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BELT, MONTANA» THURSDAY, JANUARY 22. 1925.
VOLUME 31. NUMBER 32.
$2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE.
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Basketball, Great Falls
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In Annual Convention at Bose man
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While, happily, the position of the
farmer and the producing classes in
this country has improved materially
in recent months, and. the producers
of Montana have particular reason
for gratification at the improvement
in price of certain commodities, there
still remain a number of matters
which require consideration. A few
of the more pressing of these matters,
as they occur to us. are referred to
in the following resolutions:
1. There has been considerable dis
cussion for an increase in parcel posi
rates in the United States. The farm
ere of Montana are receiving much
benefit from the parcel post system
of the country, and we believe that
any increase in rates will bend to re
■duce the benefits received We are,
therefore, opposed to any increase in
present parcel post rates, and we are
also opposed to any increase in rates
on newspapers and magazines.
2. While a truth-in-fabrics bill in
one form or another has been before
the Congress of'the United States for
many years, and while the price of
wool at the present time is favorable
to the producer, we stiU believe that
« law which will require the labelling
the material used in making doth i»i
highly desirable, and therefore -r—_
"pon Congress the passage of such a
FARM BUREAU
RESOLUTIONS
January 8th, 1925.
urge
8. We reaffirm our opposition to!
discriminatory freight rates which
place the producers of Montana at a
disadvantage with the producers of
other states. Since there is a bill be
fore Congress, known as the Gooding
Bffl, which has for its purpose the
correction of rate discriminations by
making It unlawful fbr a carrier to j
charge more for short hauls than for i
long ones, we therefore endorse the
principles of «e Gooding Bill.
4. It is onr opinion «at while «e
immediate pressure upon the farmers
has been relieved through better pric
es for certain farm products for the
time being, there is still need for a
stabilizing device to prevent «e prices
port corporation plan as embodied in,
the McNary-Haugen Bill, which was
defeated by a small vote in the House
of Representatives last spring.
5. We heartily endorse the excel
lent work performed by the State De
partment of Agriculture during thei
past four years as administered under
the leadership of Commissioner C. C,
Davis. We believe that the in tore ate
of the farmers of Montana would be
advanced by leaving the present or
ganization intact for the next four
years. We believe also that it would
be highly impracticable to saddle up
on any of the educational institutions
of the state, tile police duties which +
are now performed by the State De- ♦
Pertinent of Agriculture, the State 4*
Livestock Commission or the State *
Livestock Sanitary Board. , ♦
6. We believe that the Montana +
Experiment Station and the Montana ! +
Extension Service are pertepning a *
valuable and essential work m the de- ■>
velopment of agriculture in Montana ♦
and deplore any attempt to reduce the|+
funds for these institutions to the *
point where they cannot function ef- +
factively Therefore, we urge upon 14
the législature of M mi tana, now in 4
to provide adequate appropci- 4
me the moiermt funds of to 4
of farm products from getting too far
out of line with the average price of
othft commodities. We therefore en- 1
dors* the efforts of «e American
Council of Agriculture, pledge anew
our belief in «e principles of «e ex- !
state to make possible the carrying oi, 14
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4 ment Station and 4
and wa further de- 4
of tbe serviere being rendere d by the
to -* - — S-a.- - a
AfTÄHitar* !
Extension ft
aire to express ear Mwt «at the
need for this type of aarvtoe to most
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to attract settler* to
tit* «tote, aad to bring Nt i
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to ritofe to 4
Montana aad it is tha opinion of the 4
that adequate 4
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Farm
wbwuM be made for the
c on t ro l a# these pesta in «e state.
to the point a dhe re rentrai
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would he practically
j We recommend that the sum of $9,300
.asked for for the work of the State
Entomologist be allowed.
! 8. The proposed amendment to
Constitution of the United States,
I which would give to Congress the
• power of regulating the labor of chil
dren under 18 years of age. has in
certain possibilities which would op
erate unfavorably to the beat interest
o1 U»« fanners of Montana. We
th « refor «; respectfully ask the Mon
tana Legislature not to ratify the pro
P 09 ** 1 «"»tttutional amendment.
. *• Be lev ' n * that . tlie * und » for
" w lding and maintaining the roads
aI ?^ highways should come from those
w "° use them, we favor devoting all
°\ **** * ato 1 mobile ''cense tax and all
0 the ?88 ° i ™ > license tax P Qr_
j 1)086 We further beüeve **
revenue from these two sources will
sufficient for all necessary high-.
^ 4y oon8tructlon and m »«ntenance in
acknowledge and appreci
• t * 1I the «f"* of the MonUna
. ****' the Montana Extension Ser
L 0 ® and r 16 Mo J ,tana Experiment
station ,n th ® ,r wor * towards the im
* gement of Agriculture, «id thank
? e8e and . ot
® ozeman fo J their hospitality during
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1L W ® *?£*?** efforta of
°" P™' d * nt ' W. L. Stockton, for his
fl" 06 " ef „ ° n 0,6 beha " of **
UontanA ^arm Bureau and the farm
« 1l \ A * 8tate o£ Montana -
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VOte ° f thank8 -
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On last Friday afternoon two of tb*
POPULAR COUPLE
■MARRIED FRIDAY
most popular young people at this vi
entity. Frank L. Merkling of Balt and
Miss Edna Williamson of Raynesford
wer« married in the office of Justice
of the Peace Wilson In Great Falla,
The witnesses were Miss Mabel Gay
lord and Alec Anderson.
The bride was born her* and is well
known by everyone here and at Ray.
nesford where her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Williamson reside. She is
of a quiet, lovable disposition and is
general favorite
among young peo
ple and old. The groom is at present
employed as mechanician at the Ford
and useful presents from their friends.
They will make their home in Belt
where the bride will make a welcome
addition to the younger set,
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Born Tuesday at their ranch on Llt
tie Belt to Mr. and Mrs. Guy Crowe, a
daughter.
Born this (Thursday) morning to
Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Morris, a daughter,
C. A. Campbell, real estate man of
Great Falls, was in town this momiri*
business.
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This Poor Pheilow Phound *
Publishing Was No Joque! ♦!
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Congressman Guy Hardy of +
Colorado, publisher of the Canon +
City Record, has a faded old
clipping In his possession about
the difficulties of a pioneer news- +
paper out in bis country, which ♦
reads; ♦
"We begin the publication of ♦
the Roccay Mountain Cyclone ♦
with some phew diphphicultiea ♦
» tbe way. The type phounder *
phrom whom we bought our out- ♦
phit pbor «is printing ophphke 4
abated to snonfv na with amr 4
Garage and while he came to Bell
from Raynesford only « year ago has
made a host of friends. The young
couple were «e recipients of
many
ephs or cays, and it will be 4
phour or pbive weex bephore w* 4
can get any, Tbe mistaqne was 4
not phound out till a day or two *
ing letton, and will have to get 4
along without 'em till they come. 4
We don't like the » oox ov this 4
variety ov spellte» any bettor 4
than onr readers, but mtotex 4
will happen fa th* best regulated ♦
phamibes, and iph the ph's and 4
c'a and x*a and q's hold out, we 4
shall esep (sound the e hard) 4
the Cyekm* whirling aphter a 4
phaakin til) the sorts arrive. It 4
ia no joque to ua—it's a serious ♦
aphphair "—-National BepdWkan.4
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On Friday night of this week tbs
high school team, reinforced hy EVa«#
and Boboth, will try conclusions with
the Centerville-team at lentorviÂB
and on Saturday night will take on til*
Great Palls high school second* h»
Belt. This game will doubtless bo ohe
of the best to be seen on the loan!
floor this season and deserves a gen
erous patronage. -ttAS
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TOURNAMENT SCORES
Centerville 22 — Simms 6
Cascade 15 —
Groat Falls 23
Cascade 14 —
Simms 17 — Fort Shaw 9
Centerville 22 — Belt 11
j p or t Shaw 10 —'Belt 9
Great Falls 22 — Cascade 12
The basketball tournament in Great
p a !la was very successful and would
have been heartily enjoyed hy the Balt
boys had It not been for the fact that
' they lost every game and came home
j n undisputed possession of the cellar
floor.
< The team was unlucky at the start,
having lost their center, Sanderson,
with a sprained ankle in the Cascade
Fort Shaw 11 T.
— Centerville 21
Belt 11
game here. Tths necessitated bring
ing Nohl to center from guard and re
aligning the rest of the team.
On Friday night the girls' team and
the boys' second team went to Powe r
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ATHLETIC SUCCESS OF THE FIHHS
Finland haa always produced R '
to tbe Maygars of Hungary. There If
plenty of interesting and dramas!»
rnatsmi about the hietery of the
Finns ainc* they left the original home
in Asia to settle in Europe. Their
contest with Russia under the Gear's
government for self government was
persistent and stubborn. Later they
fought the soviet government and
their own bolshevik, succemfully and
established their independence. There
is practically no illiteracy in Finland,
In that respect they are far ahead of
the United States with its boasted
free schools and enormous expend!
dy race of men. They are quite M
ferent in their derivation from
ot the surrounding nations. They to*
long to the Turanian branch of «I
human family and are at least re late!
tures for educational purposes. The
Finns are lovers of freedom-and will-!
ing always to fight for it.
These characteristics might well
call attention to tile Finns, hut ft is
not these things that have brought
Into recent public notice. It Is
toeir spectacular succès« In athletic
i 8«"«" against world competition. As
8a >'* :
''Upon what meat doth this our
Caesar feedt* asked the envious Cas
Bros. In athlettos the science of diet
has been prodigiously cultivated, an<l
the Finns whose modest delegation
achieved such triumphs at the Olym
pic games last year expressed their
amazement at the elaborate framing
of the American athletes. For th.
selves, they confessed, they took
tilings much more simply. The mar
vêlons runner, Paavo Nurmi, who be-'
gan his American visit by breaking
three world's records at Madison
Garden Tuesday evening, has
revealed that Ms daily breakfast is of,
coffee, black bread and aalt fish- 'The,
Finn bad a Finnan haddle?' Ms com
petitors may inquire and go and do!
likewise. There may be something in
the theory that a rough coarse diet to
favorable to physical end urance. while
mor* refined and delicate fare may
possibly tend to produce energy more
men and women are prone to give
credit to a bottle of medicine for their
cure from disease, so they sort of net
orally turn their attention to what the
Finns eat to explain their atMetie su
periority. The Springfield Republl
can, commenting on this peculiarity,
available for sprints or other brief
burst* of to ton»* activity.
"It is reasonable for anth r opologists
and »pactalist* hi re lated fields to
seek the explanation of the remarks
bic
their awn particular field. Finland to
a «nail country with a email popola
tion, and until lately it has not sped
ally gone in for athletics. If it had
such a population as the United Stete«
ami auch resources for maintaining a
great delegation at international
meets. It would be Finland and th#
root nowhere.
•'Possibly «e explanation is to be
found fa the racial peculiarities of the,
Fini», who ' i j '
Wh^re on that evening they played the
P« v
wer teams,
à g' r ' s lost 32 to 21 and the boys
i4 to 11. In the hall the ceiling was
fcw and Florence Newmack, the star
Inward of the Belt girls, could noi
«Must herself to the new conditions.
Ipe boys game was hard-fought and!
anyone's game until the hurt
is tie.
i The girls who made the trip were;'
Morence Newmack, Anna Zuhoski,
ferme Evans, Annie Klimas, Oshild
Thompson, Ella Skadaen, with Miss
|ice as chaperone. .
L The boys, under the care of Mi.
Vfest, drove to Great Falls and took
tie train on. They were Jay Lei and,
Bfeorge McCafferty, Henry Larkin,
□buries Robinson, Leslie Jewell and
Byron Johnson.
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Totol of individual work of mem
5 er * of Belt team in three games at
FG FT AFT TP
2 2 4 6
...1 4 7 8
.2 0 0 4
3 2 8 8
. 0 12 1
...8 0 8 8
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11 9 24 81
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e tournament.
t rübst, rf _
ewmack, rf ...
(2 games)
fehl, c ..
IcCafferty, If
timonis, Ig
(nooks, rg .
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leather races in Europe, and are sup
iSmsed to have wandered to the Baltii
Æf the northern route from Asia. It
JBs recognized that the typical physique
Bof the long distance runner differs
■from that of the sprinter even in me
chan leal details , uc h as the relative
length of the upper and lower parts of |
tempensmeat nmy else
have much to do with B. But It to
that th « climate of Wn
lend tend the hard work which It ha*
impound upon the majority of the poo
P*» to as important a factor as any in
fitting the Finns for teste of staying
power.'*—Great Falls Tribune.
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Mrs. J. P. Healey anq sons returned
recently from Minneapolis where she
has been with her people since the
death of her father in December. J.
P. Healey, who accompanied her east,
I came back about January 1st.
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, fORSYTH - Carterville irrigation
di afrtet, 1 1.000 seres, plans $3 j . j
> rn P rov ement bonds,
TROY — Financing assured to sink
Snowstorm shaft to 600 feet. Min*
has 400-ton mill that is to be operated
to capacity by May 1.
BOZEMAN — Valley county grew
...large quantity of approved and reg
j ( tered seed for 1924.
CREAT FALLS Ice harvest em
r i oye mart y men best crop cut in
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HELENA — Kevin Sunburst field
preduead 110,808 barrels and delivered
W0.48 j barrels during November; Cat
Crsek produced 120350 and delivered
1128342. barrels. Kevin field price was
| «ate; Cat Creek 91.20.
SIDNEY — Fairway Farm* cor
poration buys farm to resell for care
fill far» experimental work.
LEWlBTOWN — Hanson Packing
company of Butte feeding 2.000 cattle
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*trk veterans' hospital to be built
somewhere in district 101, including
Minnesota, Nor« and South Dakota,
ani * Montana,
800-bed neuro-paychi
HELENA
LIBBY — Great Northern railway
buys large tract for ballast grave) use.
SIDNEY — Last of 2300 car* beet*
go to Great Western factory at Bill
toga.
WINNETT — Reorganized bonk
hare gore far ahead of promised pay
mmt to old stockholder»,
SHELBY — Illinois Pipe Line »rill
handle oO from Johnson Syndicate
SJMMwrre) well.
j GREAT FALLS — Cat Creek ois
field produced 1J04 barrels for year
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OUR PRESIDENTS.
The following cynical analysis ot
the records of some of our later pres
idents is from the pen of Don D. Sert»
0 f the New York World as printed in
The Porum . Because of Us dry hu
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mor and cynkal We Copy 11
from the Tribune.
Beginning with President Hays,
Sert» saya:
„ Now . p, radox . The mar.
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I^ 0 8U f ce6ded Grant » ******* B.
Hay68 of 0hio ' wa8 not ® lected - An
electoral commission dominated by
Conkling gave him the dedsion. Bit
teriy assailed, with 'fraud' stomped
on his brow, Hayes gave up a truly
honorable and proper administration.
He ceased to surround the ballot box
cs in the south with bayonets. He re.
moved the garrisons and with them
'carpet bag' governments. He gave
the south a chance to live. He ineug
urated civil service. There were no
scandals. Political vermin vanished
from Washington.
"What Garfield might hau been is
beyond speculation. His death, how
ever, gave the United States e good
president In Chester Alan Arthur.
He, after Hayes, being the only prea
ident to keep his place, while cham
pagne again flowed in the White
House and the cooking was much im
proved. Mr. Arthur was a connoisseur
in can vas back and torrapin. Grover
Cleveland went beyond the province of
bis office, said some epigrammatic
things, and was defeated for reelsc
tion by Benjamin Harrison of Indiana.
"Harrison came near to being a
model president. Rated by the re
quirements he stands nearly 100 per
cent to the good. Quito naturally he
was defeated for reelaction.
"Cleveland ran again in 1892 and,
cent* back. He ebalfa»«ed England
to- «ertol cvtehdtoflÉbd B£M the trete
for a world w«r. The old tody sr J
too sensible te 0aapt tile challenge,
but be gave tile nation a scare that
wrecked the stock exchange for a per
iod and raised hell generally. Cteve
land's strenuous term was followed by
th « « d »i»ni.tretioij of William Me
nommat#d W Mark Hanna,
T"® war feeble Spain to 'free'
Ctt ® a * 40 Ptoase William R. Haarst,
wa * ^ 8 doln *- Nobody is proud of
tkat war -
"Here again the bullet of an aaaaa
sin killed a president who was im
proving and put a circus in the White
House. With Theodore Roosevelt, the
constitution took a vacation. Roo.e
vcIt gave it s rest. Also the house.
the senate, and everything except the
American people. He 'took' Panama,
decimated the Twenty-fifth infantry,
'settled' the coal strike, took Harri
man's money and gave him no return,
meddled with everything from child
birth to populism and had a 'bully'
time. Then he gave us Taft to keep
hi* seat warm while he went a-hunt
ing.
"To consider Taft seriously as pres
ident is not polite,
"Woodrow Wilson belied the name
of democrat. His cabinet was ignored,
his ambassadors left in the dark. He
dealt with importent government
matters through unofficial agents,
whether from mistrust or impatience,
it is hard to decide. He made many
bad and more weak appointments; h**
took on hi* secretary of the treasury
as a son-in-law. Under his vast wai
power* he used 'force without limit'
abroad and at home. He put gyves
on the American people, trusting
them not for a moment He enforced
a 'selective' draft that '«elected' ev
eryone. He penned harmless aliens up
in stockade», forced the press into an
attitude of self-censoring «at de
stroyed Its usefulness and it« liber i
tire, and made himself the most pow
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erful figure in the world at a groan
outlay of $28,000300,000. Than ha
invented the league of nations, by
which some 54 are now successfully
allied against the United States.
"On a mighty wave of reactlpn War
ren G- Harding rode into office. Be
was a plump printer from Marion.
Ohio. Statesmen had died out in
Ohio and small men with ambitions
wives were pushed Into power. Bant
ing was one of three With Harding,
the boys all came back to the crib.
He exerted himself in no way to in
terfere with the orgy. Deeply dis
appointed, tbe people at large would
have tended him but for hi* removal
hy death. This gave them Calvin
Coolidge, He to whet they want, a
mean' Fttlo Yankee, »harp-eyed.
< lose-'ftoted, who will cut down taxes.
SPOTTED FEVER
SERUM SUCCESS
Federal Health Officer, in Charge aff
Lafaratory at Hamilton. Claim
Cure for Tick Bite.
Indication that Dr. R. R. Spence»
of the United States public health
service has succeeded in perfecting e
serum which will immunise from
spotted fever, is found by Dr. W. f.
Cogswell, secretary of the Montana
board of health, in a recent letter
from Dr. Spencer.
The federal official, who, during
the summer months is in charge of
the research laboratory at Hamilton
which ia investigating the spotted fe
ver situation, ja now in Washington»
O. C. Severn) months ago Ihr. Spen
cer, believing he had worked out
immunising serum, vaccinated him
self.
Since his return to' Washington,
he writes Dr. Cogswell that he baa
succeeded in immunising guinea gig»
with his own blood serum.
Workers in the laboratory and oth
ers were first given tbe vaccine pre
pared by Dr. Noguchi of tba
feller foundation, Dr. Cogswell
who never claimed for It more than a
year's immunisation. Recently they
have been vaccinated with the Spea
cer serum,
A gradual diminution of the num
ber of cases of spotted fever In the
•itoetioo included hf Dr. Co|pWri|_il
biennial report, now being pre
P*red, In 1922 ther* were 58 earn»
sported, with 14 deaths; ir 1.8*8
number of cases was 47 and the death»
nulT 'l >Ä of care* reported the
H**' ' 0 month* of 12B4 wns U.Jgßm.
to»«». .A 1
«tofroi , ^
bo*rd of entomology, Dr. GjPMHto
may account ter the fewer«»»
in «• Bitter Root vaDay, but, he aim,
*» doubt the publicity given to «to
dieeare and its «amt has mtm wm
9*** **>*• Rl Hilpl Ml A llMflt
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state is shown in a discussion of
ot «a
w t mans Wftuuß 6 « o» aa«i
and Mrs. David Graham and a former
school bey of Balt, baa been visiting
■ Flathead County High school, to
working in Kaltopell and expeete to
a 'tend th* state university next year,
On Saturday night of «to week tter
Knights of Pythias will give a publie
card party in their hall. There will be .
««•to, cards and dancing Th* usual
f** w(Ii be charged,
to an order signed Wednesday by
Judjfr H. H. Ewing in prebate court,
Mr». Augusta Johnson, the widow, to
"«med executrix of the estate of Rob
ert Johnson, deceased. Mr. Johnson
was a pioneer of Cascade county and
died December 29th leaving personal
and real property to the appraised
amount of $36,920, principally to his
widow and only child. Arthur R John
son of Spionkop,
Letters to administer the estate of
John Joseph Gibbons, mine foreman
at Tracy who was killed by a fall of
rock at Tracy on Dec. 28. were issued
yesterday to Mike Hovanetz of Belt
Mr. Hovanetz was named aa a aubsti
tute for Joseph C. Ciblions, son-in-law
of Hovanetz, who declined to act and
recommended his father-in-law. The
son of Jos. Gibbons is named in tbe
will a* the sole heir of the estate,
which is estimated at $4,200 in reel
estate and $789.16 in personal prop
erty.
his mother and grandparents this
week. WilMam is a graduate of tika
?
8e*' aB1 »«s chosen Commander, Her
Ward, vire commander and Ralph
Oertli, adjutant and treasurer The
executive committee will consist at
Pilgeram. Oertli, GrayMll and DoMb.
This body will meet soon and appoint
committee*. The Legion will hare a
library benefit at th* Auditorium o •
Feb. 6th. For this evening «• BaMy
Strang entertainment trio has bee.
secured œ «e attraction, the enter
tairrment will be first chsm and the ob
ject of the benefit alone should guar
antee a full house. During the la*»
month tbe Legion has added 106 vol
umes to.Hf library from purchases and
donations.
At «e Legion election W- P. Pit
SSSSS3KSSK
keep 'good fellows' at a distance ami
stick to Ms job. H* has « cfea
meet the needs of «t nation s* «sh»
two or «ree cf Ùa pr séneosmm Mtvw
done." v :
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