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THE flKLEJiA DAILY INDEPENDENT, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 22, 1929 Each World If Bora Anew for Urn who tokw tt RwwU Lowell. WILL A. CAMPBELU Prudent and Kdiwr of The AMOcIBUd Frau. AuouUUd pnm -to entitled to the UM (or pubiicatinn of all dUpctchM credited to It or not otherwUu paper and alio the local published I i BUBfiCRIPTION RATES: and Sunday, delivered by carrier or by one year In advance Dally and Sunday, month. carrier or nail.

.,..1 lunday Independent, by maU only, one year Dally independent, by mall only, year 4(1 aad 4M Cubacrlben will confer a favor by calling the office oa the telephone it fall to deliver promptly TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1929 LOWER PRICES. 2 A financial expert predicts a long down: ward" slide in commodity prices and interest rates during the next twenty years. He cedes that the drop will not Je uninterrupted and does not venture an estimate on the ex- tent of the drop. This expert belongs to one school, but there exists another well defined school which prophesies gradually rising prices and interest rates during the ensuing two decades. The belief that prices will drop is based primarily upon post-war history.

After the Civil war the cost of living and' interest rates gradually declined. As soon as the nation returned to the plow and machine the modity supply began to approximate the mand and prices took a tumble. When cap- ital was diverted from the munitioning of armies to the financing of farms, homes, dustries and.railroads, money, which during the Civil war had been obtainable only at extortionate interest, became cheap. The foretellers of still higher living costs and money rates doubt that a growing and expanding country like the United States can enjoy the felicities of cheap money and food. And yet the nation probably grew more rap.

idly during the twenty years following the Civil war than it will grow during the twenty years the World war. On the basis of Civil war statistics the i. public can look forward with some degree of assurance to lower living costs and interest rates during, the next two decades, although 5 few believe a return to pre-war levels is pos- Bible. If -the purchaser of whiskey is to be prosecuted, the government will have a job on its hands proving 7 that he actually got whiskey for his money and not some other substance or poison. AVOIDING BOOKKEEPING.

First Assistant Postmaster General man is quoted as saying "We carry government department mail free because it is much more economical to do so than to impose a bookkeeping department overhead to record the mail sent by each government bureau and charge for the same." Well, that is about as silly a reason as any that has been given by the politically-managed postoffice department. It is just the sort of reason one would expect from a partment that changes its executives every few years, putting in charge men who have had no experience in postal affairs, and neg- lecting the knowledge and advice of those jxho have, handled mail for most of their years. As a matter of fact, the postoffice department has done just that, whenever some committee of Congress has demanded figures on how much free mail is being carried for government departments. It weighs the mail for a charging it to the various departments and bureaus by a bookkeeping system, and thus it discovers what this free service amounts to. Some day a genius may arise who will suggest that the way to ascertain this cost without "imposing a bookkeeping department overhead" will be to abolish the frank, and make every government officer, department and bureau put postage stamps on its mail That is what every business house does, and there is no good reason why the government should not.

Henry Sheehan says pipe smoking is increasing, not so much because the price of cigarettes has advanced, buc the men in offices where women are employed are not anrfoyed by being asked to furnish the smokes. THE ROCKING CHAIR. Is the rocking chair to fall by the way. a victim- of the fleeting whims of fashion? One alleged authority on home decoration insists that the "ensemble idea" is now the thing and that the rocking chair simply will not "fit in" with any grouping of furniture Will we yet come to the time when the courts will recognize a valid reason for divorce in the fact that the husband simply will no1 "fit in" with the fashion of the furniture or the color scheme of the parlor decorations or some other requirements of the fashions ol the day in household matters? What every man knows--and most women if they will but admit the truth--is that there is no seat more grateful to the tired human frame than an intelligently modeled rocking chair. By that we mean a rocking chair built in complete that there is any such thing as 9 "fashion" in chairs; we mean chairs that are made to sit in instead of to admire.

Style has robbed us of a lot of things and we haven't 'done much proving. But we'll be doggone if we don't propose to have something to say before we'll five up the good old-fashioned rocking chair. LittJc Gee Gee says she 'is learning ti drive her iweetie's car, and pretty soon she will be driving all OTT --all over sidewalks, lawns and pedestrians. 4 VICTORY WON, BUT NOT CLINCHES. The temporary victory over official censorship won by Senate liberals should not lull friends of literary freedom into disarmament.

Senator Bronson Cutting and other Senators have succeeded in freeing imported literature from the necessity of approval by a clerk in the treasury department before American people may read it. But "moral organizations" still plan to fight for censorship; for the right to dictate What Americans shall or shall not read. Americans are not babies in arms. They do not require the services of self-appointed guardians of their morals to protect them from the thoughts or ideas set down in books. There is plenty of law, now, to deal with frankly obscene literature, for which no one has any defense.

Such cases may be dealt with, in the American fashion, by Censorship is a foreign idea, repugnant to every freeman. Liberals in the Senate should keep up their fight against it. If Al Smith builds that 80-story skyscraper in New York City, have a taller monument than George Washington even if he was not elected President NEW IDEA IN RAPID TRANSIT. Tie Grand Trunk railway, announcing plans for a combination rail and auto speed highway from Detroit to Pontiac, takes a step that may be very widely copied in other parts of the country in the near future. Under this plan, the railway will have a four-track line between the two cities.

Trains will be pulled by electric locomotives, which will get their power from overhead wires, held up by steel trusses. These trusses will be'inade just a little larger and stronger than usual, and will be covered over with a 40- foot auto highway which will have no hills, few curves and no busy intersections. Every city in the land needs rapid transit facilities badly. The Grand Trunk's proposal provides two kinds of rapid transit--by rail and by auto. It is a plan that deserves to be adopted in many other places.

An eastern professor says "love is kmd of drunkenness." But if you use" ordinary Montana moonshine, jou can get over a drunk in 36 to 48 hours. ,9 PAN-AMERICAN HIGHWAY. The plan for an international network' of motor highways extending from Canada to the southern tip of South America continues to develop. The recently concluded Pan- American Highway Congress at Rio de Janeiro showed an increasingly favorable attitude toward the project on the part of South American nations, with an increase in the road mileage actually constructed. The importance of this plan hardly needs any emphasis.

To the North American auto tourist it would open a vast new wonderland for travel and recreation. To the Latin- American nations it would bring a taste of the prosperity which Canada and the United States enjoy. And to the entire New World it would bring an invaluable increase in international understanding and good will. Many of the interviewers who write "success stories" have had to get their material from their subjects in sanitariums--and recently it has been possible to get stories from men who succeeded in doing- what they set out to do and landed in jail. Two Los Angeles preachers have been arrested for delivering sermons about cases in court.

Our ministers are warned that they better be careful what they say about bootleggers as they are always in court. From some of the fancy combinations being served ai the restaurants, do not be surprised to find on today's menu "Hamburger al la Mode." Best Editorial of the Day From The Baltimore Sun. REVOLUTION. The fact that two hundred farm organizations announce themselves in favor of modifying the pacers' concent decree of 1920 is one of the most striking indications that could be found of the altered attitude of the American public toward big business. Ten years ago the farmer regarded the packer as his natural enemy and was enthusiastic over any legislation that might restrict his power.

Today the farmer appears as a special pleader for the packer, urging that he may be permitted to enter the retail chain store busi- nes, upon the ground that' such action will result in increased meat consumption and in lower prices. In other words, ten years ago and prior to that time the public stood in constant fear of the formation ol trusts. It was believed that such trusts were organized in restraint of trade, that they created monopolies with the result that they could dictate the prices.of the products which they purchased from the farmer anc also the prices which the consumer was to pay. Now a new attitude is consideration. Moved by the example of Henry Ford and others, the very tribunes of the people are arguing that' instead of raising prices, the "vertical" organization of an industry can bring about savings in duplication of effort, cut down the overhead and result in a reduction of price to i The period of "trust-busiirig" and of anti-trust laws is thus giving way to the period of.the Nothing less than a revolution has taken place in the of the American public and'all in a period of little more than years.

The action of tht fanners marks the highwater mark of the movement, for who, ten years ago. would have believed- that in 1929 no less than 200 farm organizations be found pleading the cause of the packers? THE DESERTED LOBBY Service By WILLIAM BRADY. M. D. Artlrar SPRAINED ANKtE NOT VERY THRILLING.

Spfained ankle used to bf a thrill-1 that disability- is shortened by this ing episode when the emergency had to be met by. improvising a from the hem of the heroine's fluffle. Fortunately we have other means of first aid today; and besides, thi- knee seems more susceptible to twists and sprains nowadays. A sprain is some times as bad as a fracture; and sometimes it is-just slight fracture near the ankle. If here is any break in the bone it must be treated accordingly.

If there only a tear ora stretching of ligaments, then the emergency treatment I shall now describe is effec- ive if promptly and thoroughly car- ied out. Immediately plunge the injured leg nto a tub or bucket of water as hot as endurable, and keep it so for an lour, frequently dipping out som: vater and adding hotter water, to maintain the extreme of heat. owing the hot footbath, gently massage the ankle and leg, using'upward strokes, with camphor linimtnt 'camphorated oil) or other mild application such as witch Tiaiel or plain soapy water or soay water with drop of turpentine added. After 15 ninutes of apply dry heat any form. A 50-watt ordinary frosted electric light bulb arranged to hang a few inches from he ankle, under a cover, will servo very well.

In mild where the injury is- clearly not a fracture, the f.oot. an- de and leg should be immediately jandaged or strapped after the pre- iminary hot soaking. Then the pa should resume-walking at olice, wearing in addition to the bandage or adhesive dres'in? a snugly' laded High shoe for additional support of the ankle. In any case. SENTENCE SERMONS By the KEY.

EOT SUITU, Pastor Simpson M. E. Church, Minneapolis. MANY OF OUR NEEDS---Go far deeper than anything money can provide. --Of today will seem ridiculous tomorrow.

--Are the fruit of our envy or jealousy. --Are merely luxuries with a superiority complex. --Could be'provided for if we had the courage to say "no" to ourselves. --Need a more careful examination. --Fall down' when they are required to "furnish good references.

The Hakin Letter By 1. THE DAY OF THE SLOT MACHINE. Washington, Through many D. dismal Oct. manufacturers of machines operates that a day would come when 'hev wou'd be sitting on top of thf The local distributor would arrange for the placing of machines in drug deed, in the past the slot machine manufacturers of the United Statjo haie survived largely thej had a foreign market.

Paris, so liberal are the laws, that you can put a sou in the slot and see a pic- ture of a girl getting on a street car v.ith her skirt pulled all of the up to her knee. Of course. Paris like the rest of the world has taker on a new interest in machines, and American manufacturers are reaping the benefits. They have not been slow to make hay while the sun shine 1 While the exports of coin- operated machines Jor the second quarter of 1929 showed an increase of 17 per cent in the number of machines over the first quarter, the increase in the value of the machines was 60 per cent. Also, as indicating how the idea is spreading, the first quarter shipments were to 37 different countries of the world.

In the second quarter orders were received from 47 different countries. There-are all sorts of slot machine for gambling. There are thousand' in use in the United States but pe- stores, railway stations--anywhere at riodically local authorities confiscate all The lease provided that the by coins have plodded, in penmes should be collected periodically and that at each collection there should be a split, a sort of" roy- them as gambling paraphernalia. Xol so abroad, and gambling by maclift. ery is increasing.

The use of the slot machine i world. There is a lightening in the altv This been the way most Lading is spreading to all manner -astern sky of this industry which ave been oper ated. 0 commodities, 'ives promise that soon they through the official a organ of 'heir trade association have "Came the Dawn!" They have had their moments in past but they have, only bee.i The gay promise of hope- flickerings has waned under the oppression of a darkening cloud made up partly of lack of ingenuity 'n machines and partly of the stern hand of the law. These earlier flick- erings, though, have all proved to be faise dawns. But now the man who does not sigh or shout: "This is a machine at least 20 times a day is not to be found in a Sabbath day's journey.

The rumor that this is a machine age seems to have got around and ail manner, of machinery grinds away to prove It makes things "a lot rosier for the makers of coin-operated machines-- slot-machines as we used to call them. A few years ago the slot machine was regarded as something trr children and persons of relatively lo.v intellect to amuse themseHes v-ith. But after all it is a machine. So now it is coming into its own The machine is the style these days. Statistic? prove it.

in Output. It was not until 1919 that Uncle Sam thought it worth while to take 3 census of makers of slot machines. He found only a handful with a total output of but $1,646.231. But by 1927 it was discovered that machine age manners had changed so much that 41 manufacturers were in the business with an output of $7,058,921. The fresh census has not yet been made but information in the hands of the department of commttw shows that some 150 firms are engaged in" the manufacture of slot machines and that the value and volume of their product have increased ever more rapidly than the numbers of the makers The gum machine is one of the oldest and it was a money-maker for the owner or licensee.

Indeed, many if not most slot machines have been leased rather than sold to the local owners. This has been due to lack of confidence on the part of business men. A man patents a slot machine. He induces a manufacturer to produce it. The machine is tamed out al! shiny and bright.

But how can the pennies be collected? The machines have to be put somewhere. The problem was solved by gettine distributors, local boys, who would accept the maclrncs on a lease basis. In any hotel wash- Perhaps next to the gum machine room one can put a coin in a slo plug receue not only will tell your exact weight squirt of perfume and usually re is the weighing scale. Some of these i and by pushing a but also your fortune. The accu racy of neither is guaranteed.

Neither are the weight and fineness of the coin put in the slots by the public guaranteed. The match-vending machine is found everywhere and there is the stamp slot machine, the only dealer actually permitted to sell stamps at a profit. There used to be more sorts of slot machines than there are nou and, no doubt, some survivals are to be found in out-of-the-way places, standing next to cigar-store Indians and similar company. -But they have to be sly about it. There were machines which still and moving pictures.

You dropped a nicl-el in the slot and peered feverishly. You would see a prize fight or perhaps, if it were a place catering to the lower nature of man (or the artistic nature) according to the point of view, yon 'could see a girl stepping on "a streetcar with her skirt drawn half-way up to her kncv. These, obviously, had to be suppressed. Foreign Countries Many. But that p'c of thing is not sup- jressed in Havana or Paris.

In- Ovtrlooking San Francisco MARK HOPKINS AND FAIRMONT iioo with Quiet New Comfonablj Furnished at Moderate Rates. Five minutes from Shcps and Theatres. Swimming Pool Sporti Terrace Dancing Every Evening. GBO. D.

SMITH ceive it in the eve if not familiar with the operation and reasonably watchful One may buy cigarettes One may buy a full meal. One maj buv collars and neckties, handker- chieK The com has to be 'put in the slot before some turns.tiles wil turn to grant $11 manner of musical instrumehfs operat' at the urge of a dropped coin. Another thing greatly. in-, favor the manufacturer of the slot ma chine is the high rate of depreciation Say a man wants peppermint chewing gum He shoves in a penny pushej the plunger and then discovers the machine is out of peppei- mint. He tries wintergrcen and his coin sticks and the machine jams He goes away disgusted.

Another man of more bitter temperament comes along. He pushes a coin into the already jammed machine 1 doesn't He pushes in another coin He tries all the slots and, because the machine is jammed, he gets nothing Then he kicks over the machine causing as much breakage as possible. A pew one must be ordered from the manufacturers. TtO LONGER A SACRED COW. Growing opposition to the projecl tor turning city, county and stat.

educational systems over to a federal bureau at Washington, indicates that education no longer is the sacred cow it ojiee was. Time was when any American who dared utter a word in criticism of anyone dubbing himself an "educator" -n-as looked upon as little better than a bomb-thrower and suspected of getting checks from Moscow But of late people have been awakening to the enormous cost of education and starting to wonder If after all, thc're getting theii money's worth. They don't object to paying a dollar If they get a dollar's worth of education--but they do object to paying a dollar for two-bits' worth of learning and six-bits worth of frills. And now, when they are asked to pay more taxes to support another hsrfj of bureaucrats at Washington, they aren't enthusiastic. And they remember the federal operation of education in the'Dis- trict cf Columbia has succeeded, after years of work, in making the district on)y half as literate given Western state And that is no recommendation to them when they are asked to sink their money in an extension of the federal Seattle iv mobile treatment, as compared with the prolonged disability that 6ften attended sprain treated in old fashioned immobile way, with piaster cast or similar splints.

Only when Tacture or other complication is clearly recognized should the inured joint be immobilized. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. Afl Hot and Bolkerad. Can you tell me what causes hot 'lashes in women past middle age and what to do for them? (Mrs. H.

R. HO Answer--No, Of course I have my theory about it, like every other doctor, but why bring that up? Every nedical hypothesis advanced to explain this annoying trouble reminds me of the old granny's Incidentlly the trouble is not confined to women, nor is it limited to an arbitrary age. Many women never have such trouble. If you will state your complaint in the First person and inclose stamped envelope bearing your address I will mail you some general advjee which may help. in the.

absence, ol medical advice, a sprain will'do better if the patient makes earnest el- fort to the injured ankle. If the ankle is left long at rest after such an injuT there will be more trouble from adhesions and other difficulties later on. If the pain felt on stepping out with the injured foot is not intolerable the patient need not worry about the thought of possible fracture of bone, for eien if there is such fracture no ereat harm is done by walking on the injured foot, at least until proper medical care is available. How to apply a supporting bandage or adhesive plaster strips to a sprained ankle is easier to Demonstrate than to describe. Imagine the igament torn or stretched, and then try to apply the dressing in such a way as to draw together and hold together the torn or stretched tissues.

Bandage or straps applied from the forefoot upward to the of the calf. Where diathermy is available, the victim of a sprain with obstinate lameness is in great luck, for this is the only means at our dis- for getting heat in where the damage is Modern surgical experienceteacheJ Please give me information ana idvice concerning treatment of arthritis. It is just beginning to a hold of me. Eight months ago my finger began to be stiff and sore crowned teeth extracted tryinct chiropractic and electric (D J. Answer--Well, when you have experimented on your health to your neighbors' and friends' satisfaction, you should declare a recess and )'iii a pood physician in charge of fie experiments! work.

Yes. of course the treatment of joint inflammation is more or less ii the trouble is not of soec'fic nature and the best of plnsicians a say offhand what its nature or 0-1211 is in a given case. But if that i- true, how ridiculous for you to and that treatment or remedy on the chance. Why, mv dear friend, you ask about some fool scrum, baths, electric monkeyshines Yon might just as well cut out the highfalutin affectation and call your tiouble rheumatiz if you are going to follow in the footsteps of the poor old victims of that delusion. Arthritis means joint inflammation; it conveys no hint of the nature or cause or proper treatment of the inflammation.

Srphilii in Sanitarium. Is there danger of contracting syphilis from another patient in a sanitarium where both use the same a (X. Y. Answer--No more danger, I bi- lieve, thaif there is in the use of the bath in any -hotel or other place whete such conveniences are used by one person after another. Ordinary soap and water cleanliness is a reliable defense against such infection.

Syphilis, by the way, is but feeblv communicable or not at all communicable after the first year or so. i (Copyright, John F. Dille Co) Signed pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to dlaeais diagnosis, or treatment, wilt be answered by Dr. Brady If a stamped. addressed 1 enclosed.

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Q. Who is the ball player havjng the lightest weight in the American League? C. E. E. A.

Tack C. Tavener, Detroit, 142 pounds, is the lightest-weight player listed in Who's Who in Baseball for 1929. Q. When it is said that a word does not meet the three demands of good usage, what are the demands' B. L.

A. The three demands of good are national use, reputable use, and present use. Q. How many Protestant missionaries are there? F. A.

S. A. There are about 30.000 Of these over 17,000 are from North America. Q. Who first spoke of the newspaper profession as the fourth estate? W.

O'B. A. It ii attributed to Carlyle. In "Heroes and Hero Worship" he says, ''Burke said there were three estates in parliament, but in the reporters' gallcir yonder there sat a fourth estate, more important far than they all." Q. How is Socony pronounced? R.

T. D. A. This word, coined from the initial letters of Standard Oil company of New York, is pronounced with the o's long and accented on the second syllable. OUR DIRECTORS The fundamental requisite in a financial institution is safety.

Therefore, the most valuable asset it can have is a conservative, and careful painstaking Board of Directors. In numbers there is safety. The collective judgment of an able Board, of Directors, is the best assurance that the policies of a bank will be such as to safe-guard its depositors. In this respect, this, institution has an incomparable asset. V'j Montana Trust and Savings Bank The National Bank of Montana iTfJi.