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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1920
Page
4
The budget system will be one of the most signal reforms to which congress has ever addressed itself. It means not only a great saving in money but the application of sound, systematic methods to all the government's business activities in whatever direction.
Mexico reduces its army from 150000 to 50000 with 100000 discharged, offered land or factory jobs. New colonies create agricultural settlements while retained officers train at the national academy. Obregon, a veteran administrator, seeks friendly ties with the United States as Washington weighs recognition of the new government.
Reports from New York studios confirm Edouard Belin’s plan to transmit moving pictures by wire after the success of wired photographs. The note flags a future theater experience. a Montana audience could witness Washington’s presidential inauguration via remote cinema. In Congress, budget reform dominates debate as President Wilson’s veto prompts push for a single large appropriation committee and a new budget bureau.
A column imagines Gilbert and Sullivan writing The League of Nations as a satire on Geneva quarrels among Peru Bolivia and Chile. It notes Bolivia withdrew a request to settle borders via the League fearing U S absence and Monroe doctrine implications, while Peru and Chile worry without their “uncle” Uncle Sam to guide them.
The piece notes calls for repeal or major revision of direct primary laws. Indiana Governor-elect McCray advocates abolishing the state's direct primary to reduce campaign costs. New York legislative committee on election laws discusses changes without recommending abolition, while urging federal uniform law for presidential preference primaries based on recent experiences.
The Montana papers debate the November results and party impact, noting pleas for education measures, fiscal prudence, and a Republican landslide narrative. Editorials from Missoula, Kalispell, Helena, and Billings discuss prices, elections, and national policy.
A mosaic of quoted lines from multiple U S newspapers references Wilson era politics and public life. It includes remarks about deer in woods interruptions praising leaders and a noted judge’s dual roles.
Detroit News reports a worn tablecloth once owned by British Colonel Patrick Ferguson is displayed at Memphis Historical Society. Ferguson laid plans to dine as colonial troops attacked. he was killed, and Colonel Isaac Shelby later claimed the meal artifacts. The cloth, finely preserved, features a woven thistle motif reflecting Ferguson's Scottish origin.
A swarm of bees has settled in the Foster Street Methodist Church steeple in Dothan Alabama. The exact time the bees moved in is unclear, but the location is described as 160 feet above the ground.
The column collects quips about manners and editors from various papers, followed by a Death Valley weather entry noting extreme heat. It cites a 126 degree maximum in late July and an 134 degree record on July 10 1913, with location Greenland Valley California referenced.
A rare display of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu features a marvelous feather cloak Known as Been Vault and is shown only at rare intervals attracting curators and visitors from across Hawaii and beyond
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