davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bozeman courier., 1921-09-28
en- the days of Bakers bunk are no
longer with US.
EVENTS WORTH REMEMBERING

September is the second anniver-
sary of the Boston police strike. Two
years ago Lit of the 1,544 Boston
patrolmen left their beats and aban-
doned the city to the lawless ele-
ments. Some damage was done, but
the prompt response of the citizens
to the call for assistance, and the
equally prompt action of Governor
Coolidge, now vice president, in call
ing the Massachusetts militia to do
police duty, saved the city from a
reign of terrorism. So far as the
striking policemen We're concerned,
murders might have been committed
and property destroyed without him
drance on their part.
Mr.. Gompers encouraged the strik-
ers, and did his utmost to have them
restored to their positions on the
force, but to this day not one of them
has been reinstated The result is
that Boston has the best police force
in it's history. The men are younger,
they are better educated, a majority
of them are veterans of the war with
wider knowledge of leadership and
self control. 1t was one of the most
menacing strikes that ever descended
upon community, and was most eff
fectively broken by an outraged citi-
zenry.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-09-28
LUMBER PRICES LOW.

The lumber industry has passed
through deflation process which has
been drastic but complete.
Douglas fir mill prices in Oregon
and Washington are today on an sv-
erage about S16 for the mill run as
against a maximum of SAT fifteen
months ago. In 1913 the price was
about $13.
The bulk of the product of the lum-
Der Industry is now being marketed
under peculiarly adverse conditions.
When Douglas fir, considerable
quantities of which are required in
the New York markets, reaches that
market on a freight rate of $1.065 per
800 pounds, which has been the rate
for the past year (the average ship
ping weight for fir lumber being q
400 to 5000 pounds per thousand
feet), it is apparent that of the cost
Of average mill run Douglas fir de-
livered in. New York, more than 90
per cent is transportation cost and
less than 40 per cent is cost of the
lumber at the mill.
This is not an exceptional but a
distinctly typical situation in the lum-
Der industry. It cannot be avoided be-
cause lumber can be manufactured
only where the trees grow in mer
cantable size and quantity. The long
haul to the main consuming markets
IS unavoidable, because lumber from
nearby sources of supply is not suffi
fient in quantity to meet the require
ments of eastern markets.
A representative percentage in
crease in the mill price of lumber fol
the United States, using the 191:
price as the base, would today be il
the neighborhood of 20 to 30 per cen
for the lumber industry as a whole
The west coast lumbermen hav
been using the Panama canal as
means of supplying their eastern ter
ritory and state that the question 0
Canal tolls is a vital issue from tn
standpoint of the Pacific coast lum
Der industry and it's inter-coasts
trade.
Lumber in Oregon and WashingtO
pays about go per cent Of all wage
and is closely linked with the pro:
: perity of the northwest. Stability {
the industry today depends upon il
ability to extend is markes and ocea
shipmens are one of its fundament'
problems under existing conditions.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-09-28
Hitting Obe Nail on Obe Head
NNNNNNNNNNXNNxxXXN ESsXxxxxxXXxXXXxX

Tcurtailing profits. Employees and en-
ployers have tried too long to settle
their controversies by discussing their
differences. 1 believe that these ques-
tions will not be settled until en-
ployers and employees go back of the
question of wages and profits and
discuss the more fundamental ques-
tions of the service which industry
should render to the public and the
permanent reward which should come
to both employer and employe as a
result Of their labor or their capital"
America is today demanding that
men who have successfully managed
their private affairs, Mr.. Lester as
serted, be named as public officials
to apply the same principles of econ
omy to the management of the ma
tion's business. He cited as an exam
pie the appointment by President
Harding of General Charles G. Dawes
of Chicago as director of the bud
get, mot because of his public ca
reer. but because of his private sue
cess"
eve are coming to realize" he said
"that no institution is too sacred to
manage its affairs on a sound econ
dmic basis. The time will come
when we will have the courage to say
that if schools and clubs and churches
and other social institutions overlap
each other in their activities and
thereby waste public money we should
apply the same test of economy to
them that are applying to government
and that is applied to commercial busi
ness.
"This question of managing our
personal affairs successfully, and Of
saving some part of our incomes may
be the key to the solution of the great
economic questions Of this nation. The
uneven distribution of the nation;
wealth has been the everlasting econ.
omic controversy Of the human race
We all agree that the economic
strength of the nation does not depend
upon the number Of millionaires, bu
iupon the number of small savers, anC
personally, / am not so much inter
ested in reducing the fortunes of tht
few people who have accumulated
great wealth, as l am in increasing
the savings of the many people wh
have not accumulated anything"
Reviewing the campaign conducte,
by the Treasury Department sine
Americas entrance into the world t
, inculcate in the people of this cOuntr
. the need of systematic saving an
! wise investment of their funds, MI
: Lester said,
e "There are three great economi
= lessons which the American peopl
still have to learn. The first is tha
d economy is respectable. The secon
The Bozeman courier., 1921-09-28

is that saving money is essential to
q sound and complete economic sys-
tenn. The third is that knowledge of
safe investment is necessary to per-
sonal success. 1 know of nothing which
has contributed more to the national
sentiment for thrift in America than
the purchase through the postoffices
of small government securities -
Thrift Stamps, War Saving Stamps,
and Treasury Savings Certificates
have been the means of starting
thousands to save who had never
saved before. 1t is the desire of the
Treasury Department that the pur-
chase of these securities shall be kept
up both as a benefit to the govern
ment in raising revenue and as a ben
efeit to the people as a medium of
SAVING and safe investment of their
money.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-09-28
NEW DAY IN AMERICA.

That new day will dawn in Amer.
lca Tor both capital and labor when
bic lesson of thrift has been learned
and IS properly applied in industry
was the contention of Orrin Lester.
acting director of savings of the
treasury department, in an address
before the annual convention of the
international Lyceum and Chautau-
qua association. Financial indepen-
denee OF the average citizen, Mr.. Les
ter said, IS just as necessary to hu-
man happiness and a perfect democ-
racy as political independence.
When industry recognizes that
saving money is essential to a COM
plete industrial SYSTEM" continued
Mr.. Lester, "we shall have a new
standard by which to determine
wages and profits and new basis
upon which to approach industrial
controversies. This question of saw
ing money effects the very fabric Of
our industries, and is just as essen
tial to the welfare of the nation to-
day as during the period of the war
emergency.
"Men who lead mobs in violation of
the law and the soap-box orator who
condemns the institutions of our coun-
try are not the owners of homes and
Of Liberty bonds, and they do not
have bank accounts. This thing we
call bolshevism cannot live in the
sT9ht Of 100 per cent democracy,
and I cannot think of any better ex-
ample that good Americans can set
for the bolshevist;c element in this
country than that we establish con-
dition Of universal financial indepen-
dence by creating capital in the hands
of all good Americans through the
process Of Systematic saving Of mon
ey."
Need of the revival of the spirit OF
1918, when the wage earners anC
small savers of America invested
nearly one billion dollars in the small
government securities, was emphasiz
ed by Mr.. Lester. Winning the war
rs said, was then the great incentive
which prompted the people to re-
spond so generously and wholeheart
edly to the governments appeal
Some peace time slogan must bC
found, he suggested, which will agail
arouse the people to the necessity c.
systematic saving and wise spending
THE success which men and WON
en- have at a job or in a business,
Mr.. Lester continued cannot b
measured by how much they earn, bu
how much they save. Earnings ar
transient, savings are permanent. w
can never settle the industrial cor
troversies Of a nation by raising an
reducing wages or by increasing an
The Bozeman courier., 1921-09-28
WHY NOT COPPER WEEK.

What would happen if every family
IN the United States would make a
single purchase Of q copper utensil
useful in tie average home, once a
month for four months?
The cost in money would be small
per family. The value received in
the copper article would be large, for
it would serve a lifetime of useful
ness.
The effect upon the copper mining
industry, which is now stagnant,
would be remarkable. Tens of thous-
ands Of men would be put back to
work. Millions would be distributed
in payrolls and the wheels of one of
the greatest employing industries
would again begin to turn, bringing
prosperity to many states.
Every family needs a copper wash
boiler, a copper teakettle, a copper
stew pan, copper lamp, a set Of
copper andirons or any one of dozens
Of copper or brass articles that can
be used to advantage and convenience
in every home in the land.
We have had raisin week, orange
week, prune week, moving picture
week, electrical week and week for
almost everything under the sun.
Somebody should suggest copper week
and help in the resumption Of opera
ton of one Of the vests greatest en-
ploying industries.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-09-28
BAKERS ERROR EXPOSED.

General Pershing has gone to
France to bring back the body of an
unidentified American soldier for n
terment with solemn ceremonies at
Arlington national cemetery. 1t is
reported that there are 1900 uniden-
titled bodies buried in American cem-
eteries in France, one of which VII
be selected for transfer to this coun-
try. This fact reminds US that on
August z6th, 1919, an official state
ment was given out to the effect that
all casualty lists had been checked
and only two American soldiers re-
manned unaccounted for. Thank heav
The Bozeman courier., 1921-09-28
BANKS PROTECT COMMUNITY.

Never were banks doing a greater
service to the community than during
this era of lawlessness when robbeires
of all kinds are prevalent.
The less money person carries
with him or keeps in his house, the
better. Petty stealing, burglary and
robbery are among the most despi-
cable crimes, and are usually commit
The Bozeman courier., 1921-09-28

teristic Judgment. All these repre-
sentatives will be found working hon
estly and effectually for promotion
of peace and economy in a practical
way.-St. Louis Times.
The Bozeman courier., 1921-09-28

Mrs. F. M. Byrne, Mrs. l. P Der
fenderfer, and Mrs. Roy Nelson were
in Bozeman from Belgrade last Sat
urday doing some shopping.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-01
n!NM&Mark@tRpoFt5
GRAIN

CHICAGO, Nov. 30.-The wheat market
today exhibited considerable action during
the morning session but business was quiet
later in the session. The start was lower
on continued liquidation but the market met
with good buying by commission houses and
locals on the dip and sharp rally ensued.
The bulge lasted until just before midday
when a break of &c to As in cash wheat pre-
mums at Minneapolis induced some Of the
longs to part with their holdings. After
midday commission houses had May for sale
above ST. but they bought it back after
a moderate recession and this kept prices
fluctuating around previous level.
Seaboard is bullish and all of the new
emanating from there favored that side of
the market. Australian and Argentine crop
prospects were reported less glowing. Man
churia was asking for offers of wheat. Min
neapolis wheat stocks increased 100000
bushels. Domestic milling demand was SLOW.
Cash wheat premiums were half cent better
for hard winter. Weather southwest ,unfa-
Sorable for winter wheat crop.
Wheat closed firm. to 212c net higher.
Corn followed the trend of wheat on
limited scale. Liquidation was on in corn
but heavy short covering and commission
house buying gave the market enough sup
port to keep prices a slight fraction over
the previous close. There was a broader
shipping demand in evidence for corn most
~ from seaboard exporters. Country offer
ings to arrive were light. Seaboard reported
500, 900 bushels of corn taken for export.
In oats December was depressed because
of liquidation but May met with good buy
ing especially by an elevator interest. Cash
premiums were higher. Shipping demand
was slow.
Provisions showed little change. Packers
Ill lorI 10 nm
turn. Deliveries of 100000 pounds of lard
were made on Novmeber contracts this
morning.
CHICAGO QUOTATIONS
The following were the r1IIng prices in
the exchange today:
= Prev.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-01
ALABAMA RAILWAY
OFFERED To FORD

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Nov. 29.-It
has just been made public that Hen
ry Ford, bidder for the Muscle Shoals
project, has been offered the charter
and rights, including the survey
made years ago, of the Mobile and
Western Alabama railroad.
In the event Ford gets the Muscle
Shoals project this railroad would
give him an outlet from Muscle
Shoals to the head of navigation of
the Warrior river, direct to the Gulf
of Mexico by Mobile.
L. A. May, president Of the road,
has announced that he has made
Mr.. Ford an offer of the road, md
that reply has been received that
the road will be investigated at the
proper time. 1t has been learned
here that agents of Henry Ford have
investigated the minerals and nat
ural resources of Alabama, and for
this reason it is believed that Mr..
Ford will accept the offer of the
railroad.
The railroad, which was never
built, was surveyed by the state of
Alabama at a cost of $4,000. The
charter is still alive and the road
owns most of the right of way at this
time. The survey starts at Flor
ence, near Muscle Shoals, and runs
through the counties of Lauderdale,
Colbert, Lawrence, Winston, Fay
EFT, Walker, Tuscaloosa and reaches
Birmingham by branch road.
Southwark the survey goes through
the counties of Hale, Marengo, Clark,
Choctaw, Washington and on to Mo-
bile. The total lentgh of the road
is $50 miles.
The estimates of constructing the
road number of years ago were
$14, 341 ,495.02.
Plans of this road have been sent
to Mr.. Ford, and it is understood
here that his agents will commence
an investigation of the road within a
short time.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-01
ANTITRUST LAW
BREACH IS CHARGED

NEW YORK, Nov. 29.-The feder-
al grand jury late Monday returned
an Indictment charging fifty-one in
diViduals and fifty-three corporations
in the window glass industry with
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law. Joseph M. Neeran, president of
the National Glass Workers union,
also was indicted on similar charges.
In naming President Neenan, the
Indictment charges conspiracy be-
tween the labor union and the glass
producers to limit production, there
by enabling the defendants to arbi-
trarily maintain excessive prices for
the commodity.
The Johnson Brokerage company,
an alleged selling agency, also was
named in the Indictment. This
agency, the Indictment declares, was
part of "a price scheme to enable
the defendants to combine, to dictate
terms of sale and to eliminate COM
petition;" that the Indictment of Mr..
Neenan, according to William Hay
ward, federal district attorney, will
test the validity of provisions of the
Clayton act and the civil sundries
service bill extending immunities to
labor organizations under the anti
trust laws.
The corporation defendants named
are located in Delaware, West Viz
ginia, Indiana, New Jersey, Wyo-
ming, Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, Louisiana, Oklahoma ana
Texas. They include, Mr.. Hayward
declared, the leading window glass
manufacturers of the United States
and about two-thirds of the window
glass industry.
The defendants are all charged
generally with a combination ana
conspiracy to suppress competition,
to maintain arbitrary, excessive and
extortionate prices, to curtail the
production and supply of window
glass and arbitrarily to control the
sale, shipment and delivery of win
dow glass into the southern district
of New York, as well as in other
parts of various states.
For the purpose of effectually car
rying out the alleged conspiracy to.
arbitrarily fix excessive lN'ices, it is
charged an agreement was entered
into with the labor union of the Ma
tional Window Glass Workers
through Mr.. Neenan, whereby the
quantity to be produced annually by
each of said manufacturers, the
period within which the manufacture
ers were to operate their plants and
factories and the amount to be man.
ufactured by each of the employees
were predetermined and prescribed.
1t is alleged further that in pursu-
ance of this agreement, the employees
did not engage their services to any
manufacturer who did not sign the
so-called "wage scales" and that as
soon as manufacturer had produc-
ell the amount of window glass pre-
scribed in the scale. the employees
were Withdrawn and that fines and
penalties were imposed upon the en-
rloyes by their union for violation
of this agreement.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-01
Invitation to Joffre
Figures in Chicago
Libel Suit Hearing

CHICAGO, Nov. 29.-Mayor Will
liam Hale Thompson. of Chicago,
did not classify Chicago as the
"sixth German city in the world"
his attorney, David H. Jackson, de-
clared in his argument before David
M. Brothers of the circuit court, on
the demurrer of the mayor in the
latter's 100000 libel suit against
the Chicago Tribune.
That language was quoted in
newspapers here as having been
used by the mayor during an inter-
view concerning his refusal to in
vite Marshal Jeffre to become the
guest of the city.
Judge Brothers took part in the
discussion when Attorney Jackson,
reading quotations from the Tribune
article which formed the basis for
the mayors suit came to the al
legged quotations "the sixth German
city"
"Is it your contention" asked the
judge, that he didn't say it?"
YES, it is" replied Attorney Jack
son.
Attorney Weymouth kirkland
here interjected that "there were
six people present when he said it,
The court also Questioned Attor.
ney Jackson on the latter's argu.
ment that Mayor Thompson declin-
ed to invite Marshal Joffre's party
to Chicago because precedent re.
quired that, the invitations come
from the city council.
did he ask the council to in.
vite them?" asked Judge Brothers.
The answer was a negative.
Attorney Jackson said more than
once reporters had "coaxed" Mayor
Thompson into making statements
that would suit their own purposes.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-01
COTTON

NEW YORK, Nov. S0.-An opeing ad-
vance Of to IA points on firmer Liverpool
cables and higher foreign exchange rates
met scattered southern and New Orleans
selling on complaints of a continued poor
trade demand or unfayorable reports from
the goods market, and prices soon turned
easier with January selling off from II 80
to II 40, and March from II As to 1882, or
about to 6 points net lower. Liverpool ca
bles reported a steadier market there be-
cause of covering and small offerings and
added that there was very little cotton Of
fered from the south.
The early decline was followed by ralles'
owing to an upward turn in Liverpool, &C
Ecompanied by reports of a better tone in
Ntanche ster There was also covering by
December shorts in the local markt which
sent the price up from 1880 to 1900, or
81 points ret higher, and the strength of
the near position revived rumor5 that leading
trade interests were preparing to take up
considerable cotton EeXt month. General
business remained quiet, but offrings were
light, with January advancing tc 1':15c ana
March to 1860, or % to 90 points net
higher.
No fresh feature developed during the ear
" afternoon and trading remained very
auiet. with prices ruling around 1888 for
January, or about Z points net higher.
NEW YORK COTTON
The following were the ruling prices In
the exchange today:
Tone. steady; middling, 1S.O5c; quiet.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-01

should be accorded directly by gov
ernmentS.
''The conference makes the follow
ing recommendations
"An international organization
should be formed and placed at the
disposal of states desiring to have
resort to credit for the purpose of
paying for their essential imports.
These states would then give no.
tice Of the assets they are prepar-
ed to pledge as security for the sake
of obtaining these credits and would
come to an understanding with the
international organization as to the
conditions under which these assets
would be administered. The bonds
issued against this guarantee would
be used as collateral for credits in
tended to cover the cost of com.
modities.''
The United States of course being
a creditor nation does not have to
guarantee the assets of it's own
business men, but is deeply inter
ested in seeing some guarantee made
by the governments of other coun-
tries with which American export
ers do business.
StuD6IluOuS HASH
Obviously the extension of credit
by an American merchant to a bust
ness man in Austria would be a
risky thing, but if the government
of Austria issues a guarantee which
in turn is protected by all the avail
able assets of Austria, the risk to the
Amer ican business man would be
minimized.
This plan has been approved in
Great Britain and France, but with
out the membership of the United
States the whole fiscal situation has
been held in allegiance. Senator
Hitchcock, of Nebraska, has been
active in urging a solution and has
brought forward a plan for an inter
national bank through which the
whole world could clear it's bust
ness.
The task is stupendous and the
remedy will not be found at once.
incidentally the Harding admins
tration is waiting patiently for the
senate to pass the funding bill
which has already passed the house.
This would give to a commission DIP
pointed by the president power to
negotiate with foreign governments
with respect to payments of prin-
cipal and interest on "-ar debts.
The important suep, however, of
consulting with the other govern
ments of the world. probably includ-
ing Germany, has been taken.
1t is an epoch-making event in the
era of reconstruction.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-12-01
Morse's Transactions
With Shipping Board
To Go to Grand Iurv

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3O.-The
government is preparing today be-
fore a federal grand jury here on
December the results of it's inves-
LEGATION in connection with certain
transactions between Charles w.
Morse and the shipping board.
Reports have been current in
Washington and New York for some
time that the government was con-
templating grand jury proceeding.
Shipping board officials would
make no announcement today on
the ground that they had no right
to talk about a contemplated grand
jury proceeding. Fletcher Dobyns,
special assistant attorney general,
attached to the shipping board, how
ever, when asked regarding the re-
port, would say no more than that
the case would be presented.
The report which has been cur
rent has said that others besides Mr..
Morse would be involved So far
there is no confirmation of that.