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The New York herald., 1922-01-08

from obscurity as the result OF carefully,
ploddingly. conserva.ively holding to the
commonplace. the usual, the expected.
There is meat for speculation in the how
and why of getting into the Senate. There
seems to be no course Of manners or
morals or intellectual activities to be laid
down for the guidance of hopeful young
Americans Some men succeed by defying
every single convention, by outraging and
shocking the tolerant majority; others by
studiously conforming to the least rule of
sane and sober thinking and acting. Some
get in as the result, obviously, of an ad-
venturously profitable career; others by a
kind of penurious Withholding from eXcit-
able pursuits.
There appears, indeed, TO be a trace of
the accidental in these elevations to Amer
lean political power-the luck to catch at
tention at the psychological moment; to
enter the lists at time fortunate beyond
the reasonable expectation of the jouster,
though it can always be said, win large
measure of truth, that successful aspirants
must have done something to put them in
the way of luck
This Southern Senator Has Had
A Quiet, Simple, Ordinary Life
ate was the simple quite commonplace
existence OF the ordinary American striv-
ing industriously to get on in the world.
He was born in Kentucky and will be %
years old next birthday. He was born on
a farm and in middling prosperity, enough
to get useful education without too much
strain and pain; little in Kentucky and
finishing touch in Ohie. Then he went
into law and settled down at Morgantown,
KY, for the coloress practice of the small
town attorney. Where Fate took grip
upon him was in this-that his attention
was caught by the potentialities OF new
State, or of Territory that was about to
attain the dignity of Observation-Disclosures.
There was this difference between Har-
reid and the ordinary small town lawyer.
He was not quite satisfied to settle down
and let life take charge of him. He was
moved to take charge of life, to pick up
and go West.
Following that mood he sold out in Ken
tucky and went to Ardmore, Okla. This
was in 1906 when Oklahoma was just be-
ginning to make herself heard. He prac-
ticed eleven years at Ardmore, spending
most oe the time refereeing bankruptcy
cases and getting in on the ground floor
Of the oil business, and then changed his
habitat to oklahoma City in 1917. 1t hap
pened that he was a Republican, even If
from Kentucky. The habit of Republican
thought clung 10 him, although Oklahoma
was overrun with Democrats and Repub-
lcan seemed to have about as much
chance OF q political reward as he would
have had in Alabama. Harreld went on
calmly and industriously spreading the
Republican light.
When special election was held in 1919
to fill an unexpired Congress term he man
aged somehow to upset a Democratic ma
jority of 5000 This was a victory so
striking that when 1t came time for the
Republicans to set up candidate for
Senator in 1920 the choice fell inevitably
upon Harreld Even then few except the
dyed in the wool Republican enthusiasts
thought he had chance against the can
The New York herald., 1922-01-08
The Occupant of Knox's Chair
Is Newest Senator of All

He comes from Uniontown. in Fayette
county. and is on his way to a ffty-second
birthday, medium young for the Senate.
He was a newspaper man for three years.
repented In season, took up the law and
naturally got into politics Since 1899
his record IS a long list Of chairman OF
this or that Republican organization. or
delegate TO this or that Republican con
vention In the course of this party ser
vice he spent several terms at Harrisburg
in the state Senate. His career will be
observed with peculiar interest even among
many other ney members, because be
comes from a State which keeps man in
Washington a long time II he gets along
we'll with the powers that be, sufficiently
indeed TO become power himself as Pen
rose became after training under Cameron
and with Matt Quay.
The New York herald., 1922-01-08

N H ORE details of the present
M whereabouts of holders OF
A'A the Congressional Medal OF
Honor are coming to light since the
publication of an article in The
New York Herald telling how many
had dropped from sight. To-day
there are presented stories of sew
eral not available at the time the
first article was printed.
The New York herald., 1922-01-08
RS WHOSE LIFE STORIES EXPLAIN
Sharp Contrasts in History of Four New Ones
By EDWIN c. HILL,

Special Correspondence to THE NEW York
HERALD.
Copyright, 1922 By THE New York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington. ID. C.. Jan. Z.
@ URvEYING the well fed and placid
Senate of this year of grace you are
quickly aware of wildcat in fold
of lambs. Surely the Hon. Thomas E.
Watson of Georgia, after scratching and
rending and squalling for thirty years at
the TRANQUILITY tolerant of things as they
are, would not take umbrage at the meta
phor Or he might prefer to he envisioned
as a hawk in chicken yard, for there
is much about him that suggests fierce
eyed falcon poising for downward swoop.
His face, rather prominently phrased as to
nose, is hawklike. He has the shrill, raspy
voice, the power of strong, high flight and
the pinion, the talon and the beak of the
hawk He thinks fiercely, and while he is
often on the wrong side of debate he is
always certain by beak and claw to set
the subject bleeding.
Physically the new Senator from Georgia
is an atom of man. His frame is small.
He is meager of flesh What he has seems
TO have been laid on grudgingly, as if ma
ture in this instance had been taken with
a curious attack of thrift. Even in these
later days, with the inevitable padding
that comes upon the bones of threescore
and odd, Watson is ascetically spare. Elk
cept in the passion of debate, when he
seems to expand, he appears almost feeble.
but even in his slightness he suggests fire,
the fire that lives in a bed of glowing Goals,
ready to leap high at breath from the
bellows Of provocation.
His face is smooth as to hair but deep
lined with thought, violent thought, and
it shows the footprints of the tragedy that
has come to him, the tragedy of the death
of the children his life was wrapped up in.
His eyes are gray. with brooding depth
TO them. His hair, once yellow as corn
The New York herald., 1922-01-08

the Liberty and Victory Loan campaigns
the Salvation Army campaign and the
Roosevelt Memorial campaign.
He extended his acquaintanceship so
broadly and made so many friends tnat IL
stood him in good stead when he made his
publican behind Harding and Nicholson by
a vote remarkable for State usually Dem.
ocratic. His main work in the Senate is
accomplished in the Committees on Civil
Service, Manufactures, Mines and Mining
and Naval Affairs, good. solid assignments.
fitted to business experience.
The newest Senator of all is the junior
from Pennsylvania, William f. Crow. He
sits in the chair which was occupied by
one of the great recent figures of the body.
Philander Chase Knox, having been an
pointed by Gov. Sproul of Pennsylvania 20
fill the unexpired term of the late Senator
Knox. Crows proclivities and bents In m
tional statesmanshp are as yet unper
ceived, since he has had no opportunity 10
reveal them.
Pennsylvanians in Congress say calmly
that Crow will make good on scale com
mensurate with the Importance of his
State. His celebrity, hitherto, has been
Statewide only, and particularly the eel
ebrity attaching TO a substantial. dependa
BILE cog in the strongest political machine
in America--the Republican party organi-
Zation Of the Keystone State.
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didate of the Wilson Administration, Scott
Ferris. But when the votes were counted
Harreld was the winner by more than 30,-
900, carried along in the vast Harding
sweep of that memorable election.
An outstanding man, an inch or two
above six feet, with hair white as snow,
but no whittier than it has been since he
was 20-by some not uncommon freak of
nature-and with a young looking face,
Harreld presents an agreeable personality.
Like most new Senators, he has cut as yet
no special figure in the chamber, speaking
little, keeping very much in the back
ground, but very busy at the prosy but
necessary labors of committee rooms. He
is married and has one son, now an under
graduate in the University of Virginia.
The New York herald., 1922-01-08
Colorado Contributes to Senate
Two Well Known Business Men

IL 50 happens that both Senators from
Colorado meet in their portion long felt
want in the United States Senate more
business men. Since the beginning the
Senate has been overrun with lawyers and
undcrinanned with men who know from
hard experience the vital relation to the
prosperity of everybody that is held by
commerce and industry and banking, 20 be
grouped generally under the head of busi-
ness Colorado sent to the Senate on
March 4, 1919, Lawrence Cowle Phipps.
On March 4, 1921, she sent Samuel ID. Mich
olson. They are business men in every
sense of the word and both are intensely
concerned in a sane and fair adjustment
of government to business.
Phipps faced the world at IL with bare
hands At 80 he was able TO retire to de-
vote the rest of his life to public service.
In twenty-five years he wrested from cir
cumstances and the steel business very
large fortune He was born in Pennsyl-
vania ffty-nine years ago and went into
the Carnegie steel mills to make living.
He was advanced step by step until he be
came vice-president and treasurer and one
of the many millionaires made by Car
negie" as the phrase goes.
When the United States Steel Corpora
ton bough. Carnegie cut in 1901 Phipps
Quit business and moved to Colorado, TO
Denver. to find out what else life held that
was interesting. The fight against tuber-
The New York herald., 1922-01-08

but now gray, hangs in straight locks to
his low cut collar In front 1t is divided
well over to the left side and combed
smoothly back and over without flourish
or effort 10 achieve the beautiful. AS he
talks his small body sways to the beat
of his temper. His hair enters into the
spirit of his defiance and faunts itself at
the enemy, tossing plumes Of depunciation.
Occasionally his thin, nervous right hand
leaps up to seize an angry lock- to twist 1t
savagely and to thrust it back, momen-
tarily, to the excitable company of its fell
lows.
The New York herald., 1922-01-08

Here is ''the hawk of the Senate"
Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, fierce
and bitter in debate.
The New York herald., 1922-01-08

Pennsylvania appointed Senator,
William E. Crow, holds the seat made
vacant by Senator Knox's death.
The New York herald., 1922-01-08

eral not available at the time the
first article was printed
TIME publication recently by THE New
YoRK HERALD of whatever facts
l. could be collected at the time of the
status of soldiers who have been awarded
the Congressional Medal of Honor has had
the effect of clearing up the mystery at
tached TO a few of them since their return
TO this country.
Berger Loman, private 132d Infantry,
Tbirty-third Division, was in Washington
on Armistice Day His home Is in Chicago.
Thomas A. Pope, corporal. l31st Infantry,
Thirty-third Division. likewise lives in Chi
cago: as does Johannes S. Anderson. first
sergeant, 1920 Infantry. Thirty-third Divi-
sion. Samuel M. Sampler, Sergeant, 142d
Infantry, Thirty-sixth Division, lives in
Philadelphia.
ARTHUR ]. FORREST, Sergeant, 354th
Infantry. Eighty-nlnth Division, writes that
he Is at hume al Hannibal, Mo. During the
summer he played baseball In the Midwest
League. He writes: MY health Is perfect,
for / was never wounded"
SERGEANT RALYN HILL writes that
he has not been doing much on account of
iii health. lungs, heart and nerves being
affected. His address In Oregon, III. He
adds
II have been able to keep on top with
the help Of my folks and my wifes. We
have . baby girl months old would
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-04

get of it by any means. That goes
for the government as well as the
individual. And then they have
the gall to say that America has
lost it's soul by avarice, because we
do not cancel their debts. All the
things we got in Frnace we paid
for in American gold and made no
whimper about it, though we
might well have talked about Shy
locks ourselves. If we had said
charge it, as they said to US, we
would now be in a position to can
eel their indebtedness to US by OFT
set. But we paid and paid literally
and promptly for every blessed
thing we got for the purpose OF
helping to win the war. We paid
cash and said nothing, though we
had good right to say that we were
held up for profit by our allies
when it came to buying from them,
while they bought from us at gov
eminent prices, and pad with cash
from Liberty loans lent them by
our government without profit.
Certainly these European debtors
have no moral claim on us tor can
collation. of debt. Besides the talk
they give us about our greed Q
money in view of all the facts
makes us mad. We are not n ia
vor Of c~ancelling a dollar of that
debt. IF they can't or won't pay,
let them take their position as
bankrupts and nations who dishan-
or their promise to pay.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-04
WELL COOKED PORK ONLY SAFE
MEANS OF PREVENTING POISON,
SAYS BUREAU OF AGRICULTURE

sausage and various other products
from pork aud eaten without
cooking are commonly consumed III
considerable quantities in many house
holds, in which the eating of ~uncooked
pork is customary. Such products It
they happen to have heen made from
hogs that were affected with t%rlciinae
are liable to cause t~richinosls. Entire
families may be striker and as many
as q hundred cases of trichlnosIs have
resulted from the meat of Il single hog
served as uncooked sausage or similar
product at some gathering or reunion
of people, only those escaping who did
not eat any of the uncooked pork.
To avoid t%richinosis do not eat I'M
cooked pork, or food products contain
ing uncooked pork. To make pork safe
and fit for food. all that is necessary is to
cook it until it, reaches the stage known
as done. the stage at which pork is
most palatable to the average Amer
lean. 1t should be remembered that
heat penetrates slowly into meat in
the process of cooking, hence large
pieces that are we'll cooked on the
outside may be raw or imperfectly
cooked at the center. Although
ordinary cooking as a rule raises the
temperature of meat considerably
above the temperature which the in
~vestigations of the department of agri-
culture have proved to be ample to kill
trichinae, namely, somewhat less than
14O degrees f., it may happen that In
the center of an apparently we'll
cooked piece of pork the temperature
may not have reached this point. Ac-
cordingly care should be taken that the
meat is "done" throughout and not
merely In the outer portions.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-04
BANK OPENS
AFTER TRYING NEW
ORGANIZATION PLAN
Stockholders Raise Fund of
$4,000; Strand Named
at President

Poplar, Dec. 3.-The First National
Bank of Poplar, after having been
closed for over a year, is again open
for business under a reorganization
plan Efforts to ~reorganize and open
the bank during the past year were fu-
tile until undertaken by Sam NJ.
Strand of Minneapolis and f. Fl. h.
Helgeson of Plentywood.
The First National has been COM
pletely remodeled, including the build
ing, furniture and fixtures. The Of
ficers are all men of experience in
banking circles in the northwest, have
made q success in the business in other
cities. The new stockholders have
subscribed a capital and surplus of
S30.O00.00.
Sam NJ. Strand will be the president
of the new bank. He is at present
president Of the following Minnesota
banks: Pay Day National, Minneapo-
lis: First National, Pelican Rapids;
Farmers State. Big Lake. II. ". Put
nam, vice-president of the new bank,
is a Red Wing. Mimi, banker. A. F..
Noble, vice-president, is a ranch OPP
orator on a large scale and banker OF
Fairview. Fl. E. Helgeson, cashier.
was formerly identified with the State
Bank ar Plentywood.
The ~depositors of the old bank have
all agreed to the reorganization plan.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-04

Washington, Dec. Cook pork
wor1' is the advice Of the United
States department of agriculture.
Failure to observe this important pre-
canton is liable to he followed by
serious illness known as trlchlnos1s:
This disease. which is very painful n
frequently fatal, is caused by a small
narusite that sometimes occurs IN
nork. The trichina parasite IS so small
that II can be seen only with q micro
snnna and is often overlooked even in
tbe most careful microscopic eXaml-
nation. Hogs harboring the parasites
show no symptoms and pork contain
inc trichinac is exactly the same IN
anpnarance as other pork. No prac-
ticabIe system of meat inspection has
been discovered by which persons who
emit uncooked or impertectly cooked
nork can be protected from the danger
If t%richinosis. There is, however, one
verv effective means of preventing the
disease. Cooking destroys the parasites.
Hence properly cooked pork IL safe
and trichinosis can not be acquired If
the simple rule is followed Of cooking
pork well before it is eaten.
Fortunately in the United States
most persons do not like raw or rare
pork and only a comparatively small
number of the population who come
from countries where pork - custom
arily eaten uncooked or who are under
the influence of foreign customs of
eating uncooked pork are in much
danger Of contracting t~richinosis. The
winter season, particularly during the
HOLIDAYS, is when outbreaks of trichin-
osis are especially likely toAoccur: AT
this time Of year, smoked and dried
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-04
Mrs. Williams Opens
Action for Divorce
Special to The Tibune.

Special to The Tibune.
Livingston. Dec. 3.-Beulah f. VIII
liams charges that her husband, Chas.
Williams. failed to provide properly
for her, in a divorce suit filed here Sat
urday.
Miss May Calhoun of Billings is Wis
iting here rs the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. c. Calhoun.
Joseph Swindlehurst. who is attend
ing the University of Montana. Mis-
soula, is visiting here.
William Carr has returned from
Chicago, where he took a shipment Of
cattle.
Roy Krom, Mrs. John N. Seaman
and Miss Elise MERCER will have
charge of the sale of Christmas seals
in Park county. The sales will start
Monday.
MIR. and Mrs. J. X. Lyons have de-
parted for Columbus, 0hoi, where they
will make their home in the future.
Miles O'Conner, son of Judge and
Mrs. J. f. O'Connor. is Il visitor here
from Missoula, where he is attending
the University of Montana
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-04
MOONSH|NE CAUSES
DEATH Of INDIAN;
RANCHER CONFINED
Heart Butte Youth Freezes to
Death; Three Others
Seriously Ill

Special to The Tribune.
Waller, Dec. 3.-Walter Scheeis,
rancher of the Birch creek sectlon'
is held at the Pondera county jail at
Conrad on a charge Of m~anslaughter as
a result of the death Thursday OF
Charles Marceau, 21-year-osd INDIAN OF
Heart Butte. A coroner's jury OF
white men at Heart Butte decided aItef
hearing testimony two days that Mar
ceau met death by freezing, caused or
contributed to by moonshine liquor al
legged TO have been purchased from wal
ter ScheeIs. Details of the death or
Marceau were received here Saturday
night for the first time, when ron
dera county officials returned from the
~;nouest at Heart Butte.
The coroner's jury, which heard W
dence submitted by friends OF Mareeah'
was examined and selected by Coroner
| Victor Starr and County Attorney W.
H. Rnllock. The two-day sitting was
completed Saturday. Pat Marceau,
cousin of the dead Indian. and Paui
Old Rock and Joe Green old OF the
/ mutual desire of the four TO OBTAIN
iIIGuOT, IGplE StDIlSo =.
the same. They said they went IN
company with the deceased to the home
of Charles Shelton, near Birch creek
shelton was not at home so they went
to the nearby home of Walter scheels'
where. they said. they obtained moon
shine liquor.
The three men said it made the four
of them very sick. but that the Wit
nesses were able to reach their homes
at Heart Butte and eventually recov-
cred. Marceau was presumed to have
lost his way and fell off his horse sew
eral miles from Heart Butte, being
found frozen TO death.
Scheels was arrested Friday by Dep
uty Sheriff Nick Hahn of Waller. In
| addition to the m~anslaughter charge,
it is considered that he may likely be
held on the federal charge of selling
liouor to Indians. since the Indians are
wards Of the government.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-04
THE MIDDLE POSITION.

THE question Of car shortage
i upon the railways of Montana
is not an easy one to discuss. There
has been considerable hardship.
Shippers have suffered inconven-
fence and in some cases loss. 1t
has been a hard thing to bear.
There has been considerable crlti-
cism Of the railways because they
have not supplied car and prob
ably some of this has been just. On
the other hand, we think that the
railways have put forth quite con-
sistent efforts to supply all Of the
cars they could. There would have
been a shortage Of cars in this
state, in any event, during the
present S There has never
been a crop of anything like the
size which this state raised III the
present season which did not aus
a car shortage at the peak OF the
moving task. There has been an
! inclination to forget the coal
| strike and the shipments strike,
I and all of the d~iscouraging circum-
| stances leading up to the present
shipping season.
The railroads Of the country
have not been worthy of blame be
| cause they have had enough
cars to handle the transportation
of the United States this fall. For
a long time, they did not have any
money to buy cars, and 1t IS only
recently that they could in any way
begin to supply present and pros
pective needs. Criticism on &C
count of car shortage is due when
a railroad does not supply all the
cars that is possibly a or when 1t
does not distribute them III an
equitable manner. A railroad can
not perform a physical impossible
itv any more than an individual can
do the same thing.
The Tribune is not trying to
shield the railroads. They should
do everything in their power along
the line of good service. We,
however. would like to see ellrnln-
ated that criticism which arises
out of impossible situations, and
sometimes we note statements IN
public hearings to which there at
taches the suspicion that they are
made because a public official
wishes to stand out in the lime
light and thinks that he can build
up his personal situation thereby
For four long years, we have
been doing business under Difficult
ties. It takes forebearance and
mutual effort to get along.