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THE PRODUCERS NEWS
Paper of the people, by the people, for the people
By Peoples Publishing Company, Publishers
CONTINUING—The Outlook Promoter, The Out
look Optimist, The Dooley Sun, The Antelope In
dependent, The Sheridan County News, The Pio
neer
Press and the Sheridan County Farmer.
CHARLES E. TAYLOR. Editor anti Manager
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1929.
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LINDBERGH ON BANKING
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In the face of the wedding of Charles A. Lindbergh,
Jr., to Miss Morrow, daughter of Minister Morrow to
the government of Mexico, and for years associated
with the banking house of Morgan & Co. of Wall
Street, one cannot help but recall the fight that
Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., made on the Federal Re
serve Bank Bill when it was in Congress—in the House
of Representatives he led the oppositoin to that act and
made a vigorous fight. Afterwards he wrote a couple
of books on "Banks and Banking" that for logic, lu
cidity and material has never been equaled, in which
books Congressman Lindbergh outlined the progress
and activity of the Federal Reserve System which has
been verified by experience and history,
senior was always an implacable foe of the House of
Morgan.
In this regard we were interested in a letter written
by the late Congressman Lindbergh's daughter to the
weekly magazine "TIME" in which that lady thanks
that publication for a reference to her father s bank
ing legislation record and calls attention to several
social-economic facts which her father always consid
ered with some alarm.
We reproduce the letter:
lindbergh
Sirs:
Thanks for recalling to the public the
attitude of Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. (my
father) upon banking law. He was oppos
ed to the system which has fostered the
present great concentration of wealth in
the hands of a small per cent of the popu
lation. According to the figures of the
Federal Trade Commission, 1% of the peo
ple own 59% of the wealth, 13% own 90%
and 87% own 10%. Half the national in
come returns to capital.
During the last few years bank fail
ures have become common, the number
amounting into the hundreds in Minnesota
alone. 1 am familiar with homes where
after a lifetime of hard work, people are
forced to live on the small allowance avail
the fund. I know mothers *
poor
who are supporting several children on a
sum of $15 to $20 a month from the
same fund. I know how they are housed
and clothed and what rents they pay, but
imagination balks when confronted with
how they keep warm and what they eat.
We do need a revision of the banking
laws and we also need a revision of what
constitutes general prosperity.
EVA A. LINDBERGH CHRISTIE.
Red Lake Falls, Minn.
THE COURT HOUSE PROPOSAL
The new court house idta is developing.
Let us hope that it continues to grow until the dream
of a county building in keeping with the wealth and
prosperity of Sheridan county becomes a reality.
The present arrangemnet îs very unsatisfactory.
The county is renting the old school building from
the Plentywood school district. The rent and the up
keep of this building is costing Sheridan county every
year nearly half of what the interest on $100,000 or
$150,000 would amount to, and the county officers and
records are housed in an old shack down in a valley at
the outskirts of the city. When court sets only a dozen
or two can get into the court room and soon the air is
so bad that a spectator nearly smothers.
The furniture and records of the county represent
an investment mounting up to a sum equaling more
than the cost of a new court house. In case that this
old wooden firetrap should burn, the loss would be
complete: it would amount to more than the cost of
a new court house besides the inconvenience and
we would not have a court house either.
The present court house is a dirty, unsanitary, leaky
shack of a firetrap. It is a disgrace to the people of
Sheridan county, the best and most prosperous agri
cultural county in the state—a county in which the
farmers for the most part have fine buildings to house
themselves and their cattle. There are many barns in
Sheridan county better and more comfortable than the
County court house.
The total cost of a court house will not amount to
more than a dollar a year for each taxpayer for the
next twenty years—and it is much cheaper to build a
couit house now than it will be to wait until after a
fire destroys the present building and the furniture and
records and then build a court house and replace the
furniture and records.
Now is a good time to start on this project—let
epecial election be called this summer so that the tax
payers can vote on the proposition so as to get the
bonds disposed of and the necessary preliminary work
done in time to have the work started by a year from
this spring.
And when this court house is built a structure should
be erected adequate for all requirements for a half a
century at least.
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WHY THE GOVERNMENT Fl .Fj.-T
WAS LOST
Why the United States government has lost by give
away sale, its splendid merchant fleet, is told in
editorial in the March 30 issue of "Labor," published at
Washington, D. C.
"Uncle Sam," it says,
an
has finally signed the papers
transferring 11 ships to a private company for $16,
000,0C0. Among the vessels are the Leviathan, herself
worth the entire purchase price or more; ,and George
Washington, a smaller but extremely fine' ship, and
others of high quality. The government is left with the
rag tag and bob tail of the great merchant fleet, built
or reconditioned at public expense, while 'private en
terprise' has raked in everything worth taking, at less
than bargain counter prices.
"President Coolidge must feel happy. He worked un
oeasmgly throughout his years in the White House to
«""'•«I fl«t ou any terms-tha
nri'î'. beltCr ' HC has the wires were
laid in this deal before he left Washington.
"For years to come, the experience of the government
fleet will be cited as a proof of the weakness of public
ownership. As a matter of fact, it does not
thing of the kind. It d<}
is weak in defending itself
prove any
prove that public ownership
against private conspiracy
es
by public officials. Th* cards were
fleet from the very
aided and abetted
stacked against the government
first.
"The building of it was in the hands of men who. had
a private, selfish interest in making i cos as dg of
possible. The management of it was in the -
men who had a private, selfish interest in ma g
failure. The whole effort was to pile up expense
and
pare down efficiency
is finished.
is a failure. It works in
of it as Jo
"The job is _
fleet. . . . But experience
ly owned merchant marine
Canada, and in this country one may say
seph Fels said of the Golden Rule: 'It's never been
tried.
THE FREE PRESS
When W. A. Clark, Jr., committed the famous paper,
the Butter Miner, founded by his illustrious father, the
late Sen. W. A. Clark, to the proposition that "Monr
tana should be emancipated from the thraldom of the
Anaconda Copper Mining Company," and associated
associated interests purposely, for
shock troop" for the several
interests—we say
the Anaconda acts as
railroad companies, the telephone and telegraph corn
trust, the smelting interests, the
panics, the sugar
banking interests and any other of the interests that
operate in this state and increase dividends by keeping
rates high and taxes low—and made responsive to the
will of the people, there was rejoicing throughout the
commonwealth on the part of those who fretted at the
obvious prostitution of the fair state to the advantage
of those whose only interest is the measure of the pro
fit they can extract: they were elated that this scion
of a famous family so identified with Montana, had
thrown down the gauntlet to the corporate greed that
had cast its sinister shadow over the dome of the very
capitol and had volunteered to dedicate a portion of
the fortune sprung from the soil of the Treasure btate
to the vindication of democracy—to the proposition
that limits must be set in the state to the lusts of
plutocracy.
The people embraced in the far flung borders
Montana were inspired—they were galvanized to ac
tion: they girded their loins buckled their sword and
went forth to the battle that was to drive the dragon
from the capitol to its lair in Butte.
The fighers felt that the struggle, well supported by
the Miner and' financially sustained by Clark's liberali -1
ty must end in victory.
Victory smiled in the Primary skirmish: Gov. Erick
son was barely nominated as the democratic candidate,
but the Company lost its candidate on the Republican
ticket. The prospects for the fall campaign were ex
ceptionally promising—the Anaconda had been worsted,
its magic spell broken—the great serpent realized it
faced a crisis and that things had to be done.
of
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xhe things were
• . .
The Clark heirs were cajoled, persuaded, intimidated,
into the sale of the Clark holdings, including the Min
er, to the Anaconda, over the head of W. A. Clark, Jr.
The fighters who had enlisted in the campaign
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against the Company were surprised, disappointed,
chagrined: they saw victory turned into defeat. But in
the veins of Wm. Clark, junior, coursed the blood of
Wm. Clark, senior—undaunted by this betrayal, he or
dered the establishment of the Montana Free Press,
immediately, and dedicated it to the welfare of his na
tive state and the promotion of the common weal and
told the people of Montana that his time and his money
were behind the paper and at the service of his neigh
bors.
A building was purchased and rebuilt; printing ma
chinery was assembled; in four or five weeks the
Free Press was issuing from the plant, a feat that
marks a record in newspaper history.
All this took money and lots of it—but Clark was
putting money yielded by Montana itself into this
fight for the emancipation of Montana. He felt that
the money was well spent. After the "skirmish" in
November, when the Free Press did Yeoman service,
though the fight went against the people, Clark an
nounced that he was in the fight to the finish, and
that the Free Press was here to stay, whatever the
cost. It had cost Anaconda a mint of money to win
the November tilt—it had salted the state with gold.
Clark had no reason to be discouraged.
But election over, something happened—something
still unexplained. Sudden changes occurred in the
Free Press. The paper seemed to lose its way—in fact
it seemed to forget its course, even the port to which
it was sailing. From then on until the first of Janu
ary the Free Press was just a newspaper carrying the
United Press dispatches together with a number of
popular syndicated features, nicely gotten up and well
printed—but asleep and drifting, its spirit gone. Noth
ing was said about Anaconda—rather the paper was
inclined to be fulsome toward the serpent and the
other interests exploiting the state,
was still boycotted as an advertising medium thru the
influence of the Anaconda. Then, as suddenly the
policy of the paper changed again, and the cudgel
taken up against the Anaconda company,
But the fight seemed to assume a personal aspect,
and the policy of the paper seemed to descend to
carping, faultfinding level, sans ring of sincerity.
The assembly convened. The Free Press made a
gesture by sending Larry Dobell over to cover the
Larry's contributions were interesting but
lacked punch and purpose. There was no end
plan in his activity. Scott, the old editor of the Hel
ena Record-Herald, was employed as editor to
the place of Martin Hutchens, at a splendid salary, but
his editorials were honestly simply a rehash of the old
Dixon-Landstrum anti-company publicity, somehow
of tune now, with a graveyard strain,
news and legislative reports were below par—in fact
the Montana Standara during the first half of the
sion contained the better reports. Matters of import
ance were overlooked and inconsequental things feat
ured.
Yet the paper
was
once more.
a
session.
or
take
out
The Helena
ses
There was never a better opportunity than at the
opening of the Twenty-first Assembly to have
some actually constructive work in behalf of the people
of Montana, had the Free Press staff come to Helena
with a program and with a purpose to organize the
legislature. The Free Press did not seem to know
what to do or how to do it—in fact it did not seem to
have any grasp of the situation at all.
The supporters of the Clark policy, so tonefully
published in the summer, became discouraged—many
rîf t ^ em 6Ven disgustéd - T hey regretted the phase of
the Free Press, its "I don't know where I'm going, but
Im on my way" attitude. The prestige of the paper
lowered with the winter temperature. Everybody in
quired, "What is Clark trying to do?" "What is the
idea of the Free Press?" "Will Clark get tired of it
and close it down some morning and throw the plant
Confidence in the publication
k ' ntt B , ut yet " s P ite o* »11, the Helena sales
Kept up, the desire of everyone to read a
dominated by the company being so keen.
But the people, the rank and file, the workers i
mines and in the woods and the forward looking
a one
on
paper not
in the
farm
ers out on the great open spaces were
disappointed. Yes, worse than disap
pointed, because they felt that the pa
per had a place, that its intentions
were good, but that somehow or other
it did not and could not deliver the
goods. It seemed that the paper was
not in touch with the people or atune
to their aspirtaions.
that the Free Press' only purpose was
a mission of hate towards the Com
The Anaconda press made the point
pany. The Free Press unfortunately
made that argument good.
With the close of the legislature
what little there were of interest in
The edi
the Free Press faded out.
torials are divided between fulsome
and ridiculous praise of Joe Dixon and
petty carping at the Company.
and what
Its
capitol news is meager
there is of it is flat. It has a boy on
the job there who does not know what
is going on and less about reporting
it.
The Free Press means all right, but
W. A. Clark, Jr., has not a fraction
of the prestige that he had two, yes,
one year ago.
sidered a power, a person to be reck
oned with by the Company—but now
the Company smiles and jests and the
Last year he was con
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Economic Articles
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By Leland Olds, Federated Press
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Vertical Combines In Clothing
and Textiles
Workers in all branches of the tex
tile and garment industries may soon
be forced to adjust their form of or
ganization to meet great vertical com
bines performing all functions from
the manufacture of raw materials to
the retailing of finished clothing to
consumers.
The Economist, of Chicago, deals
with the transition in the men's clo
thing industry. It calls attention to
the fact that profits in the industry
are suffering from the fierce compe
tition between the quality manufac
turer producing handwork finished
suits in unionized centers and the
manufacturer-retail chain comhina
tions selling machine made suits at
fixed low prices. According to the
Economist: "Intense price competi
tion and over production overshadow
aU other factorg in the present situa .
tion."
Structurally,
it says, "clothing
manufacture is of two types—one of
garments with a considerable portion
of nice handwork similar to that of
tailors, and the second wholly machine
made. Addition oFa few improve
ments in machines to make machine
made clothing look well has intensi
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THE WASHINGTON SCENE
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By LAWRENCE TODD, Federated Press
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RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA
BORAH AND NORRIS URGE
Washington — (FP)—For ten years
past, Senators Borah and Norris have
hp Cn nronrt» TT n 5^
been urging that the United States
recognize the Soviet Union govern
? lv ®. y ear ? a gp l ag t December
Calvin Coolidge, in his first message
gress > in dicated that he was
willmg to restore normal relations
with Russia certain
;
This paragraph in his message was
understood to have been inspired by !
Borah, who predicted that actual rec- ;
ognition would soon come. Then, i
when the Moscow government replied,
a cordial note, suggesting immedi- :
ate discussion of mutual differences
for the purpose of settlement, the :
whole situation was changed by a,
note to Moscow by Secretary of State,
Hughes. This Hughes declaration
was offensive in tone, and was obvi- ;
ously designed to make impossible
any meeting. It accomplished its I
purpose. .
Now, after five years of wasteful
quarrel, Borah is convinced that the
"very secret Zinovieff" letter which
in
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Hughes used to hack up his claim
that the Soviet government was seek
ing to overthrow the government of
the United States at that ime, was a
forgery. Hughes said he secured this
document from Attorney General Har
fY Daugherty. He affirmed that
There is no question as to the au
thenticity of the letter ,which was
addressed to American Communists.
That letter closed with the sentence:
"We hope that the Party will step
by step conquer (embrace) the pro
letarian forces of America and in the
not distant future raise the red flag
over the White House." It also con
tained instructions as to creating a
fighting force, to be drilled in shoot
ing. With this Daugherty document,
then, Hughes justified his sudden r e-1
versai of Coolidge's attempt to take
up discussions with the Soviet state. 1
Borah was discredited. But Borah 1
and Norris ridiculed the document as !
a probable fake. Today the source of
the forgery seems to have been lo
cated.
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ZINOVIEFF LETTER" FORGERY 1
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Borah is now chairman of the Sen
ate foreign relations committee. As
such, he has custody of the original
of that ''Zinovieff letter to American
Communists." Berlin _ police are in
vestigating the operations of the Or
loff forgery, gang, arrested in the
German capital recently through the
activity of an American press corres
per-dent. In the Orloff forgery plant
were found evidences that it was
tiiere that the forgeries asserting that
and Morris had each been paid
*100.000 by the Soviet government,
bad been manufactured, Borah in
sisted that the State Department in
struct the American embassy in Ber
nn to
cooperate in bringing the facts
as to the Borah-Norris forgeries to,
....
money spent can be salvaged for the
people, but definite and positive ac
the Free Press well—it congratulates
Mr. Clark on his good intentions, and
sincerely hopes that he will yet make
ho cliroW niurmpri it
the paper what he surely planned it
to be, and that he accomplisnes the
purpose to which he set his fortune
and his band.
disappointed people shake their heads
ruefully.
The Free Press must choose a
course and a port and sail with or
against the wind, with a strong hand
at the wheel and a head behind that
hand that know r s the rocks and shoals
of Montana politics, and set out with
a purpose to make the voyage what
ever the cost may be. Unless it does
this it cannot command the confidence
of the public, or accomplish its mis
sion, and the money of Mr. Clark
will have been spent in vain, and he
need must retire from the field dis
deed.
credited—which would be a shame, in
While it has fallen down this
winter, the Free Press can be made a
power in this state, it can accomplish
that which it set out to do—tho the
task will be more difficult—and the
tion must be taken and that soon.
The Producers News surely wishes
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Richman Bros. started the present
penod of intense compe.uion four
years ago with a series of .^2 -..ü 0
chain stores fed from centralized fac
, T l ieir success was foilowea b.,
other chains Hart, bchalner & Mara
met the problem by diversifying their
Er0ilP
some 300 exclusive dealers.
fied the problem of intensifying the
competition of price appeal. Quality
houses are largely unionize!; ma
chine clothing houses are largely non
union, operating with lower priced la
bor."
In the cotton textile and garment,
industries as in the woolen and men's
clothing industries the outstanding.
facts are at present over production,
intense competition and instability.
The process of integration is begin
ning. Because of the large number of
individual units and individualistic
traditions in these industres the pro-1
cess may take considerable time but
in the end textile and garment work-,
ers will find themselves dealing with
great capitalist combines like those
already developed in steel, oil, cop-,
per and aluminum. |
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light. No report of progress has
been made by the embassy; instead, a
suspicious silence. Borah is convinced
the
that instead of making public
facts as to what this gang of Russian
-... . I
refugees has been doing—selling docu
ments to injure the Soviet regime_
the high power will shut down the
inquiry. He is convinced that the
Hughes-Daugherty document, like the 1
others, was made by the Orloff gang,
He is convinced that the "Zinovieff '
letter to British Communists"
by the British Tories to defeat the
Labour Party in 1924, came from the
same factory.
It would seem a simple matter for
the State Department to assist i*.
clearing the names of the chairman
of the foreign relations committee and
the chairman of the judiciary corn
mittee of the Senate by sending to
Berlin a photostat copy of this
Hughes-Daugherty letter for com
parison with anything that has
been found in the Orloff plant,
Senator Borah is anxious that this
be done. But the German
used
govern
ment has not asked for it, and the De
partmert is very cool toward any ac
tion that might prove that Hughes'
policy had been established on a
forgery. Stimson, coming into the
state Department as a Hughes-Taft
Root choice, can be counted upon to
sta nd by Hughes. Just as in the
Dreyfuss case in France, the unmask
ing of an official error is found to be
virtually a crime against the ruling
FORGERY SCHEME DIES HARD
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^ 1S ha î îlt of £ UyUlg ? rgen .! s
™ de , by Rus , sia 1 n refugees to incite
batr , ed £* ai £ st tbe *°Yl et Union dies
bard - Bat and Noms charged
by the forgers with corruption be
caus f t be y have defended the right of
revolution in both Mexico and Russia
the United States have now
f, double motive for demanding that
tbe , 0r JS, af f inquiry be open and com
P* e t e - The Senate will soon hear from
them on the issue,
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BONDING COMPANY TO
PAY CONTRACTORS
Bainville, March 28.—According to
word received here yesterday from
gan Francisco, where the circuit
court of appeals is now in session, the
contracting firm of Lalonde, Peck &
Powers received a favorable decision
in their case against a bonding com
pany in which one of their sub-con
tractors were bonded, and received a
judgment of $14,000.
This case was formerly heard at
Great Falls, the bonding company ap
pealing from the vredict, and it has
been dragging along for a number of
years. The decision of this court is
final and judgmént was rendered
against the bonding company in favor
of the local firm.
MARTHA SNOOP
DEVELOPS OPINIONS
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John Arthur Stahlberg
"You remember, Sarah,'' said Mar
tha Snoop to Sarah Eave^lrop, '^at "
faU I had the airy-sipples, how »* ,
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Sarah remembered, muttering sym
pathetically that auy-sipples was pur
ty tough, all right. Sarah aaa never
had erysipelas, but being a crony of
Martha s she had hearo a great deal
about it. Martha never was one to
tons" aSS0CiatCä f0rBet nif 1
Yes," said Martha pensively. 'Till
never get over how awful I felt that j
fall. Here I laid sick, and you know
just as well as me that a sick person
ought to be protected from all kinds,
of worry and earn?, and here I laid.I™?
and the way 1 felt 1 was purty near
ready to croak any m i nu te, and the
doctor said I had to be kept quiet and
not be worried, and believe me Doctor
Aluminum is a nan thet knows his
business,— He ainU like that good
f 0 r-nothing Doctor Borrow that lets
people die—like Hans Naber, now, for
instance—-because he won't get them
the care they should have when they
jugt J well afford it> and any
f 00 i wou i d know that in a case like
with Hans he should've had a special
nurse right fron; the start, because a
special nurse don't o.st so awful much
tuat a person c uldn't afford it when,
it's a case of life and death,— The
old fake! —it makes me so mad when
I think of it I could jure kick him in
the seat of the pants. Well, here 1
laid, sick as I was, and worried till
it just male me feel awful about my
boy Adolpn and that girl that was
so crazy about him although she;
wasn't a bit worthy of a good clean
boy like Adolph, arci I knew perfect
ly well tnat they could never get
along together so as to make Adolph
happy, because he was used to a gdod
home, and a flighty girl like her
wasn't fit to make a home for a boy
like Adolph, that all the girls was so
crazy about,— And I used to always
say that a young man should ought
to look for a soulmate and not just
marry the first girl he happened on
to, and especially a boy like Adolph,
that could have his pick of the best."
Out in the yard a lovesick cat was
en( jeavoring to be a nightingale, and
f a j Bn g monstrously. Somehow its.
yow ij ng seeme d an utterly appropri
ac ? 0 mpaniment to Martha.
; "Yes," said Sarah, "I always claim
! ^ that ' Adolph was just like ray boy!
Bm a i thoug f of course Bill was al
I Ws more steady like, and-"
Martha.
"So here laid,-"
- was always so p'tic'lar like
about the comp'ny he kept, and...." !
-and worried and worried," ;
sa id Martha.
«. -always told me he didn't like
them up-to-date girls, and wanted to
marry a girl like his old ma," smirked
Sarah.
"Like I always said to Adolph, vou
can't depend on these girls that don't
think about anything except running
after the boys and having a good
time, and I used to always advise him
to pick out a girl like his ma that;
could take a little responsibility once
in a while, and not just be looking out
how to have a good time with the
boys, and never think about the du
ties of a future wife and mother, and
specially the duty of being a good
girl,— And I think a girl ought to
always try' to be good, because it
takes a good girl to make a good wo
man," said Martha primly.
Martha, be it known, has been a
£ood woman for sevreal years, now
__i n f ac t, ever since she became too
f, ld for effective sinning. Being no
linger able to partake of the imm'Jl
ate oys of pleasurable vice, she waxes
glib ever the deferred happiness which
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l g advertised as the ultimate reward
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virtue. Having spent the ca ih,
fehe yearns fondly in the direction
credit. Then, too, Martha loves
virtue, not because she desires to be
virtuous, but because virtue is some
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Bids Wanted
Sealed bids will be r eceived up to April 15th for
the Congregational church building (with or with
out tower).
This building is 28x36 feet.
Terms of Sale: Certified check for ten per cent of
purchase price must accompany bid. Balance pay
able in cash upon delivery of building.
The right is rese r ved to reject any or all bids.
Bids should be sent to James G. Wagner, Clerk.
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PLENTYWOOD, MONTANA
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"Course, senke girls don't know
better. Take, for instance, that
^^ n " e: h ^ s U u n ^^ p . th f at a 1 ^ as
" 1 and get herself*^"
, al > ayg
have started going with that "p n ,J
for . not ^i ng - m the first place hiS"*
he>g N0 G00D> and SUCH ' «
pER! Courct> j spose he>n . L *
right ag long ag she , g
_ But j ust wait till he
awful temper of his up!" g lhat
1 Young mon, never marry . M
who earns, or has at any time earned,
j her own v.ng, an ess jou are pre
P ared to take her far.far away. p e .
cause ^ tho ^ h J ou ' outdo the
labors of Hercules, the Martha Snoops
laid.I™? unanimously agree that you
being supported,
" . . . And still what does she
go and do but run around with that
Smart Alec and he got her talked in
to marrying him,—- And,— Course I
don't know,— But it seems funny, "
Down in Sarah Eavesdrop's slimy
old soul some remnant of a sense of
justice hinted that Martha Snoop
a malicious, lying old hypocrite;
! the young num in question was Vt
nearly so contemptible as Martha J ^
suggested; that Martha's insinuate, t5
a were neitrer v ' ked nor excusaole
1 , by any fact; that her assertions we e
DM
are
« as
■ L
**at
simply an i v.'.olu; hmgly cut out tf
the whole cloth. Put her appetite ,V
intimate, juicy cetails was
able as Martha's She leaned forAa-1
eagerly, wrinkled, blue-gray lips part
ed, eyes glittering,
"
sputtered breathlessly,
"Well," said Martha, "if there
wasn't some reason for it, why should
a smart, nice-looking girl like her go
and marry that big-headed, hot-tem
pered, stuck-up sassy, no-good-?"
The last word in Martha's list re
ferred to something which is not gen
erally mentioned in polite conversa
tion—but then no one could ever have
accused Martha of politeness. It be
gan to appear that she did not approve
of the young man who had married
the girl whom he had married.
1 ".And I just absoLUTELY
. KNOW that they won't get along, be
1 cause I've seen enough of that—that
thing—to know what kind of a tem
per he's got, and the first time she
j says anything he doesn't like, it'll be
j just-— '
l n view of the fact that Martha has
been at sword's point with he. hot
band for twenty years, it must be ad
milted that she ought to he a, an
I
as m a* j
What—what seems funny? she
thority on marital discord.
*•.No, I tell you, Sarah, I'd
a whole lot rather seen Marianne
dead and in her grave than married
to that awful thing,— The wav it is
she ain't got no future ahead of her,
anyway,— She'll just have that thing
to support all her life, and-Good
New Yor k, April 2.-A $4,000,MO
refinery with an intitial ca
Sidney, March 25.—At the annual
meeting of Richland county wool
growers here it was voted to affiliate
with the eastern Montana wool pool
of Glendive. James McGowan of
Fairview will represent Richland
t"
ness, me:
Copper Plant for Ontario
parity of 120,000 tons will be erected
near Copper Cliff, Ontario, by Inter
national Nickel company of Canada,
.Ltd., and Consolidated Minin? and
Smelting company.
RICHLAND GROWERS
JOIN WOOL POOL
I
countv in the sales committee of the
' pool. * The eastern Montana wool peri
have approximately ''00.000
pool. The eastern Montana wool perl
of,will have approximately 1 00.000
pounds of wool to dispose of and is
worth in the neighbor loci of 1320,
000.