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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1925
Page
6
A long critique argues that huge government spending on coast guard anti bootleg campaigns and roadside billboard education is wasteful. It criticizes reform efforts, legal costs, and court delays while urging lawyers to reform precedents to avoid expanding restrictive laws.
The Chattanooga News argues for the democratization of justice, criticizing reliance on old English precedents and legal technicalities that bar rights in U S trials. It cites the Teapot Dome indictments case and warns that smart lawyers exploiting loopholes cause miscarriages of justice, urging court procedure reform by ABA committees.
Western states favor metal money and gold coins up to twenty dollars while disliking one dollar bills. Easterners prefer paper money for flashy shows, prompting debates on smaller denominations and a return to silver and gold coins in the West.
Editorial critiques O'Connor plan to sell 400 ships to Henry Ford for scrap, questioning bids and motives. It notes Ford’s aim to break the fleet for steel and warns that the ships may be viewed as junk. It argues public confidence is shaken by repeated trial balloons and bungled opportunities.
A compact meditation on failed promises and imperfect fortunes. The speaker notes a promoter who overreached, a marriage tested by forgiveness, a child found shelter in a modest apartment house, a stubborn tooth, and a garage that kept seeking new car problems.
Washington debates whether a monarchist restoration is possible with Field Marshal von Hindenburg as president. analyses compare presidential, collegiate, and parliamentary republics, noting Hindenburg's oath, independence limits, and Reichstag influence while stressing he will not rock the boat or abandon the constitution.
Yosemite California May 19 The eighteenth amendment and measures to enforce the Volstead act were arraigned by Dr Granville Mac Gowan of Los Angeles president of the California Medical association before the usual convention yesterday. He called prohibition enforcement a civil war and warned the flood of alcoholic liquors endangers the nation. He noted no liquor shortages during three years of travel and saw liquor flasks for sale openly. He said disregard for prohibition breeds disrespect for laws and urged a sane view of enforcement. The amendment was pushed by fanatics and the voting population was away fighting. the Volstead act has bred the belief that the government cares little for the people.
During restoration at Swithland church dating to Saxon times, three eleventh century windows were uncovered. Under the floor two coffins held children of the Danvers Butler family, ancestors of the Earl of Lanesborough, with the tombstone of Sir Joseph Danvers nearly two centuries old. The grave is said to be the only instance in England where half the grave lies in a churchyard and half in unconsecrated ground, a request by Sir Joseph to rise on Judgment Day on his land.
Gaston B. Means surrendered to the local court and asked to be sent to Atlanta to begin a two year sentence. Officers of the submarine S-19, grounded at Nauset Beach, Mass., were ordered court martialed by Secretary Wilbur. The department of justice would appeal the St. Paul courts decision in the harvester dissolution case. Belgium to initiate debt funding negotiations sparked optimistic reaction from senior government officials.
Windsor Ont May 18 The Associated Press reports Ontario moves to legalize 44 per cent beer under a dry act amendment set to take effect next Thursday. Beer will be delivered to hotels in anticipation of the opening rush. No bars will operate and drinks must be served at tables. The beer is 44 per cent weight and 25 by volume.
Vernon Martin of Chicago, son of a parts manufacturer, plans to inherit $300,000 in six months but continues as a laborer in a plant shop. In Washington, President Coolidge attended the White House news photographers banquet and joined the applause when it was announced there would be no speeches.
Questions and answers from the Helene Independent Detormiation Bureau cover topics from yacht sizes and drug heroin to German republic formation and calendar differences. The exchange lists factual notes on the Victoria and Albert yacht length versus Mayflower, definitions of heroin, creation of the German republic, calendar adoption, weed definitions, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as America's oldest science school, hogs eating snakes, clergy at Edward VII's death, and the nomadic toad habitat with concise authorities and dates.
The Montana legislature did not budget for the State Fair last winter. Citizens of Helena will levy a one mill tax in Lewis and Clark county to finance the event, with aid from the state agriculture department. The fair will still be a state fair, funded locally, and deserved patronage is urged. Butte Miner.
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