. July, 30.-Lieutenant Cliff
ford A. Tinker, q. s. n, has arrived
here and is arranging with the air
ministry the plans to keep the United
States and Great Britain informed of
the experiences Of tho big dirigible
airship s r., formerly the R-38
which has been purchased by the.
United States navy from Great Britain,
during its f1ikht to America. The
start u the flight is expected to take
placs ipfhe mi1le Of September
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-31
BANKERS SEARCH FOR WAY
TO SUPPLY AGRICULTURAL
DISTRICTS NEEDED CREDIT
Trarnway Car Plunges
1000 Feet Into Gulch;
Six Are Killed Instantly

Grand Junction, Colo, July 3O.-Six
men were killed and six others in
jured, three seriously. when tram
way car cable slipped out of the swivel
late Saturday q; fac Schuyler DOYLE
Shale company rE,nt, the Car. plum.
ing TO the floor Of the gu.ch, Two
the usand feet below.
The shale plant tram line is built
on seven per cent grade and the men
had just started from the plant to the
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-31
Greeks Land Troops
at Three Points on
Coast Of Anatolia

London, July 3O.-The Greeks have
made surprise landings at three points
on the Black sea of Anatolia. accord
ing to the Daily Nails Constantinople
correspondent. One objective was to
get behind the Turkish forces at Ismid
and cut off their retreat. It is also
thought probable the Greeks will push
southwark and harrass the retreating
right wing of the Turkish army.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-31
Mob Attacks Manager
of Traction Company

Bridgeport, Ohio, July 3O.-C. P.
Billings, manager of the Wheeling
Traction company, Wheeling, w. Va,
and his assistant Charles Marsh, were
arrested here Saturday night charged
with melting to riot, after they had
been beaten badly by crowd Of sew
eral score persons. The attack on the
two men is said to have grown out of
the arrest at Wheeling Of bus drivers
operating between Ohio and West Vir-
ginia.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-31

the traction company and operators of
bus lines has existed for some time
and the trouble is said to have started
following the appearance here of the
two men after it was reported that 20
bus drivers had been arrested at Wheel
ing.
Although efforts have been made to
obtain bail for Billings and Marsh, To-
cal authorities, it was said, declined to
give them a preliminary hearing to-
night. Both are confined in the city
lookup.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-31

valley when the cable parted. 1t is
believed some of them jumped while
the car was travelling at a tremendous
rate of speed. Their bodies were found
all along the route of the tram line
The scene of the accident is 3 miles
north of Grand Valley and 45 miles
from Grand Junction along Parachute
Creek
Information received here by tele-
phone was that the men were mostly
foreigners
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-31
VOTE TO CALL OFF STRIKE.

Portland, July 3O.-By a sweeping
vote the members of sailors, firemen,
cooks and stewards union branches of
Portland, Friday night decided to call
off the marine strike and return to
cork. These unions had refused to
!!l6in the mArine engineers when the
latter voted to discontinue the strike
two weeks ago.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-31
YOUTH VICTIM OF BANDITS.

New York, July 3O.-David Fund,
2h years old, of the Bronx, has the
distinction Of being New York's
youngest victim of holdup.
David was left in his baby carriage
outside a store Saturday while maid
went to make a purchase When she
returned the carriage and baby were
gone. Later the child vas found play
ing in the street minus his shoes and
perambpiator. q !.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-07-31
TWO KILLED IN AIR CRASH

Waukeean, H., July 30-Crasmng
500 feet to the earth in an airplane
which he had just purchased, Ralph
Stewart of Elgfn, was killed Saturday
and David Halumbo. pilot, was ssr-
iousH injured =. 49,
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14
HOW STEEL is MADE

In the two years since the end OF
hostilities in the World war, the coun-
tries suffering most from the conflict
have been importing steel TO the ex-
tent that their finances will permit /;
for this substance is needed to patch
the Industrial injuries inflicted by the
war. Some of the important methods
employed in the making of steel are
described in the following communi-
cation to the National Geographic
society. by William Joseph Showalter:
''An open-hearth furnace looks a
good deal like an ordinary bake-oven;
but when one looks in through the
water-cooled door, a vast difference
appears. Instead of pans of fra
grant, fat loaves of baking bread,
there is an imposing pool of fiery liq-
uid as bright as the filament of
high-power tungsten lamp. so dazzling
that it can be examined with safety
to the eyes only by those using col
ored glasses. Tinted here and there
with streaks of soft blue and dainty
pink, 1t looks like melted stick candy.
'sIn preparing a battery of open
hearth furnaces for a charge, finely
ground dolomite is shoveled in first.
This melts like glass and fills up all
cracks and crannies caused by the
powerful heat of the preceding charge.
Then little train rolls up before the
battery, and an electric crane dumps
box after box of scrap metal from the
cars into the furnaces. OFF some dis
tance is a great steel tank lined with
firebrick and full of liquid pig metal.
'swhen the scrap has melted and the
contents of the cauldron are cooked
enough; when the Impurities have
been driven out and tolled away. the
fiery broth is seasoned, as It were,
with the proper amount Of carbon,
spfegel. ferronanganese, tungsten, fer
rosilicon. vanadium, or whatever is
necessary to give the desired char
acter TO the resulting steel
eThen comes the tapping Of the fur
mace. An electric crane lifts great
iadle INTO position, a workman jams
q crowbar through a claypluGged hole
mt the base. and out flows the fren-
zled stream INTO the ladie. The slag
risp- 70 the top Ike oil on water and
overdows. congealing ON the outside
Of the ladle. Then the big crane picks
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14
run wild, like the wild asses of

run wild, like the wild asses of
Mesopotamia.'
THE Maya Indians, some of whom
still carry bows and arrows. inhabit
the flat costal plain south of The Yaqui
region along the River Maya. Ex-
ceilent laborerS, peacefully inclined,
many of the Mayas are trusted help
ers on American ranches and planta-
tions.
Most of the well-advertised brands
of wild men are fairly familiar to the
show-going American public. The
head hunter, the Pygmy. the Bushman
and his boomerang, are all old circus
acquaintances. But within 700 miles
of chaste and classic Los Angeles.
there dwells a lost tribe of savages
whose very name is known to but few
of us; for this tribe has never been
tanned, 'uplifted,' or even exhibited.
Yet 1t is older, perhaps, than the Az
tees; it may even be the last living
fragment of the American aborigines.
THE Seris, these strange people
are called, and they inhabit a lonely.
evil rock called Tihuron (Shark) is
land that lifts its hostile head from
the hot, empty waters of the Gulf of
California And all down this coast
the name of Tiburon is spoken with
shrug of the shoulders. for these
Seris are thieves and killers. 1t is
even whispered that long ago they
We're cannibals."
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14
EUGENICS AND OUR
IMMIGRATION LAWS

Recognition by congress that imml
grafton constitutes one of the great
est of the after-war problems of the
United States makes timely sugges-
ton in regard to controlling the great
influx Of foreigners to this country,
advanced by DR.. Alexander Graham
Bell, in communication to the Ma
tional Geographic society.
"Why should not congress provide
for an clinical survey of the people
of the United States." he asks.
1--WE should have definite and reli-
able information concerning those for
eign elements which are beneficial to
our people and those which are harm
full.
"The problem of improving race
of human beings is a most perplexing
one to handle. The process of i'm
provement must be slow where the
forces concerned act from within and
are not amenable to control from with
out. Under the best conditions it
would require several generations to
produce sensible results; but in the
United States we have, in the new
ulOOu introduced lTOln dDTOuu, dI I'LL
portant means of Improvement that
will act more quickly, and that is emil
nently susceptible to control. All the
nations of the world have been con-
trlbuting elements to our population
and we have now, and now only, the
opportunity of studying the process OF
absorption before it is complete.
1.-The grand spectacle is presented
to our eyes of new people being
gradually evolved in the United States
by the mingling together of the differ
ent races of the world in varying pro
portions. 1t is of the greatest conse
quence to us that the final result
should be the evolution of higher
and nobler type of man in America
and not deterioration of the nation.
''To this end the process of evolu.
tion should be carefully studied, and
then controlled by suitable immigra-
tion laws tending to eliminate unde-
sirable clinical elements, and to stim-
ulate the admission of elements as
simulated readily by our population.
and that tend to raise the standard
of manhood here"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14

up the iadle, swings 1t over to the
pouring platform, where 1t. In its turn
is tapped and its purified fluid run
off into molds.
Great care has to be taken in ham
ding these ladies, for the presence OF
few drops Of moisture Wien the
hot metal Is poured into one might
cause an explosion and loss Of life
Just before they receive the molten
metal the ladies are heated nearly
white hot in order that the steel or
iron may not chill in them.
"As fast as they nre filed the ladies'
are swung out over the ingot moldS
and the liquid steel Is run into them
and allowed to cool and take its solid
form. 1t is as If water were poured
into molds and set in refrigerating
machine to freeze into blocks Of lea
The only difference is that the 'freez-
ing point of steel is away above the
boiling point of wafer.
There are two other importnnt
types of steel furnaces-the crucible
furnace and the electric furnace. In
both of them the idea IS to keep all
hurtful gases and other Impurities out
and to regulate the addition of alloys
and oxygen destroyers to a nicety. In
a crucible furnace the metal is plnced
in graphite clay pots. covers are put
over them, and the pots subjected 10
great heat. Silica is gradually abb
sorbed out of the clay in the pots ana
transformed into silicon by coming
into contact With the carbon In the
steel. The silicon In its turn absorbS
the oxygen and thus quiets the froth-
ing. foaming contents of the kettle.
"The electric furnace acts in much
the same way, its heat being so pure
that there is no necessity of putting
the steel in covered pots to keep out
gases and other impurities. An cleo
trio arc, established between huge
electrodes and the surface OF the
Stag, produces the heat In such a
furnace. By varying the materials
used in the formation of the Stag amy
impurity can be worked off and the
glowing steel left as pure as crystal
The alloys are then mixed with the
steel and 1t is made fiji for any use
desired. 1t is drawn off into ladies'
and poured into ingot molds. where
it hardens, ready to be worked up In.
to those things that constitute the lass
word In fine steel"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14
MEXICO. A MODERN BABEL

President Obregon, who has Just
been installed as chief executive of
the Republic of Mexico, rules over
population of many tongues. This
multiplicity of languages is not due to
wholesale immigration as in the Unit
ed States, but to failure to "Mexi-
canize" a large part of the Indian
population. The causes of many of
the revolutions which have disturbed
the progress Of Mexico can be traced
to this diversity of tongues and the
differences in thought and ideals chat
necessarily follow.
"From Sonora to Yucatan more
than fifty separate dialects are
spoken" writes Frederick Slmpich in
a communication to the National Geo
graphic society.
"AII the Inhabitants of the West
Coast, however, with the exception
of some hill tribes of Indians can un-
derstand Spanish.
"Of these Indians the 5000 Yaquis
with their crude Bacatete hill forts,
their weird ceremonial masque dances
and their warlil1e attitude. are easily
most conspicuous. Many are enlisted
with the federal army or employed as
ranch hands and mine or railroad la
borers
"The Yaquis with the federal troops
are termed Manzos,' or tame Yaquis;
those in the hills, Wild and hostile,
are the 'Bronchos. The latter are a
vagrant lot, rohhing ranches for food
and animals, carrying rawhide drums
and wafer gourds wearing sandals Of
green cowskin-living by their wits.
Pressed by hunger. they subsist as
well on burros as beef.
'These burros. the short and sim
PIE animals Of the poor, thrive BY the
thousand on the West Coast. Many
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14
BESSARABIA: SHAPED LIKE
A PITCHER WITHOUT
A HANnJE
A HANDLE

ANOuuldhiu, SlhCS lile tOucluSlOl OF
the World war, the largest of the
states of southeastern Europe, owes
much of this increased area to its re-
cent annexation of Bessarabia, pre-
viously part of Russia.
Bessarabia, the former Russian
province lying between the Pruth and
the Dniester rivers. and bounded on
the south by the Danube and the
Black sea, might be likeued in shape
to tall, slim pitcher, without han
die. 1t is completely bounded by wa
ter except at very narrow point at
the mouth of the pitcher. The Dnies-
ter river forms the eastern boundary
of the province. Flowing out of the
crown lands at Galicia, the river runs
east in general direction for approx
mately fifty miles. Then it turns
southeast for ninety miles to Dniester
bay, an arm of the Black sea, some
fifteen miles from Odessa, Russias
principal port on. that inland body OF
water. The Pruth river, flowing out
of Galicia, runs east for about twenty
miles, then turns southeast for hun
dred and ten miles, and then slightly
west of south to its confluence with
the Danube.
Bessaraba is little smaller than
Vermont and New Hampshire togeth
er. Its greatest length is 275 miles,
while its greatest width is 175. 1t is
mostly fiat, except for some we'll
wooded off-shoots of the Carpathian
mountains in the northwest. 1t might
be said to be the vineyard of Russia,
being a great producer of wine. The
population of 2,5O0,000 is made up OF
Modavians, Little Russians, Poles
Roumanians. Bulgarians, Jews, Arme.
mans, Greeks, and Tartars. More
than 100000 of the Inhabitants live
on the soil. The capital is Kishinef,
which is located almost at the center
of the province. To the west of Bes.
saraba lies Roumanian Moldavia. and
to the east the Russian province OF
Podolia and Kherson.
The original inhabitants of Bessa.
raba are believed to have been Gin.
merans. after whom came the Scyth
ians. Because it was the key to one
of the approaches toward the empire
of Byzantium, the province was in.
vaded by many successive races dur
| ing the early centuries of the Chris
| tian era. Trajan Incorporated it with
| the province of Dacia, and in the next
century the Goths poured into it, to
| be followed in turn by the Huns, and
Avars, and the Bulgarians.
In the seventh century a Thraclan
tribe, known as the Bessi, settled
| there and gave to the land its name
Between I'LL and 1872 it was the
great bone of contention between the
Ottoman Turks ard the Russians,
The Russians lost and recaptured II
| five times in that century. After the
| Napoleonic wsrs, it was definitely an.
nexed to Russia, and its frontier
pushed southwark so as TO include
| the delta of the Danube.
As a result of the Crimean war,
Moldavia was given Dobrudja and
other territory, but under the treaty
of Berlin in 1878, following Russia's
mastery of Turkey and the congress
of Berlin. Russia secured all of the
territory east of the river Pruth. Bes-
sarabia remained a part of Russia
from that time until the dismember-
ment of the cars empire, following
the Russian revolution.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1921-01-14
5@GA
G(z[alG[lCES5

LeKe bOyu was IN Denver IhurS-
day on business.
John Hull is in Denver resting
up after his illness.
w. s. Leebrick spent Thursday
in Denver on business.
Mrs. John Puckert spent several
days in the city this week.
Frank Heilig was a passenger to
Golden Thursday morning.
Eva Mae Kibbee returned to
Golden Thursday afternoon.
Ina Phillips Of Dumont is visit
ing in Denver for some time.
Mrs. Fl. E Miner of Lawson was
in the city Wednesday on business.
"Mike" Moscript was passen-
ger for Denver Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. ]. W. B. Smith was in Dem
yer shopping between trains Fri
day.
Come and see the funniest man
in Clear Greek county. Opera
House Feb. I.
Irving Stranb came from Fort
Collins last evening, planning to
return Saturday.
Mrs. Julia Smith and son, Cor
don, left for Denver Thursday
afternoon for visit.
Mrs. G. E. Carpenter will enter
tain a few friends at her home on
Wall street this evening.
Louis Oliver left Thursday morn
ing for Denver where he will at
tend the state legislature.
Miss Abbie Petticrew expects to
spend the weekend with her par
ents in Wheatridge, Colo.
County Superintendent Eliza
beth Gleason visited in the upper
end of the county Thursday.
G. A Beach of the Dainty Shop,
left for Denver Wednesday after
noon on a short business trip.
w. A. Sinner left for New York
Friday morning. Mr.. Sinner has
been here on mining business.
B A. Holley came down from
Georgetown Thursday afternoon
for short visit with his family.
Don't come Feb. 7, unless you
want to laugh and see something
really up to date, clever and inter
esting.
Fred Sher, who has been in
Salt Lake City for some time, is
expected to return to Idaho Springs
next week.
Mrs. T. Fl. Parramore, who has
been visiting Mrs. w. G. Cribbis,
left for her new home in Denver
Friday morning.
Alfred LeProwse returned to
Evans ranch Wednesday, having
spent the past two weeks with his
sisters in this city.
II h e performers are working
themselves to death-but what do
they care? It's for the library and
the library needs the money.
Mrs. W. M. Taylor Of Denver,
who is visiting her mother, Mrs.
W F Elliott Of this city, was a
visitor in Dumont Thursday.
If you want an interesting even
ing of drama, comedy, music and
laughter follow the crowd to the
Opera House to the vaudeville,
Feb. 7.
Mrs. Dottie Taylor left for Jen-
nings, Kansas, Thursday morning.
She was accompanied as far as
Denver by her sister in law, Mrs.
james Dunlap.
Mrs. John G. Roberts returned
to her home in Denver "Wednesday
afternoon, having visited with her
daughter, Mrs. T. NJ. Roberts,
since Saturday.
Mrs. George E. Bowen, who has
had Miss Opal Murray from Wash
ington, D. G., visiting her, left
Thursday morning for Denver to|
see her guest off for the east.