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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-02-14
SILKS SPECIAL

4O-inch crepe de chine in light and high colors
and in a nice quality. Specially priced at
$1.69 Yard
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1923-02-14
Drug Sundries
Just for Friday
and Saturday

Pepsodent
Coconut Oil Shampoo~-.39c
Aura Powder ($1.25 value) 98c
DER Kiss Powder.---44c
Marinello Soap ----25c
Antoinette Donnelly Soap----25c
Powder Puffs, special.----9c
Mennen's Talcum ----19c
Jaqez Rose Cream------29c
Marinello Lilly White----39c
Mennen's Cold Cream Tubes--19c
Mary Garden Toilet Water,
$4,000 .-$1.69
Evening star., 1923-02-13
Planting Trees.

An association called the American
Tree Association has just been organ.
lied, the founder being the former
president Of the American Forestry
Association, Charles Lathrop Pack.
One Of tho objects Of the new society
is to plant one million trees In the
United States in 1898. and to keep up
the work in succeeding years. All per.
sons with any understanding Of the re.
lation between tree and man and be-
tween woodlots or woodland and the
United States will hope that this SO.
ciety will set out and take care Of the
number Of trees indicated and will in.
crease its paintings year by year. II
would be a great contribution to the
wealth, prosperity and education OF
the country. 1t has been given out
that "the new association will make
every one who plants a tree and regis.
ters it with the association a member" "
It is said that there are no cash dues,
and that the only way to join the as.
sociation is by planting a tree. It lie
also said that another aim Of the as.
sociation is to make Washington city
the national arboretum.
Evening star., 1923-02-13
Madness.

There is a frenzy that prompts some
fnen-and women-to do wild and un-
reasonable stunts" and which draws
crowds to look on with the expectation
of seeing a man die. Take as an ex-
ample the bit of news from far-off
Montevideo that IAN automobile race
between three cars in which the drivers
were blindfolded resulted disastrously
when one of the drivers swerved from
his course and plunged into a crowd
Of spectators, seriously injuring twelve
of them It is said that the race was
to test the capacity Of the drivers for
"orientation." Each driver carried a
woman passenger. who was ito warn
him in case he lost his bearings" All
this was madness, and men and wom-
en- whose minds are correctly "orient.
ed will say it was madness Of a silly
Kind. Still, one need not look as far
as Montevideo for accounts Of reck-
Jess and senseless stunts We have
them in our own United States.
Evening star., 1923-02-13

spring in base ball and field ana track
sports the teams and squads Of these
institutions are kept IN training. NAtu-
rally those boys and girls--for the
girls are in the race as well-who are
in the best condition, who have the
greatest endurance, who are naturally
the most athletic, get the maximum
Of attention in the gymnasium and on
the fields. The others are relatively
neglected. It is unfortunately neces-
sary, in order to develop successful
athletic competitors. to concentrate
upon those who are best fitted for
such work, and the staff OF instructors
and directors is not large enough. nor
are the accommodations sufficient, to
give attention to everybody else.
Care has been taken to safeguard
against undue concentration upon
these sports to the detriment Of schol-
astic duties, As rules have been adopt.
ed to require the maintenance Of GER
tain class averages ~ condition Of
participation in the team work Of the
schools. Still feeling prevails among
many parents that the high develop
ment Of athletics in the schools tends
to put sport in first place with large
number Of students, with lessons in
secondary position. It would perhaps
be worth while trying the experiment
for couple of years Of cutting of the
intense competitions on the athletic
field and observe the results upon the
general scholastic activities Of the stu.
dent body, meanwhile maintaining an
efficient course Of general physical In.
struction and exercise applied to every
student, irrespective Of special talents
and qualifications for particular games.
Evening star., 1923-02-13
High School Athletics,

Consideration is being given by the
high school principals of the District
to proposal to suspend for two years
all interschool athletic contests, in
order to afford a greater degree of
physical training to all the students Of
those institutions rather than to the
few who are by their capacities best
qualified. for participation in the or
ganized games. Decision has been de.
ferred. but the question will later be
approached again, and q conclusion
xfll be reached in time to affect next
seasons activities.
Undoubtedly there is a feeling that
under present conditions, with the
high schools engaged in strenuous
rivalry for athletic honors. the atten-
1ion OF the physical instructors and
directors is concentrated upon COM
paratvely small number Of students.
rThe rivalry between the schools is
glesn. In the autumn in foot ball. in
tho Dfntar In baslcsk hall and tn thA
Evening star., 1923-02-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

the Language OF Latin America It 10
to be hoped that neither Ssnator Kel-
loGg nor Senator Pomerene win repeat
the feat Of Warrington social leader
at last years pAn-Amer1can women's
speak your beautiful language she
lamented to q senor1tA from Brasil. II
know only two words in Spanish
manana. meaning tomorrow and pa
jana, meaning tonight
MAJ. Gen. ]. G. Harbord, U. s. A.. re-
tired, claims among many distinctions
the unique. record Of having been the
only Army officer ever to command
United States marines. Harbord was
in suprepe direction Of the marine d.
vision which won immortality at Belleau
Wood in June. 1918. The Marine Corps
has decided to commemorate its esteem
for Harbord by having him done in
oil" Richard 8. Meryman, ono Of
Americas most promising portrait
artists. was commissioned to paint Har-
bord, and the picture, recently com
pleted, is on exhibition In Philadelphia
at the Pennsylvania Academy OF Fine
Arts. 1t will eventually be hung In the
Army and Navy Club at Washington.
Just before taking command at Belleau
Wood, Harbord was presented with the
insignia OF the marines and wore them
throughout the month OF sanguinAry
fighting. Ever since then the Leather
necks" have considered him one Of their
adopted own.
Robert Woods Bliss. Just promoted
ship OF state to the ministership to
Sweden. has been the diplomatic liquor
officer Of the government. AS 1t falls
to the lot of third assistant at the
State Department to deal with the
personal affairs OF foreign embassies
and legations all requests for extra
territorial drinkabIes have been 60
ing through Mr.. Bliss hands for the
past two years. There has been no
buster or more popular functionary
at our ministry of foreign affairs. The
third assistant secretary OF state per-
forms the duties that used to be az
erctssd At the kaissr's court In Berlin
by an official known al "introducer
OF ambassadors" The last courtier
to hold the onios had . peculiarly y
appropriate name-Pfoertner Won der
Hoelle. Literally translated, that
means "doorkeeper OF hell"
George Horton. American consul
general at Smyrna, here on leave
awaiting a new assignment, deplores
a loss held by him to outstrip in
gravity the sacking and burning OF
all his goods and chattels by the
Turks last autumn. A friend spent
the evening with Horton one day this
week. brought with him as a token
of esteem a quart of undoubtedly pre-
Volstead Scotch. tapped 1t and then.
In a moment of absent mindedness I
parting. took the remnant with him.
Horton says the Turks could hardly
be more cruel.
Copyright 1927
Evening star., 1923-02-13
EDITORIAL DIGEST

the Chaldeans called 'blabbing" about
what goes on in their own circle
At the same time. the Brooklyn
Eagle feels that 80 far as official
pathy is called for. A truthful pic
ture of life in the capital is badly
needed. Sooner or later some genius
will arise who will take that curious
one OF the most absorbing stories
that can be written in America
"A fiare-up Of this kind from time
to time" as the New York Globe
sees f.. does US a world Of good"
will be hard on the cabinet ladies'"
they will be a source OF unmixed Joy
to every one else" The Baltimore
Sun agrees that although Mrs. Poin-
terrible. washington and other cities
have sneaking hope that she will"
for "the leaders Of Washington So
ciety do not generally scalp each
other in public. Regulations are
toma hawked there as elsewhere. but
gossip and slander are decorousiy
conducted for the most part. and the
general public Is not admitted to
these delightfui REPRESENTATIONS"
however. suggest to the Philadelphia
Bulletin the force of "the epigram
that while senator may become rec
onciIed to his defeat tor reelection.
! his wife never does" and it interprets
the letters as an effort ito settle some
old scores" Most of the cabinet pre-
negatives to which Mrs. Poindexter
refers are so petty they are laugh
able" the Lansing fMich.) State
| journal holds. suggesting Small.
Jealous, neighborhood stun as well
as that those in high places are
troubled over the same personal af-
fairs as worry the minds of the no
bodies" The Decatur Herald also
| recalls that mo complaints were
over Europe during and after the war
on Investigating committees, taking
along wives. children. cousins and
aunts. Few had anything to say even
when a party of congressman with
few hundred relatives and friends
made a tour of the Pacific and the
orient not long ago, Uncle Sam foot
ing the BILL
But, answers the Peoria Transcript,
petty graft is not resented because
1t Is costly, or even extensive. but be-
cause II involves persons who might
be expected to be above such prac-
tees" Despite the popular idea that
"the United States has no official
class Washington has become
a disease. 1t has afflicted many gov
ernment officials with an overweening
sense of their privileges and impor-
| tance. They indulge In petty irregu-
larities which, in private life, would
make men and women social outcasts
and win for them the epithet 'piker.
Because OF this "snobbish official aris.
| tocracy" which I'VE have been build
: ing UP in Washington" the GAINESVILLE
/, letters will have a good effect. They
may result in some of the folks at the
National Capital taking themselves
| less seriously"
Evening star., 1923-02-13

tion calling for information - TO Tor
eisn ownership In the petroleum In.
dustry. The report shows that while
barring American explorers and ex-
ploitsrs from foreign fields. foreign
capital IL gradually. but steadily, get
ting control Of more and more Of the
oil resources Of the United States.
European oil interests. especially Brit
ish and Dutch. are taking full advsn.
tase Of this governments liberality Of
policy. but there II no reciprocal liber-
ality when 1t comes to fields under
British and Dutch control. Nor does
1t appear that France and Italy are
any more liberal toward Americans in
their colonial and mandAted terri.
tories. These nations make agreements
among themselves for the exploitation
Of oil fields over which the world war
gave them some form Of supervision.
but the mo Trespass'' sign 10 up
against America.
That this government is keenly
alive to the situation L. evidenced by
occurrences Of the recent past. The
State Department has protested vigor.
ously against the disposition to hog
the worlds remaining undeveloped oil
resources, and while these protests
have been more or less effective in
specific cases. 1t is apparent there is
continual play behind the scenes to
seize and hold everything in sight.
Americans have no particular com.
plant because other nations show q
disposition to look out first for them.
selves, and they do not ask any ad-
vantagss they are not willing to &C.
cord to others. but It does rub us q
little on the raw to be treated as q
rank outsider when 1t comes to ap-
portioning the spoils Of war to the
winning Of which We contributed so
largely.
Evening star., 1923-02-13
The Scramble for Oil.

It is something Of a paradox that
oil, which will still the oceans angry
waves, serves only to make more
angry and more turbulent the seas Of
international politics. What gold was
to the questers Of the fifteenth cen.
tury oil has become today. 1t draws
men into the far. places Of the world
to search for 1t, and when found it
stirs. bitter animosities and jealousies
among the nations. The galleons Of
old Spain are gone. but the oil tanker
today carries riches overseas that
would have seemed fabulous to the
conquistador returning with his blood.
won hoard. And a. pirates lay in wait
for the treasure.laden ships OF that
earlier time. so there Is piracy in oil
today; but its methods are more
subtle. In the stead Of long tom and
cutlass it uses diplomacy as it's
weapon.
Light on this worldwide scramble
for oil is thrown by report just SUBJ
naitted by the Federal Trade Commits.
sion u asapAsi 10 . 1sna4s Ssso,u,
Evening star., 1923-02-13
A Fake Detector Of Reds.

An amazing tale is told BY former
detective associated with bureaus
whose services were utilized by the
government in the search for radicals
and mischief makers. In connection
with the preparation Of the defense OF
the twenty-five alleged communists
arrested a few months ago in Micht.
gan, he recites to counsel for the &C.
cused a career Of duplicity and deceit
that suggests the heyday Of the old
Russian counter espionage system.
According to this man there is no
real radicalism in the United States
save that which Is faxed for the pur.
pose of being detected" The Indus.
trial Workers of the World are not ac.
tually bent upon destruction Of indus.
try. The anarchists are mere acade.
micians playing with the theories OF
"no-government rule" The COM
munists are mild students Of national
psychology. All the wicked things
that have been attributed to them, all
the bombs and fires and sabotage, have
been planted on them by men hired
to make cases.
This man tells his story vividly and
we'll. He relates happenings in detail.
gives names and dates and places. He
accuses the "higher-ups" in the de-
tective world of plotting to make a
show of criminality among working.
mems organizations and associations
of students of life and government. OF
engaging men to work their way into
the inner councils and start things, SO
that the plots could be barred and great
credit acquired by the detecting agen.
cies. And it seems, according to this
account, that there was some rivalry
on the part Of the workers in this field
to make the worst messes possible
through their own Vaccinations, 50
that their jobs could be perpetuated
and multiplied.
This is one mans tale. Unsupported,
it will make no deep impression. OF
course, it will be denied. promptly and
explicitly. And yet it may be, In part,
true. 1t is quite possible that there
are such unspeakable wretches as this
man confesses himself to be, who are
willing for stipend to blast the good
name OF the American workingman, to
bring honest citizens into the deepest
disrepute and at the same time to
thwart the really corrective work Of
the government in the pursuit Of
criminal anarchists.
But however far this tale may be
correct, it does not go to prove that
there is no such thing in America as
a propaganda for the destruction Of
the government, the wrecking Of So
ciety. the adoption Of the bolshevik
doctrine. 1t does not reach the root OF
the evil. It does not discredit the
tons Of inflammatory literature that
have been discovered in cellars or in
caches in the woods-as in Michigan
or the bales Of record books and ros-
ters of membership and circulars of
instruction that have been captured
in raids. It may play a part at the
trial of the communists. but it will not
convince the American public that
this red chase is all fake.
Evening star., 1923-02-13
THE POOREST
LIGHTED CITY.


Docs the gentleman realize that
washington Is the poorest nshte9,
that owing to the frequent circles
nAde estrians have to be in the fair
wnv for such q great distance In
rrosrinr the street that II increases
the danger, and that 80 per cent OF
the accidents are on account or the
nenlirence Of pedestriane?-Repre
sentative MacLafferty, Californla' re-
publican.
NO FEDERAL JOBS FOR
~LAME DUCKS"
Il do not like the idea Of defeated
after federal appointments after
their term in the Senate or the House
expires, and I, for one, am not going
to run aftsr any federal appoint
mont st.-Rspresentative HeTfck, Okla
honaA, republican. =
m OLD BEN FRANKLIN's DAY.
BENJAMIN Franklin never had any
ooneuiar or diplomatic training. but
II still considered the foremost
American diplomat.-Represen
Little, Kansas republican. -.
MUST SKIP THE CIVIL SERVICE.
Anybody who has kept in touch
with them will notice that most of
England's great ministers were
other words, you have got to skip
the civil service and avoid stereo-
typed types and take men Of brains
and force and character trained in
the vorlA'e bA4tlea-RapeoOentA
llAk1aA KAa1AA Da00haisAA
Evening star., 1923-02-13
ECHOES FROM CAPITOL HILL
RECOGNIZES THE RIGHT OF
ALL SECcTI0NS

RECOGNIZES THE RIGHT OF
hope to God I shall be able al
ways to remember that there ere
forty-eight states in these United
States and that each one of them
has as much right as the particular
section that I represent. ! hope
never shall forget that it is no part
or the duty of a senator to fight
everybody else for every dollar there
Is in the public Treasury, that 1t may
pc spent in his own particular To-
Gallty.-Senator Caraway, Arkansas,
democrat.
THE FORESIGHT OF
THOMAS JEFFERSON.
When Thomas Jefferson for sl5,.
100000 bought all the Louisiana pur-
chase from France people opposed It,
and senator's In this body opposed 1t.
Senator Caraway, Arkansas, demo-
orat.
THE ADMINISTRATIONS
FOREIGN POLICY.
The administration has worshiped
at the shrine OF isolation and has
marched to the tune Of a program
istration does not know that the
word Is in the dictionary.-Senator
Harrison, Mississippi, democrat
AS THE CHEMIST OF SENATE
SEES 1T.
Speaking for myself, it is not hard
to understand the fixation of the nj
trogen OF the physical atmosphere.
beyond me to comprehend tho fxation
Of our policies In tho political atmos-
,pAerN-SsaAAsr IAdAk 1foEtA DakotA.
'to0NASAA
Evening star., 1923-02-13
Another Lady With q Pen" Re.
yeals an Ancient Grievance"

When the wife OF q "lame duck"
senator took pen in hand and wrote a
"piece for the paper" back home, maxi
ing a few observations on social life
as she has seen It in a dozen years
association with oflcial washington.
she apparently. to mix metaphors q
bit. fired q shot heard from Washing
ton state to Washington, d. c.. and
back again. While the Utica Press ex-
presses the belief that the geOgraphi-
cal locations Just mentioned ARE
Mrs. Miles Poindexter's IDEAS OF social
customs at the capital than in the
rest of the country" nevertheless the
rest Of the country. editorially repre-
sented, 10 taking consider able interest.
even admitting that 1t 10 showing
more amusement than concern.
mo we'll regulated national house,
hold" the Burlington (vt) Free Press
concludes. sis complete in this age
without it's 'MaTgot.' Whether or not
Mrs. Poindexter is getting in training
to supply that need in the case of the
United States Of America Is a matter
for editorial speculation. containing.
occasionally. suggestion Of misglv-
ing. At any rate another lady with a
pen." as one writer calls her. has come
forward with a recital Of cabinet
prerogatives" which the New York
World says constitutes an old griev-
ance under which senator's have long
chafed, but about which they have for
the most part kept silent. And the
Knoxville Sentinel suggests that 1t Is
safe to assume that she has SYM
pathixers among the other ladies of
the Senate. although they may not be
so bold as outspokenly to avow their
sentiments"
Power boats on the Potomac for
Mrs. Secretary OF the Navy to enter
tain in, and the famous Marine Band
for her dances and teas; botanical
garden decorations for Mrs. Secre-
tary Of Agriculture's parties, and
handsome Army officers to Insure
enough mon to go round at Mrs. Sec
retary Of Wars balls-"there has
been no secret about these things"
the Utica Observer Dispatch thinks;
Everybody in Washington must know
them" But while that may be true.
telling about 1t, according to the AL
bany News. "just happens to be one
Of those things that are not done
Folks on the inside circle are general
ly not supposed to indulge in what
Evening star., 1923-02-13
A Growing Force for Good.

The inspiration of Lincoln's name
gains rather than dininishes with the
passage of the years. His words and
works, his thoughts and deeds, his
services and sacrifice for the nation
are steadily more highly appreciated
as time goes on. The national Lincoln
sentiment becomes thus steadily, year
by year. more definitely a part Of the
American civic spirit, receiving addi-
tional impulses from the observances
of his birthday, when the people as
semble and in one way or another
pay tribute to the great citizen who
gave his life that the Union might be
maintained.
Yesterday many of these celebra-
fions occurred, in all parts Of the coun-
try, participated in by representatives
OF all groups Of the people, without
sectional differences. Here at Wash.
dngton, the scene Of Lincoln's four and
q fraction years of official service. that
pregnant period Of crisis clilnaxing in
>he supreme tragedy, the observance
of the occa sion took on an official char
acter, through the participation Of
The chief event of series Of com.
memorative gatherings was that un.
der the auspices Of the Lincoln Memo
rial University, an institution planned
to carry out Lincoln's benevolent and
constructive purposes for the educa-
tion of the people.
In his address on that occasion
President Harding noted how in this
present grave crisis Of world affairs
the eyes and the interest of men turn
to Lincoln for comfort and help to
the man "who manifestly was brought
forth with the destiny or consecrated
by an infinite hand to render a par
ticular service" And the words of
Lincoln, in speeches, in writings, in
sayings, all bear upon the great prob.
lem of the relations Of mankind. II
his spirit could be applied to world
problems today and his wisdom and
his charity and his justice accepted
by all, there would be no difficulties.
It is at once sad and inspiring to re-
fleet upon the brevity of the time in
which Lincoln was a national figure
in our affairs-really less than seven
years in all, reckoning from the time
of the great debate in Illinois to his
death. The first two years Of that
period were years Of defeat and dis
appointment, though years Of prepara-
ration for the task that was to be i'm
posed upon him and the sacrifice de-
nlanded Of him. And. as one speaker
of the day remarked, in that time
there were only few months in which
Lincoln regarded himself as success
full, those months that followed his re-
election, when the end of the war was
fin sight.
The loneliness and the sadness Of
Iincoln's last years, when he was
forced to rely upon himself and his
own judgment, add to the force Of the
example which he has set for the peo-
pie he loved and for whom he gave his
life. Americans Of today do well to
measure fully that service and sacrt-
fice.