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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-07
VI ALL SAD WORDS
r, VI :, TONGUE OR PEN.
LIE i,S S,A.ADDEsT ARE THESE.
DETOUR AGAIN"

d., va sllas Grump. the sap. q,
NJ smpkin Hollow. says Town
,asv ,' ,, hickory Bludgeon is kept 80
mn. n.epln' III boys frum stealin'
s psples tn, that tn Bellesport Farmers.
VIZ weeks" "''fiy every
,ooa s s sllas says he has known
\. ny ., m ,ss but he never knew Of y
70 ~ y, mem n who had the courage
spst, 70 me matinee while he,
sn'er did the housework. 'v'
purn to Page 8, Column p
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-07
FLYERS HALTED
FOR z WEEKS
Damage to Martins Plane
Win Delay Flight
LEAVE SEATTLE SUNDAY
Land at Prince Rupert Dur
ing Snow Storm

PRINCE RUPERT, u. C.. April
THAT II will take from 10 days
TO two weeks 10 repair airplane
No. 1. which was wrecked yes.
terday by Major Martin on land
Ing here, was intimated by the
major today.
The ship is being lifted out Mt
the shipyard this morning. ar
Judgements to this effect having
been made last night.
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Tom Moore Heads Pioneers

Butte-The society of Montana Pho
neers closed its convention here Aug.
30 after electing Tom Moore of Lewis
town as president and selecting Boze-
man for the 1925 reunion.
Other officers elected by the pion-
GERS were: Mrs. NJ NJ. Trask, Deer
Lodge, vice president; Frank D. sand
bar" Brown, Missoula. treasurer, and
Will Cave, Missoula, historian. Dave
Hilger, of Helena, John Horsey of
Helena, and Earl Dingwell of Drum
mond were placed on the executive
committee.
The Sons and Daughters of Pioneers,
in their closing meeting, chose Ronald
Higgins. Missoula, president; Ted Lar
able, Deer Lodge, vice president; Miss
Lottie Runsey, Deer Lodge, secretary;
Miss Jean Bishop, Dillon, treasurer.
w. A. Clark, Jr., Butte, and George
Porter, Helena, were placed on the ex-
ecutive committee.
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whether the LaFollette group Won't
favor Dawes or Bryan-make you
own guess
Having gone so far for the SAKE
OF argument, let us keep on and as
sumo that both chambers have re-
manned in deadlock from February II
to March 4 and have failed to elect
either a President or vice president
There is therefore no President t.
swear in as successor to President
Coolidge when his term expires. There
is no vice president to be sworn in
and automatically become President
] The new house is seated that day
/ Thirty senatorial seats are filed
But with no President and no vice
J president to inaugurate what happens?
Is the United States for the first
time since April 30, 1889, without
President?
Or does Secretary of State Charles
Evans Hughes automatically become
President Hughes? o
The Constitution provides that the
congress may, by law, provide for the
case of removal, death, resignation,
or inability both of the President and
vice president, declaring what officer
shall then act as President, and such
officer shall act accordingly. until the
disability be removed or a President
shall be elected"
The Presidential succession act ap-
proved January 10, 1886, provides that
the succession shall pass to the mem
bers of the cabinet in the following
order: Secretaries of State, Treas
ury and War, Attorney General, Post
master General. Secretary of the
Navy.
In the event of Secretary Hughes
becoming President, would he serve
the full term Of four years? Or has
congress the power to order a special
election? And-in case
either chamber were Republican by
a decisive majority-would congress
order such an election?
This is puzzle story, not poiti-
cal screed, but
Would it not be Interesting If
Charles e. Hughes, who resigned from
the Supreme court only to be defeated
for President In 1916, should thus
achieve his ambition?
Would not the well-known irony of
late be APPLY illustrated If Charles W.
Bryan should thus attain to the place
hree times refused his more illustri-
'us brother, William Jennings Bryan?
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SEA GULLS AID FIGHT
AGAINST HOPPERS
Huge Flocks Have Practically Cleaned
Some Sections of the Pest
Where Poison Failed

Sea gulls of a variety thought to be
the Franklin gull are solving a prob
lem in eradicating grasshoppers in
Pondera county, which poison and
other forms of representatives. long
since failed to do, according to p F.
Lavalle of the Valier-Montana Land
& Water company.
Flocks working in units of between
1000 and 5000 birds have done the
job so nicely around Waller that farm
ers in that section look forward to
hopperless season next year and there
is now a movement on foot in that
county aiming to protect the birds by
state law and to give them the credit
they deserve.
few weeks ago, the gulls came,
great clouds of them. says Mr.. La
Vale. They stayed for two or three
days and then moved on to conquer
new hopper army. Since that time not
hopper has been seen.
LaValle calls the birds "benefactors"
and feels that they should be pro-
tected. He thinks they are the same
which legend credits saving crops for
Mormon settlers in Utah. Gulls as a
result have been protected by law in
the Mormon state for many years.
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State Poultry Show

Great Falls-Plans for the state
poultry show to be held in Great Falls
during the third week of January, 1925
were discussed by members of the
Great Falls Poultry association in the
Commercial club rooms Aug. 20.
Among the questions given to COM
mittees to work out was that of place
to house the show. Several are under
consideration, but the large space re-
quired makes nearly all of these i'm
practical, said A. ]. Hendrix, secretary
OF the Great Falls association and head
Of the State Breeders.
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HONESTY BRINGS YOUNG
BOB FIRST MONEY EARNED

/ The first money Senator LaFollette
4 earned be obtained through an act OF
honesty. The senator told the story,
incidentally while visiting with some of
his friends recently in Madison
wherever go In the Northwest !
find old friends. | have hardly ever
spoken In Minnesota, Iowa or the Da-
kotas without having some one come
up to me afterward and say he or she
was from Dane county, Wisconsin.
Once, when l was governor of Wiscon-
sin, / made a speech In Peach Creek
Valley, N. d. and when it was over
an old man came up to me and said
he was Olof Osmondson, who used to
live in Primrose, and asked me If | re-
membered the time when he gave me
quarter
1.-THE story was this:
"When l was boy about five years
old I attended a school where the
Rockhill cheese factory now stands
One evening, while coming home with
my sister, JOSIE I found a pocketbook
lying in the road right in the track
made by the wheels. I took 1t home
and gave it to my mother. The next
day when we were going home from
school, as we came around clump of |
bushes at the turn we suddenly met a
man with beard who stopped us and /
asked: Did either of you children
find a pocketbook was startled and
got behind my sister, who was little
older than was, and gave her dress
pull to make her go along. | was
afraid, and felt I had done something
wrong in picking up the pocketbook.
az think this is the little boy that
found It, he said. Because | just got
1t from your mother and here is
quarter for you That quarter, /
think, is still in possession of the fam
lily. On important occasions I would
bring 1t out and show 1t to visitors.
This North Dakota farmer was the
same one that had stopped US in the
road many years before, and needless
TO say, I remembered him and the
Incident too"
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lore presumably unable to vote wis
consln, nominally one of the % Re
puDilcan states, would presumably
Vote Tor LaFollette SO, to win, Cool
idge would have to get three of the
deadlocked states and Davis would
nave to get all of the five.
incidentally, here is evidence that
the LaFollette managers have long
Deen preparing for this situation. In
June the house settled seat contest
between two claimants from New
YORK: Bloom, Democrat, and Chand-
Ter, Republican. The contest commit
tee had found for Chandler. The La
holiette group voted with the Demo-
Gratis to seat Bloom Why? Because
Chambers vote would have put New
York In the Coolidge column. Blooms
vote puts New York in the Davis col
umn
Let us assume that there is dead
lock in the house and that it continues
to March next. On that date the
term of President Coolidge expires.
And on that date his successor should
be sworn in. The house having failed
the vice president elected since Febru-
airy IL by the senate.
But suppose the senate has been I'M
able to elect vice president since
February IL. Let us take a look at
the conditions in the upper house in
respect to this election.
The senate, under the Constitution,
is restricted to voting for the two can
didates receiving the largest and next
largest vote in the electoral college.
That would eliminate either Dawes or
Bryan or Wheeler Take your choice
and work out the answer in yours own
way A quorum for the purpose of
this election consists of two-thirds
(64) of the whole number of senators
(96) and majority (49) of the whole
number is necessary for choice.
Now, IN the present senate there are
81 nominal Republicans, 43 Democrats
and two Farmer-Laborites (Shipstead !
and Johnson of Minnesota). LaFol- !
leltH flIuStll 10 OlG vi tlltSc
Brookhart of Iowa and |
Frazier and Ladd of North Dakota /
are listed as Republicans. So are sew
eral other senators who have been i
tagged by the regulars" as radical"
md ''insurgent.'
1t is therefore evident that LaFol-
elte with very little help would hold
The balance Of power in the election
If vice president by the senate
Keeping in mind that this sa puz-
lie article and not a political screed,
ct US assume that Dawes has been
eliminated by the vote of the electoral
college. How would LaFollette and
lis following maneuver to bring about
he election of Wheeler over Bryan?
Now suppose Bryan had been elm
mated by the electoral college and La
follette's job was to elect Wheeler {
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Committee For Road b.


dent Sid J. Coffee of the newly organ
lied Montana Good Roads and Automo-
bile, association has selected the execu-
tive committee of seven who are to d.
rect the activities of the organization
which is to operate with particular ref
erence to securing legislation whereby
there may be provided a state highway
fund sufficient in size to take up all
| of the federal aid money which may be
available in 1925 and 1926 The per-
sonnet of this executive committee fol-
lows: Andrew J Davis, Butte; A. J.
Breitenstein, Great Falls; w. e. Dow
lin, Billings; Z. n. Bernard, Kalispell;
William G. Ferguson, Helena; H. o.
Bell, Missoula, and George J. Wiede-
man, Lewistown.
Killed BY Falling Tree.--Mike Lynch,
~, lumber worker employed by the
A. O. M. company at the Nine Mile
camps, was killed, Aug. %, at camp
No 2, IS miles west of Missoula, by
falling tree. At the time of the ac-
cident Lynch, in company with George
Taylor, was clearing a right-of-way.
They were working with block and
tackle. The line was anchored to the
butt of dead tree, about 40 feet high
and 20 inches in diameter at the bot
tom. Lynch was driving the team and |
a line was attached to a log which was |
to be moved. Instead of the log yield
ing under the pressure the tree gave |
way and fell over on Lynch, killing him
Accidental hooting-Robert Ian
caster, ii, son of Mrs. S. E. Mcpherson
Of the Epsie country, near Broadus,
lived an hour and half with bullet
hole In his brain, the result of an acct
dent while he was doing chores on the
farm Of Charles NJ Smith of Wolf
creek, Sept. l, and in his conscious mo-
nents was able TO describe the hap
3ening The lad and his half-brother,
Rex Mcpherson, started out to milk
lows. Young Lancaster placed his %
,aliber rifle on the roof of the barn.
n removing 1t the weapon fell from his
land, struck the ground and was dis
.harged. The bullet entered the right
emple.
Take over Coal Mine.-The Mime
ota and Montana Coal company, fl
anced by Minneapolis men, has taken
yer all property of the Gilbert Craw-
ord Coal company in Musselshell
ounty, and the mine east of Roundup
as been opened with George J. Nc
'leary as superintendent. Mr. Nc
'leary has been interested in coal |
inds and coal production in this field
nce the beginning of its development
nd practically all his life has been =
Dent in the coal business. 1t is under
.ood that for the present the entire
utput of the new mine will be dis
Osed of in Minneapolis. !.
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But suppose there isn't any ava
lanche or any landslide and the up
heaval upheaves just enough TO pre-
vent a choice in the electoral college
and throw the election into congress.
Then there will be something exciting.
For it is then quite within the pos
sibiities that both the house and the
senate should be deadlocked over the
election and that-for the first time
since April so, 17S9-there should be
no President-elect or vice president
elect to take the oath of office March
4, 1925.
This is not political screed, but
puzzle story. Here are the facts. Puz-
zle the thing out in your own way.
There are 531 votes in the electoral
college and 26G are necessary for
choice Suppose-for the sake of ar
gument-that LaFollette carries at
least FIVE states with 80 electoral
votes and that the remaining 1872 votes
are so evenly divided between Cool
idge and Davis that neither has 266
Then under the Constitution the cleo
ton of President goes to the house
and the election of a vice president
goes to the senate. That is the suppo-
sitional case in a nutshell. And
politics being far from an exact sci
ence-there is nothing unreasonable
shout II
LaFoIlatles opponents in both of
The major parties concede him the
chance Of carrying Wisconsin (13),
Minnesota Q2), North Dakota (5),
South Dakota (5) and Montana az,
total, 80 electoral votes.
t,i.iG Il is generally conceded Is
states, with 142 electoral votes
Davis is generally conceded the
Solid South. of II states with l39
electoral votes. 1t is more or less as
sumed that Davis will carry West
Virginia (S) and that Bryan will carry
Nebraska (S) total, 1915.
The result in the remaining IL states I
with their 1915 electoral votes-incIud- !
ing the big ones like Illinois (29). In
diana (15), Missouri (1S), New York
(45) and Ohio (24)-is on the knees
of the gods
If LaFolette gets enough electoral
votes to block election in the electoral
college. the house will proceed to bal
loi for President February II, 1925.
The twelfth Amendments 10 The t'onsti-
tuition provides that each state shan
have one vote, Il majority Of the dele.
cation determining thai vote. a
quorum consists of a member ar nto,,
hers from wo-thirds Of the states and
+ majority Of all the states (25) is
nee sars far choice
Tie eat 4olse is so made 10
IaI a deadlock is not al all improb
ible. There are % Republican dele
cations, and 20 Democratic. Five dele
of Maryland. Montana,
: ~. New Hampshire and New /
Jersey Are evenly divided and there !
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idS uAQuSSlAohduly
done more to secure and maintain
true democracy and to make govern
ment more representative and respon-
slve to the will Of the people than any
other statesman of this generation.
Senator LaFollette possesses every
necessary qualification to make him
one of the greatest and most satisfac-
tory Presidents the people of the Unit
ed States have ever had. His sympa-
thies are similar to Lincoln's. He loves
the common people and his most earn
est desire is to be Of real service to
all classes of society. He Is the soul
Of honor. He personifies the highest
type Of American citizenship. He has
high ideals, Is interested In the prog
ress and advancement Of all mankind,
and has devoted his entire life to curb
ing selfishness, correcting the evils of
government and trying to make the
United States especially, and the
world generally, better place to
live In.
He has nationwide reputation for
absolute honesty. His record is clean,
constructive and progressive from be-
ginning to end His long experience,
sincerity of purpose, keen analytical
mind, sound judgment, strict adher-
ence to correct principles, great con-
structive genius, never-failing courage
and comprehensive knowledge of our
domestic problems and international
relations unquestionably makes him
the best qualified man for the safe,
equitable administration of the ma.
tons business.
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Seek carneoie Medal

An effort will be made to secure a
medal from the Carnegie hero fund
commission for Mack Kemph, the IL
year-old lad who lost his life in an
attempt to save from drowning his
playmate, Charles Howe. aged 13, when
both boys were drowned in a reservoir
near Fairview. Montana, few days
ago.
Attacked by cramps, the Howe boy
while swimming in the wafer, called
for help. Mack Kemph responded with
out hesitation only to go down locked
In the grip of the drowning lad.
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1924-10-10

even In this country, a century or two
ago. In 1873 student of history pre-
pared a table showing the fate which
had overtaken various prime ministers
OF Great Britain, says the London An
swers. 1t was as follows: .,
"Dy'd by the halter, three; ditto by
the ak, ten; ditto by sturdy beggars,
three; ditto untimely by private
hands, two; ditto in imprisonment.
four; ditto in exile, four; ditto peni-
tent, one; saved by sacrificing their
master, four. Sum total of prime min
listers, thirty-one,"
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Buy Montana Sheep For Dakota,

Sam Crabble, president of the North
Dakota state fair of Fargo and dairy
man with large holdings in that state
ard in Minnesota, is travelling through
Montana with the idea of buying $4,000
ewes to place on North Dakota farms
next year. He will make his purchases
through the Agricultural Credit cor
poration of Minneapolis. Mr.. Crabbe
said that it is planned to place the So
900 ewes on 1000 farms of North Da-
kota next year and Montana men con-
slider it significant that he has come
TO this state to buy them.
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over Dawes. Whak
then?
Now s u p p o s e
that Wheeler had
been eliminated by
the electoral vote
and the contest
w as b e t w e e n
Dawes and Bryan.
LaFollette and his
group apparently
could deadlock the
s e n a t e u n [ II
March 4, assuming
that aside from
his following the
Republicans a n d
Democrats s t o o d
pat. Or LaFollette
apparently could
elect either Dawes
or Bryan by COM
bining with their
respective parti-
sans. OF course.
even a partial COM
bining of Repub-
licans and Demo-
could at any
time break the
deadlock and elect
Dawes or
Bryan. A s to
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ord as congress
man, as governor
for six years, and
as United States
senator for over
10 years.
During his 40
years of faithful
public service Mr..
LaFollette has not
only obtained a
more comprehen-
sive and practical
knowledge of our
great economic
and p oliti C a |
problems, but he
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Huge Hay Crops

Hay crops around Brandenburg in
Rosebud county are exceptionally good
this year. Word from the w. w. Ter.
rett ranch tells of larger hay tom
mage cut from the first crop than is
usually cut from the three crops com
bined.
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Going Strong

s;fis oi Missouri mules had just
arrived at the corral. and one new
buck private made the common but
sad mistake of approaching too near
the business end of one f them His
comrades caught him on the rebound.
placed him on stretcher nd started
him for the hospital.
On the way the invalid regained
consciousness, gazed at the blue sky
overhead, experienced the swaying mo-
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Their Lot a Hard One

Recent events on the continent and
in America remind US that the lot OF
a politician is not always happy one
or his tenure of power very secure.
AT least, however, things are not
quite so bad nowadays as they were,
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ton as he was being carried along.
and shakily lowered his hands over
the sides, only to feel space
MY gosh !" he groaned- Il amt
even hit the ground yet r'-Amsrican
Legion Weekly
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And
IF BOTH CHAMBERS
ARE DEADLOCkED.
LHezz uxh1< :?
sy JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

ARTY managers are prom
sing political excitement
galore this fall. They
lave programmed il BIT
ter Presidential campaign,
a tremendous vote, Il Cool
idge and Dawes Ava
lanche, a Davis and Bryan
landslide and a 4aFol-
Iette and Wheeler Up
heaval.
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La TOILETTE AMERICAS
GREATEST STATESMAN
BY w. r. RAWLElGH
President The w. T. Rawleigh Com
pany, Freeport, III.

I have known Senator LaFollette
ever since I was boy on the farm.
I am thoroughly familiar with his rec
Evening star., 1924-05-23

the one upon which q verdict will ul-
people,"
cations at Washington, he said:
Says Probe Aided Coolidge.
'"rhe leaders Of the opposite party.
who have prolonged a legitimate in
vestigation for political purposes,
have done one great thing which they
little intended to do. They have set
the American people to thinking that
manhood in a President Is the su-
preme quality. They have shaken
the confidence Of the American peo-
pie In so many leaders OF both po-
litical parties that they have caused
one man to stand out conspicuously
as on a mountaintop of high ideals
and lofty purposes. They have created
situation which has literally forced
the nomination of this one man in
the Republican party"
Touching on taxation, he said:
Your President, in this great crisis
of American history, had the vision
to see that unless the American gov
got back to honest living in govern
ment, business would be ruined and
financial chaos reign. There still re-
mains very keenly before the Ameri-
can people at this hour, as the great
question to be determined, whether
the President is right in the course
which he has mapped out for his
country or whether the temporary
majority in Congress is right In the
compromise they have made for their
country. 1t looks very much now as
IL this question would have to be
submitted to the greatest jury In the
world-the whole American people"