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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-12-26
LET CONGRESS KNOW WHERE YOU STAND
From Philadelphia Public Ledger

The taxpayer as a taxpayer is unOrganized. He has no tax
payers post. no chapters, no locals, no taxpayers lodges. There
are 7,0OO,OO0 of him who pay Federal income taxes and ten times
as many of him pay Federal taxes, directly or indirectly, but he
without an organization to camp on the doorsteps of the Capitol
and look after his interests. There are farm blocs, dry and wet
blocs, labor bocs and bonus blocs, but there is no taxpayers bloc
in Washington.
Every gang of Treasury raiders organizes and goes after
what it wants. These determined minorities, working under high
pressure, are usually able to shove aside the majority and take
what they want.
That, exactly, is what is happening in Washington now. A
stubborn minority is ready to defeat a majority in the matter
of taxation. Secretary Mellon has placed before the country
a plan whereby at least $3OOOOO,OOO a year can be cut from the
load of the taxpayer.
100000 Americans will be directly aided, counting five persons
to the average family. Indirectly, it will help nearly every citizen
by easing the national tax load.
The vast majority demand these reductions. Americans have
been patient under wartime tax burdens carried five years into
peace. The Mellon plan is the first ray of sunshine lighting the
taxpayers sky since the war.
What stands in its way? Just one thng-the soldier bonus.
Tax reduction cannot be put into effect and carried on into the
future if this Nation is to go down into its pockets and eventually
pay out four or five billions as a soldier bonus.
Bonus money can come from one place only, and that is the
taxpayers pocket. All the frenzied financial figuring done by
the bonus-straddlers in Congress cannot figure away the interest
charges and anortizations that will be necessary.
1t is 100000 income taxpayers, plus every man, woman and
child who pays direct or indirect taxes, against about 100000
bonus benefciares. On one side 3~5,OOO,OOO will directly benefit
by tax cuts. On the other, not more than ~15,OOOO00 who can
benefit directly by the bonus.
It seems reasonable that every consideration of the public
interest, of the payer of taxes and even of politics in its larger
sense would lead Congress to reject the bonus and approve tax
reduction. This might be so if Congress were not in "a state of
mind" about the soldier vote and If its members had not been
trafficking in bonus pledges snapped for the promise of that vote
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-12-26
THE UNDER o
From The Montana Record Herald.

Most people, particularly in the West, and no doubt Montan-
in general have the impression that the great body of the
American people are comfortable and prosperous, and that they
enjoy life. Hence it comes as a shock when one reads the state
attributed in an Associated Press news story to DIR. John A.
Marquis, of New York, general secretary of the Presbyterian Board
of Nation Missions, which runs as follows:
"There are more than 100000 human beings living under
the American flag who have not had a fair chance for life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness"
The statement is rather indefinite, and one wonders what is
meant by it. It does not apply to the people of our colonial posses
sions or protectorates, but to people in the United States, for the
minister adds:
America does not mean to these people what it means
to you and me. To us it means a land of freedom, of good
schools, fine churches, efficient hospitals. To them, our
brethren, it means a land of hardship and struggle, of ex-
ploitation and defeated aspiration"
DIR Marquis made these statements in an address he delivered
at the National Presbyterian Conference at New York. He de-
scribed these people as a backward and neglected element OF the
population, exploited, struggling, enduring hardship, and declared
national progress will lag while they remain as they are. He
said that the home missionaries of the Presbyterian church are
seeking to aid these people in health, education and religion and
added:
"The Presbyterian church is establishing Sunday schools
and churches, day schools and hospitals, neighborhood houses
and community stations. There is no self-interest in this
work. It s a service of Christ and for America. Every good
citizen ought to have a part in this work, not only because
it is we'll intended, but also because it is actually accomplish
ing results. These missionaries are bringing the spirit of
Good to move upon the chaos of their communities, bringing
light out of their darkness, order out of their disorder, growth
out of their stagnation, and beauty out of their ugliness."
The United States is so big and the population of 100000
so large and so scattered that it is difficult to realize that the gen
eral prosperity and comfort enjoyed by ~twO-thirds OF the popu-
lation does not extend to all.
That 27 per cent of the inhabitants are in miserable circum-
stances seems hard to believe. Yet DR.. Marquis should be well
informed respecting the fact, and it is wholly improbable that he
would make so sweeping a statement without full warrant therefor.
He no doubt speaks by the book, and in view of this state of affairs,
it might be well for the great American public to take its eyes off
of the foreign countries and concentrate it's attention upon this
80 900 of home folks. Charity begins at home. Here is a
domestic condition that should be remedied, and if the American
people would give i, the attention it deserves they would not have
SO much time to waste on the woes of Europe and Asia.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-12-26
OUR WILD GAME

That so per cent of the wild denizens of field and woodland
will have paid with their life this year because of the use of the
automobile in hunting is the statement of DR.. William T. Horna-
day, OF New York City. That is to say, the modern hunter can
easily cover far more territory than could be covered by the hunt
er who went afoot or followed after a horse. DR.. Hornaday says
that four times the former area can be covered by automobile
hunter. The distinguished director of the New York geological
garden thinks that our wild game is doomed unless protective
measures are adopted.
In addition to protective legislation, DR.. Hornaday would call
on the good craftsmanship of the hunter. Let the hunter go slow
and take a reasonable toll, recognizing the new peril of wild life.
He appeals to the sentiment of self-interest. Otherwise legislation
will not be able to preserve the birds of the air and beasts of the
field that have so long made this country of ours a hunters para
disc. The pump gun is accountable for much useless slaughter of
birds.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-12-26
RADIO EDUCATEs THE PEOPLE

The educational value of the radio to families in their homes
and on the farms is becoming more fully appreciated. From one
Western broadcasting station people in la cities and towns, and
thousands of farm homes in the country enjoy daily entertainment.
Lectures from great education centers scattered over thirty
one states are heard from one superstition.
A family in Ferndales California hears concerts from Port
land, Oregon, and farmers in Galatin county enjoy concerts from
Des MONIES, Iowa.
The pleasure that a whole family gets from nationwide music
and lectures is intensified by the fact that they have been deprived
of these things until the discovery of the radio.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-12-26
HOLDING OUR OWN

According to the most recent trade figures issued by the gov
eminent of Mexico, imports totaled $75OO0O0O, of which $54, 900,
600 came from the United States. Exports totaed ~$62,000yOOO, of
which $685. 1000 went to the United States. The export trade
is exclusive of petroleum, expectation of which totaled 100000
barrels less than during the first nine months of the current year
than for the same period of 1922, There are evidences that the oil
resources of Mexico are pegging out. 1t will be noted that the Uni
ted States holds 80 per cent of Mexco's foreign trade, as it has
been doing for some time past.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-12-26
DEMOCRATS WERE BENCHED

Democrats are trying to take credit for reduction of federal
expenditures in the last year of the Wilson administration. But
in 1913 the congressional elections resulted in the ousting Of the
Democratic majority in congress, and the appropriation bills in
the last year of the Wilson administration were drawn and passed
by Republicans. Moreover, the appropriation bills were far smaller
than the amount asked for by the members of the Wilson cabinet
The credit is due the Republican congress.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
GOV. MCCONNELL
LEWISTON VISITOR
VETERAN IDAHOAN TALKS OF
EARLY YS-kEENNESS OF
MIND ATTRACTS COMMENT

Ex-Governor and Mrs. w. ]. Nc
Connell, Mrs. W. e. Borah, of Boise,
daughter OF Gov. McConnell; Mr.. and
Mrs Ben Bush, Miss Mary Bush, and
Master Ben Bush, of this city, spent
Monday in Lewiston.
Speaking of their visit the Tribune
has the following to say:
"Gov. Mcconnell spoke reminis-
Gently of his recollections of early
days in Idaho He recalled the sud
den conversion of several supporters
of the lost cause who were members
of the territorial legislature, but who
declined to sign pledge of allegi-
ance to the Union, in submitting their
vouchers for salary, and whose rough
house tactics made it necessary to
call out the militia, resulting in their
surrender to the situation and humble
signature of allegiance, from which
time they all became good, loyal c1t1-
zens.
"He also remembered the predica-
ment in which G. Ainslee found him
self as counsel for three disreputable
characters; and when seeking access
to their place of Imprisonment was
told by the jailor to come back in
the morning when he would be al
lowed to see them. Upon his return
at the appointed time, the jailor
promptly admitted him and took him
to the rear of the jail where his three
clients were shown, hanging in a row.
Governor Mcconnell, who Will be
85 years old September Is, has been
a resident of Idaho for sixty years,
and became the third governor OF the
state in 1892 and was reelected in
1894 He had previously served as
deputy United States marshal, was a
member of the constitutional con-
vention of 1889 and served as United
States senator. He is the author of
q well-known history of Idaho, and is
very familiar with the people and ac-
tivities of the pioneer period of the
state. His eldest daughter is the wife
of Senator VIM. E. Borah, one of the
country's most distinguished states
men. 1t is interesting to know that
Governor Mcconnell built, on the
Payette river, the first irrigating
ditch in Idaho, which has now mil
lions of acres under irrigation. Con-
sidering his advanced age, Governor
Mcconnell is remarkably we'll pre-
served; is mentally keen and rich in
interesting memories of early days"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
NOOVERPRODUCTION
OF WHEAT, CLAIM
WASHINGTON DIRECTOR OF AG-
RICULTURE BLAMES PROPA-
GANDA FOR MARKET SLUMP

Olympia, July 30.-The decline in
the price of wheat can be attributed
to a persistent and apparently III
spired propaganda reaching the far
mers, urging them to limit their pro-
duction on the ground that there is
an oversupply of wheat for the
worlds use,'' according to e. L.
French, state director of agriculture
who has returned from a tour of the
wheat sections of eastern Washing
ton.
"There has never been and there is
not now any such thing as overpro-
duction of wheat" the director de-
clares in a statement to the press
"There has never been in modern his
tory any large surplus of wheat. A
heavy crop one year is balanced by a
short crop the next season.
"ArtificiaI Elements" Fixigg Price
"The talk about the necessity CT
reducing wheat acreage ignores the
fact that there is now dangerous
tendency in that direction, which GER
tain1y does not need any encourage
ment from federal sources, if the
United states is 100000 bushels be-
low the crop of 1922 and 100000
bushels below the average crop OF the
previous five years, Notwithstanding
the heavy crop produced in Washing
ton this year. There were 100000
acre of land under cultivation in
1910, which, according to the census
of 1920, were out of cultivation and
desolate waste. There were 49,
100000 acres less under wheat this
year than there were in 1919"
Director French sees artificial ele-
ments" in the present price of wheat,
declaring it is due to the reluctance
of buyers to take all the wheat Of
fered. +.-
Can Regulate Market
zone excuse of the buyers, which
may have some foundation" he says,
"is the bill passed by congress regu-
lating grain exchanges, which is said
to offer no opportunity to hedge by
selling futures to spectators, thus
insuring themselves against loss,
should the price go lower. Conse-
quently they will buy only as they
need.
"This can be met by the system
now coming into effect of orderly
marketing The cooperative grain
associations now have as large credit
facilities as the millers and buyers
and can carry wheat over until it is
needed for consumption. The farm
ers of this country can in time reg
u1ate the price at which their wheat
is to be sold provided they will be
content with a price which affords
fair margin of profit, does not tend
to reduce consumption and which
does not also tend to bring unfit land
into wheat production
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
SENATOR'S URGE EXTRA SES-
SION TO AID FARMERS

Minneapolis, Mimi. = e d u
Harding was urged to call an extra
session of congress without delay to
deal with agricultural problems af-
fecting the nation at a conference of
four United States senators here to-
day.
The session was attended by Sena-
tors Henrik Shipstead, Minnesota;
Smith w Brookhart, Iowa; Lynn J.
Frazier, North Dakota, and Senator
elect Magnus Johnson, Minnesota.
After several closed conferences
the senators said that an extra ses-
sion should be called at once, but de-
cided to put forward no plan now for
fixing the price of wheat or taking
up the surplus.
The telegram was sent to the presi-
dent at San Francisco in care of
Brigadier General Sawyer. the presi-
dents physician, with the request
that it be declared when the presi-
dents health permits
1t set forth that the condition of
agriculture threatens a national ca
lamity and that only an extraordi-
nary session of congress can avert
the calamity.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
AGED COLORED WOMAN
WAS FRIEND To MANY

The funeral of Mrs Lou Wells,
colored, wife of Joseph Wells, who
died at the family home near Deary,
on the upper Palouse, last Friday,
was held Sunday from the Legion
hall at Deary, the Rev. w. D. Arnold,
of the United Brethren church, con-
Quoting the service. The attendance
was large, indicating the high esteem
in which Mrs Wells was held in the
community A number were in at
tendance from outside communi-
ties. Frank and Thomas Wells, of
Moscow, childhood friends of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Wells in North Carolina,
were in attendance. Interment was
in Pine Crest cemetery at Deary.
Mrs. Wells was born in North Caro-
lima 63 years ago, shortly before Pre-
sident Lincoln signed the emancipa
tion proclamation. Thirty-six years
ago she, with her husband, came to
Idaho, locating near the present town
of Deary, and hewing a home out of
the wilderness, where they have lived
ever since. Mrs. Wells is survived by
three children, Roy and Chuck Wells
and Mrs. Mary King, all of Deary,
and two grandchildren.
During the many years she lived in
Latah county, Mrs. Wells had become
noted for her kindness to others in
their hours of sickness or trouble,
and was held in the highest regard
by the entire community
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
DIR. H. E. FRENCH, NORTH
DAKOTA EDUCATOR, GUEST HERE

DR.. H. e. French and family, of
Grand Forks, North Dakota, have ar
rived in the city and will spend some
two weeks visiting DR.. French's bro
ther, Congressman Burton L. French.
DR.. French is dean Of the medical
department of the University of North
Dakota and will be remembered as
one of the early students at the Uni
versity of Idaho. He was reared in
the Palouse country.
DR.. French expressed his great
pleasure in again seeing the Palouse
country, which is looking especially
fine at this time, and in meeting old
friends. He is delighted with the ad-
vancements that have been made
since his boyhood days here, and
especially with the growth of the Uni
versity of Idaho.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
BINDERS NOW in
PALOUSE FIELDS
CUTTING is GENERAL-THRES
ING BY NEXT WEEK-LABOR
l SITUATION is LESS ACUTE

By the end of the present week
binders will be at work on practi-
cally every Pa1ouse country farm.
and by next week the hum of the
threshing machine will be heard, If
the present favorable weather con-
tinues. The grain has ripened, ra-
pidly during the past few days, and
the farmers will from now on give
full attention to harvesting the crop
which everything indicates, will be
one of the biggest in the history of
the Palouse.
While the matter of labor is still
occasioning some concern, farmers
report some men coming in, easing
the situation up somewhat, and it is
further improvement by the time the
grain is ready for the threshing ma
chimes. Wages seem to be holding
Sc to 81 for sack sewers, and from
$40 to $12 for separator men.
With considerable number of
small threshing outfits purchased in
Latah county and throughout the Pa
louise, it is believed that, with
sufficient men to man all the ma
chimes available, the harvest could
be pushed through by the middle of
September.
Price Remains Low
Tuesdays price on the local mar
ket for club wheat, August delivery,
was 7S cents, bulk and 83 cents in
sack The general opinion is that
selling will not be general on the
opening market.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
MILITARY CAMPS To
DRAW so THOUSAND

Chicago-(A PIN the last days
of July some 10000 young men left
their homes to spend a month in one
or another of the 25 citizens military
camps, which the government has or
ganized for this summer, according
to the announcement made by the
Military Training Camps association
here recently.
Health in mind, body and character
is the primary aim of the citizens
camps to which young men between
IL and "a are admitted for a month
of training at government expense,
and these camps are located at care
fully selected sites in various parts
of the country, so that no one need
travel more than two or three hund-
red miles from his own home.
In making the announcement, Geo.
It. James, the executive secretary of
the association, says:
"The camps are conducted by the
most competent officers of the re-
gular army, the National Guard, and
the organized reserves, and no pains
are spared to make the month of
training an enjoyment and profit to
all who attend. Applicants are ac-
cepted only after careful physical
examination and with the endorse
ment of good character from reliable
citizens, and in every detail the
camps live up to the highest stand
ards of American home life.
The Military Training Camps as
sociation of the United States is pro-
noting the summer camps and secur-
ing through it's nationwide organiza-
tion the interest and cooperation OF
prominent citizens in every part of
the country.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
MOSCOW DIVINE SUPPLIES
IN BIG TACOMA CHURCH

Rev A. Andre, pastor of the First
Lutheran church of Moscow, who is
enjoying his annual vacation in Ia
coma, Wash, is taking the place of
Rev. e. c. Bloomquist, pastor of the
First Lutheran church of Tacoma,
who is ill., This church is the largest
church in this conference. Rev.
Andre writes that he is enjoying the
work, and is meeting many old-time
friends. He also says that he is much
improved in health, the hay fever
from which he was suffering, seems
to have disappeared entirely.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
MoScnM Connie WedS

Miss Mae Kraus and G. E. Smith,
both of Moscow, were united in mar
riage Monday afternoon by Probate
Judge Adrian Nelson at his office in
the court house. Mrs. Emma Sayles
and George Vennigerholz were the
attending witnesses. The young
couple are we'll known in this city
and have the best wishes of a host of
friends. They left Immediately for
a short wedding trip to the coast, af-
ter which they will be at home to
their friends in Pennington. Wash,
where the groom will be engaged in
business.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
CENSUS REVEALS GROWTH OF
AMERICAN COLONY IN JAPAN

Tokio-(A. P)-Britishers, who
formerly had the largest foreign col
ony in Japan with the exception of
the Chinese, now are being given
close run by the Americans.
Returns just issued show that
there are 1852 Britishers resident in
Japan and 2,549 Americans. There
has also been an increase in the num-
Der of Russians, composed largely of
political refugees.
There are just under 10000
foreigners resident in the islands, of
whom nearly 10000 are Chinese.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
KENDRICK TERRORIZED
BY MAN THOUGHT INSANE

Sheriff j. J. Keane and Deputy
Sheriff Grant Robbins, were called
to Kendrick Tuesday noon by a re-
port that a man, thought to be in
sane, was disturbing the peace at
that place. According to the city
marshal of Kendrick, the man would
enter a place and help himself TO
anything that suited his taste. He
entered the Hotel Kendrick this
morning and did considerable dam
age before he could be controlled.
Further reports were to the effect
that the same man has been causing
excitement for several days by
frightening women and small child
rem of the neighborhood and it IS be-
1ieved that he is an escaped lunatic
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
MABEL E. AVER GRANTED
DIVORCE FROM G. X. AVER

Judge Edgar c. Steele has granted
a decree of divorce to Mabel E. Aver,
dissolving the bonds of matrimony
between herself and her husband
Charles X. Aver. According to the
complaint on file the parties were
married at Moscow in October, 1917.
The complaint alleges cruel and i'll
human treatment on the part of the
defendant. There was no community
property and no children. BY the
decree the plaintiff has her maiden
name, Mabel E. Hazeltine, restored.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
Opportunity for Eastern Trip

Any member of the G. A. R., Daugh-
ters of Veterans, or Sons of Veterans,
army nurses of the civil war or any
OF the members Of their auxiliaries
who wish to attend the national
G. A. R. encampment, to lie held at
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 2
to s, may get the round trip identi-
fication certificates, good for one and
one-half fare, by seeing R. P. Drury
The tickets are good for a thirty
days stay, with stops at any points.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
PRESIDENT BATTLES AGAINST PNEUMONIA
ATTACK ---PHYSICIANS ARE HOPEFUL

der of the longshoremen, charged with
having made the first raid.
Spokane Sheriff Gets Warden Job
Spokane-(A. P.)-Clarence Long,
sheriff of Spokane county, has ac-
cepted the appointment as warden of
the state penitentiary at Walla Walla,
it is announced here today. He sue
ceeds John Pace whose removal was
announced yesterday.
Well DriIlers EIectrOcuted
Stockton, Calif-(A. P.)-Andrew
Munich, a well driller, his nephew,
Louis Lertora and Alec Wilson, were
electrocuted this morning, while bor-
ing a we'll at Morada, near here.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-31
MANY ATTEND FUNERAL OF
MRS. CHRIS DUNN, OF TROY

The funeral services for the late
Mrs Chris Dunn, of Troy, this county,
were held Tuesday morning at ten
o'clock from Holy Trinity Catholic
church. Rev. N. F. Wirtzberger con-
Quoted the services which were at
tended by large circle of friends
and relatives from Moscow, and from
the Troy country, where Mrs. Dunn
has spent her entire life. The floral
offerings were many and beautiful.