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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1923
Page
4
The piece notes strong advocacy for daylight saving citing extended time for recreation gardens and reduced gas and coal use. It also highlights farmer concerns about disruptions to daily work, school start times, market deliveries, and labor schedules, contrasting eastern urban support with western rural hesitation.
The Henry P. Davison scholarship fund will send three Oxford and three Cambridge students annually to study in American universities. All expenses are paid and tuition waived. The aim is to foster goodwill between the United States and Great Britain by exposing British students to American culture and institutions. Cambridge and Oxford educators praised the plan as highly educational and valuable.
The article details a national clash over daylight saving time with New York adopting summer hours, Pennsylvania cities following, and debates intensifying in Connecticut. Railroads and major cities align with daylight saving, while farmers oppose. The Daylight Saving association pushes for federal uniformity from the eastern time zone outward during May to September.
A special Missoulian edition marks fifty years of publication, tracing the paper’s long service since territorial days. It praises Martin Hutchens for elevating the paper, notes pioneers who built Western Montana, and blends editorial asides on politics, Europe, Ruth, and public affairs of the era.
A wry note contrasts classical retributive justice with Europe’s slow pace in embracing modern policy. The speaker jests that old French legal ideas linger, while Europe struggles to adopt practical reforms and blunt, straightforward measures.
The editorial argues the foreign miners liquor ban near U S ports is unjust and dangerous to international relations. It decries the ruling as trampling foreign rights, affecting Italian crews and ships, and questions penalties on lime juice aboard ships. Attorney General Daugherty’s stance is noted as being partly upheld and partly rejected.
Attorney General Daugherty announced that the government will begin to vigorously enforce the liquor prohibition within the three mile limit in 30 days. He said the Supreme Court mandate would take effect then and that every agency at his command would be used to enforce the law without favor or discrimination.
Washington May 1 The supreme court ruling tightens the liquor issue around U S waters prompting White House talks with President Harding and cabinet. Officials weigh reopening liquor service on ships outside the three mile limit while foreign vessels face new restrictions. Treasury and Shipping Board prepare statements outlining policy and interpretation of the Volstead act.
Helena May 1 Stock certificates for taxation do not follow the owner's domicile as W B Rodgers argued in the Montana Supreme Court in opposition to a writ to compel Silver Bow County to assess 9900 shares in Inspiration Consolidated Copper Mining and United Verde Extension owned by W D Thornton Butte The case tests whether Montana can tax stock holdings in foreign corporations owned by residents when certificates never left the state The Maine and Delaware corporations are involved Arguments by the attorney general Rodgers and Sydney Lanner as friend of the court with L P Sanders J A Poore D M Kelly John V Dwyer and John Groeneveld of Butte present
A KFAP Standard station concert broadcast last night from 8 to 9 featured vocal solos violin and piano. Rosemary Kavanaugh received requests for several airs and performed Lolita and other popular tunes while Eddie Price Dorothy Rooney Ann Brennan Nellie Marshall and others contributed selections including Dreaming of You and The Rose of the Rio Grande.
The senate of Butte high school took a near full group on an annual hike to Camp Carolina. They traveled from Butte on the Northern Pacific at 7 am Saturday and walked to the camp where they stayed through Sunday night. Games were played and the trip credited to Edward Simon chairman Clarence Wohl and Harry Paul Jr with Henry Sartes aiding.
A crowd followed klansmen to the jail as Holy Rollers scenes drew a mob to town. Local police summoned state troopers from Franklin Park and Netcone. Fearing the jail could not withstand the assault, officers moved the two prisoners by automobile to Somerville.
At 1 am a mob attacked a temple housing Holy Rollers, wrecking the first floor while the second floor crowd remained trapped. State troopers from Netcong and Franklin Park arrived but could not disperse the assailants who damaged 20 autos parked at the scene and injured a churchman cut by flying glass.
Arbor day exercises were held in all Butte schools yesterday with speakers at each site. Notable participants included Mrs. Carl Warner at Whit tier J L Boardman at Harrison and Franklin Mrs. Filton at Gree ley Mrs. Hadzor at Amerion Mrs. Bowersox at Garfield Mrs A S Christie at the Bungalow Mrs J E Groeneveld and Mrs L P Keefe at Lincoln and Mrs P J Brophy at the Administration building.
Henry Hellend Louis Fagan Harry Paul Clarence Wohl Sam Alderman Albert Goldsworthy William Danks George Cartee Bennie Nowe Mickey OConnell Sherman Wertz Edward Simon showcased equal prowess as scouts and debaters. Plans are in place to arrange more hikes of this kind to foster continued skill and teamwork among the senators.
Billings Polytechnic Institute sent two entrants Ceci E Frazier and Charles M Anderson to compete for the Butte title with topics The Seeing of the Northwest and The Apex of Civilization The Mount St Charles winner Andrew W Corry will travel to Helena and compete for a place among the leaders He is talking about Boy Scout Organization Means Boy Conservation Other entrants include Wesleyan orator Arthur Boyd The Mines candidate Thomas Barrett a freshman spoke on American Ideals and the Philippines Judges named Dr J E Monroe H H Miller and Rev B H Lingenfelter Prizes include gold silver and bronze medals plus 30 20 and 10 dollar cash awards A business meeting will set policies and elect officers for next year and guests may be entertained during the visit
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