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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-03-26
Editorial Digest of the We
MR.. HIRAM JOHNSON LEAVES No Echo
From The Dearborn OIich.) Independe-.

Mr.. Hiram Johnson was lately heard from ID varo
of the country. But there was nowhere heard an ecb,
after he left. The personally selected presidential canal
Albrt D. Lasker (the Jewish advertising agent from Chi
doing his best to live up to the advertising agen-, notin I
a live political tour should be, but is palpably failing in INN
ness. Even if Lasker should rally the whole power of tbs
can Jewish committee to Mr.. Johnson Tor that part of +,
Barney Baruch fails to rally to Mr.. McAdoo) there wc
be something lacking in appeal to the American mind. As
man" as Mr.. Johnson delights to describe himself, he iD
poor company. Poor men should avoid as they would
pestilence the favors of wealthy men who seldom invest !
expectation of return.
The lack of frankness Of Mr.. Johnson was no where n
parent than in his Michigan address. Michigan is the y
Mr.. Newberry whose election to the United States send
contested. Senator Johnson was not present when the n
taken and was charged the length and breadth Of the /
with committing a deliberate act of evasion. He came to I'd
with that handicap, and in his speech referred to the "a
matter numerous times, always linking it with the regret
had missed the train" But he was not frank enough
how he would have voted had the train arrived. and he 4
After that, of course, Michigan promptly returned Mr.. JON
the limbo from which his appearance had momentariy Ih
AS "the opposition" Mr.. johnson is pitiably intellectual
~ being "agin the government is not a certificate Of WJ
American eyes. And merely being for something that
votes by giving people money out of the treasury is not
as statesmanly vision. This is as far as Mr.. johnson goes
If Mr. Johnson would take the train to Washington and
the job to which the people of his state elected him, he v
all that is required of him now.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-03-26
THE COUNTRY CORRESPONDENT
BY Walter G. HAYES

All these brazen city daiies think they are tremendous shakes,
How they like to sling the satire at u Is seedy country jakes!
How they flaunt the shrieking scareheads! Hoy they sling the cOlored
ink
For some heightened hootch carousal or the latest movie stink,
Till l got a little weary listening how the city boys
Drown the still small voice of wisdom with a fog horn full of noise.
1 prefer the homegrown doings; l am fed up over much
With the rowings of the Trenches and the Jappies and the Dutch;
Let me have the hometown paper; take the noisy sheets away;
Let's hear what the correspondents from the country districts say.
Has Jim Gordon built a house yet? Tell US how the ball team scored,
Are there any brand new babies? Anybody bought a Ford?
Did they paint the old church over? Will they ever bore for oil?
Anybody had the measles, OF hay fever, or a boil?
Has May Latham got a fellow? Is John Allen married yet?
Has Sam Martin made the rifle? He was in an awful sweat.
Anybody made their fortune? Anybody played the fool?
What became of Billy Rodgers boy that ran away from school?
Who's been giving Sunday dinners? Who has been invited out?
Who was first to get through threshng? Who has caught the big
gest trout?
Tell US how the crops re coming. Is the weather wet or clear?
HOw's the apples and the turkeys that's the stuff We want to hear.
Let them Joke about the country-say that you are green and SLOW
It's the country correspondence that makes the hometown paper go.
Publishers Auxiliary.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-03-26

Murders, suicides, capital punishment, and death by violent
and accidental means, in addition TO the peaceful and natural visi-
tatiOns of the Grim Reaper, are given to us, or at least made pos
sible by Providence, evidently for the purpose of presenting the
most convincing evidence of the uncertainty of our mundane life
and the corresponding Importance of the lift to come, for which
people of innate intelligence should prepare themselves by daily
acts of kindness and the exercise of the other virtues which are
sure to automatically follow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
SOUTHERN SHIPPERS
 MEET IN ORLEANS
Lack Of Car Shortage Discussed
 By Members

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 12.-Ad- dresses dealing with details of prob iems and affecting loadings, Cur supply and efficiency of transportation fca- tured the opening session here today of the joint meeting of the southeast and southwest shippers regional advisory boards. It was the first joint meeting of the two bodies.
 Speakers declared there had not been serious car shortage since the estab- lishment of the shippers regional ad- visory boards and urged further exten- sion of the policies and programs of the boards. The Howard-Barkley bill, pro posing abolishment of the railroad labor board, came in for general discussion at the morning session, many of the in dividual members of the two bodies sup porting the bill.
 Among the speakers today were J. J. Riley, Chicago, vice president of the Hi nois Central; Donald conn of Washing ton, chairman of the committe on pub lie relations, of the American Railway association; E. R. Oliver, head of the traffic department of the Southern railway; Ollie Webb, assistant to the president of the Texas & Pacific; k. Terrell, vice president of the Gulf Coast Lines, and A. T. Cochrane of Mobile.
 A. G. T. Moore, chairman of the southeast advisory board, presided at today's meeting. J. H. Johnston of Oklahoma City, is chairman of the southwest advisory board. The session will continue tomorrow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
EDUCATION BOARD
 APPROVES PLANS FOR EXTENSIONS.
Two New Schools And Five Additions Now
 On Program

Plans for two new school buildings in West End and additions to five of the present structures were tentatively agreed upon by the board of education at meeting Friday afternoon as part of the city-wide expansion program to he carried out with the proceeds of the $3, ,500,000 bond issue voted for that pur. pose.
 Architects plans for additions to the Barrett, Kennedy, Norwood, Fairview and Elyton schools were submitted to- gether with tentative drawing for the recently proposed new buildings in West End.
 Cost of the work or the size of the buildings and additions has not definite ly been decided, it was announced, but assurance was given that the new equip ment will be sufficient to adequately care fore the overcrowded conditions in the several sections.
 The Barrett school will be provided with a new wing on the east side of the building and the Remedy building will be improved with a new unit in the block north of the present structure.
 The Norwood and Fairview schools each will receive new units while the addition to the Elyton structure will be built across the alley from the present building, but connected by covered passageway.
 Jackson and Lee, the two new build ings, will be located in West End, Jack son one block south of Beverly station and Lee at the head of Lee avenue
 Bids for the work will be received by the board of education for 30 days, and the work is to be completed by Sep tember, 1925. it was announced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
GOMPERS ARRIVES IN SAN ANTONIO: CONDITION GRAVE
Labor Leaders Illness Az gravated By Altitude,
 Say Physicians
lBy Associated Press. ]

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Dec. 12- Resting quitely in the first real bed he has touched since last Wednesday, Samuel Gompers, venerable president fthe American federation of labor was in a hotel here tonight in what the physicians described as "a grave condition" but with the crisis not yet at hand. He arrived from Mexico City in a special car late this afternoon having been taken seriously ill in the Mexican capital early in the week.
 Greeted by hundreds of union men, he was taken to the hotel on d stretcher in an ambulance. his progress to the hotel taking on the appearance of procession because of the great num- Der of automobiles and pedestrains fol- lowing the stretchen labor leader.
 He was placed in a hot bath, which appeared to refresh him greatly. He is The center of his complaint seems to by old age and its attendant disabilities ness Is said to be recurrence of his Mir. Gompers is "A years old. The ill., sickness of last summer, brought on by the heavy work at the recent conven- tion of the American Federation of Labor in Ell Paso, followed by similar labors in the Pan-American Labor con- ference at Mexico City.
 After a consultation by three San Antonio physicians an official bulletin was issued stating that Mir. Gompers condition still was grave but that the lower altitude may have favorable in fluence. The high altitude of Mexico Ciyt was said to have affected the patients heart.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
ATTORNEYS WORK
 ON MINOR POINTS IN EDWARDS CASE
Both Sides Counting Time Until Grand Jury
 Meets

Both the solicitor, Ben G. Perry, and the attorney for the defense, George Ross, were busy Friday working on what was termed minor details" oi the case of Dr. George T. Edwards, ac' cused in a coroner's warrant of staying his wife, Mrs. Annie Lou Edwards, in their home on the morning of Decem- Der 2.
 Chief Deputy Henry Hill declared the sheriff's office was officially off the case and that it was entirely in the hands of the solicitor.
 Attorney Ross said Friday that Ed wards had not been given his supper when he was transferred to the Bir- mingham jail Monday night and that he had not received his breakfast when he held his conference at 10 o'clock Tues day morning and that his bed had been scant for cover.
 Deputy Hill, however, declared that he personally asked Dr. Edwards if he desired any food. Edwards, he said, thanked him and replied that he had a bag of food and that it was all that he would need for the night.
 Tuesday morning Dr. Hill says he ordered the inside warden to fix Dr. Edwards anything he wanted and as his breakfast menu did not comply with the regular menu the warden had to wait until the stove was clear before he could prepare the doctors breakfast.
 'I don't know about him sleeping cold, but I know that there was four blankets on his bed," Hill said.
 Solicitor Perry, according to informa- tion at his office, revisited the scene of the murder Friday afternoon to recount some of the details and to prepare his case for the special grand jury Monday.
 MT. Ross also was busy on the case and was as optimistic as usual.
 Both sides predicted that there would be no new developments until the grand jury meets Monday.
 Dr. Edwards sits apparently undis- turbed in his cell at the Bessemer jail, where he was moved Thursday night by an order from Judge Gwin's court. He spends his time reading magazines. No one is allowed to see him except his at torney, MT. Ross, and his father J. Lit Edwards,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
SEPARATE TRIALS OF LIQUOR CASES ASKED BY BANKER
Unfair To Link Him With Other Defendants,
 Staples Contends
(SpeciaI Leased Wire.)

MOBILE, Ala, Dec 12.-Seven de- fendants indicted on three charges in connection with the alleged handling of liouor in Mobile by the last federal grand jury will probably be tried in groups of two or three, it was indicated in the federal court this morning when argument was heard on motion for severance of the case against Alfred l.. Staples. former banker and business man.
 Following the hearing of the argu- ment, during which attorneys for Staples held that his chances ot secur- ing A fair and impartial trial would be ieopb rdized by trying him with some of the other defendants, Judge Robert T. Erwin suggested that attorneys at tempt to agree as to a grouping of the defendants in which the question of probable prejudice might be eliminated. Suggestion was also made that the ques- tion of consolidating three charges be considered in order to obviate the neccs- sity of holding so many trials and the repetition of evidence.
 Staples Makes Plea
 Among reasons set out by attorneys for Staples in their plea that he be granted severance was the fact that some of the other defendants in the case had previously been tried in the court on similar charges and that this and other events which were usually styled by the newspapers as the Mo bile situation" had been widely pub lished and had had it's influence upon residents of the federal district, from which the jury must be drawn.
 It was claimed that the defendant had a right to be removed from any prejudice which might exist as the re- suit of previous trials of other defend ants and other events, including the impeachment proceedings against Sher- if Paul G. Cazalas. It was also held that the right of defendant to strike ten men from the jury would also be abridged if he was tried jointly with six other persons, with only ten chal- lenges for the entire number.
 Mentions NOtOriety
 In arguing for the severance of the case of Staples, MT. Webb pointed to the wide circulation of charges against 'one of the other defendants in the case," both in the federal court trials and in the impeachment proceedings against Sheriff Paul G. Cazalas, and declared that i've cannot get away from the power of the press" He said he had noticed that the press couldn't men tion the appointment of Schwarz as sheriff for Mobile county without re- ferring to the Cazalas impeachment and the federal liquor cases here.
 In answer to MT Webb's statement regarding the press, Judge Erwin de clared that the local papers had met his request that they refrain from com ment on the big liquor conspiracy case in the court last spring until the hear ing was concluded, and he stated he again desired to express his apprecia- tion for their cooperation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
Merchants Plan
 To Keep Stores
 Open At Night

Birmingham's 1925 Christmas shopping season is expected to be officially inaugurated Saturday night when retail merchants will depart from the customary 6 o'clock closing and keep open shop on Saturday nights ''as long as there are customers to serve."
 Christmas business has been brisk for the past few days, sur vey of business houses has in- dicated but the belated shopper must be served mad the few re- maining days are expected to result in a harvest for the merchants.
 The movemnet is an annual one with the retail merchants division of the chamber of commerce and was approved this year by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union following support of their plea for early closing on Saturday nights.
 Retail stores will be kept open next Saturday night, also on the three nights imediately proceed ing Christmas during which time Santa Claus" will be more and more evident by the great arm loads of bundles from which will be protruding the rocker of chair, a wagon wheel or whatnot,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13

and ask the European powers to state their war aims.
 Recalling his experiences at the Washington conference, NJ. Briand said he had the impression in Washington that there was kind of embargo on the League of Nations. He thought this Washington atmosphere could be broad ened to encircle the world and declared | if America was convinced that the covenant of the league must be re- vised before the United States would enter the league, then all the powers would agree to study the American suggestion.
 He expressed the belief that time would satisfactorily settle the posi- tion of the United States toward the league and that American women would play a mighty role in this settlement.
 American women who lost sons in the great war;" declared M Briand.
 Know that it's better to send three statesmen to Europe than to send three million soldiers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
American Women TOLift
 World League To Power,
 Declares Statesman Briand
Ex-Premier Finds Real Hope In Amerca's
 Cooperation
(Ry Assnciated Press. ]

ROME, Dec. 12.-The League of Ma tions can become truly great only when the United States adheres to it Tn some form or other, declared Aristide brland former premier of France, to the Aiher' ican correspondents tonight.
 NJ. Briand spoke to the newspaper men after public session of the coun- cil which took a step calculated to help in tn. maintenance of peace by naming n commission for the qualification Of international law. He emphasized what he termed the supreme gesture France Has made accepting the idea of com pulsrov arbitration for any and all disputes and by inference, he lad stress on how important Is the appearance oi George W. Wickersham, former attorney general of the United States, on the law qualification commission.
 In his talk with the correspondents. NJ. Briand, like Senor Guani, of Uruguay and M. linden, Sweden, in the formal session, referred to the great hopes pinned on the work of the law commission. He expressed the readiness of France to consider any practical suggestions of other powers looking to perfection of the Geneva protocol, which he described as powerful medium for the prevention of war.
 Cites Need Of Judges
 "The only possible hope for the fu- ture is for the nations to go before judges" said NJ. Briand.
 This, he declared, is what protocol provides, and, he added, eff there is any country in the world which is q ordently devoted to such a method of settling a conflict it is the United States
 Asked concerning the so-called Japa- nese amendments touching upon the league councils power to examine into disputes which have arisen out of domestic problems, NJ. Briand remarked that President Wilson found it appropri- ate during the great war to intervene
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
NEGRO HOLDS UP
 CAFE PROPRIETOR
Cash Register Is Rifled Of $25
 In Currency

An unidentified negro held up Sam Bogo, Asyrian cafe keeper at the cor ner of Avenue H and Fifteenth street, south, taking between $20 and $25 in currency from the cash register, at 12 o'clock Friday night, according to State Officer R. B. Hunt and Deputy Sheriff w. l.. Snow, who investigated.
 The negro walked into the cafe and bought a five-cent cigar, giving Bogo quarter. As he turned to hand the negro his change he was covered with q gun. The negro then walked behind the counter, pushed the mo sale" key and rifled the register, according to the officers.
 As the negro left the cafe the pro- prietor seized a gun and opened fire. Residents in the neighborhood, aroused by the shooting, were able to give the officers a description of the negro.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
CITY HALL LAXxlCTES SCORED BY GRAND JURY
Opposition Forms Flbuster Against Underwood Bill
'Dail And Senate
 Are In Deadlock
 Over Wet Issue
(By Associated Press)

DUBLIN, Dec. 12.-The question whether St. Patrick's day shall be wet or dry has caused a deadlock in the dail Eirinn and the Free State senate over the governments compro. mise liquor deal. The senate today persisted in it's decision to insist on the re-insertion of a provision making St. Patrick's day dry. This provis- ion had been struck out by the dail.
 The senate is not empowered to change the measure, but it's action probably will have the legal effect of holding up the bill nine months, thus permitting St. Patrick's day next year to be as moist as usual.
 Meanwhile temperance is becoming an active political issue, reformers in- sisting on a popular reform of the liquor bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
LOUISIANA OIL co. ABSORBS INTANGIBLE

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Dissolution of the Invincible Oil corporation was authorized today at special meeting of stockholders who will receive stock of the Louisiana Oil and Refining corpora tion on a share for share basis through a liquidating dividend. Applications will be made to list the stock of Louisi- ana oil on the New York stock exchange. It will be ready for distribution about December 28.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
PERRIN ACOuITTED

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 12.-Win- ton Perrin, former grain dealer of Gin cinnati and Indianapolis was 'adjudged not guilty by a jury in criminal court here today on a first degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Mrs. Frances Rawson, his mother in-law. The jury decided he was in- sane at the time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
SYDNOR SENTENCED
 FOR KILLING WIFE
Virginian Given 20-Year Term
 In Richmond

RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 12,-Found guilty of first degree murder by a jury in Hastings court here late tonight Walter J. Sydnor was sentenced tc serve 20 years in the state penitentiary for the killing of his wife, Violet Wor ley Sydnor, whose body was found ir the Richmond city dock last June 17.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
PARIS TO DIVIDE DEBT PAYMENTS WITH ENGLAND ProportiOnate Refunds To Be Made Britain,
 Says Report COOLIDGE DECLINES EUROPEAN FARLEY Will Oppose Submitting Debt Dispute To World
 Court
PARIS TO DIVIDE

Omte0 StateS WthVus
 proportional payments in discharge
 of the French debt to Great Brltaln'
 according to dispatch from faris
 to the Daily Mail. It IS authorlta-
 lively announced in Paris, accord-
 ing to the Mail, that when France
 begins official debt negotiations
 with the United States similar and
 parallel negotiations" will be begun
 with England.
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-The Coolidge administration will stand firmly upon it's policy of non-cancel- lation of foreign debts and will en- certain no proposals of an inter- allied conference of the debt ques- ton, it became known at the White House Friday in answer to intima- tions from abroad that European powers are seeking to promote H. nancial conference.
 As in the past, Coolidge's attitude to- ward the French, as we'll as other debts, is that the debtor nations should make good on their financial obligations to the United States as soon as possible, but at the same time he has no desire to embarrass any power by pressing the claims too strenuously.
 Opposes Conference
 As to calling a conference to reopen the question of allied debts, the Presi- dent is said to be unfavorable to such a plan. As to British newspaper com plaints about the debt question, the President will let the answer come from American newspapers, the White House said.
 Coolidge also made it clear Wednes- day that he would oppose submitting the British-American dispute over pay ment to American war claims out of German separations funds 10 the world court.
 In answer to recent British agitation against Americas right to participate in the separations payment, the Presi- dent takes the stand that this nations right to payment out of the separations fund is so clear that any objections raised by Great Britain could soon be disposed of by direct negotiations be- tween the two powers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
REPLY IS DELIVERED
America Answers British Note On
 Preparations

hepardtlOHS
 LONDON, Dec. 12.-By Associated Press. )-The American reply to the British note of December 4, which it. self answered the American note re- garding reparation for war damage claims, was received by the British gov ernment this morning. It will not be touched, however, until the arrival of Foreign Secretary Chamberlain from Rome. Mir. Chamberlain is expected to reach London Sunday night.
 The London papers unanimously sup port Chancellor of the ExcheQuer Churchilrs announcement that if the continental nations begin paying their debts to the United States they will be expected to make proportionate pay ments on their obligations to Great Britain.
 At the moment when Great Britain was thought paying her debt and no- body was paying her, there came from Warsaw dispatches announcing Poland had consolidated her war debt to Great Britain on terms similar to those ob- tained by both Britain and Poland in funding their debts to the United States. The Polish debt here, however. amounts to only 4,500,OOO pounds sterling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-13
DIR. BISHOP APPOINTED

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 12.-Dr. E. l.. Bishop of Nashville today was appointed state health commissioner to succeed Dr. E. B. Crittenden, who re- gently resigned.