The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-07-08

eminent organization for economic ad-
justment. Perhaps the fault lies deep
er than apears on the surface, for one
can see that in different states, and IN
different communities, we are looslng
sight of some of the most fundamental
things that make for prosperity. For
instance who is responsible for the
economic waste that is required, by
raising wheat in Montana and snip
ping it to Minnesota, where it is ground
into flour, and shipped back here ana
used for the growers food; why man
ufacture sugar at Billings and ship 1t
east to be shipped back here to the To-
cal merchant; why must our o go
over half the globe before it is re-
turned to us in the shape of clothes
to wear? Is the individual in a COM
munity working for his own or the COM
munities good when he sends his cash
for what he needs to some place out
side of the state, and uses his nome
merchant for his credit trade? Is the
selfishness that forgets what your
neighbor is doing for the home COM
munity. in the way of taxes and pub
lie improvements, the Impulse that Will
make your home town a better place
in which to live?
1t is an easy matter to crtlclse;
some of us can even look ourselves
over and find little things that are
lacking in our seeming perfection.
The self dissection in which we are
indulging today, would be useless un-
less we found a means for removing
the hlemishes. | think | can see a ray
of light for the future of America in
the recent laws which enlarge the
rights of women. Theoretically this
plan is sound, for by nature men and
women are designed to act together.
| do not look for immediate help from
this source; | do not think that in the
matter of votes the result will ever be
different from what it formerly was;
| think that for the present the women
do not feel the full force of their new
ly assumed responsibilities. The pres
ent plan seems to supplant men, rather
than help them. When this effort has
been modified, woman will take her
natural enlarged sphere, as indicated
by many of her organized activities
today, and go in for home improve
ment, not stopping there, for town
and state Improvement. Her natural
neatness will go to promote cleaner
towns, her ability to shop will soon
branch out into the cleaning up of the
vast economic waste, some of which
I have noted, and all Of which will &C
to the making of happier and better
homes.
Upon the home and it's influence
rests the future life of the nation
It was never more true than at pres
ent that "the hand that rocks the
cradle is the hand that rules the
world" The wal has disrupted the
home circle, and the sons and daugh
! tiers, ever some of the mothers, art
just getting back to a realization O.
the drift away from those influences
which make or mar the child, ant
make it either a burden or a help t.
the community and the state. The in
| fluence of the mother and the hom
: can curb the proclivities of the erin,
son, a bring to blossom with rar
fragrance the culture, and good tast
: in art literature, in the girl, tina
would put suggestive movie picture
/, out of business, and stop the sale o
the sensational short story. The moth
:, er's training will cause the son to shu1
the shimmying girl as impossible, an
!, the daughter to shrink from immod
esty as from actual vice. In a wor
the America of the future as of tn
past rests largely with the mother
of the nation. God speed them t
;" nobler and higher aims.
q l have attempted to show tina
e A%mericanism consists of self-rellanc
S and self-government in the nation
e the state, the home, and the individual
+ No law ever made a good American
q He makes himself, by his education
his culture and his self control; t
q these and his inborn sense of free
dom is added the ideal-governmer
e with the consent of the governed
q this vision of his fathers he has a
most made a reality around the worl'
In the past, as in the present, thi
ideal has. been regarded as priceless
" and sacred, and there has never bee
{. an emergency so great but that on
: people have arisen to it, and whe
n argument failed, by force of arm