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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-02-14
By WILLIAM L. DALEY
National Editorial Association Spec
ial to The Herald
Oil Matters Still
Head Attraction

Wilson's death temporarily Rushed
partisan strife in Congress. The
passing of this great wartime
president brought universal sorrow
and the legislators joined with the
American people in mourning. The
Congress has now resumed regular
routine with the investigation of the
Teapot Oil Dome leases providing the
most sensational features of the day.
The Administrations tax reduction
bill, which formerly held first place
in the attention of the reading pub
lie, has been reported to the House
from the Ways anl Means committee.
Though this measure directly affects
every taxpayer, its Importance has
been lessened somewhat because of
the tremendous appeal of political
scandal in the oil case. Putting vi
tai tax legislation in second place
may be explained, perhaps, by the
old proverb, con eagles wings i'm
mortal scandals fly, while virtuous
actions are but born to die"
The tax bill now pending in the
House contains the Mellon income
rates which were disputed in com
mittee. A provision has been insert
ed in the bill cutting the income tax
es to be paid this year by 25 per cent
The changes made by the Ways and
Means committee remove the board
of tax appeals from the treasury de-
partment, making the president di-
rectly responsible for their appoint
ment. The committee only partially
repealed the tax on admissions and
but did not repeal, num-
Der of miscellaneous excise taxes.
1t appears that the proposal of the
for a constitutional
prohibiting the issue of
tax exempt securities will find OBJ
stacles in the way of its enactment.
In the preliminary debate in the
House, Representative Garrett, OF
Tennessee, the democratic leader, in
sisted that the proposal was an inva-
sion of state rights. Other demo-
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-02-14
Our Washington Letter

cratic leaders insisted that the pro
posed amendment would destroy
state and municipal credit. Republi-
can leaders maintained that legisla-
tion laws necessary in order to tax
the billions that are now invested in
tax-free securities. The reports of
the majority and minority members
of the House Ways and Means com
mittee show wide variance of views
on tax measures. The influence of
this split on the ultimate vote in the
House cannot be under estimated and
administration leaders are plainly
worried over the outcome of the bill.
under the liberalized house rules it
will be possible for opponents of the
bill to offer drastim amendments
from the floor
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-02-14

The numerous and conflicting
suggestions offered on farm relief
legislation indicates quite clearly
that this momentous problem is far
from solved. The second National
Council of Farmers Cooperative
Marketing Associations has been held
here. They are planning to abolish
the middlemen-and to tell the un-
organized consumers that they are
generous and will not keep all the
SIS, 5,00O,O00,0OO a year which the
CONTINUED on Page Six
Evening star., 1924-05-03
Germany Votes Tomorrow.

Tomorrow Germany will vote for
members Of the Reichstag. Thirty mil
lion people are qualified to cast their
ballots, women as well as men. They
will have q wide choice Of candidates,
for 4,514 persons have announced
themselves, and most of them have
conducted active campaigns. They
represent no less than twenty-three
distinct parties, which, in turn, CON-
prise at least seventy-five different
political groups. Nineteen of the
twenty-three parties represent some
shade of upper or middle class opinion
and four of them communist or So
cialist sentiment.
1t is hopeless to expect any single
party to gain control Of the legislative
body in such circumstances. A com
bination Of blocs is all that is possible
for the support Of responsible min
istry. And in the peculiar conditions
that now obtain such a combination is
not likely to be enduring.
One Of the dispatches from Berlin
descriptive Of the prediction situa-
tion states that a trend toward mod
eratism is observable on the part Of
the electorate. But it is impossible to
Judge OF the effect of the new repara-
tions proposals and the declarations
Of the present government favorable
to acceptance and execution. 1t is, Of
course, greatly to be hoped that there
will be no political convulsion tomor-
row that will upset the present pro-
gram by the election Of a reactionary,
ettlement.resisting Reichstag. That
way would lie further distress for Ger
many and continued anxiety for all
the powers.
The course Of Germany making for
the greatest progress toward recovery
Of industrial and economic health
would seem to lie along the lines Of
moderatism. midway between mon
archism and communism. But just
what the 10000, 900 voters will do to
morrow cannot be foretold or even ap-
proximately estimated.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
splendid towns claim the bay, the

splendid towns claim the bay, the
laurel and the apple crown. This is
dispute which the American citizens
of the Valley" themselves must set
tie, and in which the non-Americans
Of the Capital should not meddle.
The blossom festival at Winchester
is to symbolic the Valley Of Virginia
as one OF the great fruit-growing
regions of the earth. From the Poto-
mac south through Jefferson, Fred
erick. Shenandoah, Warren, Page,
Rockingham, Augusta and other glori-
Gus counties one mighty orchard
stretches. The cherry blossoms of
Nippon are few when set against the
apple blossoms of the Shenandoah.
The orange groves Of Florida and
California bear no sweeter. brighter
blooms than the apple flowers Of Vir-
ginia. The maple syrup orchards of
New England are not so vast as the
apple groves of Shenandoah. Soon
may it be that Virginia apples shall
be sold in the fruit shops OF San Fran
cisco. Portland and Seattle, and it
may be that Virginia grapes and
peaches and Maryland strawberries
will be shipped to California that un-
fortunate people in that far-off land
shall taste the favor of fruit that Is.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
Praises Compositions
Of Mary L. Salter

To the Editor Of The Star:
It was not my good fortune to hear
heard the concert recently given IN
Washington Of the compositions OF
DISTINGUISHED American women In
reading the criticisms of such rendi
tions the impression was received
that some of the most effective songs
Of Mary Turner Salter were not given
place on this program.
Through professional work I have
come in close touch with many OF
seem to reach a hi gh plane of emo
tional expression, sincerity of dignity
and skillful musicianly treatment:
They run the gamut of feeling and
must have been profoundly felt.
Among such songs may be mentioned
Last Night Heard the Nightingale
an expression of yearning love,
through the atmosphere of moonlight
and the voices Of the night; Come
sweep OF first passion; MY Dear" ex-
quisite in its tender. human note.
In THE Cry OF Rachel" there IS
the undertone of anguish that comes
to US all in the first moments of part
ing and sorrow, and again, in 1.-THE
Lamp of Love-" taken from Brown
ing's Paracelsus, "I Hold the Lamp OF
Love Close to My Breast" the larger
love, that must overwhelm in finality,
and power. So, many of us are CRATE
full to Mary Turner Salter for her
gifts and soul stimulations. CilaG
that she 50 we'll represents Ameri-
ca among the woman composers
} OTTO e SIMcRA
Evening star., 1924-05-03
Flight Proves
Many Dreams Remote

The four crews of American avi-
ators, who are now some two weeks
behind in their schedule appoint
tian Islands, are giving an ample
demonstration of the energy and
pluck which pervade the entire air
service. The delays lie in causes out
side their personal control. But while
they are giving evidence of so much
that is highly creditable to their own
qualities as airmen, they are also
demonstrating how far we still are
from the dream which many enter
tain of q time when a regular COM
mercial air service will be maintain
ed around the northern borders of the
Pacific between America and Asia.
( On the basis of all the weather data
available, this trip was planned for
the time when the probabilities of de-
lay from bad weather seemed least;
and yet the delays from this cause
have been considerably more than the
supposedly ample allowance that was
and fitted out with extreme care. And
yet at least one OF them has caused
considerable delay from defects that
have developed during it's progress.
The flight will make IL plain that be-
fore commercial service could be seri-
equipped stations must be estab-
lished all along the route, where
everything needed for repairs, includ-
ing skilled mechanics, would be con-
stantly available. All this, of course.
would add heavily to the overh cad
cost of the service; and with the COM
paratively small amount of freight
which any plane can carry the chance
of any commercial justification, in the
form of profits, cannot be said to be
Evening star., 1924-05-03

Presidents candidacy" The San Fran
cisco Bulletin Gndependent) declares
fatty that:
< !; X X
''The Pinchot type of politician is
one of the misfortunes of our national
life. 1t talks loudly of uplift, human
ity, progressivism and kindred SEN
timents, but is actuated solely by po-
litical ambition and when accorded
any measure OF local success takes
on a most irritating arrogance, as
though the honor of its state were
the call TO national leadership" While
the Birmingham News tDemocra tic)
sees in Pinchot's progressivism "a
trifie more than the old timers can
stomach" The st. Joseph News-Press
independently sees in the Pennsyl-
vania result "an Endorsement Of
President Coolidge's crisp note calling
a halt in scandal-mongering."
The form of so-called progress
sivism. which has insinuated itself
into the republican organization with
the purpose of diverting the party
from the safe and sane principles of
its founders has been weighed in the
balance and found wanting" declares
the Kansas City journal (Repub-
lican), while the Cleveland Plain
Dealer independent Democratic) be-
lieves that ''it may be doubted
whether in any other state a man as
high in public life as the governor
ship could be as signally punish ed
for SO slight an offense as that at
tributed to Gov. Pinchot." The Syra-
cuse Herald independently sees in
Pinchot's defeat the passing of the
old Progressive faction within the
Republican party in the, east, and
adds, Whatever insurgency there is
now is in the. west and northwest
and is narshaled under the leader
ship Of Robert NJ. La Toilette" The
Charlotte News {Democraticb believes
the truth Is that Pennsylvania
politics is not ready for a man of
Gov. Pinchot's type, clean-cut, out
standing, law-abiding and law-en-
forcing" The Baltimore Sun Gin
dependent) declares in his defeat
Pinchot may have the satisfaction
that other reform executives have
found: an improvement in govern
mental conditions that will not be
lost entirely by the machines return
to power"
Evening star., 1924-05-03
SHOOTING STARS.
gY pHILANpER JOHNSON
The Sure Thing.

Tne sure Imng.
Il IS very wrong to gamble where the
reckless hosses ramble.
It is wrong to meet a margin with
check.
You may miss your chance Of heaven
il you holler "Seven-'leven!'
And mah-jong will leave your
morals in a wreck.
Any form of speculation is improper
recreation,
And responsible for many q good
mans fall.
But the worst Of ali the sinners are
the self-appointed winners
Who play-but never take q chance
at all.
1t is wrong to flip q nickel or to let
your coppers trickle
Through a game of penny ante by
the hour.
You're a subject for correction if you
bet on an election
That decides who's going to get the
taxing pow'r.
We're in need Of grand orations and
Of civic regulations,
That man toward righteous man.
ners to recall.
the others do the guessing
While he wins-and never takes q
chance at all.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

une just issued in London, a counter
part of the American original. This
is what critic in the Sunday Times
says OF It:
president Coolidge's volume Is VAL
liable and interesting, not because OF
any inherent profundity-on the con.
trary, it is rather pedestrian-but as
an index to the mind and motives OF
man who holds so potent post as
President of the United States, with
all that that implies for the outside
world The American Chief Execu-
tive is Calvin by name and Calvin
by nature"
There was a little episode at the
White House today which illustrates
the growing independence of Canada.
Miss Agnes MacPhail, the only woman
member OF the Canadian Parliament,
was presented to President Coolidge.
The Introduction was made not by
the British ambassador, but by NJ. NJ.
Mahoney, who represents the Cana
dian department of external rela-
tionS in Washington. Mr.. Mahoney
makes his headquarters at the British
embassy, but is in practical charge
of Dominion affairs here. The Irish
Free State maintains Washington
Prof. Timothy A. Smiddy in charge.
Australia has a commissioner, Donald
Mackinnon, in New York. Canada,
Ireland and Australia all hope some
day to have their own direct diplo-
matte relations with Uncle Sam
x X i X
Chauncey NJ. Depew, who was ninety
years young on April %, has ac-
cepted an invitation to make a speech
at the Republican convention in June.
He says it's his ambition to repeat
the trick when he's 100. At Chicago,
in 1920, the eighty six-year- Older en-
livened proceedings for half an hour
while Jim Watson was getting
ready to bring in the report of the
committee on platform. At st. Au-
guStine, in February, 1921, while
President-elect Harding was cabinet
making, this observer met Mr.. Depew
in the lobby of the Ponce de Leon
Hotel. The veteran politician had just
seen Mr.. Harding. i've been offered
in q mock stage whisper. Harding
says can be secretary of the ex-
terror"
Washington is full of emissaries
from colleges and universities at this
season, bent upon inducing statesmen
to deliver commencement orations in
June. Honorary degrees are usually
attached. Senator Ferris of Michigan
will be the principal speaker at the
University of Notre Dame, and will
be made an honorary LII. d.
X X
On Thursday evening, May s, the
Vancouver Press Club of Vancouver,
B. c., will present to the National
Press Club of Washington a portrait
Of the late President Harding. The
presentation will be made by the Brit
ish ambassador. Sir Esme Howard,
and President Coolidge will receive
the picture in the name of the club
Mr.. Harding was the guest of the
Vancouver newspaper men when he
was in British Columbia last July on
his return from Alaska.
Copyright, 1924.l
Evening star., 1924-05-03

William NJ Butler who is to be
generalissimo of the Republican
presidential campaign. has boundless
faith in Calvin Coolidge. Eleven
years the Presidents senior, Butler
has known Coolidge's political career
since Its inception, and watched it de-
veloped almost as sympathetically as
Frank W. Stearns. About the time
Coolidge was entering politics, Butler
Tin 1880 was president of the Massa-
chusetts senate. q post Coolidge him
self filled twenty years later. 1t is
one of the elements of the Presidents
political character that he likes being
surrounded by his intimate friends.
His fight for election in 1924 will be
directed very largely by quartet.
of which he himself is one and the
others Butler, Stearns and Attorney
moned Stone to the Department of
Justice in the spirit of a man who
wants an old and tried comrade near
him in times OF distress. They were
boyhood cronies. their friendship
hour of great political emergency
Coolidge called the companion who
had stood alongside him in the test
ing days of youth
4 X x
Leonard p. Ayres of Cleveland, stat
istician, is given credit for some of
the basic ideas written into the Dawes
reparations report. He accompanied
the American commission to Europe
as its statistician-in-ch chief and wres-
tied with the figures relating to Ger
many's capacity to pay as If they
were his regular mathematical diet.
During the war Ayres was the stat
istician Of the War Industries Board,
chief statistical officer of the United
the same capacity for the American
mission at the peace conference.
Child hygiene is one of the side lines
with which Ayres concerns himself
when he isn't dabbling in figures.
His present occupation is that of a
trust company officer in Cleveland.
x II x
This is tho season when presiden-
tiaI candidates suddenly burst upon
the literary horizon as biographical
subjects. "McAdoo," by Mary Synon,
a Chicago newspaper woman, is the
latest. The man and his times-a
panorama in democracy" is the
books subtitle. The author cites as
one of her pleas in extenuation the
inclusion of "McAdoo's important let
ters to President Wilson on the great
questions that arose during 1917 and
1918" These communications, hith-
erto generally unknown. refer for the
most part to Secretary McAdoo'S ac-
tivities in connection with Treasury
loans to allied governments. In a
letter dated January. 1918, following
the accession of the Soviet govern
ment, McAdoo wrote the President:
II take the liberty of making a sug-
gestion TO the Secretary of State to
the effect that we should make il
condition OF recognition of any gov
eminent in Russia that its obligations
TO the United States should be re-
spected. and so forth"
+ = =
The President has been published in
Great Britain. THE Price OF Free
dom-Speeches and Addresses by Cal
vim Coolidge" is the title of the VOL
Evening star., 1924-05-03
Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge

Complaint is still made against the
Pennsylvania Avenue bridge across
the Eastern Branch and, OF course,
complaint will not cease till the old
bridge passes to that sphere where
all old bridges must go. In q report
to the Randle Highlands Citizens
Association it was said that vibration
is loosening nuts and bolts, greatly
endangering the safety Of the struc-
ture" and causing leaks in the gas
mains that cross the bridge.
This bridge is old. The first horse
and buggy moved slowly over it about
thirty-three years ago. 1t was then
acclaimed as a first-rate bridge and
it was a good bridge at the beginning
OF the last decade OF the past century
Beyond the Eastern Branch on the
line of Pennsylvania avenue were
farms and gardens and the construc-
ton of the bridge and extension Of
the --AHen,lA would give a short cut
Evening star., 1924-05-03
Virginia Blossom Festival.

President Coolidge was unable to
take part in the first annual BIOS
som festival at the ancient and mod
ern city Of Winchester, Va. II the
President likes blossoms he would
have found them at Winchester, and
for nearly hundred miles every way
from Winchester.
Winchester is sometimes called the
"Apple Capital" or the capital of
Shenandoah Valley, but Harrisonburg,
Staunton, Charles Town, Woodstock,
.Exank kRoyaLand-a- -score--0f- other
Evening star., 1924-05-03
The Massachusetts Senatorship.

Announcement by William NJ. But
Ter that he will not enter the race for
the senatorial nomination in Massa.
chusetts, on account Of his expected
election as chairman Of the Repub.
lican national committee, throws the
field open for lively contest among
prospective. and potential aspirants.
The nominees of the two parties will
be chosen at the primaries the second
Tuesday in September. The term OF
Senator David 1. Walsh, Democrat,
expires, and his successor will be
elected in the November general cleo
tions.
The strength developed by Senator
Walsh in the recent primaries for
election Of delegates to the national
convention is clear indication that the
Republican candidate for senator will
vember, and the campaign for the
election promises to be exciting. Gov.
Charming II. Cox is being solicited by
Mr.. Butler to enter the race for the
nomination. The two are reported as
having had conference in New York
yesterday, when Mr.. Butler made it
known that he hopes the governor
will run.
Louis A. Coolidge announced his
candidacy for the nomination several
weeks ago. He was formerly assistant
secretary of the Treasury, and at pres
ent is in business in Boston and prom
inent in civic affairs in Massachu-
one or more Of several members Of the
House Of Representatives may enter
the Representatives Winslow,
Dallinger, rockingham or Rogers,
all regarded as strong men.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
TO Washington to many people.

to Washington to many people. It
was believed that large addition to
Washington would develop beyond the
bridge. That belief has come true.
The bridge was designed with the
idea that u street. car of the late
sos and early COS was the heaviest
vehicle that would ever use a street
or highway bridge and that a two
horse market wagon was the weight.
lest thing that would cross the bridge.
The "horseless carriage" was talked
about by a few visionary men, but
no practical persons believed that it
would ever amount to much. The
Eastern Branch country served by the
bridge has grown immensely in popu.
lation AID Pennsylvania avenue con-
meets with the road system of Mary
land. Ten-ton trucks cross the old
bridge and make It rattle as though
it would fall apart. People beyond
the bridge call for through car service
to the center Of the city and the Cap
ttal Traction Company says that 1t
cannot send it's cars over the bridge;
they might fall through.
1t takes time to get rid Of bridge.
1t took many years to replace the
Anacostia-Savy Yard bridge Of the
70s with a bridge that does not
quake under the traffic Of 1924 and II
took fifty years, more or less, Of
complaint. resolution and agitation to
have the WORKOUT AQueduct bridge
replaced by one strong and safe. Agi-
tation for a new Pennsylvania Ave-
nue. bridge has been going on for sew
eral years and the time is about ripe
Tor Congress to say to the faithful,
tired old bridge that its job is done
and that it may become memory.
Evening star., 1924-05-03

Plasterers in New Jersey town
have demanded $40 q day. The hous-
ing problem will not be readily solved
unless the costs of construction can
be modified. Only an Aladdin, able to
summon a genie to rear a palace over
night, could afford to put low rentals
on a profitable basis.
Evening star., 1924-05-03

Scientists declare that the span Of
a human lifetime is growing longer.
The lease Of Muscle Shoals might be
more easily managed IL guarantee
could be given that Henry Ford will
live hundred years.
Evening star., 1924-05-03

Prohibition has succeeded in abol-
ishing the corner saloon. Its next
task is to abolish the bootlegger, who
takes advantage CT having been
driven from home to the extent of
paying neither rent nor taxes.
Evening star., 1924-05-03

japanese craftsmanship has always
had to contend with people who de-
light in imagining the things the
Toxic government might do if It
should decide to become thoroughly
reckless.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
Tough Old Sums.

Sometimes when you investigate.
Confusion grows so ample
You simply have to clean the slate
And start a new example.
Evening star., 1924-05-03

The selection Of vice presidential
candidate and the building Of plat
form lend a sufficient element of un-
certainty to prevent interest in con-
vention from tagging.
Evening star., 1924-05-03

An announcement was made by Col
Bryan as to his choice OF a Demo
cratic candidate, but the colonel has
restrained any inclination to be
boisterously insistent in the matter.
Evening star., 1924-05-03
In Resnected ohscurity.

what has become Of the old.
fashioned orator who was always talk.
ing about the American eagle?"
HE is still with u.s." answered
Senator Sorghum. But he isn't get
ting much of a hearing at present ow-
ing to the fact that the American
eagle hasn't done anything to be in
vestigated for"
Evening star., 1924-05-03

The mechanical equipments for
both national party conventions are
perfected in a manner to insure both
speed and control.
Evening star., 1924-05-03

The producing managers and the
actors are not developing much action
in their summer specially, but they
are turning out poppy dialogue.
Evening star., 1924-05-03

Republican harmony should be COM
plete at Cleveland if thorough rehear-
sal and authoritative leadership mean
anything.
Evening star., 1924-05-03

Socialists turned the fire hose on
disorderly communist campaigners in
a German village. Water power may
become a political as we'll as an indus
trial force.