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, 1923-02-17

plan IL apparently not growing auv
| stronger and promises in the end 10
simmer down to a few obstructionists
who will not be satisfied with any re-
suit short of a declaration of default
and proceedings to collect by force il
the opinion expressed by the New
York World.
The chief and practically the only
argument against the plan which has
SO far found voice rests upon the fact
that the United States borrowed the
money lent to Great Britain from it's
own people with Liberty bonds draw
ing Az per cent interest. while the
plan provides for charging the debtor
only 3 per cent for the first ten years
and az per cent thereafter to matur-
ity stxty-two years hence. The differ
ence in rate is taken to represent the
charge upon the American taxpayers
for the benefit Of the British taxpay-
ers.
/ This il, of course q true repre-
sentation as matters stand. but how
long are they likely to stand a. they
are? The Liberty bonds have no such
length of time to run as the proposed
! British debt bond, and within a very
few years 1t will almost certainly be
possible for the United States to re-
fund those bonds at less than 3ts per
cent. which would put the loan-shark-
boot on the other foot. The United
States might do better even than 10
refund its own bonds at 3 per cent.
No one can cay now, but h fact Ii
to be considered that II was abba to
refund its civil war debt at half the
rate of issue.
ut is necessary, however, for the
congressional obstructionists to un-
derstand that the American people
will not favor any understanding calcu.
~lations in dealing with this or any
other foreign debtor. They will least
of all tolerate insistence or the exact
pound of flesh from only n of these
debtors which comes promptly for
ward in acknowledging the debt and
agreeing to terms which are beyond
rather than within its capacity to
meet without serious arrangement OF
its own finances"
, 1923-02-17
Tell Us Why

To the great alarm OF a serious and
substantial, likewise a keen observer,
he began to beat his brains in utter
perplexity the other day over a ridlcu
lously simple thing. A fact that had
been familiar TO him all his life had
assumed n sudden strangeness In his
eyes, as II he were confronted with
1t for the first time.
II was a feminine practice that he
had bcheld in operation from child.
hood and had never thought of ques
tioning before. But now, instead Of
taking it for granted as a law of ma.
ture, like the fact that fire burns, he
was filled with a new wonder. which
framed itself in this question:
why do women kiss one another7"
He had Just seen a bevy Of women
and girls of his own set, some of them
of his wv family. kissing one another
with energy and zeal a they said
their good.bys all round.
They didn't all love one another; he
knew that. Several Of them had ham.
mers out for others in the group. But
the knockers kissed their victims as
fervently as they did their friends, and
no one got bitten.
Then there wero some that sadly
lacked tho comeliness to make them
kissable from the mans point of view.
There were one OIL two whom he felt
that he couldn't have been bribed to
kiss with his eyes bandaged. Yet
these i~neligibles got Their full share
of seemingly enraptured kisses from
tho rest of the girls.
On the other hand, the bevy in.
cluded a modicum of young women
so favored by nature that the man
could have cheerfully taken them
apart. singly Dr. collectively, and
kissed them diligently and patiently
until the cows came home.
Surely. he argued with himself. the
business Of kissing those favored dam.
se,s must be utterly unlike that OF
kissing the unfortunates whom his
Judgment. ripened by long and varied
experience. classified as ineligible, Yet
he was unable to perceive any nddl'
t.onal warmth in tho kisses bestowed
upon the comedy one by their own
sex.
why. then, do women kiss7' he
asked himself again in helpless he.
wiiderment.
He felt a dizzylng jar from two con
Trajectory ideas battling in his brain.
One was that It was perfectly natural
for women to kiss one another, the
other vas that 1t was perfectly alb.
surd OF them TO do 30.
An artists candid eyes SEQ blues
and pinks and illacs in places where
ordinary ey,cs. deceived by habit and
the tyrannous knowledge Of what
things really are" see only white
snow or graylsh steam. Probably q
, 1923-02-17
Suspenders Back in Style

However much we may make fun
Of the girls for being such slaves to
fashion. poor little dears, we won't
fail to prick up our ears obsequiously
at the news that our spring trousers
are going to be high waisted-a sort
of Empire effect, Algernon, but with
no tucks.
You may recall that trousers have
been very low WASTED since the war,
when manufacturers began to skimp
material to reduce the overhead. That
was when the buckle on the back dis
appeared, together with the tags on
the backs of your shoes and many
other convenient little accessories that
, 1923-02-17
He Points Out

SECRETARY MELLON made an impressive
" point against the issuance of tax-exempt secur.
tiles when he brought out the fact that such issues
conflict with the surtax plan of revenue. Obviously
continuance of the practice would call for substi-
tuition of some other plan of taxation. For with
tax-exempt income securities flooding the coun'
try, it is plain that graduated income taxes can not
be effectively or justly imposed.
The argument against issuing t~axexempt secur.
tiles is u~nanswerable. The movement to put
through n constitutional amendment forbidding
such issues, which is now under way. is directed 10
meet local, state and national need and should be
pressed to conclusion.
, 1923-02-17

you had been accustomed to all your
life.
Low wasted trousers were accom-
panied with longer w~aistcoats to be
sure, but waiStcoatS have a trick OF
crumplIng up over a fellows bay win.
dow and revealing a ring of shirt, es-
pecially when no suspenders are
worn. This ring will no longer be
according to Hoyle when the new En-
pire trousers are on tho market, for
such q decoration will betray the fact
that q fellow is wearing last years
styles.
Goodness knows how high our
waists are going to be. Our tyrants,
the merchant tailors. haven't taken
US into their confidence OF that point.
They may carry our waists up under
our arms in the trussed up style of
! the ladies at Napoleon's court, or they
may let US off with something less
extreme.
They say that with the new style
trousers we will be positively COM
PEELED to wear s~uspenders. This will
doubtless be a bitter blow to men of
elegant slenderness above the hips.
who pride themselves on their ability
to wear a pair Of trousers without
any extraneous or ~adventious aids or
accessories to keep them up.
Some cynics may tax the tailorH
with being in league with the sus-
pender manufacturers, just as many
taxed them last fall, when open faced
waistcoats came in, with being in
league with the neckwear trade. How.
.,,.- 49, L. A. -H--1E-L-z~ ~,
style committee OF the National asso-
citation Of Merchant Tailors says that
the heightened waistline will add
height to tho individual.
He further reports that coats will
be looser and more conservative !"
by which he probably means less
freakish and cake-eaterish. For
which relief much thanks!
, 1923-02-17

Jennie l.. Sherman.
All Kinds of Sewing
Phone 590J S5S N. Lincoln
, 1923-02-17

females should handy kisses so frivo-
lousy. And this particular OBJ
server says he earnestly entreats ev-
cry female who feels inclined to kiss
another female to summon all her will
power to resist the temptation and
confer that kiss upon some lonely
male.
, 1923-02-17
The Casper Tnbune's Program

Irrigation project west of Casper to be author.
lied and completed at once.
A complete and scientific zoninE system for tho
city OF Casper.
A comprehensive municipal and school recreation
park system. including swimming pools Tor the
children of Casper.
yard as planned by the county commissioners to
Garden Greek Falls and return.
Better roads for Natrona county and more high.
ways for Wyoming.
More equltable freight raise for shippers Of tn"
Rocky Mountain region, and more frequent train
service for Casper.
The Kevin review., 1923-03-08
We TERINARY
DEPARTMENT
Questions addressed to d.. NJ. E.
Knowles, veterinary editor, Helena, will
be answered through this column.

Veterinary EDITOR lost valu
able COW few days ago that showed
the following symptoms: stopped
eating three days before her death
drank little water, apparently suffer.
ed dull pain during her sickness, hel
bowels failed to move, and she was
apparently unable to get up the morn
ing of the day she died.
gave her one pound of EPSON
salts the second day of the sickness
but there was no result from this
dose.
What was the trouble and how can
/ treat a similar case?-C. H. H.
Answer.-Your COW probably suf-
fered from impaction of one of the
stomachs and the following treat
ment might have saved her: One and
one-half pounds of EPSON salts, two
ounces Of powdered Jamaica ginger,
one-half ounce of powdered nux
vomica, to be given as a drench in
three pints of warm water; this dose
to be repeated in ~ hours If the
bowels fail to move in that time.
Occasionally impaction of the stom-
ach in cattle requires surgical inter
ference, when the services of train
ed veterinary surgeon is imperatively
required. In fact, 1t is always better
to call trained veterinary surgeon
The Kevin review., 1923-03-08
FARMERS ASK FOR
PRICE LEGISLATION
NORTHWEST DELEGATES RE-
QUEST $1.75 AS BASIC WHEAT
PRICE AT THE TERMINALS

Selection of delegates from the-10
states represented at the Northwest
agricultural price stabilization con-
ference to go to Washington and
work for fixed price for wheat, as
recommended by the conference, will
be the next move of the organization
to aid the farmer, it Is said.
The action was decided on at the
two-day conference, concluded at St.
Paul, at which resolution was
adopted, calling upon congress to en-
act the Gooding bill, which would
provide basic minimum. of $1.75 a
bushel for wheat at terminals.
The resolution also urged that in
the event congress failed to take any
action at it's present session, Presi-
dent Harding should call special
session to insure relief for the farm
er. The six states voting in favor of
this resolution were Minnesota, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska,
Montana and Kansas.
The Gooding bill referred to pro-
vides q basic minimum of $1.75 a
bushel for wheat at the terminals.
The minority members of the reso-
lutions committee held that the arbi-
trary stimulation of prices would re-
suit in further over-production and
further decentralization of agriculture.
The conference unanimously ap-
proved cooperative marketing.
The Kevin review., 1923-03-08

In my two recent articles l eX-
planned the construction of dams for
storing water for irrigation on dry
land farms and also the diking sys-
tenn for the conservation of flood
waters. In this paper l shall take
up the legal problem that this prac-
tice would raise.
Generally throughout the west, If
rigation started in small way by
miners turning out little stream
onto some hay land for their stock,
little dreaming of the great possibili-
ties that lay in the future for irriga-
tion. AS the state began to be set
tied up and there was more demand
for and use of the water and users
began to interfere with each other
the states began to develop laws to
protect the water users. When there
was no interference in the use OF the
water there was apparently no need
for laws regulating its use.
Montana has enacted some laws,
and in 1907 the last constructive
work was done on the water code.
There have been a few amendments
since that time but no real construct
i've legislation, although nearly every
legislature has tried to improve them.
Briefly, under the present laws, there
are two methods of securing water
right, depending whether the stream
from which the water is to be taken
is decreed or not. On decreed streams
is made to the district
court, which has a record of the de-
crees issued in his county for that
stream. No new application can be
made without his approval and the
value is determined after the right
has been perfected. However, the
of these streams has not
been sufficiently determined to date
to permit the available water supply
for additional lands to be known.
AS only about one per cent of the
streams of the state have been adj
Indicated, the method of obtaining
4 right on a stream that is not adj
Indicated is of the widest interest. |
70 acquire an appropriation person
s supposed to post notice at or
lear the point of diversion, to file
/ record of this notice in the county
Jerk and recorders office, build a
Itch and put the water to beneficial
lse. This water may or may not be
lsed as far as the records go, as there |
5 no follow-up required. The record |
tops there. !
The Kevin review., 1923-03-08
"TRIANCLE SPRING" in
FAVOR WITH BUYERS

Recognition Of the quality of wheat
grown in the Great Falls territory is
noted in the fact that many orders
from Minneapolis buyers now specify
triangle spring" wheat.
The term has come to include the
wheat shipped from points in the
triangle" and means a spring wheat
grown on dry land farms and of the
highest quality. Grain men say that
the fact that triangle spring" has
come to have definite meaning to
the grain buyers of the Minneapolis
market is distinct compliment to
the product. The compliment is the
greater since it came to be applied
to this class of grain without any at
tempt to establish it as grade by
the Montana grain men.
The area covered by wheat that
may be called triangle spring" as
established by the Minneapolis buy
ers includes the triangle of the Great
Northern railway out of Great Falls
with the connecting branch lines out
of Shelby. There are few spots
where the wheat does not reach the
high quality of the remainder of the
triangle" but these are so few that
the buyers regard all this territory
as origin of triangle spring" grade.
The term triangle spring" is used
quite consistently by the Minnea-
polls buyers in ordering from Great
Falls grain men by telegraph.
The Kevin review., 1923-03-08

/ BY complying with the law, it i:
supposed to give protection but it has
not been necessary to follow this for
mality, although the law states tha
failure to comply with this act de-
prives the appropriation of his right
Many rights have been granted BY
the courts where the appropriations
have never posted a notice or record
ed filing, but has built his ditch and
used the water beneficially.
There is no court in the state that
would deny a right to person who
has diverted and used the water bene-
ficially.
The law states that when the ap-
proprietor ceases to use the water the
right ceases. "But question OF
abandonment shall be a question OF
fact, and shall be determined as other
questions of fact" 1t appears that
in order to make it stick" the ap-
proprietor must file record Of his in
tention to abandon the use of the
water with the county clerk.
On account of these lax laws rights
that have never been used and no
ditch even dug are on record and
are valid as far as the record goes.
On the other hand there may be
valid rights where the water has been
used for years and there is no record
of them at all. There is no way Of
checking up on the water rights and
the amount of water in the stream,
as there is no limit except beneficial
use placed on the amount person
may file on. The result is that our
streams are greatly over-appropriat-
ed.
In the dry land sections there are
old filings that have not been used
for years, and now when someone
else wants to build storage reser-
voir there is a tendency to revive old
rights. Not knowing whether this
can be done or not the one desiring
to construct a reservoir will not put
his labor and money into the proposi-
ton. This condition, of course, is
bound to retard development and
should not be tolerated by our citi-
zens. We need some legislation to
clear up this quagmire and it should
be demanded of our legislators to see
that the legal phases of this matter
are settled SO that our dry lands can
be developed and the water supply
that is now running to waste can be
utilized on our lands SO as to hold
the settlers in the state.
The Kevin review., 1923-03-08
TO
BUILD A GAMER Y
FARMERS, FRUIT GROWERS AMI
BUSINESS MEN TO JOIN
IN ENTERPRISE
II. A. Johns, Minneapolis Gamer, is
Back of Undertaking; Will Invest
$4,000 If Stevensville Will Put
in $15,OOO.

The fruit and vegetable growers
in the region of Stevensville may this
summer establish a new industry. a
cannery for peas, cherries and other
such products. The business men of
Stevensville and the orchardists and
farmers of the surrounding country,
through the Stevensville District IN
dustrial association, have made a
deal with H. A. Johns, q cannery ca
pitalist and operator of Randolph,
Wis, and it is probable that plant
to cost $4,000 will be erected at
Steyensville this year. A news item
says:
Mr.. Johns agrees to establish a
cannery for the purpose of handling
peas and cherries and to put $4,000
into the enterprise If Stevensyille
will furnish $4,000 for the erection
of suitable buildings.
1t was brought out that the $15,-
900 asked for is to be in the nature
of a loan, secured by the buildings
and repayable within three years.
Upon repayment, title to the build
ings is to go to Mr.. Johns. 1t was
also announced that already guaran-
tees aggregating $4,000 have been
obtained. 1t is planned to borrow
the necessary money from some
large bank, the pledges signed by
local business men and farmers to
stand as security for the loan.
Mr.. Johns, it is understood, con-
templates erection of a complete, up
to-date plant at an estimated cost
of $4,000, he to furnish any sum
in excess of $4,000, to
finish the buildings. The plant will
consist of a brick structure for the
packing house, and similar type of
building for the boiler and engine
house. The factory proper will be
Of wood, with concrete floors. Work
will be begun as soon as weather
conditions will permit. The site has
not been definitely selected.
This is a step toward the proper
Development Of Montana's economic
life. What this state needs is manu-
actories-packing houses, canneries,
cheese factories, wooden factories,
sash and door factories, and every
)ther kind of manufacturing estab-
ishment that can use the raw pro-
lucts of the farms, mines, orchards, +
'anches, numbering concerns and the Il
ike of the state. The state will al 4
ways be at a disadvantage while it is
obliged to ship most of its raw pro-
lucts to other manufacturing cen
ers.
The Kevin review., 1923-03-08

Hopper poison mixed and spread
according to directions is not danger
GUS to livestock grazing on poisoned
fields, either then or later, accord
ing to the statement of DR.. Howard
Welch, veterinarian at Montana state
college. DR.. Welchs statement is as
follows:
From the early part of winter to
about the middle of January, there
were many reported losses of cattle
from arsenical poisoning. In most
cases the only known source of ar
senic was the hopper poison spread
on the grain fields during the sum-
mer. Investigation of many of these
losses proved them due to arsenical
poisoning. If the animals were all
The Kevin review., 1923-03-08
TREASURE STATE FARM AND LIVESTOCK
PROBLEM RAISED BY FLOOD
WATER IRRIGATION

By H. e. MURDOCH Agricultural College
The Kevin review., 1923-03-08
EXTENDS TIME
FOR PAYMENT
CONGRESS GIVES FEDERAL IRRI-
CATION PROJECT SETTLERS
TWO YEARS MORE

Extension of tie for the payment
of charges due the government on
reclamation projects, for period OF
two years dating from December 81,
1922, has been approved by both
branches of congress. Presidential
approval of the act is now being
awaited.
Although this step was taken by
congress for the relief of individual
applicants, the act benefits all land
owners living on government pro-
jects, Mr.. Sanford said. 1t amends
an act adopted by congress on Mar.
81, 1922, which deferred payment of
charges for period of one year, but
with the provision that all charges
shall draw 6 per cent interest per
year from the date of the extension.
The act further provides that the
secretary of the interior has the au-
thority, in cases where individual
water users have been unable to pay
any construction, operation or main
tenance charge due for last year, to
add these unpaid charges to the con-
struction account, this to be distrib
uted over a 20-year period of pay
ment. The penalties and accrued in
terest, in such cases, would be can
celled under the provisions of the
act, but on the extended charges in
terest would be collected.
To acquire an extension the appli-
cant is required to present a state-
ment to the secretary of the interior
showing his inability to meet the
charges when they fall due in 1924.
Relief under the act is also avail
able in whole or in part to a legally
organized group of water users on
presentation of sufficient number
of individual financial statements.
The Kevin review., 1923-03-08
STOCK LOSSES FROM HOPPER
POISON DUE TO NEGLIGENCE

dead, and no sick ones could be OBJ
served, analysis of the stomach con
tents showed arsenic. If sick animals
acute arsenical poison, the wobbling
reeling, uncertain gait, muscles jerk
ing and twitching, together with the
frequent profuse watery diarrhoea
made the diagnosis easy.
How Did Cattle Get "Mash"
Gin many cases, therefore, in diff
ferent parts of the state, there were
losses of cattle from arsenical poi
soning, there is no question about
that In every case that was inves-
tigated, there had been poisoned bran
spread out for grasshoppers, and it
was natural to assume that this poi
son bran was the source of the arsenic
that killed the cattle. The question
to be decided was this: How did the
cattle get the bran mash?
''If cattle, grazing over the stubble
fields where poison had been distrib-
uted according to directions, some
months before, could pick up the poi
son in sufficient quantities to poison
them, then it was very serious mat
ter, for this hopper poison seemed
almost indispensable. Either the
hoppers or the cattle had to go. In
vestigations, therefore,, were made
with the greatest care.
"In practically every case that
could be carefully gone over, where
all the facts could be learned, the
poisining of cattle was found to be
due to carelessness in handling the
poison. In some cases a sack or a
part of sack of poisoned bran had
been left where cattle got at it, or had
been dumped out at the edge of a
field. In some cases the bran was
too wet, stuck together in large Jumps
and could be found in the fields in
masses the size of a hens egg. In
several cases, the fields were poison
ed with about 10 times the amount
that was supposed to be spread out.
''In some instances a sack or two
left over would be thrown into an
old straw stack butt and burned. The
burning merely burned off the sack,
small part of the bran, and left
most of the bran untouched. 1t is
true that in some cases Investigated
we were unable to prove any care
less handling of the poison, but we
firmly believe that in those cases we
did not get all the facts.
Should Continue Hopper Fight
There were more than 5000 tons
OF this poisoned bran mixed and dis
tributed last year, handled by Tom,
Dick and Harry; men that were wise
and men that were otherwise. 1t is
inconceivable that we could get by
some actual poisoning. This
that we have made this
winter has established the fact that
hopper poison, mixed and spread ac-
oording to directions, is not danger
Gus to livestock grazing on the pois-
oned fields, either then or later.
ssIn spite of the talk here and
there about the dangerous hopper
poison, ranchers may feel assured
that they can proceed to spread the
poison mash next year, if necessary,
in the usual way, without fear of
osing cattle, provided that they use
good judgment in the handling of
he poison, and in disposing of any
The Kevin review., 1923-03-08
Cuss the Cliff Dwellers

Next time you roose on the fire es-
cape when company comes, don't cuss
the landlord. Blame the Indian cliff
dweller, for he started the apartment
house plan in Mesa Verde National
park in southwestern Colorado thou
sands of years ago.