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The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24
RAILROADS VS.. GREAT LAKES
From the Silver State Post

The question of lower freight rates on grain and
grain products from Minneapolis, st. Paul and Du-
luth to the east is under consideration before the
Interstate Commerce commission at Washington.
The Minneapolis and st. Louis railroad and the
Minneapolis, st. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie rail
road propose to reduce their freight rates on grain
to eastern points by six cents per 100 pounds
The roads do not claim to be philanthropic, and
they state that their object is to regain Some Of
the traffic which they have lost to the water
routes from Duluth to Buffalo.
People Of the northwest ought to sit up and take
notice of this proceeding because it is an admis
sion by railroad interests that they are trying K
make railroad rates low enough so that the Grea-
Lakes may be beaten in the game of competition
Meanwhile Washington continues to get favor
able engineering reports on the deep waterway
project through the st. Lawrence to the Atlanti
ocean. Powerful financial and railroad Interest,"
of the country have successfully fought Grea
Lakes navigation for half a century.
At last two railroads are out in the open! IN
dOubtedly other railroad interests have been work
ing under cover against the Great Lakes for man,
years.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24
K AS PROGRAM
week OF DEC. 26

A special Christmas service Of car
OILS, ancient and modern, will be broad
cast by KOA, Denver station of the
General Electric company, Sunday
evening, December &c, at 1880 O'Clock
from st. Johns Episcopal cathedral,
Denver.
Other features of KOA'S program
for next week are:
Music descriptive of the hills, the
city, and the sea, will be presented
over KOA, Monday night, by Colorado
WOman's college. Part one will fea-
ture Gypsy folksongs around a camp
fire in the mountains; part two will
take listeners on a sleigh ride through
Denver, with s~top-Overs at e Of
merriment; part three introduces roll
licking sea ballads. The Glee club,
violin, piano, and trombone soloists,
as well as KOA orchestra are included
in this novel broadcast.
KOA'S microphone will eavesdrop
on every gay party in town New
Years eve, so that broadcast listeners
will be whirled merrily from dance
floor to the Union station, from CON
fetti-strewn streets to college frolics.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24
t. H. Sears. Business Manager

to talk about how the American people are being
taxed and plundered by the protective tariff.
Such assaults are not nearly so numerous as they
were a few years ago, but will happen now and
then.
The statistics contained in the presidents re-
marks on the tariff are clear and convincing and
show how wide these free trade utterances are off
the mark. some free traders have been fearful
that our present tariff rates would destroy our
world trade. Yet, as the president points out, it
is estimated that our customs receipts for the
fiscal year viii exceed $685. 900, 900, the largest in
the history of the country. Our imports for the
last fiscal year amounted to $4,466,O 900, 900, an
increase of more than 20 per cent since the present
tariff law went into effect. This pretty effectu-
ally disposes of the argument that our tariff is
strangling foreign trade.
But this is only a part of the story. About 65
per cent of these imports, or nearly three billion
dollars worth came in free of duty, and we are i'm
porting more goods duty free than any other coun-
try in the world excepting Great Britain. So
much for the tariff barrier which the free traders
say we have built against other nations.
We are, as the president points out, levying du-
ties on about $780, OO,O 900 worth of imports, but
of these nearly half, or $500, 600, 900 worth, are
subject to duties for the protection of agriculture
and originate in countries outside of Europe. It
is to be seen therefore that nearly half of our i'm
ports, which are protected, are imports which
come into competition with what our farmers
raise at home. So much for the free trade state
ment that the tariff is not aiding the farmer.
And again, another $500, 900, 900 worth of i'm
ports are costly imported rugs and other l~uxuries,
such as furs and diamonds Certainly the tariff
on these articles does not overburden the farmer
and the labOring man. This leaves about $780,
10000 worth of goods which pays a duty coming
in, only II per cent of our total imports. And as
the president points out it is the duty on this IL
per cent of manufactured goods which marks the
difference between our present prosperity and a
possible depression which would follow free trade
And with a recession of prosperity would come
hard times which would not only close our own
factories but injure the market of the European
importers, concerning whom our free traders anC
other internatiOnalists seem so anxious and so
%licitous.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24

Dillon-Steers fed by Jack Bar
rett top market at SITS.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24
WHAT THE TARIFF Is DOING

Seldom has a better and more terse exposition
OF the workings of our present tariff been given
than that contained in the recent general message
of the president at the opening of congress. The
American people will greet with general approval
the suggestion that there be no changes at this
time in our protective tariff laws, looking toward
a general reduction on duties.
Just how any change could be made that would
help the American people is difficult to see. We
have now reached the high tide Of our general
prosperity. The agricultural situation is improv.
ing, and certainly could not be improved to any
greater degree by lowering the tariff. In fact
many wise farm leaders believe that what the
farmer needs is not any general reduction in the
tariff but an increase in the rates on certain farm
products.
Occasionally 0 N theoretical free trader rises
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24

portant legislation left over from the
matter of farm relief, the defining of
a last session. In addition, there is
the naval policy, the inland waterway
matter, and the disposition Of the
treasury surplus.
All of these subjects are worthy Of
the hours and the millions of words
which may be used in discussing
them, pro and con. Because of the
Importance of these topics and the
necessity Of reaching definite conclu-
sions as to what the final congress
siOnal action shall be, one cannot es-
cape a feeling of regret at the intro
duction of purely campaign activities
because they will encrOach upon the
time which belongs to topics more i'm
mediately pressing. The saving
clause is that congress somehow
seems able to perform miracles.
While we are continually being told
that it is going to the bow vows, it
generally concludes its session with a
pretty creditable record Of American
achievements.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24
PRETTY! TURN
GRAY HAIR DARK
Try erandm0ther's Old Favorlte
Recipe Of Sage Tea
and Sulphur

Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea and Sulphur, properly COM
pounded, brings back the natural oolor
and lustre to the HAIR when faded,
streaked OF gray. Years ago the only
way to get this mixture was to make
Il at home, which IS mussy and trouble
some. Nowadays, by asking at any
drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sui
phur Compound" you viii get a large
bottle Of this famous old recipe, me
proved BY the addition Of other in-
gradients, az a small cost.
Don't stay grays Try SD No one
can possibly tell that you darkened
your hair, as It does It SO naturally and
evenly. You dampen a sponge or soft
brush with il and draw this through
your hair, taking che small strand at q
time; BY mograag the gray hair disap-
eeara and after another application cE
ewo. your hair beeomes beaA
dark glossy and aya
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24

Now that Queen Marie has come and gone, a lot of
dress suits will go back into the cedar chests.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24
reasonably awakened to the impor-
tance of our national elections.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Congress,
this session, has so many serious prob
lens before it, which will engage the
attention of the people at first hand,
that there is little need for window
dressing to attract the public. Even
before the mills begin to grind, the
senate and house hoppers were al
ready filled to overlooking with i'm
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24
Decline to Mir

young blood and old brains" are
said to be a good combination. The
trouble is to get either one Of them
to find any use for the other.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24

Some European newspapers declare that Americans act
as though they fought the war alone. No-but it begins
to look as if we might have to pay for it that way.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24

The demand for medicinal whiskey in the United States
is said to be 100000 gallons a year. Must be a regular
epidemic of snake bites.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24

A talesman was excused from jury duty in San Antonio,
Texas, when he said he was a b~ootlegger. The rich al
ways find a way-Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1926-12-24

Al Smiths feat of carrying New York state is one
thing; carrying the rest of the country is AZ other things
Detroit Free Press.
Evening star., 1926-12-10

were wounded by bullets, shells ana
other weapons died. Other ngures
were presented to show that men
wounded by gas had IL times as many
chances to recover as those WOUNDED
by other weapons. Deaths from gas
on the field were negligibly small, ne
said, aggregating only zoo.
A final point on which Mr. PARSONS
corrects the Secretary Of state con-
cerned Frances ratification OF article
5 of the disarmament conference. BY
the files Of the State Department, the
War Department and by special ad-
vices from Paris, Mr.. Parsons sought
to show that the French Parliament
has not yet ratified that section OF the
treaty dealing with toxic gases: =.
In conclusion, Mr.. Parsons declared
the Geneva protocol to be perpetua-
ton of "a blunder" made here In 1922
and another step toward calamity: 1t
would force us to use" the let
ter said, bullets, shells and destruc-
tive methods, when with harmless
gases the situation might he COM
pletely controlled without death or
suffering. 1t could not be made ef-
fective, as has been admitted by COM
mittees Of the League of Nations.
The letter to the membership OF the
American Chemical Society urged
each member to write or wire to his
Senators asking them to vote against
ratification Of the protocol.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
WITHDRAWS SUPPORT.
Vincent B. Costello Post Spurns
Auxiliary.

Vincent B. Costello Post, Amer
fcan Legion, at a meeting last night
withdrew recognition from its auxil-
iary. following a report by Chair
man d. J. Donovan of a special
committee, who stated that investi-
CATION assured him of the intent OF
the womans branch not to cooper
ate with the local post.
Plans for the oyster roast and
outing of the post Sunday at Buena
Vista Park, at the foot of Portland
street southeast, were perfected.
The roast will start at l o'clock in
the afternoon. The menu Will IN
clude oysters, near beer and Incl
dentals, as we'll as a varied pro-
gram of entertainment under direc-
ton of Kin Carroll, with Tom
Murray and Spotty Harvey as head
liners.
An attempt to have Will Rogers
and John Mccormack attend the
outing is to be made. Forty-two
members were admitted at the meet
ing.
Evening star., 1926-12-10
CHEMICAL SOCIETY
/ ATTACKS KELLOGG
Group Says Secretary Gave
incorrect Statements on
l., Use of War Gas.

Sharply criticizing the Department
OF State for giving out incorrect"
statements, the American Chemical
society has made public letters ad-
dressed to Secretary Kellogg and to
It's membership protesting against Mr..
keliogg's position in behalf of the
Geneva protocol for elimination of
toxic gases in warfare. The protocol
will come up in the Senate during the
present session for ratification.
Although disclaiming any inten.
tional discourtesy. the letter to Secre-
tary Kellogg, which was signed by
Charles l.. Parsons, secretary of the
American Chemical Society, stated
that he had been ''ill advised" and
'misinformed" by his subordinates 1t
then sets down a list Of these "incor-
rect" statements, together with statis-
tical information intended to disprove
them.
Mr.. Parsons told Secretary kellogg
that his statement that the United
States adhered to the declaration Of
the Hague Peace Conference covering
the diffusion Of asphyxiating gases
was not substantiated. He quoted
former Secretary John Hay and Ad-
miral Mahan as declaring the Ameri.
can delegates had refused to sign that
section because there were then avail.
able no facts to prove that the use o.
gas would be either more or less mer-
cileSS than bullets.
Article 5 Held Menace.
Adoption of article s at the Wash
1ngton disarmament conference was
cited as "a menace to the safety of
our republic" Mr.. Parsons said it
would Insure" needless suffering and
death in any future war if adhered to.
Furthermore, Mr.. Parsons corrected
Secretary Kelloggs statement that it
was adopted by the Senate without
opposition. Senator Wadsworth
chairman of the military affairs com.
mittee, vigorously opposed it, he
added.
AS to Secretary Kelloggs reference
to chemical warfare as humane, "in
the same category with dumdum bull
let's" MIR. Parsons submitted figures
from the report Of the Surgeon Gen
eral of the Army showing that, where
only per cent of the American sol
diers who were gassed during the
World War failed to recover, more
than per cent of the soldiers who
Evening star., 1926-12-10
"Asinine" Order Formed.

NEW YORK, December 10 P).-
The Ancient and Asinine Order of Phi
Rho Omega has been organized at
New York University. Membership
qualifications are rigid; only students
making Els and F's in several subjects
are eligible
The Washington times., 1926-03-29
Z NEAR DEATH
VCOL | SI0As

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through the air. sergt.
sweeney. IN charge Of the company,
was slightly out and bruised Both
pieces Of apparatus we're heavily
damaged.
When his automobile c0llided with
I washington Railway and Electric
Company street car at the south
end 81 the Anacosita bridge, last
night. Albert 8. DonneIIy 81 Of
1928 ~ st. =. was severely
cut by flying glass He was re-.
moved to Ballinger Hospital and
then to Providence Hospital, where
he ii said To be In serious
condition from loss Of blood
Miss Esther SI0the, rs, and Miss
Thelnt Smith. 1g, were thrown to-
the street when the automobile In
which they were riding colIided with
another car at Fourth and B Streets
Southeast They were not seriously
hurt.
Daniel n. ana Bondbee Cameron.
twin brothers, 81, Of 1900 Thlr-
teenth st. N. e.. were injured when
their motorcycles collided with an.
other in nearby Maryland.
Mrs. Vera f. Snyder. 70. Of Baltf-
more, tainted yesterday when the
automobile operated by her hlls-
band, Ernest Snyder. coilided with
a street car at Fourteenth and
Streets Northwest. She was treat
ed al Emergency Hospital and soon
revived.
Others injured were Daniel ~.
Weaver 25 Fourteenth st. ~. p.
under aFrear on Z charge Of drfv-
ing while intoxicated: Joseph Green
field. coIored. z. OF 1871 G st. s. g.;
William Hill. coIored. AZ. OF 1909 a
st. N. W., struck by q hit-and run
driver: Frank e. Swing, rs, Of 403
III st. II. W.. who received broken
leg when he fell from his bicycle
on the speedway yesterday after
Policeman r.. Kessiing, Of tho
Fourth precinct, shouted to the Lac
telling him that he was about TO
w. af,.t,nk nv an automobile.
The Washington times., 1926-03-29
WILL
ROLL EGGS

The annual White House recep.
ton for children OF the city OF
Washington on the south grounds
OF the White House will be held on
Easter Monday this year as usual.
according to an official announce.
ment today.
President Coolidge issued an Of
ficial order today opening the
south grounds OF the White House
lot on Monday. Apil 5, for the an.
nual egg-rOlling.
Children 10 years or age and
under will be admitted to the
grounds from Q 4. m. to $3.50 p. m.
Small children may be accom-
panied By one adult guardian.
Adults, other than those acting as
guardians, win not he admitted be-
tween those hours.
A concert will be given in the
grounds by the United States
Marine Band, from $50 to o'clock,
to which the general public will be
admitted. The grounds win be
closed Immediately after the con-
cert
The Washington times., 1926-03-29
TRIAL Of
WAN SOUGHT

District Attorney Peyton Gordon
some day this week will ask JUS
tice Stafford, of Criminal Court No.
2. to set a date for the third trial
of Ziang Sun Wan. the young
Chinese student charged with muir
der in the first degree of Ben Sen
Wu. a member of the Chinese Edu-
cational Mission in January, 1919.
Wan was convicted at the first
trial and the date of his execution
had been set. On appeal to the
United States Supreme Court he
was granted another trial, the SUI
preme tribunal throwing out the
alleged confession Wan Is supposed
to have made to the police.
At the second trial, which took
Mace about a month ago, the jury
disagreed. District Attorney Cor
don can see no legal obstacle to
irving the case again.
The fact that Chief Justice Nc
Gov signed the bill of exceptions
filed in the first trial, according to
Major GordonA will not debar him
from trying the case should he be
agreed upon by counsel for the ac-
cused and the Government.
The new jury which is to try
Wan will be impaneled by Justice
Bailey. of Criminal Court No. |.
Tuesday. April 6. and it will take
at least two days TO complete it.
The Washington times., 1926-03-29
T 4 R NJ RELIEF.
Gets STUDY

Following the warning Of Sem
ator Borah CR.), of Idaho. that
failure to enact farm bills at this
session might result disastrously
to the Republican party in the
fall elections. committees at both
sides OF the Capitol considered
agrarian relief measures today.
Chester G.. Davis. representing
the corn belt farmers of the Mid
die West. presented to the Senate
Agriculture Committee the surplus
marketing bill that has been under
consideration for weeks In the
House Agriculture Committee. The
House body planned to wind up
its sessions today.
The bill the corn belt is backing
has been revised considerably since
first laid before Congress. 1t would
give the farmers control of market
ing their products. eliminate all
undue and excessive" fluctuations
by stabilizing prices, and protect
domestic markets against world
prices by providing for control and
distribution of surpluSes.
The Washington times., 1926-03-29
MRS. NORA GREEN
URGES PEACE N
PETERS row

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suit against her husband, demand
Ing the 81 300, 900 fortune in stocks.
bonds and Jewels.
Ar1nistead, the husband, through
his lawyers. frankly admits that
he has the fortune, that he re-
moved it from his wife's private
safety vault at the American Sc
CURLY and Trust Company, and
that he was justified in so doing.
Just what justified Armistead
Peter in removing his wife's for
tune from her private vault IL O.
matter that has been whispered
almost exclusively within the inner
circles OF the Peter family. Whether
this old American family, direct
descendants Of Mrs. George wash.
ington, will forget its traditional
discretion in the fortune hunt and
bare it's family skeletons to public
gaze must be decided between now
and April 8.
BY April 9 the District Supreme
Court has ordered Armistead Peter
to answer his wife's suit. One side
or the other, Armistead or Anna,
must back down before that date
and compromise, or the very secret
reasons that moved Armistead to
take over his wife's fortune VIII
become the talk Of the town.
1t In this that the Rev. Freeland
Peter is seeking to avert. From
those in touch with his point of
view It is stated that he counsels
a private--and dignified-settlement
at any cost.
1t is no time, after six genera
tions of honorable family history
in America, to start now to wash
family linen in the courts, accord
ing to the brother-spokesman. What
ever the differences between Armi-
stead and Anna, or the money in
volved, they are not Of sufficient
Importance to make the name Of
Peter gossip signal for all of
American society.
Whether the Rev. Mr.. Peter win
go to Dobbs' Ferry. n. Y, in an
endeavor to placate his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Anna w. Peter, could not be
learned. Her attorneys here today
refused to say whether they would
such advances. It is
recalled, however, that her attor-
neys, before the suit, was filed. re-
fused several tentative offers OF
Armistead Peter to compromise.
Attorneys Move Slowly
Meanwhile the attorneys for Armi-
stead Peter are moving slowly, rec
ognizing that the influence of some
of the most socially powerful per-
sonages in the country are at work
to effect a compromise and keep
the suit from coming to an. issue
in open court. Nor Is the influence
merely social. for the Peter family,
in its many ramifications and prom
inent connections. is widely known
to be plentifully supplied with
wealth.
The 81. 300, 900 now in dispute is
said actually to represent a very,
small portion OF the Armistead Peter
holdings. In fact, 1T is said to rep
resent only part of Mrs. Anna w.
Peters fortune, and not to include
any of the large fortune known to
be owned outright by her husband.
The Washington times., 1926-03-29
CAR line HEADS
OPPOSE RULE

Protests of the Capital Traction
and the w. r. & e. companies
against giving Traffic Director
Eldridge control over street-car OPP
GRAFTON at street intersections are
to be placed before the Senate Dis
trict Committee today.
George e. Hamilton, chairman of
the board OF the Capital Traction
Company, ana w. F. Ham. presi-
dent of the Washington Railway
and Electric Company, are slated to
appear before the Senate committee
with a request that the section of
the traffic bill relating to street
cars be stricken from the measure.
The new bill gives the Traffic
Bureau authority to regulate the
speed of trolley cars and to control
them with the same Jurisdiction
that is exercised over motor traffic.
The Washington times., 1926-03-29
WHEELER DEFENSE WILL
OBSERVE ITS VICTORY

In celebration of what is termed
a civic victory" the Wheeler de-
tense committee announced today
that a dinner would be held Thurs
day night at o'clock in the City
Club with Senators Burton K.
Wheeler and Thomas j. Walsh as
the guests of honor.
According to Senator Walsh,
chief defense counsel for Senator
Wheeler, the failure Of the prose
cution to establish its charges
against his client halted the dawn
ing of 1.-The perfect day OF rubber
stamp craftsmanship" Norman
Hapgood will preside at the dinner.
The Washington times., 1926-03-29
FRED KELERMAN
SAL WALTON ARMY PLANS
APPEAL FOR soc, 900

The advisory board Of the saliva
ton Army meets today in the
Evangeline residence, 1880 Il St.
". W., to make plans for the
army's annual appeal which opens
next Monday, April 5, continuing
for two weeks. Sixty thousand
dollars Ii sought BY the army.
Rudolph Jose, chairman of the
board, will outline to the members
the army's needs during the next
The Washington times., 1926-03-29
JOHN KoERBER
HERBERT KoERBER
TWO IN OVERDUE PLANE
BACK SAFELY IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO, March 29.--Jack Rose,
airpIanes pilot, and his passenger,
L. J. Denhardt, both Of Chicago,
for whom q search was instituted
early today in the belief they had
met with serious accident In an
attempt to ny to Aurora yesterday,
arrived in Chicago today In their
own plane.
They were blown off their course
in the binding snowstor1n and were
forced to descend IN the Michigan
sand dunes.
The Washington times., 1926-03-29
KITTY KROUsE
OPENING or PASSOVER
TO BE MARKED BY sEDER

A Seder, or Jewish home festival.
to commemorate the liberation Of
the Jews from the Egyptians, will
be held tonight and tomorrow night
at the Jewish Community Center.
Sixteenth and @ Streets Northwest.
1t marks the beginning Of the
Passover and will be under the
auspices Of all branches Of local
Jewry. Rabbits Abrarl1 Simon, Louis
F.. Schwefel. and j. I. Loeb will
take part IN the exercises