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The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-10-24
MILES CITY TO CONDUCT
AN N UAL CORN SHOW
DPRELIMINARY steps have been
taken at Miles City for the hold

II PRELIMINARY steps have been
taken at Miles City for the hold
= ing of the annual corn show in
that city, according to recent action
on tn epart of the Miles City Com
merciaI club, the announcement be-
ing made that the exhibition will pro-
badly be held about the middle of
January, 1925. This action is taken,
it is understood, in connection with
the information received that the
proposition previously considered of
holding the annual event in some
other city of the eastern part of
the state has not been favorably act
ed upon, and that instead of avoid
ing the possibility of there being nc
show at all, the Miles City civic as
sociation has indicated it's willing
mes to undertake the duties connect
ed with the handling of it.
Definite announcements will be
made from time to time as to the
plans that will have been started for
the holding of the show.
where she successfully defended her
crown against other leading women
riders of the world.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-10-24
Farmers Short Course will
ATTRACT Statewide Interest

work is least pressing, when father
or son, or both can best be spared.
There are no tuition fees and liy-
ing costs at Bozeman are held down
to the lowest possible point. A de-
scriptive booklet may be had for the
asking by writing to the Registrar,
Montana State College, Bozeman,
Montana"
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-10-24
Billings Poly tech mic
Winter Term to Open
ON November Tenth

In order to meet the demands
of young men and young women
who cannot enter school regularly
at the opening of the term and who
must leave before the close of
school in the spring, the Billings
Polytechnic institute is opening a
winter term, beginning November
10th, to run for eighteen weeks.ss
1t is offering classes in all CONNER
cial subjects, including shorthand,
typewriting, bookkeeping, civil pen
manship and spelling. In grade sub
jects it is offering history, grammar,
and arithmetic. Special courses are
offered in practical electricity, ell
ectricity for the car; radio, auto
mechanics, farm Carpentry; and ag-
riculture.
Vocal and instrumental music al
so are included in the curriculum.
The entrance requirements will be
based upon the ability of the student
to do the work for which he enrolls.
The cost has been set at a very low
figure, and will not exceed for the
eighteen weeks, for board, room and
tuition, not including the fees, $165.
Age is no barrier to enrolment at
the Billings Polytechnic Institute.
Many are already taking the courses
who failed to receive the advantage
of schooling when in their teens.
The faculty consists of people who
are in sympathy with those who have
been denied the early opportunity
for education. They are well prepar-
ed, holding college degrees, and many
of them with long years of exper-
fence in the teaching profession.
Evening star., 1924-01-29

prediction is made In the trade that
gasoline will be selling around 80
cents gallon next summer when de.
mand is again at its peak" This is
ominous and discouraging. The gaso-
line producers seem 20 have, the whip
hand, and TO be able to set the price
at any figure which they think the
traffic will bear. When all the COM
panies operating in the eastern terri
tory raise the price the same amount
at the same hour 1t would seem that
there is a very even-working agree
ment between them.
1t was said in the news columns Of
The Star that attorneys general of
the states are to convene here soon to
investigate the sudden increases in the
price of gasoline" Gasoline is no
longer to be considered as in the
luxury class. 1t has become a neces-
sity, just as illuminating gas, cleo
tricity and many other things have
become. IL the producers Of gasoline
show u disposition to charge rates
that will bring them other than a fair
and reasonable return they will hasten
the time when their business will be
regulated by the government.
Evening star., 1924-01-29
Radio Talk and Technique.

Radio talk is heard everywhere; not
the broadcast talk alone, but talk
about radios. II is heard on the street
cars, where radio fans" meet b.
chance. It is heard in groups where
out of a number Of people there are
sure to be several who are owners and
Inanipulators Of "sets." II is heard on
the streets, where men walk together.
This talk is about radio mechanism,
about wave lengths, about the hun
dred and one things-or perhaps thou
sand and one-pertaining TO radio. 1t
is technical talk. highly technical. 1t
displays familiarity with processes of
one of the most complex Of arts.
This Is an interesting manifestation.
These people who are now talking
radio like scientists were only a little
while ago not versed in such matters.
They have learned 1t, as a rule, within
the last two or three years, some Of
weeks. And many OF these radio fans
are youthful. Some are mere boys.
Some Of the boys, indeed. have shown
remarkable ability in making radio
sets. A news item has just been print
ed about Il local lad OF fourteen who
has just finished making a match box
SET out Of door bell buzzer, Il cry stal,
q cats whisker" detector and some
odds and ends, the total cost being so
cents.
Whether this interest displayed by
thousands of people in the mechanism
Of radio will last, or whether it fades
after while. it will have been good.
1t will have made for advancement,
for mental development. It is always
we'll for man TO have d hobby that
have a mechanical hobby that involves
the making of things, especially intri-
cate things, instruments of precision.
This makes for enactment and eff
cheney. When the hobby works TO tho
end of giving pleasure TO many others,
as the radio does to members of the
family and friends, ii is most bene-
fetal.
This is not al expensive hobby. Of
course. one can go pretty far into cost
with elaborate sets and equipment.
but then one Of the chief joys of the
game is to produce results with the
least expenditure. It IS something to
boast about to "get Pittsburgh" or
Fort Worth" with Il set that costs 50.
The Washington lad who made ma
chine for so cents is happier than if
he or his parents had spent $50 on
All outfit.
Evening star., 1924-01-29
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE

turned her back on Waghington's
giddy society season and dug in" at
Chicago to conduct her husbands
bitter campaign for reelection. The
stately old-world mansion on + street
which the McCormicks occupied
once the home Of another distin-
guished Ilinoisan, Chief Justice Mel
VILE w. Fuller-lhas been leased to
other tenants. and Ruth Mccormick
has sent word to Alice Longworth
and her other cronies that Washing
fortunes are decided. Senator Nc
Cormick describes his wife as "the
politician of the family" q compli-
ment which BELTS the daughter of
Mark Hanna. Somebody once said to
Mrs. Hanna that she ought to be
proud not only of being the widow
of n President maker, but OF having
"A future President In her family.
oh" replied Mrs. Hanna, "T don't
think Medill's ambitions mount that
high" Whereupon her friend re-
joined: II didn't mean Medill. L was
thinking of Ruth"
Y Il
Magnus Johnson will essay a new
role at this years NATIONAL conven-
tion. lie will be a reporter. A big
newspaper organization has engaged
the farmer glassblower with the
cyclonic voice to cover the repub-
! lican and democratic conclayes. He
will do so from the press section.
When the conventions are over Mag
nus will make his first visit to Min
nesota since he descended upon Con-
gress. My boysl have things in
shape for harvest by that time,'
Johnson says, and I'll help 'em get
it in" Magnus is overbanqueted.
six nights since l came to Washing
ton"
These are stirring times in Wash
| ington. Old political hands recall
few days more bristling with grave
| possibilities for men and parties.
Yet a senator OF the United States,
representing one Of the populous
commemorative, has chosen such a
| juncture to announce his departure
from Washington for two weeks at
his shooting box in Florida" The
/ senator was recently a bridegroom.
stance. But a colleague observes that
| IL is such stuff that revolutionary
dreams, even in democracy, are
sometimes made OF.
X x X X
| At one Of Washington's de luxe
hotels a New York congressman has
! his habitat. One day this week a
distinguished federal official tried to
reach Representative - by tele-
phone. II was early in the morning
10 O'clock. Are you the congress
mans chauffeur" the switchboard d
operator chirped. 4 flow of language
ensued from the other end Of the line.
/ 1t was not damned by the operators
explanation that she had been in
structed to ask the question of any
one who called up. The Gotham
| statesman is spending his first sea-
| son in Washington. His manners
Will probably mend as time rolls by
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1924-01-29

coharacterizes it as Insulting" and
to small business" The Brooklyn
Eagle likewise saw only "discourtesy"
In the treatment of MIR. Box by the
committee, especially in it's refusal to
accommodate itself to his already ar
ranged plans. ''Of course IL is to
laugh asserts the Dcs Moines Tri-
bune, but also Ii is to wonder what
cute and malevolent anti-league fire.
eater invented this particular strate-
glc idea. Anyhow, Mr. Box IS now
the target. The krupps. Schneiders
and du Points Of the world are given
clean. bills, and the anti-war Boks
are suspected of heaven knows
what" Incidentally the WinnIpeC
Tribune calls attention to the fact
that 'propaganda really implies the
spreading of opinions and principles
without regard to their quality The
irrcconcilables themselves engaged in
propaganda four years ago when they
defeated the league proposals. So per-
haps they, too, should be subjected to
investigation for having sought to
influence the foreign policies Of the
United States
In conclusion the Chicago Daily
News holds visionary or academic
reforms have been subjected TO much
criticism for investigating the OBJ
vious and defending the undfsputed.
The Senate is supposed to be d thor
oughly practical body and yet 1t
wastes money, time and energy on
three silly Investigations"
Evening star., 1924-01-29

be set on Sugarloaf mountain in Fred
erick county, Nd, one mile beyond the
Montgomery county line. In clear
weather this detached mountain can
be seen from Tenleytown, the Ne
braska avenue ridge and other points
in northwest Washington. Some per-
sons will say that the summer White
House should be on the Catoctins west
OF Frederick, and perhaps on High
Knob itself. Some would put it farther
west on South mountain, in the passes
OF which SO many men fought before
the battle of Antietam in 1852. Others
would have the White House on Boil
var heights, W. Va; Loudoun heights,
where the Shenandoah and Potomac
merge at Harpers Ferry. Some would
give the honor to Fairfax county and
set the White House on Prospect hill,
called Carpers hill during the civil
war, where the Leesburg pike goes
its stony way to Difficult run, and
where was a Union observatory dur
ing the civil war.
Some hold that Bald Eagle hill.
where the ancient Eastern branch and
Piscataway road passed, would be the
proper place, If view is 10 be con-
sidered, and others say that the ridge
beyond Oxon run, where mounds and
holes mark where the famous Addi-
son-Berry mansion stood for more
than 200 years, would be the right
place. There is no dearth Of sites for
a summer White House near Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1924-01-29
Gasoline Goes Up.

Investigation into the sudden and
material advance in the price of gaso-
line is promised, and it is question
that directly concerns more than the
thousand automobile
owners in the District, for practically
every car serves not only the person
registered as it's owner but also fam.
lily. When gasoline prices were sue
cessively reduced a few months ago
and reached the lowest at which gaso-
line had been sold for several years,
there was widespread speculation as
to the reason, and no cnlightening and
satisfactory explanation was obtained.
So long as the price was downward or
remained comparatively low there
was no urgent inquiry as to the
cause. 1t was said by most persons
who have little faith in the philan-
thropy or even the good nature Of the
oil companies that the reduction would
not "last long" They believed that
the prices would soon be raised, and
that 1t might be lifted to a higher
price than that from which it fell.
We have come to a. period Of ad-
vancing gasoline prices, and there is
no explanation Of the reason; that is,
there is no explanation which ex-
plains. The Standard Oil Company of
New York, the Standard Oil Company
OF New Jersey, the Atlantic Refining
Company, the Texas Company and
"other refineries operating In eastern
territory announced advances in the
wholesale prices Of gasoline" In one
of the news accounts it was said that
"as result Of changed conditions in
the petroleum Industry, including the
decline in crude oil production. the
Evening star., 1924-01-29
Summer White House.

The Star has printed Il news story
that "Warrenton, Va, is making every
effort to have Congress accept the
S2pQoQ0 wiiled to the nation by the
7slate' J. Wilson Leakin, noted Balti.
s;nore, attorney, for the establishment
OF. q summer White House and also
: to select the, site for this executive
:, mansion in the heart of Fauouier
county, three miles from Warrenton. :"
"arrenton has the good wishes Of
many Washingtonians who are Vir.
ginfa born or OF Virginian descent.
Warrenton has been famous place Of
summer rest for a century, and no
one can think Of WTarrenton without
thinking Of Fauquier White Sulphur,
Bethel Military Academy, the Warren
Green, the View tree and the wagon
trains Of distilled apple juice which
used to roll along the stony, hilly road
from Little Washington. The memory
of many of us will go back to War
.Centon when It was the home Of Gen.
Payne and Eppa Hunton, who COM
rnanded the Sth Virginia Infantry,
was made a brigadier after Gettys-
burg, served the eighth district in the
House In the Forty-third to Forty
sixth Congresses and was valued
member Of the House District COM
nlittee, later sitting in the Senate. He
was brave, able and genial man, and
was succeeded by John s. Barbour Of
Alexandra, for several years repre-
sentative and senator. and who lived
; in the old brick house at the intersec-
ton of Maryland avenue, B and I'd
streets northeast.
The View tree, which figures In the
summer White House story, was a
Confederate lookout. and 1t has been
told many times that Col. John S.
Mosby, who Is buried at Warrenton,
; where there is monument to him be-
fore the courthouse, used to watch at
}, View tree and sweep the lower coun-
try with his glass for Union com,
nands. r
. While the glories Of Fauquier are
undisputed, the county will have rivals
in tho summer White House matter.
SonYe persons viii say that it should
Evening star., 1924-01-29
Americans and American Ships.

American ships are good enough for
the American members of the Asso-
ciated Advertising Clubs OF the World.
by Leigh G. Palmer, president Of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation, have
made arrangements to sail on three
vessels of the United States lines when
they make their proposed voyage
across the Atlantic ocean in July. The
Republic is to carry 500, the Levia-
than 800 and the George Washington
100 of the party.
1t is a refreshing and cheering bit
Of news. Particularly is this true in
the light OF the recently much-adver-
tised selection of a British vessel by
the American Bar Association for its
European pilgrimage, which is 10 take
place also in July.
Recently in the Senate Senator
Wesley l.. Jones of Washington, chair
man OF the commerce committee, who
watches over shipping legislation, took
the bar association TO task for its fail
urc to choose an American ship. In
the course Of his address the senator
from Washington laid finger on one
of the real difficulties in the develop
ment Of 4 successful overseas Ameri-
can merchant marine, the lack of in
terest evinced by Americans them
selves.
The lack of interest, 70 express II
mildly, in an American merchant ma
rine is too prevalent in this country,
and is one Of the greatest handiCaps
to building up our Shipping" he said.
Until our people prefer American
ships to alien ships for transporting
themselves and their property we can
not hope to have Il merchant marine" !"
The right spirit of Americans TO-
ward their merchant marine is a great
need today. When they are ready to
pay as much or more for using Amer
ican ships. when they are ready to
use equal or less accommodations by
employing American ships. when
American merchants insist that their
business be carried in American bot
toms, the problem Of the merchant
marine will largely be solved, in the
opinion OF Senator Jones.
And why should there be this soft.
ness Of Americans toward the mer.
chant vessels of Britain or France or
the Scandinavian countries, this pref
erence to the disadvantage Of Ameri-
can ships? Unfortunately rumDrs and
reports alleging lack Of service and
lack Of safety on American ships
have been circulated both in this coun-
try and in Europe. Unfortunately,
too, there is a certain degree Of snob-
bishness which insists upon the use
of the vessels Of some Of the European
lines rather than the American ships
To an American who believes in Amer
lean shipping, the suggestion was
brought recently that American ves-
sells, as compared to those Of foreign
countries, are not safe.
Have you ever" he replied, heard
Of the fate of the Titanic?
Evening star., 1924-01-29
COURAGE
II am the master Of my fate,
I am The captain Of my soul"
--HENLEY.
PERsHING's GREAT SORROW

Born in a shanty, four miles from a
frontier boom town. John J. Pershing
slowly earned his way to, success and
happiness-then endured one Of the
greatest sorrows cast upon a man.
AS a lad, he attended the Laclede,
Mo, one-room school. Neishbors said
he was Just on uneventful boy"
At work on the farm at thirteen: !:
then leaving home, when nineteen, he
taught at the little Prairie Mound
school.
Savings from his salary of $40 a
month, less board, took him to Kinks
Vile Normal School. His father was
Laclede's postmaster, the office was
robbed. and young Pershing went
home to give his savings to help make
good the loss.
Taking the examination for ap-
polntmcnt to West Point, just to
Point he made a record in military
tactics.
In Indian compaigns, he won the
title OF captain. Instructor at West
Point when the Spanish-Amer,can
war began, N6 dCCepteO LnG reQOCClOn
to regimental quartermaster, Just to
go, and his conduct in Cuba won
high praise. Quelling instructions in
the Philippines, he again earned the
captaincy, and President Rooseyelts s
praise.
His wedding to Senator Warren's
accomplished daughter was attended
by the President, other government
officials and Washington society
Three years later he was made a
brigadier general. AS military COVER
nor of the Philippines he won dis
tincton.
Success was smiling and the future
looked bright. At Fort Bliss, near
the Mexican border, he prepared to
bring his family. Then came the tele-
gram that his wife and three daugh-
ters had been suffocated in night
fire at the Preside, San Francisco.
Friends feared for q while that he
would lose his mind, but he never
relaxed control Of himself
Commander-in-chie Of the Ameri-
can expeditionary forces, he led his
troops to victory, was honored by his
and other countries and, today, as
chief of staff of the United States
Army, is one of the most. popular
military men in the world.
Next-Eastman Often Faced Ruin.
n 4oopyriss.t 1924, .--.-..
Evening star., 1924-01-29
Naval Oil Lease Activity.

Action in the matter of the naval
OIL leases is becoming brisk and de-
cisive. The House appropriatcs $780,
GOO to enable the President to conduct
!. q thorough inquiry into the legality Of
the leases and the prosecution, through
special counsel. OF any corruption that
may be uncovered. The former
Secretary Of the interior. i'll in
Washington, proposes that instead Of
his appearing before the Senate com.
n1ittee Of Investigation the committee
come 70 his bedside for his examina-
tion. Offer is made by one Of the COM
panies holding a lease on naval oil re-
serves TO cancel il. The President is
seeking TO enlist the services of the
ablest, possible counsel TOR the admin
: 1strauvc inquiry looking to lease can
. collation. and possible prosecution.
I. These developments are in the lirie
Of public expectation. AS soon as the
disclosure Of actually improper finan-
.cial relations between the former Sec
fetary Of the Interior and at least one
OF the lessees OF naval oil lands was
made 1t was assured that matters
would move sharply toward a clear
ance Of this unpleasant mess. Up to
that time there was TO ground for ac-
lion. ilnnuendo and suspicion have pre-
vailed. but there was no proof of i'm
propriety. The disclosure was delayed
unduly. but through no fault Of the
a hn 70 81
the inquiry more than eighteen months
ago. That is TO say, IL ordered an in
. eYestigation. which actually did not
begin until the past autumn. The
early stage of the investigation was
devoted TO technical matters and
ground-laying research. Essential wit
nesses were difficult of reach or reluc-
tant 10 appear.
Demand by the eastern manager Of
one OF the aspirants for the repub-
lfcan presidential nomination that Mr.
Coolidge withdraw his name as candi-
date is unworthy OF the cause he rep
resents. 1t is difficult to believe that
II is sponsored or approved by his
principal. The President, although by
courtesy a participant in the cabinet
meetings during President Harding's
termssis in no wise implicated in the
scandal Of the naval oil leases and It
is no less than outrageous now to
charge him with completely, even by
silence. This unjust attack is likely
. 10 rebound by reaction TO the Presi-
dents interest, especially as he is at
!, the first opportunity moving TO the
extent Of his power TO correct the
faults that have been committed and
TO punish any VINO are guilty of be-
traying the national welfare.