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The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-04-13

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
OF THE STATE OF MONTANA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
McCONE.
THE CAPITAL TRUST C SAVINGS
BANK, a corporation,
Plaintiff,
THE BROCKWAY TOWNSHIP COM
PANY, a corporation,
Defendants.
NOTICE is hereby given, That's I'll,
the undersigned Sheriff Of McCone
County, Montana, will on Saturday the
21st day of April, A. D. 1928, at the
hour of two o'clock p. M. of said day,
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, in front of the Court
House in the City of Circle, Montana,
the following described real property
situate in the County of McCone,
Montana. to-wit.-
The Southwest quarter (SW14) of
Section Twenty 600 Township
Eighteen 18) North, Range For
ty-seven (47) East of the Montana
Principal Meridian, excepting the
Townsite of Brockway comprising
fifty eight and 66-100 $3.50 acres
according to the plat, thereof on :,
file in the office of the Clerk and
Recorder of said Dawson County,
also excepting the right-of-way of the
Montana Eastern Railway Company,
twenty-five and 60-100
(25.60) acres, containing in all Sew
enty five and 74-1OO (75.74) acres,
more or less, according to the surveys
of said exceptions.
Dated at Circle, Montana, this 26th
day of March, A. D. 1928.
FLOYD DAVIS, Sheriff.
BY OTTO A. KING, Deputy.
HILDEBRAND & WARREN,
Attorneys for Plaintiff, Glendive,
Montana.
First publication March Both, 1928.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-04-13

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF
REAL PROPERTY
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-04-13
ALIAS SUMMONS

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT
OF THE STATE Ok MONTANA,
IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
McCONE.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-04-13

c. f. CAMPBELL, Clerk.
BRATTIN & KETTER,
Attorneys for Plaintiff, Sidney, Mon
tana. n
First publication March Both, 1928.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17
TERMINAL SERVICE RESTORED

The Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company, in replacing the sec .ond car on the Terminal route and bringing the schedule back to one of ten minutes, showed that recognition of public opinion which is always a good guide. The Age-Herald called attention to this fifty per cent. cut in schedule and contended it was wrong even though the company had placed more cars on the North Bir- mingham route which goes by the ter minals. The opinion was expressed that the curtailment was unwise in face of the new contract with the city and the prospect of jitney referen- dunn. The company did the right thing in prompt restoration of the Terminal line service and the public confidence is gained by any steps taken on the part of the trolley inter- ests to measure up to their obligation to give adequate service on all lines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17

engage in such vandalism. Birming- ham is suffering from lack of prop erly equipped parks and playgrounds. Each one that is supplied with a few comforts such as drinking fountains is in the nature of a community bless ing. Wilfully and deliberately to in jure these facilities is all the more reprehensible under the circumstances. Residents in the neighborhoods of parks and playgrounds whose children are beneficiaries are naturally out ragged over the offenses. They can do much towards stopping the practice by cooperating in the work of capturing and punishing the offenders. When they are apprehended, they should be promptly and severely dealt with, as provided by law. The moral influence of such treatment will do much to- wards abolishing the evil. Any half grown boy knows better than to en- gage in offences of this kind. The sooner he is taught the seriousness of the matter the better for the com munity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17
MOTHERS OF FAMOUS
 MEN
The Mother of Henry IT

"She had the nature of a man and the frame of a woman!"
 So spoke the old chroniclers con- corning Matilda, the daughter of Henry I. the woman who became the mother of Henry II, Henry Plantagenet." as he came to be called.
 She had need of having both the heart of a man and the strength of a man, for she was called upon in life to endure many things. She must have been a very confus- ing girl. Her story makes one think how pleasant 1t is. after all, to be just an ordinary American girl. You will go 50 Germany and marry the emperor" they had told hY- when s1ke was eight years old. They might as well have said, You will go to China and marry the Great Dragon" She was too young to know what 1t was all abovt, so off she went. glad to do something that people seemed to think would be inter esting. The old German emperor died after a while, and back came the princess to England once more this being the year 1125-which seems very long time ago (but life was just as real then as now). Now, instead of an old man, she was told that she must marry boy of fifteen. "Geoffrey the Handsome" The Handsome" part sounded very pleasant to her young ears. Then. too. he was called "Plantagenet" because he was forever off on his horse among the broom and the heather the "planta genets." He was a riproaring boy, not half so nice as he looked, the son of Count Fulk of Anjou. So Matilda, the princess, married the handsome boy. and then she began to be ambitious. She plotted and planned and di- rected like Catherine the Great. She was proud and naughty. and she gave to the world her son, Henry II, one of the most dramatic figures in the long line of Eng fish kings. From her, too. came the present royal house of Great Britain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17

The Alabama senate today considers question in which the people of this have shown unprecedented and in regard to which opinion of the overwhelming majority of Aabamans unnistakabe question the leasing convc state and county public view makes distinc
 on considering objectionable the other and both within
 the authority the legislature and the to terminate While the question the form of resolution not to sder the problem session. the will clearly indicate the senatorial attitude towards it.
 The one argument that has been tnung system for four is not valid worth second thought not financial question: but moral question: financial question, because the state whatever it shall cost to deal with convc in humane civilized It financial question, because it the state in the of damaged reputation than possibly repay It is not public financial tion profit the public treasury but private corporations that lease the convc and work them to the limit of their physical capacities.
 The people of Alabama have confidence in their senator's That why today they lay their before them demanding public will be obeyd and that heed be paid the lobbyists who seek subordinate the public desire to the selfish program those who hire them Can the of Alabama publicly join hands with such group under the the people them offce Let those secrve satellites perncous system fit from group group whispering buzzng if they w but let the senators of Alabama steadasty the principle their conscences tell them right which the people of Alabama with voice acclaim
 there be trading moral ssue The great damental projects which the prosperity of this unassaabe Let be mised into believing poit- cal trading and huckserng will accomplish anything public value that the people will either fail perceive this ground rafickng hesitate condemn it, both by public terance and at the polls.
 The Alabama today has the only people of Alabama, but of all America focused upon Will with those who would compromise the public this state for dollars will resoutey rmorsessy place seal
 it's condemnation the nefarou lease system abhoren public everywhere? Only short hours and hundred million Americans will know the answer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17
ALABAMA AROUSED
(Tampa Tribune)


 Since Florida abolished the con- vict lease system, Alabama is one of the two remaining states which continue the system. the other being Georgia. Alabama people followed very closely the develop ments of the Florida agitation ant investigation and. as a result, they are now aroused to the importance of following Floridas example and entirely eradicating the abuse.
 The Alabama legislature met yesterday and the indications are that the convict question will pro- vide the paramount issue before the body, Already the lines are being drawn and it Is evident that there Is to be a hard fight, for the lease system has powerful advo cates in the state. Governor Brandon has precipitated the bat tie at the very outset of the ses- sion of the legislature by coming out unequivocally for the contin- uance of the lease system. He declares that there Is no other available plan for disposing of convicts or of handling them with out great loss to the state. He sees no objection to the sytesm as it Is operated in Allah ama-which, if true, must mean that Alabama is exceptional. On the other hand, leading organizations of the state, including the League of Women Voters. have arrayed themselves for the repeal of the law permit ting leasing and a statewide cam paign is to be conducted to influ- ence the legislature. So far from finding no objections to the sys- tenn as 1t is worked in Alabama, these organizations are alleging insanitary conditions of camps, inhuman treatment of convicts, no moral supervision and generally bad conditions. They have taken issue with the governor and the champions of the lease and pro- pose to show the public and the legislature that the system Is an evil one, disgrace to the state, and that 1t ought to be immedi- ately abolished. Complicating the situation in Alabama Is the fact that the legislature took action on the question last January. That was before the Florida disclosures were made and before there was any agitation of the subject re- sulting therefrom. In January the Alabama legislature extended the system until January, 1928. Floridians will watch the proceed ings in our neighbor state with unusual interest. The Tribune hopes the day is not far distant when the infamous system will cease to exist anywhere in the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17
NEGRO TIDE TURNS

The peak of the negro outgo from the South has evidently passed. Mum bers of local industrial plants report easier labor conditions. The North and East are not calling for the negro Having caught up with the demand for maximum production which existed during the first five months of the year, more nearly normal conditions exist and no more Southern negroes are required. In fact, some of those who have gone North are turning Southward by reason of the lessened demand for labor there. The South is the negro's natural habitat, and wages in the South are nearer and nearer a parallel with those of the North, while living in the South costs much less. The negro going to the North soon discovers that he has been lured for temporary employment only and that, when there is no longer pressing need for him, he is face to face with hard conditions. The ne- groes who have remained in the Bir- mingham district and other Alabama industrial sections are finding them selves much better off than many of those who went North and East during a peak demand for production, which now has eased off, and are now begin ming to be let out. The experience has been of service to the negro. It has taught him more fully to appreciate his Southern habitat.
 The commissioner of conciliation of the department of labor, writing in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, says: "There are decided bearish tenden- cies in the demands for colored labor migratory from the South. A strong impression prevails that the tide of Northern migration has arrived at the crest for this year at least. Cleve- land, Ohio, where large numbers of those immigrants have lodged, is the first to announce that there is an avail able man for every job and fear is expressed that winter will come and find within it's gates large numbers of the unemployed among this class The state superintendent of employ ment service has requested the depart ment of labor to send out broadcast warning that further placement of the migrants at Cleveland would be inn possible" Southern negroes going East and North from now on will do ! so knowing that they are not wanted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17
FIGHTS AND HIGH FINANCE


 Shelby and Montana appear to have enjoyed an "elegant sufficiency" of prize fight closely identified with high finance. The departure of Mir. Dempsey with $300y00O of local lucre. for letting people watch him punch MT. Gibbons few times, left large financial vacuum in that neighbor- hood. MT. Dempsey did not knock out Mr. Gibbons. Nor did MT. Gibbons put MT. Dempsey to sleep. The combi- nation, however, knocked out three banks which closed their doors with bang almost as soon as the final gong sounded, and commercial inter- ests of that section, as we'll as some of it's public-spirited citizens, are sore at things in general and prize fights in particular. There are no indica- tlons that Shelby or Montana will un- dertake to negotiate any more enter prises of the kind. In fact, it is re- ported that anybody out there sug- gesting prize-fight will have one on his hands at once and without either challenge or preliminaries.
 The Dempsey-Gibbons fight was hit on to attract attention to the oil lands. ranch opportunities and all the other wonderful prospects of Montana. Dempsey is high-priced artist who operates on the cash-in-advanc basis. After getting large part of his guar antee, things began to look squallv. and bankers came to the rescue. The light was a financial failure which mt the bankers. The close associa- ton between the bankers and their efforts to finance the fight resulted In uneasiness on the part of deposit ors who are known to entertain sus- plclons about their savings under cer- tam circumstances, and the deuce was to pay.
 1t might be worth something to oheloy and Montana to have learned that artists like Dempsey are too rich Tor their blood. Such celebrities are not concerned with the origin of the money, nor what results follow the transaction Who knows but that what happened to Shelby may be a whole some lesson to other ambitious re- glons that imagine they are not being fairly treated by the great outside public? The warning may save other proud towns from embarrassment. Prize fighters used to be satisfied with ie" thousands. Now only hundreds of thousands tempt them to maui one another for few minutes. Banks take desperate chances in undertaking to finance them. If the costs of the punching game continue to soar if may come to the point of municipal or state bond issues, unless, of course the people refuse to vote them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17
The Primary Plan


 While the legislature Is consid- ering the matter of repeating the provision of the primary eirr,.-- law authorizing second choice vot- ing, why should not the second primary be abolished also? There is entirely too much machinery mixed up in the exercise of the right of suffrage. Much of it is observed in the breach rather than than in the observance. and there can be no better time to return to the simple regulations which obtained twenty-five or thirty years ago. Back In the old days regulations governing party pri- maries were prescribed by party committees in the respective coun- ties, and without cost to either state or county. Elections were just as honestly held and just as good men chosen as are secured under the present regime. Nowa- days each primary costs the county from $500 to $1,o00. paid from the public treasury, to say nothing of assessments imposed on candidates by party committees. f>.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17
CONVICT LEASING
(Washington Post)


 From Alabama comes report of the latest enlistment in reform of conditions to which convicted criminals are subject. The "con- vict leasing" plan is there in vogue and public opinion is prop erly rousing against it. The gal ley slave idea does not and should not, flourish on American soil. Though some jurisdictions have tolerated the leasing of convicts- the enslaving of humans to the will of purchasers of their labor they have almost invariably be- come the targets of public cen sure. For the idea is repugnant to American institutions and to American sentiment and thought.
 Conditions in Alabama may not be as foul as they were in Florida. It is to be hoped that they are not. But the foulness of existing conditions is not the test for ap- proval or disapproval. The damn ing fact is that, under the "con- vict leasing" systetl, horrifying evils may come to pass. It is a system that revolts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17
ALABAMA's DUTY
(Atlanta Constitution)


 The convict lease system looms up as the paramount issue before the long term of the Alabama leg islature. Viewing 1t from this distance. and analysing the situa- ton without prejudice or bias, 1t Is first of all a great human is- sue, and the conscience of Ala bama has been aroused by the State League of Women Voters as 1t has not been since the old days of the fight against. the corner barroom. Governor Brandon took the position that Alabama had made no provision for the state utilization of the conYicts, and that to terminate the lease system would make of them a liability upon the state instead of an as- set. from the lease proceeds. as at present.
 Present sentiment has been so strongly aroused, however, in the past four mc<chs, accentuated by the Florida brutality scandals and the quick action of the assembly in that state to abolish the sys- tenn. that it looks now that the assembly will reverse its own ac- ton of January and repeal its amendment. thus providing for the abolition of the system on Jan uary l next. It is hoped the Ala bama assembly will repeal its ex- tension amendment. fall in line with every other progressive state in America and wash its hands of system of dark-age barbarity, that is in reality as economically unsound as 1t is inhumanly bru- tai.
 The position of Governor Bran don. as we understand it, is based purely upon that of business eco monies. But his position is not tenable. Aside from the fact that farming out the states penal wards, some of whom are mur- derers and many of whom are vio- lators of only the minor laws, to private commercial interests to drive to big profits in their &C., tfvities, in competition with free labor, and without regard to any of the moral obligations of a state in the premises, is repugnant to every impulse of humanity.
 Aside from this outstanding req son why such a system should not be tolerated, the fact Is unmistak- able, as demonstrated by Georgia and every other state that has adopted the system, the convicts will be worth infinitely more to Alabama in It's highway develop ment and maintenance than will tho inonY1nn fhat, to leasing as employed in any other direction.
 Provide means for giving them employment before ending the leases" says Governor Brandon. What better and more profitable employment could there be found than in building a state system of thoroughfares. which that state has already begun so earnestly by the recent authorization of a 25,000,00G road bond issue. Let Alabama fall in line. The League of Women Voters is to be com mended for it's activity. It took a scandal In which human livez were sacrificed to the lash to force Florida into line, but when she did drop into line she did so with the almost unanimous voice of the people aroused to a sacred duty. Florida is to be commended for it's action, and Alabama should not let the opportunity pass to show that she, too, will not longer tolerate a system that commer- cializes the bodies / iN human wards for the enrichment of pri-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17
WHY ALABAMA LEADS

half-dozen blast furnaces were blown out in the East last week. Ihey had no orders on hand and did not feel like producing iron to be piled on Yards in a declining market. Proouc- tion costs had reached high point The cost of overhead through non operation is great, but the cost or ,nroducing at high cost for declln- Ing market is greater. The difference between Southern and Northern steel and iron operations has thus again been signalized. The Alabama blast furnaces have sold their make or iron for the next three months and thls iron is under contract to be delivered as made. They will not pile this iron and they know what they will get tor 1t at the smelter. The Alabama iron maker faces three months of certitude. The Eastern iron maker is not so for -tunate. Every time there has been crisis in the iron and steel trades the Birmingham district has made rela- lively the best showing.
 Time and again it has blown in blast Furnaces when in the North and East, for one cause and another, they have been blown out. During the steel trade depression Birmingham steel mills operated at greater percentage of capacity than those of other sec tions. The East and North know the iron and steel game quite as well as the South does, but there are condi- tions in Alabama of one kind and an- other that in every crucial test have shown the superior capacity of this district to operate profitably under trying circumstances. Meanwhile, the Souths consumption of iron and steel in it's own mills grows materially each year, and this also tends to render steel mill furnace operation the more secure in that, while Southern metal does invade the North under usual conditions, there are seldom condl- stions under which Northern metals can even partially compete In the South with the Southern product.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-17
POOR BOYS WHO
 BECAME FAMOUS By Frederick Houk Law
John Rcnnie

When boy plays truant from school everyone tells him that he has utterly disgraced himself; that no good will come of him, and that he can expect little from the flu ture. That is what an English farmer told his little son, John Rennie, when he discovered that the small boy had stayed away from school day after day to watch work in q machine shop.
 The open door of the shop, re- vealing a fascinating mystery of moving, clanking machinery, had been too strong an invitation for little John Rennie. He simply could not get by that door-so in he went, and forgot all about school. Sometimes the shop man let the boy do little work, and then the youngster was perfectly happy. The father, although a simple farmer, was wise in his ways, and did the right thing. He took the boy out of school and set him at work in the shop.
 The 12-year- boy went to work with q will. doing the best he could to help the mechanic whom he so much admired. That man was no ordinary mechanic: he was an inventor, and had made the first of all threshing machines. He showed the small boy how to work with tools and machines, and showed him, too, that book knowl- edge is a great help. Two years later John Rennie was glad enough to go back to school in order to gain the theoretical knowledge that every good me- chanic must have. Now he had a reason for studying and he studied hard. In the meanwhile he kept up his work in the shop. AS a result, before he was twenty he was actively at work constructing machinery.
 The young man had good under standing, and continued to study until he became a well-informed mechanical engineer. He knew both theory and practice. While he worked erecting machinery, or inventing machinery, he studied further, and made himself a civil engineer. Today, the monuments that he erected to his memory are to be seen all over England. The great London Bridge is one of them; the famous East India dock is another; and docks at various important English ports, and ca nals with ingenious locks, making Co breakwaters that protect various harbors. testify to his ability and activity. With consummate abil- ity he mastered whatever was great and difficult in engineering, whether it was doing away with a swamp or bridging the Thames.
 The truant had learned that studying pays.