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The New York herald., 1921-01-19
INVESTIGATING BODIES
GET TIME EXTENSIONS
Additional Appropriations
Granted by Senate.
AeecinI Despatch 20 THE Nrw YoRK HraALp.
New York Herald Bureau.
! Albany. Ian. IL [

AeccinI Despatch 20 THE Nrw YoRK HraALp.
New York Herald Bureau.
Albany, Jan. 1s.
Most OF the investigating committees
created in the last two years with In
s,ructlons 10 report 90 the Legislature
received extensions of time and addi-
tIonal appropriations to-day from tho
senate. Under the resolution introduced
by Majority Leader Lusk. the Davon-
port taxation committee is TO be con-
flnued until March ], 1922 and receives
$4,000. After the session the COMMITTEES
will carry out a request OF Gov. Miller
that the present inequalities In the tax
laws be eliminated.
An extension Of time was given "a
the Mulian committee. which is in
vestigating teachers salaries; TO the
knight committee. which Is recodfyina
the labor laws and drafting the Gov
ornor's bills TO reorganize The State
Industrial Commission, and TO the Joint
legislative Highway Committee. Tho
knight committee Is to get 5000 and
the Highway Committee $500.
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
CUSTER OF SOCIALIST
SOUGHT AT ALBANY
Assemblyman lager Called a
Resident of NetD Jersey.

Special Despatch to THE NEW York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Albany, Jan. is.
subcommittee Of the Assembly Ju-
dietary Committee was appointed to-day
to investigate the eligibility of the So
cialist Assemblyman Henry lager OF
Brooklyn, who is charged. IN a resolu-
tion by Assemblyman Rowe, with being
resident OF New Jersey. The resolu-
tion also states that Jager should not be
allowed TO sit because OF his conv ction
OF the charge that he had declared the
President OF the United States was a
murderer.
The resolutions asking for the GUST
ing of the other two Socialist Assembly
men, Solmon and Orr. will be considered
BY the full committee, and II ls expected
that . report will be made next Tues
day
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
WOULD AMEND PENAL CODE.

The Board OF Aldermen adopted yes
feriay the resolution Of Alderman G. III.
Roberts asking the Legislature 10 amend
the Penal Code 80 as 20 make robbery
committed with revolver punishable
With life imprisonment
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
BILL TO STOP LEAKS
FROM GRAND yURIES
Measure to Cut off Enrighfs
Neus Sources.

Special Despatch to THE NEW York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
Albany Jan. IS.
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
BILL VESTS INQUIRY
POWERS IN GOVERNOR
No Charges Needed to Start
an Investigation.

Special Despatch to THE NEw YORK HERALD.
New York Eernid Bureau.
Albany. Ian. IA. {
The New York herald., 1921-01-19
HAMoN MURDER TRIAL MAR. s.

ARpMoRE, Okla. Jan. 1s.-The trial of
Mrs. Clara Smith Hamon. at liberty
on bond. charged with murder in confiec-
tion with the death of Jake L. Hamon
has been set for March s, in the District
Court of Carter county.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
AIRPLANE PATROL AGAIN
PROMISED

Missoula-The assistance that the
army will lend its facilities for air
patrols of the forest of the north
west this year, come from Wash
ington, D. c., from the war depart
ment and the assistant foresters.
Missoula is to be the general base
for planes that are to be stationed
IN other cities in this national forest
district. Daily flights are to be
made to watch for fires.
The forest service men who have
been detailed to take course in fly
ing at Mather field have been order
ed to report there. Those from this
district are A. P. Townsend, A. ],
Devon, Fred Wilfong and j. p Brown
Plans were made for the air patrol
work in the forests Of this region fol
1920, but nothing was accomplished
as the planes were not made available
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
THE PRESIDENT ELECT AND
CABINET.

(From Spokane Spokesman Review !
The New York Journal of Com
merce thinks at may easily turn out
that the new cabinet viii consist of
minor political figures whose eX-
perience is limited and whose influ-
ence outside their own localities has
not been demonstrated"
President-erect Harding is enc0un-
tering some difficulties, it seems, in
the disinclination of number Of
prominent personalities to make what
they consider the sacrifice Of going
into the cabinet. Ex-Governor Char
les Evans Hugher, for instance,
is reported to be reluctant to give
up his highly remunerative law prac-
tice for a cabinet salary of $4,000 a
year. A number of senators are cab
! met material, but they prefer, for the
most part, to stay in the senate.
Either Senator Poindexter or Sena-
tor Jones would bring strength to
the administration, but both instant
ly and firmly dismissed the sugges-
ton when it was preached to them
by friends who volunteered their
support in that connection.
Citizens who have met Mr.. Hard
ing since the election have been inn
pressed by his obvious and earnest
desire to surround himself with adj
visers Of known ond high attain
ments. It goes without saying that
a cabinet made up of. such men as
MIR. Hughes, Mr.. Root, Senator Johr
W. Weeks, Major General Wood, Her
bert Hoover and Governor Joseph II
Dixon Of Montana would inspire con
fidence because of their recognized
ability, and at the same time, par
ticularly in the cases of Genera
Wood and Herbert Hoover, create ;
mere favorable impression POLITICAL.
among their many thousands of al
. mirers.
This is matter wherein the pres
ident-elect has a right to make a
insistent summons in every instanc
where he is. convinced that the tai
e ents of any particular cabinet posi-
: bility are needed in the nationa
service. If, for instance, he shout
believe, after his careful weighing o
all possibilities, that Governor Dixo
Of Montana, all things considered
best meets the requirements of tn
interior department, it would becom
Pthe plain patriotic duty of Governo
DiXon's friends in Montana to re
lease him for national service. Gu
common country has the first an
highest call upon us. That cal
transcends state lines and mere locs
interests, no matter how important.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
STATE 01LMEN NOW ORGANIZED

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT first oil con
ventiOn came to an end Saturday
night. after a permanent association
had been effected, a legislative pro-
crom decided upon and Lewistown
made the organizations headquarters.
More than 400 people, practically all
Of them interested in the oil industry
IN some way, attended the evening
session.
Glenn Kahl Of Winnett was elected
president; +. X. Whine of Billings,
vice president; E. f. Cobb, Lewistown,
secretary and treasurer. The mem
bers Of the executive committee are:
Robert Mott, Billings; gu. Wiedeman
Lewistown; Hugh Wells, Miles City
Judge Charles Dousman, Baker; Geo
Fowler, Butte; A. A. Morris, Roun-
up; Julius Peters, Great Falls.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
THE ABUSE OF PUBLIC TRUST

The revelations that are coming
almost daily from the senate COM
mittee investigating the coal situa-
ton are startling in the extreme.
Official graft, careless inefficiency,
and lack of adequate supervision over
the actions of subordinates have all
conspired to create an artificial coal
valuation, aside from the direct bur-
den put upon the government in
the payment of excessive. prices for
its fuel. 1t appears that erroneous
predictions of coal shortage have
been published by government de-
partments, with the result that in
dustrial managers have bid against
each other in a feverish attempt to fill
their own coal dumps before the sup
ply was exhausted. Doubtless the
coal dealers themselves have taker
advantage of their opportunities anC
accepted profits out of all reason.
But the remedy for all this is no.
federal control of the coal industry
If the laws now On the statute books
are vigorously enforced, and homes
and capable men placed in position
Of responsibility, there will be no nee
of turning to other means for re
lief. The gouging in coal prices {
which the people have been subjec
is due primarily to President Wilso
himself for his obstinancy in appoint
ing and keeping in office men @
demonstrated incapacity or unwilling
ness to exert themselves in The pul
lies welfare.
Perhaps the most notorious Of thos
+ who have proved faithless to the
trust is Attorney General Palmer. 4
energetic administration of the d
partment of justice would hay
, brought sufficient indictments amor
: dishonest federal officials and pr
vate coal profiteers to have stru,
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
CONGRESS AND THE ARMY

(From the Chicago Tribune)
Congress has fixed the size of the
American regular army at 175,000
men. The senate added $4,000 to the
number at which it had fixed the regu
lar troops and the house accepted the
revised estimate of the needed
strength. Gen. Pershing advised that
the number be not less than 100000,
and Secretary Baker was opposed to
the congressional reductions.
Congress did not consider the mill
tary needs. 1t does not know that TO-
600 men will be enough.-Its sources
of information are in the war depart
ment and it did not heed them. The
congressman have no way of know
ing military requirements. They tall
considerable nonsense in discussing
military matters, as Senator Reed
did when he said Great Britain would
keep Japan off the United States.
That might be true and it NIGH
not be, Mr.. Reed assumes it is ans
votes accordingly. There is an guild
ing thought such opinion as Borahs
that the army is wanted to polic'
the Unied States, the suggestion
that the soldiers are to tramp dow
the people.
1t is upon such a plane that consid
GRAFTON of American military require
ments proceeds in congress. just q
present congress wants to make
record in economy and m$ke it wher
it will do the congressman the leas
HARM The army il the least profit
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26

postwar smash in prices have taught
the dry land farmers as well as all
the other kinds more about the in
dustry.
In the division in population above
discussed the rural is set off against
the urban. But a more vital divis-
ion was made some months ago in
figures showing the number Of people
in farming regions as against those
in the cities, when it appeared that
there are about five million more Of
the former, or a change of eleven
million during ten years. If the
drouths and the rotten prices con-
tinue to discourage farming, ten years
hence there will be a far greater and
more disproportionate change.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
u" PRESIDENT SLAMS PAPERS

Missoula-The sharp reply Of Presi
dent E. 0. Sisson Of the State uni
versity here to charges made in the
Nissoulian, the Helena Independent
and other state papers regarding the
alleged prevalence of socialism among
university professors has intensified
the feeling with regard to the contrO-
versy.
President Sisson's denial that Ar
thur Fisher ever advised his class in
the law school to vote for B. X. Wheel
er for governor is supported by
cveryamember of the class. The law
school association has adopted reso-
TUTORS refuting the charges which the
newspapers made. Commenting upon
this mis-statement on the part of the
papers, President Sisson said: "Nei-
Their of the papers which have, ORR
cinated these attacks took steps to
verify what they were going to print,
although a local telephone call would
have reached a responsible officer Of
The institution at any time"
The local newspaper situation IS
said to have precipitated the contro-
vcrsy. Professor Fisher, the son of
Walter Fisher, secretary of the in
terror in the Taft cabinet, is reported
To have raised funds in Chicago for
the maintenance of the New North
west, a paper established here by
the late DR.. E. 3. Craighead, former
president of the university. PROBES
s,r Fisher and Professor n. J. Len
mes are said to have aided the New
Northwest by obtaining funds for il
locally.
Both sides to the controversy have
adherents locally and the battle is
still raging President Sisson's de
claration that such charges injured
the standing of the university hai
attracted general attention.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
Hitting the Nail on the Head
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able institution to a congressman.
He gets little out of it. He can
not satisfy many activities or in
dustries by helping it. Shipbuilding
trades and corporations are for a big
navy. They want to build ships.
Ships require shipyards and seaboard
communities fight to get shipyards
and TO retain them. That gives the
congressman an incentive to be for
shjpbuilding.
Re needs none to be for public
buildings and for rivers and harbors.
Industries and localities demand ap-
preparations for them and the con-
gresham is glad to give them. It
is only when a necessary but friend
less institution such as the army
needs funds that the congressman
devotes himself ruthlessly to economy
1t is the country's misfortune that
congress can acquire merit by attack.
ing national defense.
Congress improves its standing
with sentimentalists who believe thai
the purpose of an army is to creat
wars. 1t improves it's standing will
humanitarians who went to abolish
armies whether they can abolish wa
or not. 1t improves its standing will
citizens who hate their taxes anC
want what they call economy. /
improves it's standing with peopl
who arc afraid that if an army wa
needed to maintain order it woul
be used for that purpose.
Congress in the present instanc
does not know whether is has provid
ed enough troops even for garriso
duty in American outposts and !
les not care It has acquired mor
With the classes Of citizens name
and it has not hurt itself politically
lie may be bad for the country bu
it is not bad for congress.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
NEW TURN TAKEN
ON LIQUOR LAW

Geart Falls-A new twist will be
given the Montana prohibition law
by County Attorney w. ]. Tighe,
which, if upheld by the courts, will
make it much more difficult to use
cars for the illegal transportation
Of liquor.
Mr.. Tighe announces he will start
an action against the automobile of
Henry LeCasse, which was loaded
with whiskey when seized by the of
ficers recently, to abate common
nuisance. If the suit is upheld, a
81 900 bond will have to be filed be-
fore the owner can obtain possession
of the car.
LIE Case, who pleaded guilty to
bootlegging, drew 500 and 30 days in
jail before Judge H. H. Ewing.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
MONTANA URBAN POPULATION
(From Montana Record.l

- AOltA -fAOtAbclAAeA AN-NOANs)
Montana should say to the national
government in the words of the song,
Mother, mother pin a rose on me-"
and the flower should be duly fast
ened on her pinafore to reward her
for her farming population In these
parlcus times of actual peace and
Wiscnian war, this state shines out
among its sisters as q bread pro-
Queer, as a commonwealth where the
industry that Cincinnatus honored
when he wasn't playing politics, oc-
cupies directly or indirectly about
twe-thirds Of the population.
The urban and suburban population
of the United States are proportion
ately 51.4 and 49.6 per cent, but in
this state the people in town Of e.
500 or more number, only 1901,
while those on the farms and in vii
lagos total 37S, 1853. These differences
show that the east as compared with
the west, is going out of the farming
business and into the city industries,
while they also testify to the strong
attraction exerted of late years by
the dry land movement.
If it were not for the migration
from the east to the public lands of
the west during the past 10 or Is
years, there would be much greater
disparity between urban and rural
populations. However, there is no
evidence at present of any national APP
probation Of the efforts made by
Montana and the other western farm
ing states to provide food for the ma
ton. On the contrary, the loss of
five billions of dollars imposed up
on the farmers of the country, which
has hit the large farming population
of this state exceptionally hard, by
the forcing down of prices in the
markets for farm products, shows
that the farmers receive less consid-
Grafton in the economic area than
other factors.
When the back to the land move
ment was started about Is years ago
and the dry land farms were begin.
ming to be advertised in glowing
terms, dry land farming conditions
were still untested on a large scale
That is not so now. These condi
tions have been tried out here anC
elsewhere in the interim, and the diff
ficulties are now fairly well under
stood Three or four years Of droutf
in Montana, wah conditions, and the
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
STATE ASSOCIATION
OF WHEAT GROWERS

Fort Benton-The farmers of this
region were urged to affiliate with
the Montana Wheat Growers associa-
ton at a meeting held here. Talks
were made by B. A. Swall, farmer
of the Nine Mile locality, and H. j.
Boyer Of the Highwood vicinity. Mr..
Boyer was a delegate to the form
bureau meeting at Bozeman and told
OF the transactions there. Both
speakers said that the wheat grow
ers' state body would do much to i'm
prove market conditions if the farm
ers would cooperate.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
PAGE THREE

terror to their hearts and brought
about speedy lowering Of the price.
There are ample laws and adequate
enalties against the abuse Of public
trust, and there are special laws
against profiteering. The weapons
we're in Mr.. Palmer's hands, but his
utter impotency to make them eff
fective is common knowledge.
It has been brought out at the hear
ings that the war department paid
1926 a ton for coal that cost only
1925 to produce. Not only was that
a big direct loss to the taxpayers but
the transaction further served to
boost the price of other sales. Secert-
tary Baker had complete authority to
interfere and prevent such extrava-
gance, but he did nothing. Other Of
ficials of the government demon
strated their incompetence when they
warned the country against a fictiti-
Gus coal famine and stimulated prices
accordingly.
A president with more concern for
his own countrymen than for the al
deviation of troubles in Europe would
have stepped in and peremptorily ord
cred his subordinates to take the
action that would have saved the peo-
pie from excess fuel expenditures of
hundrede of millions of dollars, but
he remained in the seclusion Of the
White House, listening to voices in
the air, and arranging the boundaries
of Dalmatia, Jugo-Salvia and heaven
knows what other mushroom republics
in the old world.
The nation must be patient few
weeks longer. Then there will be a
president whose thought will be for
America first. He will have as his
executive assistants men pledged t.
= the execution Of the laws, and the
people will get the full protection
to which they are entitled Hereunder
Once the new era of law enforcement
has had an opportunity to prove it.
Z effectiveness, we shall hear but litti
of government operation Of the Goa
mines or of any other public utility
: Private initiative controlled by i'm
d partial law will give the people
:. maximum production at a minimum
/ cost.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
5000 WINTER IN CALIFORNIA

Butte-Figures compiled by Off
Gals here Of the Union Pacific rail
road show that not less than 5000
Montanans will spend the winter in
California. In December alone $50
persons went from Butte to California
and 600 from other parts of the state.
The season is considered from Sept
ember / to April I, and the estimate
OF 5000 is based on the tickets actual
ly sold, and the number it is expect
cd will be sold between now and April.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
HALF MILLION ACRES LEASED

BrOwning-The approval of the
secretary of the interior awaits lease
covering $4,000 acres on the Black
feet Indian reservation, entered in
to by the India council with II. l..
Lambert, an oil operator of West
Virginia and Oklahoma.
Louis Irwin, a local attorney, who
was the Democratic candidate at the
1920 election for attorney general, at
tended the meeting Of the Indian coun
ell and tried to induce the Indians
not to lease their land, but the vote
to enter the lease was almost unani-
nous.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
1922 APPLE MEET
AT STEVENSVILLE


Missoula-The twentyfourth an
nual meeting of the Montana State
Horticultural society ended it's session
in Hamilton last week.
Officers were elected as follows:
President, J. E. Porter, Stevens
vile; secretary-treasurer, j. c. Wood,
Missoula; vice-president, Fred I.
Parker, Misseula; o. NJ. Gerer, Ham
ilton; E. Nancy, Big Fork; w. j.
Christman, Joliet, and ]. c. Wood
Missoula.
Earl Miller, Stevensville, Ed Fox
Missoula and Arthur Plat, Big Fork
were elected trustees and Stevens
vile was selected as the place of the
next annual meeting.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
BEEKEEPERS OF STATE
PLAN ANNUAL MEET

Billings-The seventh annual meet
ing OF the Montana State Beekeepers
association will be held at the Y. NJ.
C. A. in Billings, January 25 and 26.
There will be talks and discussions
on all subjects Of interest to bee
keepers by men who are experts in
their lines. The Foul Brood Bill" is
ready for criticism and approval and
will be introduced into the Legislature
right away after the meeting.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
RENT SITUATION IN
LIVINGSTON EASES

Livingston-Im Improvement is noted
in the rental situation in this city,
with more dwellings available for
tenants who rent their homes ac-
cording to local realty operators.
They report that the easier situa-
ton shows a corresponding better
ment in the lenient attitude of land
lords.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
MUCH FERGUS WHEAT
is SHIPPED AWAY

Lewistown-Much of the 100000
bushels of wheat of last years crop
shipped out of the state up to De-
cember 81, came from Fergus county.
Shipments of wheat are going out of
Gthe county gradually, according to
word from the farmers and elevators.
However, still considerable amount
of wheat remains in the county.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
HUNTER KILLS LION
MEASURING II FEET

Livingston-Fritz Kunke has added
to his laurels as a nimrod with huge
trophy, a mountain lion measuring II
feet from tip of his tail to nose. The
animal was. killed while Kumke was
hunting in the hills near Grannis
Crossing in the Shields River valley
Kumke used a rifle.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26

The Sigma Chi fraternity last week
initiated the following men: Glenn
Fox, Livingston; Fred Stumpf, Mis-
soUla; We're Williams, Bozeman; ice
Mares, Helena; Mcqueen LawtOn.
South Caroline; Edward Bunny, Liv-
ingston; Charles Lyndon, Alberta,
Canada; George Finley, Mount Yer
non, Washington; Frank Cowan, Vic
tor.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-01-26
MARCH 20 VOTE ON
NEW COUNTY

Lewistown-The election to deter
mine whether the county of Banner
shall be created will be held March
20. Denton in Fergus county and
Geraldine in Choteau county are the
chief contenders for the county seat.