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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-16

On the cattle ranges in some parts
of the state a weed grows called
'loco" by the cattle and horse men.
Animals that feed on it degenerate.
They fall away physically, grow
rough in appearance, and finally go
insane. They are dangerous to- other
animals and to life and property.
Almost every community has, its
human loco weeds. Youth hat con-
sorts with them loses caste, falls
away. and often, finally, has to be
put under restraint as dangerous to
society. These human loco weeds
need not be sought. They travel like
the tumble-weeds of the prairies be-
fore every wind. They seek out and
poison. And for some inexplicable
reason we let them continue to grow
and even to flourish.
There are a few men In every city
who profit by their own vieiousness
and the incubation of vice of one kind
and another, crooked little gamblers,
bootleggers, and of that ilk of under
world activity and occupation. Not
many. Only a few, usually well
marke Omen, and we'll known as the
patches of loco are known to the
herder.
Why don't we dig them up? Know
ing them as we do, why should we let
them grow?
You tell.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-16
DIG UP DANDELIONS OR
APPEAR IN COURT.

GREAT FALLS, May 15.-Dig up
your dandelions or dig up a fine in
the police court, is the order of Su-
perintendent Charles Landgren, of
the Great Falls boulevards. And he
means it!
Mr.. Landgren has begun the pass
ing about of notices to dig to house
holders with dandelions in their yards
and will continue until every yard
in the city has been rid Of the pests.
The city ordinance of Great Falls
against dandelions will be enforced,
and the person who fails to aid will
be hailed into court.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-16
HOPPERS APPEAR in
CASCADE COUNTY

GREAT FALLS, May 15.-Grass-
hoppers are making their first ap-
pearance of the season in Cascade
county, according to F. E. MacSpad-
den, county agent.
The first complaints that have come
to the county office are largely in the
Cascade and Fort Shaw district. The
grasahoppers are still on the sod
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-16
You tell.

Three months on the farm would be
an excellent school vacation for the
city boy. There are not only strength
and wages in it, but education. Those
who know little of the farms are by
way of lacking a Montana education.
Farming is the biggest business of
the state.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-16

be, skilled or unskilled? What are
you going to sell-mere muscle or
trained brains?.
Take your choice; it's up to you.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-16

"This lets me out" sang the crook
to himself, as he "hooked" the jail
er's keys.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-05-16

Combs, hair brushes,
hair receivers, puff
boxes, buffers, mani
curer sets, etc. Values
to $3.50, for $1.00.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30

were -oftentimes worthy, in a non-moral
sense, of the distinction thus given them.
They, as we'll as their pursuers, had GER
tain admirable mental traits; and not IN
frequently, aside from the impulse that
drove them to crime, they displayed quail
ties of character which the law-abldlng
might we'll appreciate.
The criminal of yesterday could shoot
straight and fast; he had real courage,
and oftentimes displayed a keen sense
of Justice. He was more of man
than the criminal of today. Though he
was quick on the draw, he shot, as Mr..
Pinkerton recalls, only as a last resort.
"The city bandit of today" one reads,
clutches a har-triggcred automatic pis-
tol in fingers made unsteady by bootleg
whiskey, dope and jazz living. He kills
upon the slightest provocation or upon
none. He doesn't choose his victims
carefully. You may be the next. Lack
of money gives YOU no immunity-the
crook of today specializes in small fry.
He hasn't the brains for a real job y
In other words, he is piker, coward,
a skulking, covetous coyote.
What has become of the old profess
SIGNALS, the skilled criminals who were
famous for their "head-work' and steady
nerves? Mr.. Pinkerton says that they
have become bootleggers.
Furthermore today's criminals-the
yeggs, highwaymen, robbers and the like
are nearly all Young men. Many of them
are mere youths. They have to depend
upon trigger-work rather than headwork
and few of them can even shoot straight
they hit bystanders instead of their in
tended victims. From the public's stand
point they are more dangerous than were
their predecessors of quick mind and sci.
dom-erring aim.
These youthful criminals says the fam
Gus detective, are crude in their methods
and operate not from need but mostly
from "erratic excitement" They are ir
search of adventure: they crave romantic
experience. But there is no romance If
the kind of life they lead Theirs is &
sordid existence. No wonder real de-
tectives regard them with contempt Il
they have any intelligence it would seen
that they would become. contemptuou:
of themselves. Nobody admires them
Nobody can get a genuine thrill from
accounts of their operations. They are
low-browed killers whom even the author.
| OF cheap novels pass UP in disgust
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30

that hunger is strong provocative of
wakefulness. Many who find it diff
cult TO sleep after 3 or 4 o'clock in the
morning could break this annoying
habit by eating at little cake or a few
crackers at bedtime.
Noise, it need hardly be said, should
be minimized as much as possible. And
persons who are representative to light,
even the small amount that may come
from a street lamp shining through a
blind, are advised TO procure extra dark
blinds or to sleep with covering over
their eyes.
In certain cases, finally, the height
of the pillow seems to affect the quail
ity of the sleep obtained. There are
some people who seemingly need very
low pillow if they are to sleep well, 9TH
ers who require an unusually high pill.
low. perhaps two pillows.
Many an insomnia, particularly il
middle-aged or elderly, will find that his
sleep is appreciably improved by height
ening his pillow. On the opposite, there
are people whose sleep would be bet.
tered by the device of substituting low.
er pillows for those on which they have
been vainly trying TO sleep.
Copyright, 1923, by the Associated
Newspapers.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30
Handicaps on Sleep
BY III. AddingtOn Bruce.

As requested by a correspondent,
list today the chief influences unfavor-
ably affectin. sleep, other than acute
or chronic conditions of bodily disease.
Foremost importance must be accorded
to disturbing mental states, particu-
larly states of worry, anxiety, grief and
rage.
Less common as sleep-disturbers, yet
more common than is generally known,
are such states as envy, jealousy and
hate. These at times cause such an
organic perturbation that sleep is with
difficulty obtained.
Hence the sleep-conserving import.
ance of cultivating kindly, generous
thoughts and emotional control. The
need for emotional control is further
emphasized by the fact that many owe
their sleep difficulties wholly to a fear
of inability to sleep, fear which has
gradually developed into a fixed idea
that they cannot get a good nights
rest.
To reinforce this idea is the un.
fortunate circumstance that the hard.
er they try to sleep the less successful
they are. This because their effort
to sleep keeps them in state of NEIL
tai and physical tension, and any
thing which causes tension is inimical
to sleep.
For this reason it is a sleep-hsndi
Gaping habit to take ones business
problems to bed with one. And be
cause of the tension induced by menta
excitement many people find it diff
cult to sleep after an evening at thu
opera, the theater, or the movies.
Others sleep poorly if they read al
exciting book up to the moment o
retiring. Saw
In all such cases some means SHOULD
be found for quieting down before sleeI
is sought. A few minutes of restfu
conversation, glancing through maya
zinc. a game of solitaire, such are few
of the means available TO all. Recall
ing one admirable suggestion:
"Osler's recommendation TO have
classic author beside ones bed, t
be read for a few minutes every nigh
after retiring, as preparation TO
sleep. is an excellent remedy for tn
milder forms of insomnia, as well as
stepbing-stone TO scholarship"
And. of course, there are numcrou
physical handicaps on sleep.
Under-ventilation is one of these. S
is the habit of sleeping under too man
bed-cOverings. On the other hand, col
will keep many people awake, To hay
the bed-coverings of sort that wi
provide ample warmth without oppreE
sive weight is the ideal arrangement.
And while the eating of a heart
supper just before seeking sleep
hardly to be recommended, it is fac
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30
AWAY.

| cannot say, and will not say
That he is dead He is just away.
With a CHEEKY smile and a wave of the hand
He has wandered into unknown land,
And left us dreaming how very fair
1t needs must be, since he fingers there.
And you-oh you who the widest yearn
For the old time step and the glad return
Think of him f0ring on, as dear
In the love of There as the love Of Here
And loyal still, he gave the blows
OF bis warrior strength to his country's foes
Mild and gentle, as he brave.
When the sweetest love Of his life he gave
To simple things: where the vioets grew
Pure as the eyes they were linked to,
The touches of his hands have strayed
As reverenty as his lips have prayed;
When the little brown thrush that harshy chirced
Was dear 10 him as the hooking Bird
And he ptied as much a man in pain
A writing honey-bee wet with rain.
Think Of him still as the same, say;
He is not dead-he is iust-away!
james WhitcOmb Riley.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30
From a Seat in the Gallery
By HERBERT COREY.

Washington. ID. c., Jan. S0.-A
most lucid review of the present state
of affairs in Russia, combined with
a prophecy of the future, has been
brought to Washington by a recently
returned agent of the government.
Russia is rapidly becoming a peas
ant state, made up Of peasant com.
munities," he said, 1.-THE cities seemed
bound toward decay, the proletariGt
is done for, and only the peasants are
triumphant"
His diagnosis follows:
Originally the revolutionary plan
was 10 exploit all the other classes
for the benefit of the 'proletariat,
which really meant mechanic. To this
end the scheme was that the peasant
should continue TO farm, the surplus
of his operations being turned over to
the state for the benefit of the me
chanic class. The bourgeoisie and
aristocracy, holders of the most APP
parent wealth, were quickly made vic
tins. Their properties we're taken
away and literally eaten up"
Now the only classes that remain
in Russia, in actually, are the pro-
letariat and the peasantry. The peas
ant raises just enough for his own
needs and there are 30,000,O00 acres of
formerly titled land that now lies idle.
In consequence there is draft of the
proletariat away from the cities and
to the farming countries. Only n
this way can the workman get food.
There are 100000 vacant apartments
in Petrograd. Only in Moscow, the
seat of government, can enough fool
be found. and this only because of
the exactions of the government.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30

Russia never raised enough grain
to export" he said. "Grain was ex-
ported, it is true, but it was the
land rent paid by the peasants to
their masters and exported by them.
Every bushel of it could have been
eaten in Russia. The peasants went
hungry to provide this export grain.
Now there is no grain over and above
the needs of the peasants. They do
not care to raise surplus, because
it might be taken from them. They
do not care to sell grain for worth
less roubles, with which they can buy
almost nothing"
The peasant communities are be.
coming self-sustained and self-cOn.
tanned. Each raises the food it needs
including sugar from beets. 1t only
needs to buy salt. Tools are made IN
the village smithies and clothes arc
made at home from yarn spun nj
home. The peasants are entirely con.
tent with their village community
government and pay hardly the slight
est attention to the Moscow govern,
ment, although without offering
armed resistance.
I'm few years more" he said
Russia will be land of villages, in
habited by peasants of the type OF
the middle ages. They will have nC
needs the outside world will be called
on to supply, no ambitions and rt
fears. The proletariat, driven by the
need for food, will have been absorbed
by the peasantry. The cities wi!
moulder into decay. The state viii
have marched 500 years backward in
10 the past"
TIL t is if nothing else happens.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30

Miss Louise Loveday will appear in
selection of readings Friday evening ,
s o'clock, under the auspices of Il
Travis Park Methodist Church Epwori
League. The proceeds of the entertain
ment is for missionary work in Afric
The entertainment will be held in Il
league auditorium, and ms an added a
traction the services of the Main Av
nue. High School orchestra, under Il
direction of Miss Yates, has been S
cured.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30
LUXURY A NECESSITY

In an otherwise learned treatise on
Capitalism, Communism and Unemploy-
ment," published recently in the Fort
nightly Review, J. A. R. Marriott
makes this assertion: "No sensible per-
son condones luxury and ostentation. Beth
on economic and on ethical grounds lux
ury is indefensible."
The first OF the quoted sentences would
be acceptable in one Interpretation. Lux
.ury coupled with ostentation is certainly
not TO be condoned But the idea that
this is his meaning is banished by the
second sentence, in which he speaks
of luxury alone. Is it true that luxury
apart from ostentation is indefensible !?
Not from the economic standpoint; and
if economic laws are regarded as Just,
then how can luxury be condemned from
the ethical standpoint, either?
Our conceptions of luxury are too often
associated it'll the ostentatious display
Of wealth. Because, this or that person
is vain is no reason why the object that
stimulates his vanity should be con-
dcmned. Luxury plays vital part in
the worlds economic processes. 1t is
indispensable TO material progress.
This. of course in the material sense
primarily. In that sense, the progress:
of civilization depends upon the CONVEX
sion. of luxurics into necessities. Elm
mate 1uxuries from mans. life. and th'
result would be to bring civilization
matcrally-to a standstill. With only
his vital warts gratificd, the aesthetic
! side of mans nature would in time b.
starved to death Hence, in final analysis
the service OF luxury is not limited to tn
material field.
What is a luxury? 1t cannot be dc
fined in objective terms alone. The per
sOral equation must be considered. VIVA
is luxury to one person may be lie
cessity to another 1t depends upo
what a person is accustomed to. Eskl
} mos cat bubbcr; to them butter woul
be luxury. Yet to most people i'll thu
part of The world butter Is 4 necessity
II is required to balance their diet an
keep them healthy. 1t would have bee
) luxury to the Indians who used
c inhabit this section.
r Anthropologists tell US that the FIR
Indications of mans departure from Il
: primitive state, in which he lived c
a fruits, nuts and herbs, are found in we
+ pons of the chase. With the developmei
n cf new tastes he devised methods
n gratifying them; the new things
- reached out for were luxuries, but vi
c continued use they became nccessitlC
" The more rapidly his wants multiple
n the swifter the process of civilization; al
s with continued exercise of the mind
d devising new ways of gratifying bod
o wants, mans mental capacity increase
The grandfathers of the present &c
II Grafton used tallow candles for illumin
e ton. To them electric lights would ha
IS been a luxury. To large part OF
rs world of today the automobile is ncc'
ltl sig. Two decades ago wagon a
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30
sUsPEcTING EACH OTHER

The fats in the fire Prohibition en-
forcement agents and those who egg,
them on-men who make a living u!
,naintaining the Anti-Saloon League-are
being accused OF various things winch are
indeed unsecmlv for people who profess
to be the only true guardians OF the coun-
RVS morals. Almost simultaneously come
reports of trouble for one OF the Leading
snir;ts in the leagues affairs-William h.
Anderson of New York-and for prohibit
t;on enforcement agents who have been
operating in Texas.
The Hon. Mr. Anderson is accused ny
one of his former lieutenants OF taisify-
ING the accounts Of the league and OF car
wing out private arrangement Tor a
"fifty-fiftv" split OF commissions on dona-
tons solicited for. the dry" orrganZ.a-
ton. Various other charges against the
Hon. Mr.. Anderson are being made the
basis of an investigation, one gathers
frora the public prints.
Bore vague are the reports concern
ins Che suspected irregularities in Texas.
No names have vet been made public
but The condition thus suggested may be
more demoralizing than would positive
proof that men high in the dry ranks
had "gone south or entered INTO con-
spiracv with bootlcggers
Irrespective Of whether any of the
charges in these particular cases have any
basis in fact, the mere announcement that
suspicious are entertained by "higher-ups
IS illustrative of the nature OF the en-
forcement game. 1t is one in which
irregularities have become so common
that il is onlv natural for the participants
10 be suspicious of each other. Who's
going to be next? That question would
naturally occur to anyone who had seen
one colleague after another yield to the
get-rich-quick temptation.
II a prohibtionist of Mr.. Anderson's
prominence slips tip, how could anybody
. be trusted-anybody at least, who is will
ing to take up the kind Of work that the
Anti-Saloon League officials and prohibi-
ton agents have been doing or processing
to do? There have been so many cases
of irregularity on the part Of such peo-
pie that no one who becomSs a profes-
sional prohibitionist can be sure that he
is held absolutely above suspicion, how
ever Straight" he may actually be.
The opportunities for quick gains are
great The temptation is strong. No
every man who believes in prohibition
would be willing to place himself in ;
position that invites suspicion, even though
he had not the slightest doubt Of himself
So. it is not to be wondered at wher
the prohibition people begin to investi
gate each other Activities Of that natur
are rather to be expected, and they viii
add considerably to the insuperablc OBJ
stacles in the way OF those who woult
make this country bone dry"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30
DECADENCE OF CROOKS"

Whether the world as whole is grow
ling better or worse is still a mooted ques-
ton. But most people would probably
agree that there has been no improve
ment in the world Of crooks since the
passing of the notorious gangs OF dime
novel characteristics, Jesse James is no
more. bad men" OF the type that used
to infest the roads and hills of nearly
every Western state have become scarce
Nevertheless, this is a day of crime, and
the criminals have none OF the qualities
that gave a touch OF romance to tho
Operations of the lawless OF an earlier
time.
This may be almost obvious, but in
'terest in the subject is heightened by ;
recently published interview with Wi
liam Allen Pinkerton, dean of American
detectives. Mr. Finkerton drew upol
his wealth of experience with Crooks
when he gave list of ''don'ts" for thos
who are inclined to take up with
strangers. Such advice might have beel
needed by the unwary even in the day
of Robin Hood; now it must be followc,
almost daily if an honest person is t
safeguard what is his-even his life
1t cannot but be observed with wha
contempt the veteran sleuth regards tn
average criminal of the present Les
than a generation ago the law-brcaker
whom such men as Pinkerton had to hun
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30
A POOR KIND OF PROTECTION

One of the principal functions of our
kind of government, as distinguished from
socialistic forms, is to protect private
property. Radicals complain that too
much is made of this function. But the
outcome of a dispute reported from St.
Louis seems to exemplify just the oppo-
site--that the government docs not go
far enough in its protection of private
property.
The dispatch gives few details, but the
case seems to be fairly well summarized,
so far as essentials are concerned. Twelve
years ago man and his wife bought a
piece of property in ST. Louis, the agreed
price being S7700. Subsequently some
body alleged that there was flaw in the
title, and the outcome of the ensuing liti-
CATION was a decision by the Supreme
Court of the state which gave the prop
erty back to the former owner, allowed
him to retain the purchase price and
awarded him judgment of $4,000 as rent
for the time the property was out of his
possession Hence the couple who had
purchased the property twelve years be-
fore suffered monetary loss of $11 400,
dill DtSduSc Vi q uCICSl Ill lllC llllS
1t is difficult to see how such a situa-
ton could come about if the seller of the
property acted in good faith, and if he
acted in bad faith the law should have
protected his intended victim. But the
facts, as reported, speak for themselves.
Under analysis, they show that the gov
eminent failed in two instances to per-
form properly its widely advertised func-
ton as protector of property.
In the first instance, both the seller
and the buyer should have. been saved
from the consequences of the transfer
of property under a defective title. Hav-
ing made itself a party to a mistake by
accepting the decd of sale and other docu-
ments pertaining to the transaction, the
government, in effect, washed its hands Of
responsibility by placing the entire blame
| upon the purchaser.
OF course it might be said that there
was nothing to prevent the purchaser
| from having the title examined, or ever
guaranteed. But what lawyer, and wha
title guarantor, can prevent the filing o.
adverse claims? And who, when such
claims come to trial, can say with assur
ancc what the verdict will be?
| The government docs not, in the strict
est sense, protect property when it make.
possible such a plight as that in which
the St. Louis couple found themselve.
when the court decrecd that they shoulc
surrender what they had bought, forfei
the purchase price and pay rent for TIT
period of possession. 1t was remiss in it
duty to the former owner, in first in
stance, it there was indeed such a flaw
in the title as to make a sale scriousl,
/ jeopardize his interests; and it did not pro
tect the property in its later nomina
ownership. Thus the government wa
flagrantly inconsistent. 1t permitted al
error to be made. and so failed to protcc
the property under its former owner; i
recognized the purchasers claim to owner
ship when it accepted the transfer papers
and then failed to protect that claim whel
it was attacked.
: A trav of diamonds disapDcared i
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30

They are going to put COW and a
sheep in the St. Louis Zoo because so
many city kids have never seen either.
If things keep on as they are going. a
fully developed specimen OF regular
man will have to be kept in the ZOO too,
for the edification of future generations.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-30

team of mules, or buggy and horse,
filled the bill.
Not only is it mistake to say that
luxury is indefensible, but. paradoxically,
luxury is a necessity-it is necessary to
the maintenance of processes upon which
material progress depends.