The Bozeman courier., November 08, 1922, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

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THE BOZEMAN COURIER
The election is over. To most people this comes
with a sense of relief. Of course we like the ex
citement which always comes on election night,
the satisfaction of seeing that the majority agree
with our opinion of this or that particular candi
date or issue, but in the main electioneering is a
tiresome business and, sad to say, not an endeavor
calculated to lift one to a higher moral plane.
One of the most objectionable features of any
political campaign, and this last one in particular,
is the mud-slinging that is indulged in by different
candidates. Fortunately Gallatin county was rel
atively free from this as far as county politics
went, but with state issues it was a different mat
ter. As has already been pointed out in these
columns, figures do not lie but liars often figure.
Take for instance the matter of state indebted
ness, which has been an important matter in the
campaign just closed. Letters from the state
auditor, the state treasurer, certified public ac
countants and others have been so twisted, so
distored, so abused that it is hard for to
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get at the real truth of the matter. And that is
merely one side of the mud-slinging, perhaps the
least objectionable side to say the least.
There is another unfortunate side to the politics
of the present day, a side that augurs ill for the
future of our republic. Go back, for the time be
ing, to the politics of the early days of this coun
try. The men who took a leading part in the
formation of the union, Washington, Hamilton,
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, the Adams and many
more—where can we find their like in public life
today. Those colonial forefathers of ours, they
gave their best men to the country, without
thought to their own fortunes and their own fu
tures these men gave their services gladly, cour
ageously, willingly, whole-heartedly. It may be that
we have a different viewpoint today, that self
takes precedence over service, but whatever the
reason, we do not have the same caliber of men
in public life today that served many generations
ago. Is it that the country is lacking the great
brains of that earlier day, or has "politics" driven
the most worthwhile men out of public office?
That question each must answer for himself.
There are some of the younger generation, who
perhaps played politics, as the saying is, for the
first time this year. One such lad made the re
mark, "I am beginning to despair of human na
ture." That lad is wrong—very wrong. Here are
some of us at least twice his age, with our whole
lives spent in that most cynical of ail professions,
the newspaper game, and yet our admiration for
human nature grows stronger and stronger, day
by day. We listen to the pessimsits with a smile
—the prophets of evil do not frighten us. We
grant all their contentions: that man is naturally
evil, that he has used such glimmering light of
reason as he may possess only to become more
bestial than the beasts, that five thousand years
of civilization recently culminated in five years of
atrocity, fiendishness and insanity; yes, but in
the midst of it in the
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the muck of politics, war or any other event that
stirs the beast that is in us, there are flashes of
splendor, flashes of kindliness and courage and
self-sacrifice. There is something of that in all
oi us and that is the miracle. It should not
astonish us that men are full of ignorance and
vice, but that they are capable of the heroisms
they sometimes attain. We are too apt to look
upon the wrong side of the shield.
In these occasional flashes of heroism, genuius
or whatever we may choose to call them, there
lies the hope of the future.
THE GENTLE GRAFTER.
Not ihe cold-blooded,, predatory grafter but the
gentle, smiling and insinuating of that ilk ; the
one who takes it away in small items instead of
big bunches ; who gathers his harvest in a friendly
way. The gentle grafter.
For instance the "world walker" and his dif
ferent manifestations. The man who is walking
around the world, say on a bet or to win a prize
and must not earn a cent on the trip. He picks up
a dime from you and another from me, drops into
the newspaper office and "gets his story" which
should be worth many a dime along his route;
the wheelbarrow man trudging between New York
and 'Frisco; the person who is striving to "get
to his folks" in New Jersey or Nevada, depending
on which way hé is headed; the smooth young
student" who is selling something for several
times its worth that he may finish his schooling
and spread an eagle wing. The long procession
that arrives and departs like an interminable
caravan, the gentle grafters.
Then count the gentle publicity grafters who
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go about the earth by mail and by representative
seeking publicity that should be paid for but
isn't. Take for instance the pulchritudinous and
soft spoke representative of a great publishing
house who induces clubs to "help the boys of the
city" by offering a prize of $50 to the lad who shall
sell the most subscriptions to the Wednesday Aft
ernoon Stake or the Rural Aristocrat; all the
book publishing houses that as a "service" to
the newspapers put themselves to vast expense in
order that the forthcoming issue may print a
half column review of Algernon Gone Wrong's
new book "Night Before Last": note among the
smiling faces and pleasantly intimate news corre
spondence from the paid press bureau that the
new P rocess °f L i re making by the Non-Blowout
company has simply revolutionized the tire indus
try and 80 on and 80 through a big waste
basket of gentle grafting'.
seem to like it, press and people. If some
fellow came along hopping on one leg with the
statement that he was hopping a race across
America and the Pacific ocean we'd slip him a
dime and listen open-mouthed to his conversation,
^ would be a sporting event- He d manage to
bis picture into some of the Sunday papers;
and *be chances are that vhen he got out of town
^nd let his other leg down hed jingle more com
™ trouser s pocket than he could have earned
* n a wee ^» even if he had wanted to work,
There are more of them. There s the voluptuous
^ ady ^ 0?la kisa smile who is soliciting for
an or Pbans home in Timbucto ;she gets the money,
fb*ed business man coughs up under the
a Pl >ea ^ 01 those large, deep eyes. There's the man
' v ^ 10 ^ 0ldd bring a factory if inducements were
su ^ficiently strong ; the promoter of this or that
C0 ^P era tive effort which shall put the greedy
middleman out of existence; the man with a
patent who wants a factory built and capitalized
^ or companion who has a few
acres banana land in Baffins Bay and the
. s- b-s-b-h man who has a few blocks of stock
* n a *^ d w bere a gusher is being held back until
can ^ ends m on the ground floor. These
and others. Lots of'em.
^ essum. We fall for them. We love the gentle
^ ra ^ ei as muc h as vve hate the rude, unmannerly
bold-up man. Old P. T. Barnum, himself, a past
mas ^ er the art of gentle grafting, knew us all
as wed as though he had carried the mud to make
us * . ^ we wouldn't keep right on
^mg for it.
DRINKING AND VOTING.
Following the crowd on election night one hears
années a. diversity of things. Often, very often
these days, the talk turns on prohibition,
congressmen all voted the way they drink the
Volstead act would be repealed this fall," said
someone.
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It is entirely within the bounds of possibility
that this assertion may be correct, but the Vol
stead act will not be repealed, nevertheless. There
are a great many men who take a drink, and
some who take many drinks—when they can get
them—who do not vote or think or base their con
clusions as they drink. Successmen men in busi
ness do not figure their business as they drink,
though many successful men may use intoxicants.
A business man, though he may take a drink at a
bar, does not make the bar the decimal point of
his business thinking.
Prohibition has proved itself good business.
Aside from any moral aspect it is sound economics.
The object lesson has been made,
is a business success.
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Prohibition
Whatever the conviction
of the individuals as to the morality or immorality
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of drinking intoxicants may be, and there is wide
difference of opinion in this respect, the sound
economics, horse sense and sordid advantage of
prohibition is its mainstay and rock of foundation.
Millions of men who would like a drink would vote
to continue it.
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It is good sense. It is good sense in Bozeman.
It means that men who once begged credit for a
dollar's worth of goods now runs a bill and what
is more, pays it at the end of the month. The
bills are paid. And that which is good sense in
Bozeman is good sense anywhere. Make no mis
take. People know. They are convinced. And in
estimating the temper of congress and its vote
prohibitory questions pray do not forget that
women with children vote for congressmen. Be
sure that the congressmen will not neglect or
forget that fact.
Some men talk in favor of booze. Some few
believe in it. Others earn their living by being
propagandists for booze and the traffic in booze.
And they talk because they are trying to
their wages. . But there are hundreds of others
making similar remarks, fifty per cent of whom
on
would, if the actual test came, vote to protect
the Volstead law because prohibition is plain horse
sense and good economics. Men talk loosely. They
sense and good economics. Men talk loosely. They
sometimes vote loosely. But when the real test
comes on an important economic question that
affects their affairs in general they usually vote
the better way. ■ > -
Maybe the congressmen slip in a hooker
and then,
earn
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Certain it is that some other very
good and reliable men do not refuse an occasional
drink; but neither the congressman or the citi
zen is willing to cut the throat of an economic
success for it. ' >
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Mirs. E. J- Tinsley was in town Sat
urday from her home east of town.
Mrs. John Powers and Miss Mar
garet Dunville were Manhattan call
ers Saturday.
Miss Hilda Benson. Miss Kathleen
Flynn and Mrs. Hannah Breslin
were among those from Logan attend
ing the masquerade dance in Trident
Tuesday evening.
E. Ryan, of Boulder, is visiting his
daughter, Mrs. Mary Carpenter, and
family, at their home near Carpenter
siding. s
Mrs. L. A. Medaer and Mrs. James
McDaniels were Manhattan callers
Monday afternoon.
Ray Romans was in town Saturday
from Moncrete •
Frank Duffin, of Manhattan, was
Logan called Saturday.
John McCall came up from Leurel
Saturday night to visit his family
over Sunday.
Mrs. August Johnson and daughter
Ena motored to Manhattan Saturday
afternoon.
Tom MacGowan, of Missoula, who
attended the football game in Boze
man Saturday, was a Sunday guest
at the Bevier home.
Joe Malin and daughter Nan
recent shoppers in Bozeman.
Will Crowley was in town Friday
visiting old friends and relatives,
while on his way home to Townsend
from Bozeman.
The Misses Mary and Irene Bry
son came down from Bozeman, where
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they are attending school, to spend
Saturday and Sunday with their par
ents in the Madison valley. j
Howard Inabnit, who is attending 1
school at Manhattan, was in town Fri
day, on his way to his home on Cher
ry creek.
Mrs. L. C. Bevier entertained a few
friends at cards Saturday afternoon,
in honor of Mrs. C. R. Grogan, of
Belgrade, who was a house guest of
Mrs- D. A. Swamer.
Mr. Hall, insurance adjuster, was a
Logan caller Friday from Helena.
Mr. and Mrs. Dell McLees and
daughter June spent Sunday with rel
atives on the Madison.
John McDaniels, who shiped a car
load of horses east about a month
ago, returned Thursday from St. Joe,
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Bozeman last week. (
Miss Helen Shervens, of Manhat
tan, was a caller at the McLees home
last Sunday evening.
C. R. Grogan and Mrs, H. F. Lynn
drove down from Belgrade Sunday
evening and visited friends a few
hours. Mrs -Grogan, who has been a
guest in town, accompanied them
home.
Miss Helen Bevier returned Tues
day from Bozeman, where she spent
several days with friends.
Miss Hope Monser was a shoper in
SUMNER TO KANSAS—
AGRONOMIST RESIGNS.
H. R. Sumner, since 1919 assistant
agronomist at the college, and one of
the best liked men connected with the
local institution, has tendered his res
ignation and will leave about the first
of the year to take the position of
extension agronomist for the Kansas
Mrfl Sumner
Agricultural college.
has had this offer under considera
tion for some time, but only recently
made up his mind to go.
Mr. Sumner will be returning to
his old school, as it was from the
Kansas Agricultural college that he
graduated in 1916. He was an aviat
or during the war and was a prisoner
in Germany for many months.
Since coming to Montana Mr. Sum
ner has specialized in grains. He took
charge of the Gallatin exhibit at the
state fair two years ago and was
largely responsible for the winnings
there. He is the secretary of the
Montana Seed-growers' association
and has superintended the exhibits
that association has successfully
made in Chicago and other places
He is the author of an interesting
bulletin on the preparation of grains
and grasses for exhibition.
Mr. Sumner married a Bozeman
girl and has been active in the life
of the community, and his absence
will be greatly felt.
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Miss Anna M. Turley, of the State
College extension service, has left on
a vacation. She will visit her home
in Indiana, and before returning ex
pects to go to Washington, D. C., for
conference.
H. R. Sumner, assistant agronom
ist at the Montana Experiment Sta
tion, has resigned to take a position
as state crops specialist in Kansas.
Mr. Sumner has been at M. S. C. since
the spring of 1919. He is a gradu
ate of Kansas State Agricultural col
lege. He leaves Montana the first of
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