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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1925
Page
6
The article argues Congress should curb new laws and prune existing statutes. It notes Americans increasingly favor fewer laws, arguing laws reflect social norms more than formal rulebooks. It highlights an automatic civilization and suggests a broad revision with a blue pencil, then mentions pilots applying for a mail line and Bill Ferguson’s status.
President Coolidge urged federal hands off state affairs while Colonel Elias Marsters, federal prohibition administrator for Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, spoke to Montana women in Billings urging repeal of state liquor laws. The paper defends Marsters as dry but questions his authority to influence Montana’s Volstead Act based law. The Colonel is criticized for acting against presidential stance on states rights and local government.
The piece rails at Colonel Marsters for arguing Montana's medicine law clashes with federal prohibition. It mocks his speeches, predicts political missteps, and warns against a federal lobby move. A separate item notes a Kansas City driver paying $20,000 for causing a pedestrian injury.
A Montana crackdown on bootleggers shows heavy enforcement by federal city division. In Silver Bow county 1924 property seizures reached 555000 dollars with state total 2316000. Moonshiners and home brewers produced large shares of seizures and 100 rum running cars valued at 50000 were seized. The fiscal year ending June 30 yielded 312 started cases, 304 concluded, 231 convictions and 29 acquittals, with fines totaling 42607.32 and 25820.93 paid. District Attorney John L. Slattery praised. Montana agents cited as among the best.
Editors of undergraduate Daily papers and student body chairs from Harvard Princeton Bowdoin Williams Dartmouth and Wesleyan meet in Middletown to outline reforms. They favor paying coaches like professors reducing bench coaching during games limiting schedules to four games and eliminating championships. They praise the game but say football has become a circus and seek practical changes.
Washington reports Secretary Jardine opposes vested rights for livestock owners over national forest grazing permits. Cattle and sheep interests push for defined, transferable rights and contracts. propose fees reflect administration costs, not private-market values. Jardine warns any stable system must balance public interests, conservation, and fair compensation, with emphasis on controlled range use and adapted grazing fees.
Secretary Jardine backs a grazing regulation plan giving stockmen a say through local forest ranges boards while avoiding court appeals on administrative matters. He emphasizes that final decisions on administrative questions rest with the department head, yet users may seek court review for rights and contracts. There are about ninety to one hundred million acres of grazing lands in the national forests.
A historical note states the gasoline tax, once elective in 44 states, originated in Oregon. The remark highlights long standing fiscal policy shift and regional adoption patterns over decades.
New York reports a brisk rise in department store sales across the nation with Christmas buying poised to set records. Meanwhile basic industries show slower activity as producers withhold orders until inventory periods pass and corporations announce higher dividends, with U S Steel boosting orders. Rail traffic and railroad earnings rise, while a cautious mood dominates the bond market amid policy uncertainty and limited trading range.
Government statistics show the uneducated have little chance for distinction, with a free information bureau in Washington offering Q and A services for two-cent return postage. Readable items cover weights for airplane wings, the meaning of United, B&O railroad origins, Cuban imports, notable American sculptors, gelatin strength, John Oxenham, patent and trademark trends, clothing guidance for winter wear, Tennyson’s regard for Heber’s hymn, counting time for large sums, where rainbow trout are found, and a note on industrial contributions to expansion.
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