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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1920
Page
4
Anaconda notice lists the post office addresses and phone numbers for business and editorial departments. It mentions the Butte office at 119 North Main Street and the Anaconda office references 422 423 43 without further context. The item functions as a local classifieds style contact card.
A定胆 opinion piece argues millions from Germany Italy and Eastern Europe will seek entry to the United States, urging harsher controls and possible total immigration suspension. It cites Ellis Island warnings and urges intercepting threats at their source to prevent a crisis in American society.
Analyzes chances the Sixty-seventh Congress and four aging Supreme Court justices may loosen the Volstead act. Posits retirement of McKenna Day Holmes and White could shift rulings if new justices appointed by Harding view moderation as safe. Notes past patterns where court shifts altered tax rulings, but hopes for change in liquor law seem slim.
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania repudiates any bid for a Harding cabinet post. He plans to reintroduce a vetoed resolution ending the war with Germany, while critics say his opposition to the League of Nations and the treaty persists. Recent Geneva reports hint the League remains intact despite attacks.
The piece notes Lucy Page Gaston and reformers urging an anti smoking stance while examining historical presidents. It contrasts McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, and Harding, highlighting Harding’s continued smoking and prior presidents' relationships with tobacco.
The incoming president will not limit himself to one form of smoking but will indulge in cigars, pipes, and cigarettes. After March 4 the executive chamber will fill with a blue aromatic haze as ash trays and matches appear on the cabinet room table. No constitutional amendment banning tobacco will pass under the new administration.
A ship at sea and a man on Catalina Island spoke clearly, marking practical wireless telephone use. The Atlantic to Pacific link used both wire and wireless relays, from Catalina Island to Deal Beach, then onward to the Atlantic. Wireless stations rise along the coast though privacy remains elusive as listeners can tune in with the right receiver.
The piece reviews lingering tax deadlines as November ends, Greece’s fragile stock in King Constantine, and Congress signals Republicans will target the Wilson administration next session. It also notes rising Christmas shopping, gulf storm talk, a cautious US political mood, and a wary view of Russia’s future.
A compilation of editorials and notes from Montana papers discusses tariff era lessons, free trade critique, Mark Twain perceptions, elk hunting protests near Yellowstone, McCormick’s cabinet plan, U S foreign policy wakefulness, Glacier Park tourism records, congressional aid for palatable reform, and the United States balancing acts in European politics. Notable figures include Senator McCormick, President Harding, and authors like Mark Twain.
Col. William J. Simmons of Atlanta, founder and imperial wizard, releases a public statement to distinguish the modern Ku Klux Klan from the night riders and sun burners of the South. He asserts the Klan is a law abiding group honoring original members who fought scalawags and carpetbaggers after the Civil War.
The Birmingham Age Herald suggests Tennessee could rejoin the solid South if needed. The New York Herald and Detroit Free Press comment on future national readjustment and Lloyd George's Irish policy. The Indianapolis News notes an American inquiry into Ireland may prompt a British inquiry in London.
The Saturday Evening Post notes Mesopotamia holds oil potential but few wells are active, Arab wells prewar and British not prospecting. It highlights labor shortages as Arabs resist work, Kurds and coolies bearing burdens, and wartime imports of Indians to sustain railways and irrigation.
During water level lowering for the ship canal, a submerged forest was found by U S and geodesic survey teams. Vertical trunks, up to 121 feet long and 5 feet 6 inches wide at the butt, rose near the surface and were cleared in early 1920 off Manitou point near Mercer Island, with about 100 trunks removed in three months.
Analysis of 1919 income tax returns shows about 20 000 American millionaires with families totaling around 50 000 or one per 2100 people. 1917 had 16 000, war fortunes boosting counts. Many claim incomes of 50 000 or more not all own a million. 162 reported over a million, up from 141 in 1917.
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