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A PAPER OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE
PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1931.
Official Paper of the City of Plentywood
Number 22.
Sub. Rates:
Foreign, $3.75
In U. S. 13.09
per year
Per year
s Matter, October 18, 1912, at the Poet
office at Plentywood, Montana. Under the Act of March 3. 1878
Entered as second
jU THE NEWS
HUTS FIT TO READ
t-bone slim
B p JOHN P. PUBLIC, is is re
fs^&Ä.'SU
g John has worked himself in
to, vint' mood, he finds his credr
• > no food and he has no money.
11 Le a contretemps.
J" gee John standing in front
Ahe "Cbffoe And" Laboratories,
t sucking his thumb (a sure
lie is in the mooa to go into
Staffs in a big way) or we
ïhim shaking off a few chills in
hi* way in front of the Burlap,
J and Benny Company's
1 Sudfcplay. "U I "'as a mill
■ . Ljre " he was heard to remark,
I Ï? would buy me a pair of sox."
I Undoubtedly J. Poor Public *
I the buying mood.
I (Note: The chills were part of
I ^ ear iy August cold snap prees
I wring early winter.)
■ Gee. I'm quite a crepe hanger!
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By
jostas
K»
is in
(Adv city you wish to name),
August 3, '31.—Fire, thought to
have been started by a short cir
„ t in the cash register,destroyed
S garage full of used cars, and a
tire-pump in good working order
everything but the pump was cov
ered by insurance— loss $2.50. Mor- [
air Don't forget the pump.
M S h
JZ students say they turned I
Sts to finance themselves at a
training camp, dumping
their career by shooting down a po
liceman who they feared had come
to arrest them. No matter how
may have been, they must be cen
sared for permitting their military
activities to precede their training.
Social workers are puzzled.
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Our Optimist.
Certainly the black clouds of
gloom which enveloped the outlook
a few short weeks ago show no
signs of getting any darker — if
only prosperity can hang onto the
comer post a little longer; till the
clouds roll by.
(Indians forecast cloudy weather
for 40 more years.)
Newspapers, somisscalled, in ag
^cultural states are busy apolo
gizing for 30 cent wheat—an apol
op- is always acceptable. I won
der what tune the press would play
if farmers declared for a two year
moratorium on taxes ?
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Farmers are exploited as pro
ducers and their oportunity to pass
the buck to others is compeltely
dissipated in their role of part
time employer of labor, a miner
circumstance in their trials. It is
in the capacity, that of a producer,
they are "taken for a ride
and
nude to walk back—and all that it
implies.
1 In late years the process has
keen described as deflation, a con
I dition that presupposes inflation
I in other quarters—no deflation
I wn occur without corresponding
I inflation elsewhere.
I When producer (worker or farm*
I«) is deflated, signs of corres
■ ponding inflation appear, beginning
Im his immediate surroundings and
■ continuing to the skyscraper
lions of finance. Highly polished
■ trass dazzles the eye and at times
■|t is thought the deflation and in
■ nation has been carried beyond
B, e zone of prudence. The more
■ intimate inflators therefore to re
■ flm the lost regard of the deflat
■ ed might moderate their customs,
I"* d°wn their vice for display
»
can
|«d regulate
llu 5 con f° r m more nearly to
■ "i* "humbleness" they helped to
l^te. Grandiose establishments
|~* , *} 0re grandiose program» »re
Im "I e . more dangerous phénom
l? a °i inflation; it is when infla
■ ®on, attacks the otherwise impreg
■ÿle skull that the
I ®ne—referred
good care of us
—he is preparing, pre
s
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'iw» of dear ol' England,
"toIS a dole?
is the difference between 30
wheat and $2 wheat, say.
the difference between
* a?es and the full product of one'«
' !
nothing friehtful about ;
!
his the counteracting- of defla
t^eady accomnS Lid the
Petition Of it being made abso
p aT!( i complete
J ver y producers knows all this
^ will excuse me the .LSi
- ' of Pretending to ho tho nno
u art child in the hutmo familv
there is this ZtiS
■ - often escapes the nf n«
■; medley of nhonpv
advanced as ran« „«cfnf
ferries; C3Use per se of
tÄ* inflationcannot v n
inflation 2 S? aWb a . 1]
>^<1 to^thfs olio ^ nCy .iî S
Rifled term * * oes u , nder the
Action i s u- °L exp ansion (con
I ** 1* and where
Y' is ,ar
Lésion i s ev îfjp_ , t ,
Serial e LÄ" ced n< J on,y
(Co »titmed^ ? ^ 1 as
■ 0T! last rage)
damage is
to in everyday par
■ • <:we ^ e< i-head.
I *~° me towns have this to a de
I r J er? ' n ^ . on su P« r suffid«ncy. )
I.political super-seers are
a series of crocodile
It™ / 0r tbeir most-high compat
0f more or l eES non-exist
grasshopper and drouth relief,
"««ver will take
*** winter
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FEDERAL AID PROGRAM FOR THE
RELIEF OF TEN MILLIONS OF UNEM
PLOYED IS OUTLINED BY GIFFORD
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H«d of American Telephone and Telegraph Company j
Is INamed by President Hoover to Direct Relief Work 1
this Winter—Plan* National Drive for Local, County
ana Stale Funds to Relieve Distress Among Nation's
Unfortunates—Radio and Newspapers Will be Used to
Stimulate Responsibility Among People.
.
Washington, Aug. 25. — The federal program for relief
0 f distress among ten million unemnloved winter
, .. . , . . u " em PK>yea next Winter
^lllbca national drive to raise local funds," Walter S.f
Gifford, named by President Hoover to direct relief work i
announce< J V estercb*v Ir, fk 1 • «- «.* 1 '
[ nnouncea yesterday. In brief the plan is to stimulate I
private sources of relief and* -— --- 1
*°J Âl'îi of T
®K ns iî7 y among local, county
f h t v* hD ?
£ at federal " d wl " " ot "«•»
By means of a concerted nation
al campaign, by personal contacts
speeches over "national radio net
, . ,.... ... . , ,
k ' m addltlon to direct state
ments to newspapers, Gifford said
j he hoped the country would be
! stirred to a pitch where it would
! meet the unemployment relief sit
nation adequately. The time for
national drive will be announced
later.
Gifford left the way open for
federal funds if they are needed,
Forty newspaper correspondents!
questioned hi mat his first press
| conference as to what would hap
! pen if local, county and state or
ganizations, working under his di
rection, failed to raise the money
necessary for adequate relief. Each
time he replied: "We'll cross the
bridge when we come to it.
prise. He is president of the Amer
Gifford's office presented a sur
ican Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
one of the greatest industrial
ganizations of all history. Popular
imagination pictured him in an of
fice of movie proportions. But he
was found standing at a little
desk, jammed by a window against
the end of a slightly larger con-j
ference table. There were no jade
fountain pen sets or rugs or
sian samovars. On one wall was a
drab business map of the country,
ri
The gist of a 40 minute ques
tion and answer talk that followed
was that Gifford believes the non
federal resources of the country
can handle the relief situation; that
he does not plan to make any
promises or predictions; but that
he will devote all the time neces
sary from his great business to do
his best to make the relief cam
paign a success.
It revealed, first, that this new
est presidential commission is to
he called the "president's organi
zation on unemployment relief,"
and that the 60 citizens invited to
serve under him will he a separate
advisory committee to his own or
ganization.
Blame Him?
T/ ~, IKl r-r> i/^ix'c/^vkt Hiv irvUM «
JOHN ERICKbON MY JU, JUHIN J
\Y/i_ii7M FTRCT WF \V/FRP ACOUFNT *
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YOUR FRIENDS WERE MIGHTY THICK, ♦ ;
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By H. Lowndes Maury,
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rfiflës-ÿJlïit-is
financial calamiUe. Some ar.
even so heedless of causes a» to,
lay at the door of government all)
failures in the production of use
ful things. Realizing how absurd ;
it usually is to hold government
! responsible for failures of produc
; tion (the cause of famines in tune s
! remotely past) many refuse to try
out mentally how far bad govern
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Wnman Assaulter Given
Woman Assa t
99 Years at L-ewistOWn
Lewistown, Aug. 21.—Describing
him as a menace to society of the
torst^e a public enemy aiid.J^
vicious in the extreme. Judge E.
A Baker Thursday sentenced "Wal- (
ter Jioinich ti serve 99 years at
w d la£>r in the state penitentia- 1
n ïv for criminal assault and robbery
1] ll Mrs Kiev Powell Wednesday
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morning.
Pipinich waived *11 ti ®? e , -fiîl
torney right» and pleaded gailty
st2 »■ m - . , k . „„
He seemed stunned at the sen
tence. Court officials say it is the
as lon ^ est P rison tem ever ^
Fergus county.
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GRENORA BANK
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RUBBED LRIDAY
L AST FRIDAY afternoon a couple
I men parked a Ford sedan in
fr ® Tlt ' of th * bai,k at Grenora.
Several men sitting on the steps
of the bank talked of hard times
while the two holdup men entered
the bank, locked the cashier in the
vault, walked out and drove away
with what they had been able to
get hold of in a hurry, which is
said to be about $1200.
It is reported they dropped a $20
bill on the floor as they left the
institution.
The abandoned car is said to
have been found abandoned near
Circle, Montana and it is thought
the hold up artists at that point
i doubled back
we nt back to Wolf Point,
on their trail and
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THE DOLE, THE DOLE, THE WICKED COLE!
1
or-jfN THE DAYS of Julius Caesar
i £ the dole was a share or portion
| distributed among the poor as
; a gratuity. Its meaning today is
practically unchanged. It is a
! share or portion distributed as a
gift of charity. Another name for
Idoles is limited alms.„One might
"Hooverized alms."
Every man who feeds a poor,
hungry person gives a portion of
his substance and said portion is a
dole.
Every woman who gives a hun
gry human being a handout at the
back door gives a portion of her
substance and said portion is a
dole.
Every charitable association that
gives to each of the famished in
a bread line a half a loaf of bread,
a bowl of soup and a cup of cof
Schnitzler Called East
Froid, Aug. 23.— Senator John
W. Schnitzler has been called to
Washington, D. C. to attend
meeting of the federal farm hoard.
J£S jS
to enjoy aU tfe, comforts and some
of the luxuries of life. I
B y trade restrictions, by unfair
taxation of small property owners
in proport ion to the big ones, i.e.,
b y taxing farmers off the land, by
permitting rates of interest to be
^ high as to become usury, ruin
ous fj rs t to borrower, last even to
banker himself, government fre
quently does stifle even production.
In regulating distribution, gov
emmentas we have it, holds a oon
tlli b and for good or evil. In
nronortion to the numbers of our
P j e Montana produces more
wea jth by average over periods of
aiid.J^ y ear y ttonfny overstate. It
• n0 an3wer to the Montana prob
( le vaguely say "conditions are
, , everywhere else." The same
1 ^tten Shods of government may
elsewhere, but
i= no eood ?eason why we
«hould endifre them longer here,
should endure tnem ig«
0ur y ^ st Pn erirv of
superior skill, industry, e
"ÄÄÄ
"" are
^^^„^^dytogovernment
Stinu^i on TWO)
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Senator Couzens Offers a {
Cold Million for Relief
Detroit, Aug. 24.— A gift of one
million dollars for unemployment
relief in Detroit next winter was
promised to Mayor Frank Murphy
Saturday by United States Senator
James Couzens, republican, Michi
gan.
Ä thl 'ïïSEf Ä
Payment committee to raise an ad
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RAYMOND PFOPI F
WtUUUlW lEUlLE
HOT UNDER COLLAR
jveOPLE OF THE Raymond coun
try have been invading Plenty
wood lately with blood in their
eyes and murder in their hearts,
The reason for this is an article
appearing in the local mainstreet
îMâ
out over a rumor about closing
some of the stations alon K the So °
Ä one of the
stations mentioned. Part of the
offending article reads as follows:
"Residents of the Raymond ter
ritory are not much pleased about
such prospective service. It will
make the mail service very un
satisfactory, and there is already
a movement on foot to have a
rural mail route from Plentywood
to the Canadian boundary line
created and discontinue the Ray
mond post office as the service
over the rural route out of Plen
tywood will be far more satis
factory than it would be with a
mixed train bringing the mail
occasionally."
From this article people will na
turally draw the conclusion that
the Raymond people are just fall
ing all over one another in order
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i fee gives portions of its substance
j to said famished and said portions
i are doles.
j When the federal government at
| divers times furnished money to
buy food for starving Chinese,
j Belgians, Armenians, Rumanians,
Russians and Germans—hundreds
of millions of dollars—the govern
ment gave portions of the suh
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FORMER HELENA OFFICIAL RECALL OIL
SCANDAL - SUGGESTS CALLING SPECIAL
SESSION-LETTER TO THE GOVERNOR
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Frank J. Edwards, former Mayor of the City of Helena
Several Times Candidate for Governor, the Best Post
ed and Most Noted Economist in the State, Sends
Letter Unanswered by Governor to Press for
Publication.
By Frank J. Edwards, Helena, Montana
Helena, Montana,
August 4, 1931.
To J. E. Erickson,
State Capitol, Helena, Montana.
THE CRIME wMch was commit
ted against the school funds of
this state, in the matter of oil
leases, and which wa® referred to
during the campaign of two years
? 0 » *nay have been treated as
"political."
With politics out of the way tern
porarily, the measure of "Honest
John" may now be taken accurate
y> only to serve the purpose
f public enlightenment. TTie pre
SHERIDAN COUNTY 4-H CLUB JÜDG
MTEAM MAXES RECORD AT FAIR
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,BOYS ALSO HAVE OTHER EX
PERIENCES ON TRIP TO
HELENA
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By t he County Agent
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rpHE 4-H LIVESTOCK Judging
I team which represented Sheri
I dan county at the Montana
State Fair which was held last
week at Helena, won third place in
competition with 21 other teams
from the state. The team consist
ed of Olvin Holje, Torlief Aashiem
and Vern Hancock from the Re
serve 4-H live stock club. Earl Hol-fand
je of the same club also made the
trip with the boys. Although the
hoys were fortunate in winning
third place in the livestock judging
contest they were not so fortunate I
in other ways as two of the club
members were victims of pick
_ ocketg wW1 attendintr fa ; r -nd
had to spend the irreater portion of
time^thout^unds. P
ered Torlief Aashiem and Earl
Holje the more prosperous of
1 group. Therefore they were re
There will be a meeting of
Local Secretaries and Commit
tee rwen of the United Farmers
League at the Farmer ■> Labor
Temple in Plentywood, Thurs
day afternoon ad one o'clock,
September 3rd. for the purpose
of electing a county board and
transacting ot herb usine ss mat
ters. All Executive Secretar
ies and Committeemen are re
quested to be present.
RODNEY SALISBURY, .
Acting Secretary.
A SAFE IS NOT SAFE!
ANYMORE
In some mysterious way some
one entered the residence of Mr.
and Mrs. A, O. Opgrande one night
early this week and opened their
safe and got away with $300.00,
The safe was built into the wall
in the basement. In front of the
safe was a writing desk with the
written combination to the safe
stuck away in one of the pigeon
holes. Very likely the $500 will
be put in circulation by someone
familiar with Mr. Opgrande's writ
ing desk while the sheriff and his
deputies are looking for clues.
ENGINEERS WORKING
ON FLOOD CONTROL
IN GLASGOW REGION
Glasgow, Aug. 24.—Two parties
of United States army engineers
arrived in Glasgow to survey the
country drained by the Missouri
river.
Five men make up each of the
parties, headed by Wm. P. Bush
nell and A. W. Gregg. Sam Neff,
area engineer, has arrived to take
charge.
Starting last April at Kansas
City, the crews have been working
up the river. Before coming to
Glasgow they were stationed at
Mobridge, S. D. Now they are
working in the Dry Creek country
southeast of town and will go west
to Squaw and Telegraph creeks.
The survey will end at Fort Ben
ton, if present plans are complet
ed.
Mrs. Ed. VanHee and children,
who have been visiting at the Van
Hee homes in Plentywood the past
two weeks, returned to her home
at Antelope Sunday.
vailing depression, desperation and
bewilderment have caused many
people to wonder why and how
such could occur in a land of over
production and plenty.
The present economic situation
is clearly an outgrowth of thous
ands of unlawful schemes design
ed to mulct the people and to en
rich the profiteers. The success
of these schemes, piloted by a com
paratively few, and measured in
billions, has pauperized the poor
people while those of moderate cir- ,
cumstanoes have been and now are
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i__money
lieved of any surplus cash which
they might have had. After thi» ;
expenencethe boyswereforceti t°
patronize bakeries instead of res- j
tuarants when it came meal time.,
Torlief said that a dime would go
lots farther at a bakery for the I
purchase of eats than it would at !
cafes. '
They also had the misfortune to
lose one of their traveling bags
containing their wearing apparel
»This was stolen from the bays at
the depot at Havre as it was nec-1
essary to spend part of the night
one day at this point in order
to make train connections.
According to the reports there
were onty two easy chairs in
depot at Havre and these were oc
cupied by Earl and Torlief. It was
necessary for Olvin and Vern to
seek their much needed sleep out
on the prairie adiacem to Havre,
Although the boys Sost their
money traveline bags and a lot of
sST'firÄär
trip and feel that they were well
the'repaid by winning third place at
the livestock Judging contest.
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Railroads Slashing Rates to
West Coast for Passengers
Chicago, Aug. 24.—Railroad pas
sengers who travel from eastern
cities to the Pacific coast on the
five Saturdays starting Aug. 29
will be offered round trip lower |
berths for $60, the Pullman com- :
pany announced today.
The reduction of approximately
25 per cent will be an experiment
in jittracting additional railroad
and pullman business it is said.
TAXES ON CARS
EXCEED VALUE
Official of National Automobile
Association Says Levies Against
Automobiles are Too High.
Washington,—That the tax levies
on the average motor vehicle thru
out its life amount to 128.3% of
the average value of the behicle is
one of the outstanding findings of
the national taxation committee of
the American Automobile Associa
tion.
"When the point is reached that
any form of property pays taxes
in excess of its value, it becomes
a question of how long that form
of property and the services de
pendent upon it can stand the
strain," Cql. Sidney D. Waldron of
Detroit, chairman of the A.A.A.
national taxation committee declar
ed. He continued: ,
"The average motore vehicle on
the street, according to compre
hensive charts developed by our
committee, has an average value
through life of 25.48 per cent of
its purchase price. The purchase
price of the average motor vehicle
in 1930 yas $808. If the average
value of vehicles through liwe is
applied to this purchase price, it
will readily be seen that the value
of the average vehicle on the
street in 1930 was $205.88.
"Now the tax levy on the aver
age vehicle in 1930 was $37.72.
The vehicle has an average life of
seven year. On the basis of the
tax rate for the last year the av
erage vehicle through its average
life of seven years will pay taxes
in the amount of $264.04, or 128.3
per cent of its average value,
namely, $205.88.
Thus we have a situation today
where one form of property of vi
tal importance to the business and
recreational life of the community
and with a limited life pays taxes
in excess of the actual average val
ue of the property. Here is one of
theo utstanding anomalies in the
history of taxation. Limitation of
the number of motor taxes levied
and the placement of the power to
tax in the state alone, as set forth
in the tax principles recently enun
ciated by the American Automo
bile Association, would render it
much easier to prevent tax dis
crimination against the motor ve
hicle owners in the years immedi
ately ahead."
DAKOTA FARMERS
MAKE DEMAND ON
countycomm'rs
Williston, N. D., Aug. 15,—Over
a thousand farmers from all sec
tions of William scounty, under the
leadership of the United Farmers
League, which organization is
growing rapidly in the northwest,
met with county commissioners in
the court house here Friday noon
packing the court room and the
halls and corridors, and spokes
men demanded prompt assurance
by the commissioners that drouth
relief be speeded, and that a bond
issue he authorized to provide
to feed the workers and
farmers who are facing starvation
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foreclosures on crops, cattle or
land
The demand was made ^ the
name of the «United Farmers
rL €ague" and resolutions embody
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Glasgow, Aug. 2JL— Tide Valley
the,County Fair will offer three days
of educational features in 12
partments .free shows, four carm
val attractions, horse racing, danc
es, $300 in prize money and $3100
m premiums. One hundred dollar»
will he given away every day of
the fair. There will be horse races
^ ^
Five judges have been announced
and the judge for school exhibits
1 will he announced soon.
ing the demands were presented to
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CHINESE ROOD HORRORS BEYOND
DESCRIPTION; DEAD BODIES FLOAT
BY THOUSANDS ON BROAD RIVERS
Dead Cannot be Counted and Vast Hordes are Fleeing
by Every Imaginable Conveyance from Inundated
Areas—Five Hundred Thousand Dead in Three Sister.
Cities of Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyan—Four Hun
dred Thousand Refugees in Hankow — Famine and
Pestilence Sweeping Great Valley.
GREATEST CATASTROPHE Nl 3,00« YEARS
Hankow, Aug. 21.—Death, starvation and pestilence
stalked through ever-widening areas of China today as
flood waters that have swept thousands to death and
made upward of thirty million homeless swirled on in
what is the greatest calamity that has befallen China in
three thousands years of recorded history.
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FEED LOANS WILL
BE RE-OPENED
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Stanley, N. D. Aug. 23.
thousand two hundred thirty-six j
farmers of Mountrail county ap
plied for a federal feed loan and
these were all made out by the 1
drouth relief committees in a two j
weeks' period. This fine piece of i
work shows the value of a good
organization. Several hundred
more would have been taken out!
the last week but for Secretary
Hyde's instructions to wait until |
the new regulations came out. Mr. j
Hyde happened to be in this coun
ty at that particular time and this
explains why this county stopped
a\ 1 others continued with them.
\\ is expected that the new reg
ulations will allow more money
which would mean that those who
have &, -eady made out a loan could
go to u, ;ir committee and make
out another and get more money.
Nothing has been received as yet
on the new !-egulations.
Bearings Need Tightening
In County A •'♦;'-ney Bakewell's
mind the huilldings on Nig C'oUir.s'
old place has been walking all over
the county lately. Mysterious calls
have come to him at all hours of
the night and caused much worry
and loss of sleep—at times he has
found it necessary to arouse the
sheriff's force from its peaceful
slumbers.
In order to solve the mystery a
hearing was held before Judge S.
E. Paul this, Friday, morning, but
after Attorneys Bakewell, G
Babcock, Sheriff Madsen, Ex-sher
iff Salisbury and Tonsorial Artist
Moe all had their little say the
Court was hopelessly confused,
Bakewell asked for a restraining
order against somebody prevent
ing them from doing something
they never did or intended to do.
reer,
yHb Progressives
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By Attorney Jess H. Stevens, Great Falls, Montana
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The supreme issue, involving all others, is
the encroachment of the powerful few upon
the rights of the many.—Sen. LaFollette,Sr.
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IT HAS been conservatively estimated that at least 30,
000 residents of Montana will have to be provided
as white men should What do we
Pay a Governor a .salary of $/5(K)
811(1 > ^ p ? de 5™ Wlth . a
Governor » Mansion and its mam
tenance? That is, if the weite
**5 !w? le 18 t0
^ e< ?. ^ ross . and theMontana
Association private agencies. Let
us have the legislature called in
special session, for it can, and it
will, provide employment for these
people and save Montana the hu-,
mflktte experience of having 60 -
000 of its best citizens dependent
j upon chanty.
| If an earthuake happened and
made 50,000 Montanans dependent
upon charity, would the Governor
hM, ! ate fff äh», a , s iî ial
session of the legislature? If a
flood had overcome us. and 50 MO
of our best people were destitute,
with relief this winter.
Just think of it! Fifty
rorr '
thousand r mei '» wo "
men and children to be de
pendent upon charity for their sus- j
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hves to be jeopardized because 1
Montana, the Treasure State, is so
destitute of money and brains to
provide honorable employment for i
these people, that they may live
tenance—their health and their
Destruction of this great
inland city of modem China
was threatened by the rising Yang
tse river and a general exodus of
its population of close to a million
was in progress.
Several hundred miles to the
north the Hwai Ho river was
over thousand» of
spreading out
square miles in .northern Honan
Anhwei and Kiangsu province»,
Eighty counties were reported in
undated, lowlands, villages and
crops were destrive«! hut no esti
mate of the loss of life was avail
able from The north,
The Hankow area was engulfed
and the seriousness of the situa
H° n was augmented by the con
stant stream of refugees pouring
in from other inundated sections.
On rafts made of house doors or
other material, in long treasured
family cofiins and in sampan», the
fleeing natives arrived. Some owed
their lives bo the use of ernde life
preservers made of goatskins, in
flated with air.
Hankow, Aug. 22.— One-third of
the entire population of the flood
devastated Wu-Han area has been
"killed, is hopelessly diseased, or is
certain to starve," an official state
ment said today.
Wu-Han includes the three sis
ter cities of Hankow, Wuchang and
tiaftyqn, separated by rivers which
]n r. tc make the mam course of
the Y.mgtse. The population of
the cities alone is approximately a
j million and a half, with millions of
! others in surrounding agricultural
districts.
of a gigantic »cate the people
the Hankow region will die 1
Nanking, Aug. 22.— Disease is
taking a terrific toll among Yang
tze valley flood sufferers.
A statement of the situation was
given by Dr. J. H, Liew, chief of
the Nanking health service:
"Unless there is immediate reBef
of
flies.
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Typhoid, malaria and cholera
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Canadian Cafe Exchanges
t -a a ah a oa
Lethbridge, Alta,, Aug. 24.—-One
Lethbridge Cafe operator will ex
c,ia p? e meal ® ^heat, another
evidence that the days of barter
are returning. This restaurant,
one of the leading ones m the city
instructs its farmer patrons to take
their wheat to the elevator, get
receipts and hewill allow them 60
cents a bushel for all they deliver.
He gives them back coupons in
change good for further meals.
T ,t atr r- i :r"/ i ." ews,>a, T ^
other business firms are also tak
mg produce in the present emer
gency.
would the Governor hold up his
hands and say "The state has not
any money, so there is not any use
calling the legislature in special
sess "? n ^" Would not all of the
members of the legislature prompt
ly ad gladly ask for a special ses
s j 0 n, and offer to serve without
any per diem pay?
until this calamity is upon
Why not prevent the crime that
will undoubtedly be caused by this
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Why wait
us?
Meals for Wheat; 50c bo.