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The Glasgow
Courier
Published Ecurp Frtdap at
GLASGOW, JKONTANA
the Valley County Independent
T. J. HOCKING, Edltor
Officiai
Official
City
County
Paper
Paper
Entered at the Postoffice at Glasgow, Montana,
aa second class matter October 6th, 1911
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
It is often said that nothing new can
be said of Abraham Lincoln. On the
contrary he is always new. His life
presents new characteristics, sug
gests new thoughts as each annivers
ary of his birth arrives. He was great
not so much because of his intellec
tual power as because of his moral
power. He was politically strong be
cause the people trusted him and be
lieved in his Americanism.
True greatness is modest always. It
was so with Lincoln to a marked de
gree. Neve»- was he an egotist. Nev
er did he trust to his own human
powers to accomplish great deeds. He
rested securely oç a power beyond
human effort—a power which rules
the destiny of men and of nations.
In these crucial times, not only for
America but for all the world, nations
and leaders can learn a lesson from
the life of Lincoln—a lesson never to
be forgotten. He believed that this
nation, and every nation destined to
«ndure, must be in harmony with the
great forces of righteousness, sane
liberty and constructive freedom—all
working to upbuild the national struc
ture.
As a party under Lincoln arose to
save the union from division and de
struction, so the same party, inspired
by the same lofty spirit, stands on
guard against the perils of Internat
ionalism and the evils of radical so
cialism masquerading as the "new
freedom" or the "new democracy."
Abraham Lincoln stood on the solid
rock of nationalism. Let us now stand
there.
THE "LABOR VOTE" TOO PATRI
OTIC TO BARTER.
(From the Washington, D. C. Post.)
The proposal to deliver the "labor
vote" en masse presupposes a willing
ness upon the part of millions of vot
ers to lay aside their personal prin
ciples and views, to disregard the in
terests of the nation and to center
their strength upon realizing their in
dividual desires. This is an atrociously
false assumption. It credits the toil
ing millions with scant patriotism,
stunted intelligence and with exag
gerated selfishness. It contemplates a
readiness upon their part to follow as
sheep the leaders who are to do their
thinking for them. The "labor vote"
of America is not of such stuff. It is
intelligent and patriotic and consider
ate. It is not for sale, barter or gift.
No politician carries it in his vest
pocket and no boss can drive it hither
or yon. It is composed of enlighten
ed American citizens, entirely compe
tent to think and reason for them
selves, which they will proceed to do
in this campaign.
WHO WANTS A WAR MEDAL?
A distinguished service medal was
awarded to D. C. Jackling of Salt Lake
City by Secretary Baker for "bravery
under fire" when he accepted a con
tract for the erection of a nitrate
plant with his left hand and assigned
the contract with his right. Mr. Jack
ling was not even connected with the
military service.
A thoroughly consistent attitude on
the part of the secretary of war would
mean a wound stripe for every vacci
nation for typhoid, smallpox, flu, pneu
monia and a large number of other
Alsop's Merchants 1
Lunch
12:00 to 3:00 Daily
We have just installed
a specially built Mer
chants' Lunch Table.
Join the "Bunch"
at Lunch
Try it; you'll enjoy it.
ALSOP'S
Rundle Bldg.
vaccinations that didn't take but were
given to every man-jack in the ser
vice; distinguished service medals for
standing reveille; special citations for
conscientious objectors and silver ser
vice stripes on the bathrobes of the
army of intrepid couch cooties who
broke their arms taking off their hats
when the colors went by!
WITHOUT COMMENT.
The following resolution was adopt
ed unanimously at the annual meeting
of the Oklahoma Farmers' union at
Clinton:
"We view with alarm and oppose
government ownership of railroads,
and especially the Plumb plan, and if
congress, in its wisdom, should adopt
the Plumb plan, we then demand that
congress also take over all the farms
and equipment in the United States
and employ the farmers and their
families to operate them, paying them
two-thirds the average wage scale
paid to railroad employees, and sell
ing the farm products at cost."
CLAIMS HE'S ITS DADDY.
And now out of the haze comes Cap
'tain Soterios Nicholson, one of the six
defendants in the army graft conspir
acy trial in federal court in Detroit,
to claim the parentage of the League
of Nations idea.
Good heavens! Why intrude on a
man's sorrow? Let poor Woodrow suf
fer alone.
RESIGNATIONS. RESUMED.
Secretary Lane resigns to get into
private business and Henry P. Fletch
er, ambassador to Mexico, resigns to
get out of public business. Both rea
sons, although almost diametrical, are
good.
THEY, IT WERE SOLD.
The News and the purchasers of the
News were sold last week. Bill ad
mits it. The double action sale was
really a smooth piece of work and
everyone loses money but Bill.
RANKS ARE BARRED.
Franklin D'Olier, national command
er of the American Legion, has issued
the following instructions to the state
department officials:
"No request should be made of any
applicant for membership in the le
gion concerning his previous rank
while in service, either personally or
by information asked for on any forms
used by post %r department headquar
ters. Any forms bearing on this sub
ject should be discontinued.
"The constitution of the American
Legion, adopted at the recent Minne
apolis convention, contains the follow
ing provision:
" 'The American Legion is a civil
ian organization; membership therein
does not affect nor increase liability
for military or public service. Rank
does not exist in the legion; no mem
ber shall be addressed by his military
or naval title in any convention or
meeting of the legion.' "
WEATHER REVIEW.
The special observer of the U. S.
weather bureau at Glasgow, summariz
ing the weather conditions for the
year 1919, shows the following infor
mation:
The mean maximum temperature
for the year was 55.4 degrees; the
mean minimum temperature for the
year, 26.9 degrees; the mean temper
ature, 40.9 degrees.
The maximum or warmest day dur
ing the year was 104 degrees on the
31st day of August. The coldest day
was 35 degrees below zero on the 12th
of December.
The date of the last killing frost in
the spring was on June 2nd, and the
date of the first killing frost in the
fall was September 27th.
The amount of precipitation for the
year, whic-h was the smallest amount
ever recorded at this station, was 7.54
inches.
The greatest amount of rainfall
to occur in any twenty-four hour per
iod was on the second day of July,
when 1.20 inches fell.
ACTIÔN AGAINST
SHERIDAN BOARD
WA S NOT PROPER
The action against the Sheridan
board of county commissioners which
was filed by County Attorney Gun
ther a short time ago, in which the
board was mandamused to give an ac
counting of the seed grain fund of
1918, was dismissed on Wednesday
of last week. In rendering the deci
sion, the court said that the proced
ure was not proper.
The affair was fostered by Red Flag
Taylor, who, it is said, has long sought
to oust the board of commission
ers. When the seed grain bond issue
was voted on in January, it is claimed
that the farmers were promised an
other election on the matter after
the present board was ousted. Seed
grain is badly needed by a large num
ber of Sheridan county farmers, and
the assistance which they might have
secured from the county was lost to
them through the machinations of the
radical schemers.
Although the seed grain question
was checked by the state examiner,
the Producers News asked the county
to hire a special accountant to go
over the books. The accountant was
hired and his services dispensed with
shortly after. He continued his work
under a promise from Taylor that he
would be remunerated, but after sev
eral months of useless checking he
packed up his toothbrush and depart
ed for home. The mandamus pro
ceedings appeared to have been ini
tiated to furnish a scare head article
for the nonpartisan organ at Plenty
wood.
George Hurd, assisted by Babcock
& Ellery of Plentywood, represented
the board.
INTERESTING DATA
ON FARM PROFITS
OF CLUB MEMBERS
The following interesting items from
the last issue of the Valley County
Farm Bureau News demonstrate what
can be accomplished by an industrious
application of good common sense in
whatever work you are doing. For
some little time, for instance, it has
been an accepted fact that there is
big profit in eggs—if you have them.
Some hens lay more eggs than others,
due principally to the fact that their
"working conditions" are not the
same. Plainly, the following farm
bureau members understood what was
necessary and furnished the proper
"vPBrking conditions":
During the month of December Mrs.
Peter Peterson's 95 hens produced 65
dozen of eggs, 58 dozen of these were
sold for $50. During January they
produced 83 dozen of eggs and 75
dozen were sold for $48.75.
Mrs. W. H. Moecker gives the fol
lowing interesting data. In 17 days
she received from 46 hens 30 Vi dozen
eggs which she sold for 55 cents
dozen, or a total of $16.77. It cost
Mrs. Moecker 48 cents per day to feed
her 46 hens and for the seventeen
days it cost .$8.16. A neat profit of
.61 on 46 hens in 17 days. These
figures are taken from Mrs. Moecker's
account book, and these facts sure
more than repay Mrs. Moecker for her
trouble. She knows exactly her prof
its. Mrs. Moecker has pure bi'ed
Rhode Island Reds.
Walter Jorgenson of Tampico states
that his 80 hens have paid for their
feed and his grocery bill this winter.
In January Walter sold $24 worth of
eggs besides he used a lot at home,
We wish Walter had kept an exact ac
count. He feeds the following daily
to 80 hens: Four quarts of dry mill
feed, four quarts of corn in evening
and four quarts of wheat in the morn
ing.
25,000 TO ENLIST
FOR NORTH DAKOTA
SCRAP THIS YEAR
Organization and campaign plans
for the North Dakota independent
voters' association were adopted at the
state convention of the organization
recently.
By the plan of campaign adopted
it is proposed to organize a force of at
least 25,000 voters to dedicate their
time to carrying on the campaign
against the nonpartisan league in the
state. Continuation of the work here
tofore conducted by the association
was approved.
In the nomination of candidates it
was ' proposed by the committee on
campaign methods that the anti-non
partisan league members of the re
publican and democratic state central
committee be asked to confer with
a like committee of seven from the
Independent voters' association, for
calling a state mass convention of
all voters opposed to the league to
nominate tickets. This plan of pro
cedure also was recommended in the
counties and the legislative districts
and was unanimously approved by the
association.
LEGION FORMED AT MALTA.
A branch of the American Legion
was formed in this city last Sunday
afternoon. There was a large number
of the ex-service men present and some
from other towns along the line. The
following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: Commander, Geo.
Tout; vice commander, Jack Sullivan;
secretary, John Hohler; treasurer,
Carl Simonson, and Ray Gardner as
sergeant at arms. The boys have a
strong organization and a good set
of officers. It is an organization that
should be joined by every service man
in the county.—Malta Enterprise.
TOUGH TIME FOR
GOPHER PEST IS
BU REAU VERDICT
According to plans of the farm bu
reau and board of county commission
ers, the Valley county ground squirrel
will have a season of tough sledding
commencing with the first sign of
spring. The gopher extermination
project was started this week and the
farm bureau office is already busy
mixing up "coroner cocktails" for the
pest.
This is in line with the recent de
cision of the commissioners that the
compulsory law is to be strictly en
forced the coming summer. All ex
termination activities are to be car
ried on under the direction of the farm
bureau which appoints the local dis
tributors of poison subject to confirm
ation by the board.
The distributors will furnish proper
application blanks for poison which
are presented to the county commis
sioners at their regular sessions and
if approved the poison bait is issued.
The law makes necessary the un
winding of considerable red tape be
fore the poison is finally dispensed, so
it has been suggested that those plan
ning on securing poison from the
county start their applications as soon
as possible.
The farm bureau and the bureau of
biological survey will cooperate dur
ing the campaign to swell the list of
casualties and everyone is being urged
to make an early start in the syste
matic destruction of the ground squir
rel.
SUFFICIENT FEED
FOR LIVESTOCK IN
MONTANA REPORTED
Helena, Feb. 8.—Reports from 12
counties in the northern, central, east
ern and western sections of the state
on crop and livestock conditions up
to January 31 received by Charles D.
Greenfield, commissioner of agricul
ture and publicity, are to the effect
that the first month in the year was
much less severe on livestock than
the preceding winter months. Live
stock is being fed in every section of
the state and in all of the counties
reporting there is sufficient feed on
hand to carry the animals through,
but it is costing the feeders a very
high price per ton for hay and ojher
feed stuffs. So far as reports show
there has been practically no winter
killing of fall grain. Several of the
counties report a surplus of Marquis
wheat for seeding purposes, but oth
er seed grain is short. The follow
ing reports from the counties will
give an indication of local conditions:
Roosevelt county—Stock wintering
fairly well with enough feed on hand
to carry them through. Sufficient
seed wheat for spring seeding.
Richland county.—Weather during
January was generally severe, range
cattle showing effects. Much of the
range is covered with ice rendering
it inaccessible to stock. There ap
pears to be sufficient seed wheat in
the county, but oats and flax will
have to be shipped in.
Dawson county.—Severe weather in
January caused considerable loss in
livestock, especially calves. There is
a shortage of both feed and seed.
Custer county.—During January
there was one week of severe cold
weather. There appears to be plenty of
feed on the market and where live
stock losses have been reported there
was lack of proper feeding and pro
tection from the cold.
Rosebud county.—Cattle properly
fed and cared for are doing well. Con
siderable loss is reported among range
horses. No winter killing of fall
wheat and rye reported.
Musselshell county.—Feed is scarce
and expensive. Winter crops in good
shape.
Stillwater county.—No winter kill
ing of fall grain reported. Surplus
of good Marquis seed wheat but short
age in all other spring grains. Feed
extremely scarce and high priced.
Chouteau county.—Livestock gener
ali being supplied with sufficient feed
and horses not dying to the extent
that they were earlier in the winter.
Wheat generally in excellent condition.
Valley county.—Practically all live
stock has to be fed regularly. With
the exception of sheep stock is gener
ally in poor condition. Plenty of seed
wheat in the county with perhaps a
small surplus for export.
Blaine county.—Conditions were
hard on livestock in January, espe
cially on horses. Winter wheat and
rye appear to be in fair condition. A
fair supply of hay on hand but not
enough to feed through until spring.
Fergus county.— Duç to the mild
weather during the greater part of
January, livestock conditions are more
favorable and losses have been very
much less than during the preceding
two months. Winter wheat damaged
a little in some sections through soil
blowing. Due to the high price of
spring seed wheat, it is probable the
acreage planted will be less than has
been estimated, but the flax, barley,
oats and corn acreage will be cor
respondingly increased. Livestock
men are holding to their best breed
ing stock.
Sanders county.—Weather was gen
erally mild through January. Consid
erable hay is being shipped in from
the Yakima valley costing $32 a ton
in carload lots.
Hot house people are like hot house
plants. They can't stand exposure to
«evere weather, says the United States
public health service. Sleep with the
windows open and keep every room
well ventilated.
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' t&. MsSh Her Own Heart Away.
Monday-Tuesday, Feb. 16-17
BEWARE TWISTERS. \
Director R. G. Cholmeley-Jones of
the bureau of war risk insurance has
announced that misleading and incor
rect statements relative to the per
manency of government insurance are
being circulated by individuals appar
ently engaged in attempted "twisting"
of insurance. A specific and typical
report received by the director was to
the effect that some of these indi
viduals had boarded a nhval vessel at
Philadelphia and had told the sailors
that government insurance would not
be good after five years.
"Government life insurance for vet
erans of the great war is a perma
nent proposition," said Director Chol
meley-Jones. "Misleading statements
have been made to the effect that gov
ernment insurance will cease at the
end of five years after the war, or
that it will be turned over to private
companies. Such statements are ab
solutely false and without foundation.
There is, however, a requirement that
the temporary term insurance held
during the war which increases in cost
from year to year, be changed or con
verted into one of the six permanent
forms of government life insurance
(ordinary life, 20 payment life, 30
payment life, 20 year endowment, 30
year endowment, or endowment at age
of 62) within five years after the
formal declaration of peace by proc
lamation of the president, if the in
sured desires to continue to be pro
tected. This permanent insurance does
not increase in premium cost as the
insured grows older.
"Improper conduct by individuals
I have referred to is in direct oppo
sition to the attitude of the great life
insurance companies, which is embrac
ed in a statement by the secretary of
one of the large companies, who re
cently said:
" 'Of course, a life insurance com
pany can not grant life insurance at
less than cost, but the government of
fers insurance to soldiers and sailors
at less than it would cost the govern
ment to grant that insurance (that is
because the government bears all ex
penses of management, etc.). The gov
ernment is justified in this liberality
in consideration of the fact that these
soldiers and sailors have risked their
lives, or have been willing to risk
their lives, for the benefit of the na
tion. All this being so, it is obviously
expedient for soldiers and sailors to
take all the insurance offered by the
government at the low rate charged.'
"The company whose secretary made
the above statement has instructed all
its agents to refuse to take applica
tions from soldiers and sailors until
they have taken the full amount of
new government insurance to which
they are entitled."
GENERAL PERSHING SAYS
LEGION MUST BE CAREFUL
General John J. Pershing's right
hand failed him Saturday at the Greek
theatre on the University of Californ
ia campus in Berkeley and thousands
of former service men with whom the
general had expressed a desire to
shake hands were cautioned not to
"squeeze."
"Go easy, boys; don't press too hard.
Don't squeeze, the men were admonish
ed by Brigadier General Fox Connor,
chief of General Pershing's staff, after
approximately half the men waiting in
line to shake the general's hand had
been gratified.
The reception to the former service
men came at the end of an address by
General Pershing directed to them.
General Pershing reiterated his ad
vocacy of military training for the
nation's youth and recommended con
tinuance of the reserve officers' train
ing camps maintained during the war.
CHOICE CUTS
Of the Best
MEATS
Every housewife wants to serve
the best in MEATS to her family.
She can be assured she is doing so
if she buys her Meat at this shop.
We wish to call your attention to
the Farm Bureau Short Course
held February 19th at the Or
pheum theatre. Splendid speak
ers will be present to help you
solve difficult problems.
CITY NEAT MARKET
North & Selig
General Pershing also addressed a
large assembly of Oakland citizens at
Lakeside park. He praised the Amer
ican Legion, advocated deportation of
aliens who persistently refuse to learn
the English language and "refuse to
learn something of the history and
traditions of this country of ours."
"The American Legion must re
main non-partisan," he said. "The
American Legion should not permit it
self or its members to become the
pawns and tools of political job seek
ers and hucksters."
General Pershing left Saturday eve
ning for Los Angeles, San Diego, and
other southern California cities.
GONE ARE THE DAYS.
Behold the pretty little sheep!
How calm and fat it grows!
We can remember when its fleece
Was used in woolen clothes!
The reason so many men are led
astray is because they stand around
waiting for the opportunity to be led
that way.