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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-02-27

The time for holding the annual
city election is fast approaching and
yet we hear of no nominating conven-
tiOns having been called by either of
the great political parties. What is
the matter with the city central COM
mittees?
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-02-27

The recent decision Of the first as
sistant secretary of the interior that
''stone that is useful only for build
ing purposes does not render land
subject to appropriation under the
mining laws or exempt it from pre-
emption entry" is of more than or
binary interest to residents of this
portion of Montana.
Yankee jim" was in the city sew
eral days of the past week. The
gentleman remarked that he was in
his fifty-sixth year, and yet felt as
young as when he was twenty-five
We hope he may live long and visit
Bozeman frequently. ("Yankee JIM
died last year at the home of his
brother in California, at the age Of
SO years.)
Evening star., 1924-03-13
The Air a Public Utility.

The government is moving promptly
to preserve the freedom Of the air
as means of disseminating information
and knowledge. While it is denied
hv radio agencies that there is thought
or effort by any Of them to obtain a
monopoly in broadcasting, a contrary
opinion is expressed by some public
authorities directly interested in keep
ing the air open to all broadcasters
who comply with regulations that
have been found necessary.
Secretary Hoover, appearing before
the House committee on merchant
marine in support Of pending bill
which would provide further govern.
ment regulation of radio transmission,
spoke Of the air as a public utility
and said that it is not conceivable
that the American people will allow
this newborn system Of communica-
ton to fall exclusively into the power
Of any individual group or combina.
ton. He said it would be dangerous
If any person or group were In posi-.
ton to censor matter sent to people
through the air. and he also said that
the government should not even be
placed in the position Of censoring
matter broadcast by radio. He EN-.
phasized his view that radio COM
Evening star., 1924-03-13

pose they were utilized, but many
miles of new roads were built under
direction OF the military engineers.
These roads were built SO that troops
and supplies might be moved from one
, part Of the defense line to another
without being under observation from
any point beyond that line which an
enemy might occupy. Roads were
built behind the defenses throughout
the District and in Virginia to serve
the forts which stretched from the
Potomac at Chain bridge to the hills
below Cameron run, south of Alex
andria. "a
In several cases these roads were
called 1.-The Military road" Most of
them have passed from the map,
though some continued in use long
after the civil war, and generally
were given new names. One Military
road survives on the Virginia side of
the Potomac, but the only Military
road in the District is that which was
built west from Brightwood. in the
rear Of Fort Stevens, and which served
Fort De Russy and Batteries Kings
bury and Smead. There was sys-
tenn of military roads west OF Battery
Smead, serving Fort Kearny, Batteries
Terrin and Rossell and Fort Reno
at Tenleytown. Before the building
of Military road west of Brightwood
the main road across the upper val
ley of Rock creek in the District was
Milk House Ford road, from the 7th
street pike to the Brookville road.
Evening star., 1924-03-13
American Dollars for France.

American soldiers saved France in
1915 from the German military in
vasion. American dollars arc now
saving it from another invasion. Re-
Gently the franc has been falling in
value. The declenSion in exchange
has been so rapid as to menace France
with a currency collapse similar to
that which has occurred in Germany
German trade has taken advantage
of this condition and French in
dustries have been seriously affected
in consequence. Now loan of
100000, 900 has been guaranteed by
American banking interests as a
means of tiding the franc over the
period of waiting for the adoption of
reparations plan. This loan takes
the form of an unlimited credit of
mot less than s100 900, 900" The i'm
mediate effect of the announcement
yesterday was to lift the franc to
4.23is cents from S.S5 in the exchange
quotations.
When the franc began TO fall a
short time ago a sentiment was mani
tested in Germany of resistance to
be adopted. This was doubtless in
spired by the belief in Germany that
the fall of the franc would mean the
collapse of the present ministry in
France, the policy of which has been
unremittingly to press for reparation
payments on the fulffllment of the
German obligations under the treaty
of Versailles
The form in which this credit is
granted, mot less than 100000, ,O00,''
is significant. 1t means that more
will be available if necessary to
stabilize the franc. It means that the
resources of the most powerful bank
ing interests of this country are at
; the disposal of the French go ern-
ment pending the settlement Of the
reparations question. A report from
the Dawes commission is expected
soon. Meanwhile the Poincare gov.
ernnlent will insist that the senate
ratify the new tax measure, which
means the balancing of the French
budget. and that 1t also approve the
policy of stopping new expenditures.
Until the financial situation has been
greatly bettered the government will
undertake no. new borrowing wha t.
soever except for funding existing
floating Indebtedness
Back of this credit is a combination
of American banking interests. They
are acting with wise vision of the
need of checking the unwholesome and
unwarranted fall of the franc, which
affects American investments and
puts in jeopardy the whole plan Of
settlement OF the war issues
Thus American dollars are marching
in an impregnable line once again to
the aid of France. This response to
the call for aid, so immediate, Sc
generous, must greatly hearten the
French people, as did the response
of American manhood in 1917 and
1918 to the call for physical succor.
Evening star., 1924-03-13
Votes Of Confidence.

President Coolidge has unusual
ground for qualification in the action
of republicans in those states which
have recently declared in favor of
his nomination for the presidency.
More than ordinary significance can
be seen in it in view of the political
drive being made against him by
democratic senators and in the oil in.
vestigation.
In the middle west, In the. south
and in New England the republicans
have voiced their confidence in him.
:They have repudiated the effort of
sensationalists to drag him into the
oil scandals and have demonstrated
that they cannot be stampeded.
d In such states as Colorado, Kansas,
Iowa and Minnesota. where progress.
sive and near-radicaI sentiment is
supposed to prevail, republican voters
showed that they consider President
Coolidge as good a progressive as
. themselves and demonstrated their
stability of character in repudiating
attacks made upon him in the Senate
: and criticism of him in other quarters
~ A typical New England state, New
: Hampshire, spoke most emphatically
in his favor, even going to the extent
of defeating one candidate who was
for the President, but preferred to &c
uninstructed. New Englanders are
pretty much alike in thought and ii
can almost be set down as certain
that he win capture other New Eng
land states. In the south he has
carried several states, with more ex
>. pected to follow.
e By and large, the action OF the
s. voters thus far registered can be
9aken as a. vote of confidence in Presi
IEzent Coolidge in the face of. assaults
]. npon him E
Evening star., 1924-03-13
In a Few Words.

The nations Of the world are drift
ing toward mutual destruction. The
idea Of progress is to be able to euide
tanks, submarines and planes from a
distance without humans inside them.
so they may be laden with poison
gases and disease germs. Wholesale
destruction seems logically indicated.
SIR OLIVER LODGE.
Schoolmasters, shy and retiring
souls that they are, ought to buck up
and be arrogant and aggressive and
take hold Of the world, for they are
whole civilized community.
IL G. WELLS.
The man who would gain the vote
Of women would do well to abstain
from partisan attacks on his oppo-
nents. Women are naturally inclined
to sympathize with the underdog.
MRS. HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON.
We often. and quite properly, use
the expression public sentiment. pub
lie opinion; but never do we say pub
lie reason, for there is no such thing.
-WILLIAM LYON PHELPS.
A people that is temperamental is
not nearly as capable Of true love
loving type one finds in America.
NINE. GEORGETTE LEBLANC.
: The Germans idea OF sport IL diff
ferent from ours; but for grit and
cold nerve I have never seen any one
KENNETH L. ROBERTS.
Evening star., 1924-03-13
Abram Lisner's Retirement.

Announcement that Abram Lisner
has sold his mercantile establishment
in this city to an out-of.town pur.
chaser marks the passing from active
business of man who for close upon
half a century has been personally
and directly engaged in business in
Washington. Mr.. Lisncr's career as
a merchant in this city has been so
long and so successful that his re.
tirement through tho sale of his prop.
erty calls for a note of appreciation
for his unfaihagly high standards. 1t
is striking fact that during the
forty-five and a half years Of his own.
ership and personal management he
has been located in only two buildings,
originally at the corner of 18th street
and Pennsylvania avenue and then at
11th and G streets. Mr.. Lisner built
his success upon the basis of good
faith. He devoted himself almost ex-
cluSively to his business. During later
years he has been i'm u position to en-
ter into the public service activities
of the community to some extent, but
never at u sacrifice of attention to the
establishment which was his lifework.
Such an example of concentration is
Of value to the community as an in
spiration to the younger generation.
Hope is felt that in the years of
leisure that are to come Mr.. Lisner
will be able to apply his interests in
Washington cultural advancement, al
ready manifested by generous gifts in
the cause OF education, in the same
measure Of devotion to a purpose.
Evening star., 1924-03-13
How Much of Your
Time Is Net?
BY JOHN CARLYLE.

Have you any idea how much coal,
Of all that is mined in the earth,
gets into productive use? You will
be astonished when the United States
geological survey tells you that only
seventy.six pounds out of every
two thousand pounds really get into
useful production.
Listen to this amazingly interest
ing analysis of 1000 pounds Of coal
in the earth. At the outset it is
estimated that 600 pounds are lost in
mining. After the 1.400. pounds
which are left reach the surface. the
survey tell us. that it takes 1876
pounds to get the coal from the mine
to the boiler room. Then 446 pounds
slip up the smokestack to powder the
housetopS and soil your washing in
the back yard. Fifty-one pounds are
one pounds fall into the ash pit.
Then comes the biggest single loss
of all-650 pounds are destroyed In
converting heat energy into mechani-
cal energy. That leaves seventy-six
pounds Of coal with which to accom-
Some day men will learn how to
create energy without such terrific
waste. Some day coal will be trans
lated into power with less fuming
and fewer ashes. Look little fur
ther down the future and we may see
huge solar engines, run by the gath
cred heat of the sun.
There is a story for the everyday
life of all Of US in the story OF waste
energy-in the story Of the smoke
stack and the ash pit
Have you ever put yourself and
your habits under the microscope to
determine how much Of your time is
applied to useful activity and how
much fritters up the smokestack Of
idleness and misapplied labor?
You have twenty-four hours per
day to work with and to play with.
From the time you get out OF bed
in the morning, time begins to slip;
minute by minute, through your care-
less anEorS. How can you stop the
leak? How can you convert more
xross time int net reeuitSf
] Yoa ca ds Il hx study ~ ~
Evening star., 1924-03-13

munication is a public. concern and
to be considered from the standpoint
or public interest on the same general
principles a. other public utilities
One OF the radio problems to be
solved is that broadcasting shall not
depend for its support on the sale
Of radio apparatus or on advertising
of persons and goods. 1t may be
that there is no plan to "hog the air."
but the government does we'll to show
that 1t is alert and standing ready
to serve the interest of all the people
in the matter Of communication and
education by radio.
Evening star., 1924-03-13
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

The Lneman.
I doubt if he knows all the technical
terms
That by experts are used in electrical
firms.
His collars not white. His strong
7. hands are Injured
To weather conditions, and not mani
cured.
His nerves are Of steel, like the spikes
on his feet
When he climbs toward the sky In the
storm-driven sleet.
Though his style is not formed on a
fashion plate plan,
He's what regard as Regular Man.
In his own conscious strength he Is
silently proud
AS he filings himself upward, away
from the crowd,
To make the light shine and the music
resound
For those who are hovered down there
on the ground.
The work that brings smiling and
comfort anew
Must often be done by the brave, lone
ly few;
And. friend. as you stand on yon trem.
ulous span,
You're what regard as a Regular
Man.
Evening star., 1924-03-13
No Gas Tax .Inequity.

In deciding to amend the gas bill
as passed by the House, the Senate
District committee has wisely and
justly given heed to the wishes of the
people of the District. as plainly ex-
pressed at hearings held on the sub
Ject. The bill as thus amended will
be practically in the form proposed
by the Commissioners, imposing u tax
on gasoline sold in the District of Co.
lumbia, in lieu of the personal prop
erty tax now imposed. This is for the
purpose of securing motor reciprocity
between the District and Maryland,
which is desired by both sides.
Doubt has been already expressed
whether the bill in this form if passed
by the Senate will be accepted by the
House. 1t would, of course, be unfor-
tunate if the measure were to fail
altogether, thus defeating the purpose
of the Commissioners to take advan-
tage of the proposal of Maryland to
establish reciprocity on the basis of
Il mutual gas tax. But far better
would it be thus to lose out on rec
iprocity than to have this commend
able and desirable endeavor made the
medium of the imposition of an ad,
ditionaf and burdensome tax, as the
House bill proposes.
1t is gratifying, whatever may be
The ultimate fate of the bill, to see
the Senate committee thus recogniz.
ing the overwhelming prevailing senti.
ment of the District people. The full.
est opportunity was afforded for an
expression of that sentiment. At first
doubt was, voiced whether the oppo.
sition to the House bill, with its ad-
ditional tax provision, was a refiec-
tien Of the feeling of the community.
a mass meeting of the citizens was
called and was largely attended. When
the question was put, do you want
motor reciprocity at the cost of an
additional tax?" the answer was i'm
mediate and positive. 1t was a de-
cided negative.
VIII now, upon passage of the
amended bill by the Senate, which
should be assured, the House take
coguizance of this manifest public
feeling and accept the amendments:
That is for the future to determine
Meanwhile it is reassuring to find the
Senate committee thus responsive to
the local sentiment and bent upon the
enactment of a measure of equity and
the avoidance of measure of in.
justice.
Evening star., 1924-03-13
Military Road.

n is likely that the name Military
road" will be preserved. The House
District committee has ordered fa-
vorable report on the Senate bill
changing the name of Keokuk street
TO Military road. That street now ex.
tends from Military road at 9th street
to Wisconsin avenue, and the bill di-
rects that the Commissioners give the
name Military road to the whole way.
Keokuk street is a new eastand-
west thoroughfare which. In connec-
ton with Military road. makes a
through-way between Georgia and
Wisconsin avenues. 1t was not
thought we'll that a thoroughfare
should have two names along different
parts Of it's course, and it was feared
that the old name Military road would
disappear.
In building the civil war defenses
OF Washington roads were cut to
serve them. Where there were old
reads which would answer the pur-
Evening star., 1924-03-13

definite planning. Perhaps your office
door is open too much. Your friends
use your desk for q convention hall.
occupy yourself with forty trivial
matters q day thirty-two Of which
might be wisely delegated to an as
sistant Perhaps you loiter q half
hour at each END OF an engagement
leave.
One of the most important or all
things to remember daily Is that q
straight line is the shortest distance
between two points Put that theory
into practice, even In q matter as
trining as getting yourself a drink
Of water.
Study to get tho bigEest possible
tOppyrisAG, 1So4 - IT, AsspelaAso Nsus,
Evening star., 1924-03-13
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLiAM VILE

reau. A member of his san. a young
| woman who was able. but cantanker-
Gus, threw an irkwell on a certain
| occasion at a fellow clerk who had
aroused her temperamental ire
Everybody expected she would be
promptly detached from the civil
service pay roll. To the general as
| tonishment, she emerged from Lang
ley'S office with a broad grin on her
face. We'll, what's happened" sho
was asked 'ache chief merely said
Shake" the young woman explained,
"and added: I've been wanting TO do
that very Same thing for a long
timer"
It would be difficult to organize a
more convincing demonstration of
western radicalism's grip on the Wash
ington situation than is provided by
current events on Capitol Hill. The
two senatorial Investigations now in
| progress-oil and Daugherty---are
headed, respectively, by Ladd, non
partisan republican of North Dakota.
and Brookhart, radical republican OF
Iowa. Their leadership of the big
probes hallmarks the domination OF
La Toilette, too. Both Ladd ami
J
| Fighting Bob's" trail.
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President Coolidge, in denying i
| pardon to Edward A. Rumley. SEN
! fenced to Atlanta in connection with
Germany'S wartime association with
the New York Evening Mall enunci-
ated principle which has become
White House policy on executive
clemency. That is, that person con-
! victed Of federal felony after due
+. process of law must enter upon MS
sentence and actually do" time be-
! fore communication will be considered.
| President Harding adhered to that
practice, and Mr.. Coolidge is perpetu-
ating it,
| Senator Hiram W. Johnson was
conspicuously missing from the Jap
anese immigration seance at the Sem
ate, although 1t concerns the Pacific
coasts paramount domestic issue.
Johnson is a member of the immigra-
/ ton committee. In his absence Sena-
| tor Shortridge functioned as a pinch
| hitter. 1t is activities like those now
| keeping Johnson from official duties
in the Senate-his campaign for the
| presidential nomination--that have
| cost him a lot OF his old-time favor
| in California Citizens of that state
/ have been complaining for five years
] that Hiram lis so busy running for
| President" that he reIegates his
| sacred obligations as a native son
of the golden west to secondary con-
sideration. The coast exclusionistS
! had hoped for valiant aid from John
son during the fight for legislation
against Japanese immigration
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! Hoovers Department OF Commerce,
! which regulates radio. has a hard
/. luck story from man in Chicago.
He's been using a broadcasting sta
| tion there for propagation Of a
worthy cause Recently he invited his
! invisible audience to telegraph eN-
pressions Of its views. They did SO.
with a vengeance. Within a week he
found himself called upon to pay
$4,000 In collect" messages.
! (CsUyrSAt 112k] -.---..
Evening star., 1924-03-13

Rear Admiral Charles p. Plunkett,
who says Washington is the 'wettest
city in the United States, had a real
hand in ending the world war. 1t
was one of his naval batteries that
fired the last shot on the western
front q fraction of a minute before
the armistice was declared on No
vember II, 1918. Plunkett is one of
the hard hitting. piain-speaking sea
dogs of the Navy. He superintended
the construction at the Washington
navy yard Of the great 14-inch naval
railway batteries which were sent
to Pershing's army, and then COM
manded them. in action. From July
to the armistice, Plunkett's big
Charles" pounded the Germans mer-
cilessiy and effectively. Five years
ago Admiral Plunkett was in charge
Of the Navy's famous transatlantic
flight He is a washingtonian by
birth and was graduated from An
napolis with the class Of 1854.
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Although the ca.ifornia-Japauese
hearing before the Senate immigra-
ton committee this week dealt with
a critical issue, the, sessions were
punctuated with merry quips. An
earnest emissary of the immigration
Restriction League was dilating on
the melting pot" and quoting Israel
Zangwilrs invention of that term as
a description of America In the
midst of his dissertation, Senator Pat
Harrison interrupted to ask "wheth-
er the melting pot is any worse than
the teapot" Later on, v. S. Nc
Clatchy of Sacramento, archpriest of
the Japanese exclusion movement,
told the committee of the new scheme
of "Kankodan" brides, devised by the
as bh he asgsa 10 take he
bride" system. McClatchy had just
called the picture brides"-who were
picked out by correspondence-.'mail-
order brides" Senator Shortridge of
California said that was a nisnomer.
They're female-order brides" he ex-
planned. The "kankodan" bride, 1t
appears, is one that a Japanese resi-
dent of the United States selects in
the course Of a sightseeing trip to his
California's rendering of "Kankodan
brides"
MIS. SOOiiuSS, ihC hhC LICSi-
dent, takes regular ''constitutionals'
through Washington. sometimes for
considerable distances from the White
House. On a recent occasion a rain
storm overlook her and she was COM
pelled to seek refuge in the Senate
wing of the Capitol-where she said
she felt perfectly at bonneville a
telephone call to the White House
summoned an executive automobile.
The First Lady meantime took up
her station in one of the public lob
bies, for the most part unnoticed,
chatting gayly with a policeman she
used to know when "Caf' presided
over the Senate.
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Representative John Wesley Lang
/ ley Of Kentucky. who received an ova-
tion In the House when he protested
his innocence Of alleged corruption
charges, once was disbursing and
lappointuaeot clerk n the consus bu-
Evening star., 1924-03-13

New Jersey has frequent struggles
with it's "blue laws" They have at
least been held down sufficiently to
prevent summer seashore gayeties
from being a failure.
Evening star., 1924-03-13

Congressional discussion Of an in.
come tax reduction has only added a
touch Of disappointment to the gloom
of the citizen engaged in filling out
his questionnaire for the collector Of
internal revenue.
Evening star., 1924-03-13

So much liquor Is said to be avail.
able around Long Island sound that
the price has dropped below profit
able figure The law Of supply and
demand asserts itself even In the un.
derworld
Evening star., 1924-03-13

The rapidity with which President
Coolidge assumed that Congress could
act with reference to tax reduction
implied compliment which Congress
cannot quite deserve.
Evening star., 1924-03-13

The damage done by storm is not
to be wondered at. The remarkable
feature Of the experience is the rapid
ity with which repairs are made and
business is resumed.
Evening star., 1924-03-13

Much valuable congressional time
has been consumed in order to ascer-
tain the facts about an effort to leave
an unidentified 100000 on somebody's
doorstep.
Evening star., 1924-03-13

When it is declared that Washing.
ton, D. c., Is wetter city than New
York a certain amount of indignation
is likely to be felt by eminent civic
influences in both cities.
Evening star., 1924-03-13

The task Of Oil investigation is un-
doubtedly exactins and exhausting.
If it is to be pursued much longer
those who conduct it may have to
work in relays.