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The Choteau Montanan (Choteau, Mont.), 28 Dec. 1923, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/sn85053031/1923-12-28/ed-1/seq-4/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
v_-altre* > mmnswtkmiyxi»* m*S*!« ra s e ÜWMMi .Çhofeaii.. M o e tan a n /i -‘•Entered as second-class matter July 11. 1918, at the post of- 5 fee’at Choteau, Montana, under the act of March 8, 1879/ Published Every Friday at Choteau, Teton Co., Montana Subscription $2.00 per year. Advertising rates oa application A town 1» invariably gauged by its ciric buildings. Its post cities, Its stores, ltr churches. its various or- asnisationa. and also—neither last »or least—by the number of newspa per* published in the tom . Time was, when Mark Twain, Horace «reeley, President fearding—all print era who’d gone the trail—that coun ties were proud to announce they bad a newspaper. Some of these counties aow have hundreds. Newspapers mean greater prosperity, still more rapid growth, and in thee nd the vis ion of a good-sized city with suffi cient occurring events of local Inter est as to warrant publishing the two present \weeklies\ as dally papers. Readers of newspapers rae of many diversified minds—minds that are placable and minds that are implaca ble. One will coincide with the pol icies promulgated by his favorite pa per, so will another until—well, some expression of opinion will run count er to his views, and then he will tear up his paper, stamp oit.or make pipe lighters out of it, and fume and »wear, rush over to the newspaper office and order his subscription «topped at once, then dash into the office of a contemparary and sub scribe for a million years, in advance Bimeby, mebbe, he’ll hear a neighbor »ay, “That was a good article in this week’s issue of my paper. You ought to read it.” Ho will. Furthermore he will borrow the paper and read ©very line in it. And he’ll feel kind of lonely without it the following week, then go meekly to the office of his favorite paper and renew his subscription. Having subscribed while in a passion, for the contemporary, he is ashamed to stop his subscrip tion so he ultimately reads them both, broadens his views, and reads both sides of the prohlems that con front a town. If he is not amendable to reason, he will stop them both and Aubacriba for the Hawaiian How- arewe forever and ay®. Newspapers are the taxpayer’s watchdogs, besides publishing eur- rent news matter® of interest To evade mention 'of any dereliction of duty on the part of any publla offlc ial—no matter of what party—would be a violation of the trust placed in it by subscribers—it would be an ex hibit of spinelessness of of showing a yellow streak. The Fourth Estate is a noble one and It Is within its province to do good everywhere. Some public officials are prone to be come lax in the performance of their sworn duties, and to call attention to that fact is not desecrating an honorable profession. A newspoper owes it to its subscribers. Attention can be called to any dereliction of duty without abuse, vilification, or invading fhe sanctity of a public of ficial’s private life. Choteau has two newspapers. If they differ in their opinions, that is their right so long as they are striv ing for the” betterment of Choteau. No newspaper can afford to stand for worng doing and live—it will perish from the earth. Advertisers should remember, .also, that there are two newspapers in Choteau. To refrain from advertising in one or the other of the papers because of personal reasons is the worst business policy imaginable. All the people here doj not subscribe to the Montanan, all the people here do not subscribe for our contemporary. If you slight either one from personal or political motives you are pursuing unbusiness like tactics—you cannot afford to do it—it is bringing factional matters on the key-board of your cash regis ter. Yes, Choteau has two newspapers. Both of (hem have 'steered clear of fhe reefs and shallow waters of dis tress, and both will grow and pros- P«r rs Choteana grow® and pro«peri. Wo should he proud o f ' hiving ‘ two newopaper®. You would ®o£ wish to have tbo \town eut-up” place'«.pla card under the announr«einent of the enormous . increase I»..; the /assessed valuation bearing this legend: “Cho- teau' has two undertaking establish ments, but no newspaper.” Of ®our?e EOl. Bear in mind that both'newspapers send bags and bags of their'output to the post office to subscribers. These roaeh the folks who. are com-, fag. Any business man' who Is keen and alert will realise the vast im portance of keeping hia soma ■ before them all. * All of which will 1>® \for tho good of Choteau. ’ I P m L E I T E l * * FARMERS TO BE LOANED $1000 WITH WHICH TO PURCHASE LIVE STOCK IS NEW BILL1 Washington, Dec. 27.—Farmers of Montana and other- wheat states who desire to place live stock on their ranches but are financially unable to do so will be loaned ?1,000 with which to buy stock, under the provisions of a bill ifitroduced in the house of rep resentatives by Congressman Burt- ness of North Dakota. The bill' pro vides that this loan is to be- made only to actual farmers, engaged in no other line of endeavor. A first-mort gage on the sfock and subsequent increase protects the government, and the interest on the money will be at the rate of six per cent. The bill was drawn up by: a com mittee of congressmen, Burtriess ' of North Dakota, Leavitt of Montana, Anderson of Minnesota and William son of South Dakota/ named -at a conference of senators and repre sentatives of northwestern states -fa- vorign such a plan, advanced.,-by Dean Cohlter of the North Dakota agricultural college. This plan ip of fered as a substitute for any 'other emergency relief measure now pend ing, and Is exclusively for the benefit of men not otherwise financially able to Initiate action along this line- The bill provides for a fund of W-=v © w AM If you have a dollar to spend or a thousand—the one thing you demand (and rightfully so) is real value for your money. You want to invest your money in what you buy rather than spend it. And when you do invest it in anything that is of benefit not only to you * —but also to your whole family and your home life— your investment yields by far the greatest return. And how could you better invest $2.00 in yourself, your family and your home than in the purchase of the best reading? How could you better invest $2.00 of the family budget than buying food for thought, entertainment and recreation for ovry one in the home? A subscription to this paper will give you all of these things and more. $50,000,000,of- which -.not. to exceed $20,000,000’ I»/ 16 be available thla- fiscal -/ear. - A n ’equal emui and-'any of -this year's appropriation not-used would be.available.for the year,;end ing June SO,* 1925.. ’The remaining $10,000,00 ©would he available for/the following year. The business'man agement of. thé plan wo’uld he under- a federal agricultural diversification commission, composed of the eecre-' taries of agriculture, commerce and the treasury. The Teton County High School basket hall team lost a game with Havre on the local floor last Satur day. The score being I t to 17. The Teton hoys put up a hard game ‘but’ were unable to overcome the superior team'work of the visitors. City WftifeKst a Ìtam -W a jte'-S iéirty Agafeut S&atm&ra * ''.Ukefted *by Bflfl&ery & Sosfo&s Sflaa- ; . tie« WWfcsiit Pheéar aLB.«âcm J ÿ e taa. , / PhU I. Cole, local attorney, was In Helena this week on business. LEAyE THEIR ANCIENT HOMES ' ' AeexNral Mansion® «4 - Fran®» Are ..Passing Out of the Pesecoslen •f Pnaud Families. The old families of France are- feeling the pinch of adversity and, ‘as in London, Devonshire' house and other ancestral home® are being turned to baser uses, so in Paris the famous mansions of the country’s great families afe finding new own er». The residence of the princess of Wagram is now the Spanish em bassy, the wonderful hotel in which Princess Jacques de Broglie once gave her “ball of precious stones” Is now the United States embassy; the new Czechoslovakian representative lives in the mansion of the ancient de Llgne family, while the residence of the late due de Pomar, which was In spired by Mary Stuart’s Edinburgh home, Holyrood manor, now shelter* the Bulgarian ambassador! The Halliard mansion, Place Malesherhes, a copy of one of the wings of the castle of Blois, is to become a branch office of the’Bank of France, while the an cestral home of the Bourg de.Bozas, In the Rue Pierre ler de Seftfie, i* now to be hired for dances or en tertainments. Other ancestral homes, a Figaro writer points out, have been taken by antiqunries, notably the Sagan mansion and the Moray man sion— And the list could be contin ued.—From the Continental Edition of the London Mall. NOVELTY WOULD WEAR OFF Boss Had Right Idoa a® to How to Do Away With Excitement In Office. He had been getting to work late with such regolaritythat -the bo**’ Ira . ‘was aroused and so he resolved to j begin arriving at the office more punc tually. Anyhow, all the standard all-, bla, such as the alarm clock falling to ring, the crowded street cars passing him up at bla corner, were about worn out In his case. And so one morning all week he drift ed yith attempted nonchalance into the office among the early arrival*. The ethers of the office stag at ease set up a clamor. \What’s the matte», couldn't you sleep last' nightT” some asked. \Ho probably wen out ell night end hasn't gem* home yet,\ ether* re marked. \The clock at hi* house nrast have been an hour fast this moraine,\ said another ci the gang. Then the target of all these re marks became indignant. Going te the boss’ desk, he made his complaint. \If it is going te cause so darn much excitement for me te get down on time, I guess I had better be late ev ery day,” he said. \Nope said the bee*, without look ing up from hi* work. \Get down on time every morning and yeu want cause any excitement\ •A v*»l '«tomes* tm everybody's/;prospeetty to ' ^sometSring or efcber* sailed kGa&rfo+rve, cays ^ CuBWjftfeo# < Xduesttoa of the Amort**a Bankers Asaerteittea;. eddteg: a* matter te make sfmplo and isferectJag.bot at® bn fortes en j® evetw woman and child fei the eaantey Bioko* the effoct’lmctitt while,\ atttee oentinabo: r '■ ( ‘ /'* \ ’ ~ - •/■ Money 'on deposit m a lt'alw a y s be ready ie# d e l a t e « w b ek'tbsy dealrfr J t Saafca maat rdee be ready to lean-zaeney, when needed,te.tfcaCr fytitamcitC, nr busiaoM wttald he tam p ered. In ottawword*,: p rapeettgr depend® Y \ r fT • a the ability e t the -banks to moot these, d e p iu tite'eetoe \tank peservoe.*' The problem of-handling reserves ta s heen iifle u lt , Federal Keeorre System has,, m et the' preblocs mare ¿ q 4 ether method ever trfod la this eountsy. The 9 rent Solution Our beaks are managed by officers and' diroetera, 'eieetod by their bwu steckheldere. Thoy are interested in helping the town to grow and prosper. But just as a lesel telephone-ststlei. is valuable to ’ the interchange o thought became it belongs te a system whose wire* reach to all parts of the' nation, se the local bank 19 valuable te the .interchange .of busi-‘ ness because of its eoaneatleos with other banks in tho United States, finding its strength and Us usefulness in being part' of a system. For many years a plan wa» sought whereby our thousands of separate and independent banks could get to gether- and cooperate for the improve ment of eur banking methods, and for mutual .protection in emergencies, both.for themselves and customers. We had periodical money panics, dan gerously disturbing to business, and chargeable, in large part, to defects In our banking and currency system. There was no central bank from which the individual banks could get assistance in,time of trouble. Panic conditions o&uaed weak banks to fail, and even strong and sound institutions to be imperilled. Bankers, business men, and leaders hi Congress for years made a careful study of banking and finally Congress passed a law providing for the establishment, of twelve great Federal Reserve Banks, each designed to serve as a sort of central bank for such banks in its allotted territory as might become members of the Federal Reserve System. *' It retained the American plan of independent banks doing business un der the management of their own di rectors and officers. About 10,000 banks have become members of the Federal Reserve System. .The mem ber banks in eaoh district own the entire stock of the Federal Reserve bank tkore, and elect two-thirds of the directors. The other directors are appointed by the - .Feder.aI,..Reserye Board at Washington, tho ' Govern mental body having supervision over the Reserve banks, though it does not operate them. Its members are appelated by tke President of tho United States. The Federal Reserve banks hold member banks* reserves. Formerly ba*k «anted 'hi it* mnt tke eaoh received by law es UgÂS reserve so that it weald be ready W depositor® eu demand.- Tho :j supply of tke coon try wta Ohio ersd » e i g tkensands ed hadêpende Saaks.* V/he«t Fire Rage This situation may be likened ifr the 4>;t-tli*o water supply in a. tow»- H&ch house tad ~to depend' oa it®' in dividual wall, tank, or oistern. Fti- ture such a town attacked-by fire. V the water was low in one well, fret^ drought, or excessive nae, wattgr would have te be borrowed from à neighboring well. Suppose the watar in that well also was at a low level. Thus the safety of all was sacrificed because no RÉSERVB water supply was at hand. The fire would become- a conflagration. Under tho Federal Reserve System, we have a series of modern reservoir^ located in various parts of the coun try, each serving the needs of tkb- banks In lt3 own district. In each <^F these reservoirs credit is stored up be supplied to the various banks, the need arises. Bach reservoir in turn connected with all the other so that when the supply In one be comes low, the others may be porarily drawn upon. By gather the gold réserves of the meml banks into the twelve Federal serve banks, a result has been oe tained like that yielded by the con- struction of a great city water supply. Each member bank formerly had tb depend almost entirely upon its ow& resources in making loans to its cus tomers. When it had loaned all of it* own money, It could do no more, eveh though the merchant, manufacturer, or farmer customer had great nee$ of more credit, and was seoklng ft for highly important and necessary purposes. Hence- arose what wap called a “tight money\ situation. Now the member bank can, and frequently does take the notes of Its cu?,tpmqr* to the Federal Reserve batik, ting borrows there In- much the same way as the -customer borrows from thé member bank. This reserve-storing and loaning work of the Reserve System is-only part of the wonderful protection an it service it is rendering the nation. x x 5 o o o o o o o o o o o o o o < S o o o o o T a M e n t a i Fan tavos Ce&L Lecta Island commuter*, who art among tho®* hardest kit by the ceal shortage, have adopted many expedi ents te eta out their supplies and te make ten «taest el v t a t fuel they ta^a. Ono cf Stem tested an Idea with *e abash mweeas that many ether user* ed hot-air fonuswo are fsH e rhs hi* ot *mpin' Ho «tay-td the damper ad bis intake pdpo, fdmtttsg effi all ahr ires* the eatrtiot and pieced a mooli e&eo- tri« fan In the aoifi air <»st beeweew the ewtar wall a£ M m ertfor and the fanoea The tan fete*® tae bet rte ktte hi* toms heated te a sraSh hft^er tens- jsn tw n O m M draws from eetdeemk He my* tho sent ■€ h st as aceesst eeespured with the tatpcevocMat in the h hcwsoi—New York ftete Feeing the My employer, who most object® te smoktag, eeme® te fhe office every morning aata invariably leave* at noon for the balance e t the day. Immediately upon his departure I draw my pipe from my pocket and enjoy it to tbo fullest extent. One afternoon he gsve us a sur prise by walking in. I hastily put my pipe is my pocket, not knowing what else te de with 1L While bend ing ever my books he kept remark- lag about smelling something bn rain g. Finally the stenographer procured a glass of water, and as. ®be dashed.lt ea my burning coat I will eoafeoe. It was the meet Suits made to measure here at home, are prepared to take your measure; to offer Q you a selection from as fine a line of woolens ^ as can be found anywhere, and to make up O your suit right here'at home, where you can be fitted as often as may be necessary. O V o Fremdhi Dry €I@ammg and __ * \Je Pressing a Specialty' ' Swarns Tailor §>]h@p Tailors for men and women. >OCiC<>OCKCXX><X)COOOOOOOOOOOOG>S 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o o o o o o o o o o o o o CHOTEAU LODGE NO. 11 I. O. O. F. Meets every Tuesday evening at t o'clock at their hall la the Connor Building. Visiting brothers always welcome. WM. ODFNWALD, N O. JOHN SPSJERS, Scey. O C O O O O O O O Q O o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o O Q O CHEVALIER LODGE NO. 12 Q O K. OF P, O O Meets every Thursday evening O O at tho K. of P. Hall. . 6 O Visiting brothers cordially In- Q O vited to meet with us. 6 O FRANK CURTIS, C. C. O O E. A. CLELAND, K. R. & S. Q o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o S o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o ° QUIESN REBEKAH LODGE , O KO. t t , L o. a f . Meets cm the. first and third O yv-U&r jMchta ei * * * * * * * * t a > v ° ââs✠*sa 9 s ? • ® L ~ % 3 s S y ZSossfrx. Be sy, & 9 6 6 9 1 0 0 $ 0 6 0 9 & 9 9 © O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O 0 H. D. Robison, Pres. Jas. T. Robison, Secy. TETON COUNTY AB STRACT CO. •'Prompt attention given aff branches of abstract work. O o 0[ o o O Q o. o ' o o O O O O O O O O O O O 0 . 0 0 0 9 I
