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The producers news., 1921-08-19

Some teachers have failed to send in
reports and the old registers. Any
clerk knowing that they have omitted
sending in full information and that
the old register has not been sent in,
should ascertain those facts immedi-
ately and send in the missing evil
dence.
A few districts in the county were
badly crippled because Of the hail
storms this summer. The financial
condition in these Districts, after
these dry years, is a very critical situ-
alton. This Office is besieged as to
what can be done in the matter of
financing these Districts. The law
governing the financing of schools of
the District, County or State, does
not provide any means besides direct
taxation upon the District to provide
for such an emergency. The laws Of
the last legislature provided for such
an emergency BY means of the fund
ing bond law, which expired July 1st,
1921. That is debt incurred up to
July first, only, can be taken up by
those bonds. This office wishes to
AAOH1 L1lO ORAA0 LII O14C SOu1l-
ty if they have any prospects Of buy
ing the warrants from these Districts.
Only about fifty per cent or less of
the taxes in two districts will be
forthcoming this year and those war
rants would necessarily have to be
carried until another year. The only
possible remedy for the future to
eliminate such conditions is by means
Of the County Unit. In that case the
whole county would be responsible for
any local misfortune, as well as in
such cases as in isolated districts and
schools. An attempt will be made the
coming winter to put on campaign
in reference to the County unit. The
columns of the newspapers should be
available to any one to express their
opinion for or against, but any one,
before expressing his or her opinion,
should first investigate and find out
the true nature Of the County unit
law. ~
The producers news., 1921-08-19
SCHOOL NOTES

In another part Of this paper you
Will notice the particulars in regard
to the 7th amt Sth gra''e examlna-
tions. These Same part :uars were
se:t to a the tarers N t: = County.
We have neslly al! vacancies filled
in this county for the present time.
There are several applications on
hand at the Office but really very few
more applications are coming in.
Several Districts should obtain their
teachers Immediately if they expect to
get q qualified teacher. A few
teachers are applying, at the present
time, stating a very low salary. MY
advise is to be very careful IN looking
up complete records on those parties
before employing them, since really
no qualified teacher, with experience,
is applying for less than one hundred
and twenty-five dollars per month.
All those districts who have out
standing warrant Indebtedness should
take advantage of the funding bond
law, passed by the last Legislature,
and take up their debt so that they
can begin on a cash basis from now
on and gradually retire their past
debts by the creation Of the sinking
fund.
There are only about fifteen vacan-
cies left in the county and this office
has quite a number Of applications OF
we'll qualified teachers. A new list
has been made and is being forward
ed to the various clerks requesting
teachers. Any district not having en-
ployed their teacher should write OF
cali the office Immediately.
We find in checking over the Trus-
tees, as well as the teachers reports
that vry many mistakes have been
made in those reports. The largest
per cent Of mistakes are omissions
The producers news., 1921-08-19

Grain Firms Desperate
Attempt to Ape Cooperation
Disclosures on the part Of persons
recently connected with grain firms or
The producers news., 1921-08-19
THEU.s.UsCOTREAD

THEU.S.USCOTREAD
Here is the u. S. Usco Tread,
with a 1ong-established standard
of service among motorists who
have an eye to value, as we'll as
toprice. While selling for less than
the other tires in the u. S. Fabric
line, the Usco has earned a repu-
tation for quality and dependable
economy which is not exceeded
by any tire in its class.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
New Production Of
'Rigoletto" Pleases
Both Eye and Ear
CALI Curci Makes Appealing
Cilda; ChamleeStir Inter-
est; Ely Ney and Philhar-
nlonic Play Tschaikoffsk
BY II. E. Krehbiel

In some day in the future, when the
age of gold shall have come back to
mortals, when all the fields shall be
Elysian and all roses without thorn
when the Graccs shall again be knit
with the Hours in the dance, and all
that sort Of thing, it will perhaps be
possible for q newspaper recorder Of
musical doings to mention 54Oth per-
formance of "Rigoletto" without the
consciousness that somebody in the
audience is there for the first time in
a season and expects to read his news
paper next morning to discover whether
he ought to be glad or ashamed for
having enjoyed himself. When that
happy time is returned 1--WE are assum-
ing that it existed before the Frost
Giants came into Norseland or the
Furies into Hellas) it will not be neces-
eary to hold an inquest on the voice
of prima donna or primo tenore Ave
or six times week. 1t will suffice,
as we wish it might concerning the
performance of "Rigoletto" at the
Metropolitan Opera House yesterday
afternoon, to say that the old opera
appeared with its face washed and in
new, brilliant and well-ftting habili-
ments.
Then should we be spared the pain
full duty of recording that Nine. CALI
Curci suffered q slight lapse Of memory
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
Sings in Four Languages
Hulda Lashanska Delights Car.
negic Hall Audience

Hulda Lashans..a used four languages
in her recital yesterday afternoon at
Carnegie Hall, singing arias by Secchi,
Mozart and Handel in Italian; Ger
man group of "Der Schiffer," "Des
Maedchens Klage" and "Haidenros-
lein" by Schubert, Schumann's Ger
1st's," Strauss's "Die Nacht" and Liszt's
"Lorelei"; "The Princess" and Gun
Reve" by Greig, Tschaikowsky's Sere-
made and songs by Moret and Staub in
French, with numbers by Gretchan-
inoff and Erich j. Wolff in English.
The program ended with two songs by
Werner Josten, who was accompanist
Nine. Lashanska's performance was
more than satisfactory. She sang with
expression and sympathy in voice of
remarkable purity, especially in the
German lieder and the French num-
bers. The quality of her voice is lyric
rather than dramatic, and occasionally
some of her louder notes seemed some
what metallic, while she was at her
best in lighter songs, such as Moret's
"Lc Nelumbo." Encores were asked
by large and appreciatiye audience.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27

the adjectives should be accepted as
speaking laudation, not sarcasm, for
there have been few more stirring per-
formances of the Fifth Symphony than
Mr.. Stransky gave us, and fewer in
which SO much sorority was blended
with so much euphony. 1t was, in
simple truth, thrilling performance.
Nine. ELY Ney played the solo part of
the pianoforte concerto in B fiat minor
and displayed the shining virtuoso side
OF her artistic chaacter. To us she was
more appealing when, ignoring virtuoso
manners, she disclosed herself as re-
creative musician in her Beethoven
recital; but it was we'll enough that
she should also convince the public
that she could make the scintillant
sparks fly in that first movement, which
it seems to us is still waiting for the
monstrous pianoforte which shall have
the capacity to speak the whole of it's
bombastic proclamation. In his pro-
gram notes Mr.. Gilman quoted the
statement Of the composer that he had
taken the chief subject of the first
movement from tune which he heard
q blind beggar sing at village fair
in Kamenko. If the first melody in
which orchestra and planoforte are so
noisllv predominant, is meant we can
add that about the same time that
Tschaikoffsky heard the banal tune we
heard something absurdly like it
sung to words beginning, 80 Jane, O
Jane, my Pretty Jane" not in Russia,
but in these United States, which DR..
Won Btilow blessed with the first pub
lie performance of the concerto in 1875.
We have often wondered if the intro
duction of the work was really bless
ing. The concert came to an end with
the "Marche Slave"
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
IN "Caro nome" and had to take up q
cue from faintly-piped tone gracious

in "Caro nome" and had to take up q
cue from . faintly-piped tone gracious
" sent to hor from the orchestra.
What of it? The ancient orators, per-
haps even Demosthenes himself, had
their hautists near by them in con-
cealment to bring them back to con-
sciousness of what their art demanded
OF them when an excess Of emotion
carried them off their harmonious feet.
Perhaps not more than six persons in
half as many thousand noticed the
slip and unless they belonged to tho
miscreated wretches who delight in the
misfortunes of others, they found
irecompense - thousandfold in the
loveliness of the singer's singing, the
sweet innocency of her bearing, the
appealing charm of her acting as the
ill-starred Gilda. Tabula rasa; there is
no need even to drop an effacing tear.
The representation was full of de-
lights for the eye as we'll as the ear,
and the gorgeous stage sets which Mr..
Gatti imported from Milan, if they add
ed no new attractiveness to the singing
of De Luca, Chamlee, Rothier and An
anian and gave no new horror to the
malediction of the old man which so
painfully haunted the memory of the
jester, at least did not detract from it.
Mr.. Chamlee was probably heard with
more interest than ever before because
of the supposed rivalry among Mr.. Cat
ti's tenors to get under the cloak of
the departed Caruso; but even this in
terest is essentially negligible. The
feeling which ought to unite ali opera
lovers is that Of gratitude to the man
agement for providing such an excel
sent coterie of tenor singers as the
Metropolitan now houses.
Wagner and Tschaikoffsky, Tschai-
koffsky end Wagner-either singly or
combined, these worthies can make
holiday out Of any orchestral affair.
Last night the Philharmonic played
Tschaikoffskys music exclusively, and
the meeting in Carnegie Hall was what
the late Senator Conkling once called
halcyon and vociferous affair. But
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
Sacco-Vanzetti Meetings
Planned in 80 Cities To-day

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, secretary Of
the Workers Defense Committee, an
nounced yesterday that mass meetings
to arouse sympathy for Sacco and Van
zetti. who were convicted of murder
in Massachusetts, would be held to-
day in thirty cities, although a per-
nit for a Newark meeting had been
refused. She expects an aggregate
"The police headed off our demon-
stration at Laurel Garden, 257 SPRING
field Avenue, Newark" she said. "The
permit for the meeting has been re-
voked, and we will ask the Civil Lib
critics Union to arrange for another
meeting in Newark"
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
Miss Peralta Sings i'm ssAida,'

MISS FeraIta Sings IN "Aida"
Owing to the indisposition of Miss
Rosa Ponselle, Miss Frances Peralta
appeared last night in the title role of
Verdi's "Aida" at the Metropolitan
Opera House. Associated with her in
familiar roles were Mr.. Martinelli, Mr..
3Danise, Mr.. Didur and Nine. Perrin.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27

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Holiday Gifts aside and delivered
fine economy
Final Days of Selling in the Old Store
The beginning the year Building Fifth Ave.
56th and 57th ss
But wenty-ne business days remain which you may
notable values to the well dressed women Of New York
in perhaps decade
Every Gliding Fashion and Quozay-ond bearing the
Gliding Label
Magnificent Evening Wraps at s125s165 1925
Made chiffon shas oa v . metallic oads COM
bHsd with squirrel MOLE
Dinner and Evening Gowns at s95 25-s145
e @@ Handsomely ss 'p & szeS and :" % % % nss s % S soft rich % Imported an,
Daytime Dresses at $50 s75s9
Made $225rss FtA of twill fabrics featuring new and novel s
aynte Also informal hoAs Canton fabrics =
Handsome Costume Suits at s95-s14 45-s195 q
Made to Sell at $3.50 $2e5T
effects combined with
Plain Tailored and Fur-trirnmed Suits at s45-s65
at $125-1oun and Country Styles including several models suitable for
with and without collars f dA mtnlan nCposum
Fur-trimned Day Coats and Wraps at s95, s145, $3.50
Made Sell at $145 of smart daytime
fabrics ebmdda
Sport Coats for Town Wear at 45-s65
Fa c~ .sa .s oa sps ss %' % "s %
Separate Sport Skirts at s1O-s15 ~
$35-Phm paed models smart new striped and plain
hJ suitable f New spabco Of Fur
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
ailored and Costume Blouses

$4,000 Natural Mink Wrap. ....... .$325O
$500 Choice Broadtail Wrap 80. >. .$225O
Garge shawl tuxedo collar Of Natural Hudson Bay Ssble)
$3.50 Choice Broadtail Cape. .$145O
$500 Errnine Cape .............. $3.50
$500 Natural Mink Coat. $3.50
New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
Mems Oyercoats

FIFTH FLOOR
MIXTURE OVERCOATS in gray,
brown or oxford with Nearseal collars.
HEAVY MIXTURE overcoats, gray,
brown, heather with Beaver collar.
MARMOT LINED overcoats, dark
mixture shells, otter collars.
MUsKRAT LINED overcoats, collars Of
Beaver and otter.
MOTOR COATsofs Siberian dog, heavy
and warm. Very Special.
SPANISH LAMB motor coats in eaupe
or brown. Very special.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-05-19

Women's wear is from SO 1-3 pei
cent lower. Clothing is selling al
half the price asked last year and
during the winter, stocks in all parts
of the state were thrown on the mar.
ket at cost or below. Merchants were
forced to do this, says the statement,
to keep abreast of their competitors
and to liquidate stocks in order to
pay pressing obligations.
Groceries, on the average, are 80
per cent cheaper than in April of
1920. Canned goods are selling at
half the price charged last year.
Flour has been reduced to less than
half the peak price. Sugar has drop
ped from a peak price of 26 cents to
9h cents. Family size soda crackers
bulk sodas and the entire cracker line
are still selling at the peak price in
spite of the fact that flour and lard
are much cheaper. The manufactur-
ers' price, rather than showing any
recession, has advanced slightly from
April, 1920, quotations.
In tonnage, the grocers of the
state report a notable increase, al
though cash reports are considerably
lower than in April, 1920. Grocers
explain this by citing the fact that
the housewife refrained from buy
ing Injuries to any greatextent when
she was paying peak prices for flour,
potatoes and sugar, but now is spend
ing the difference for fancy fruits,
young vegetables and other luxuries
which she denied herself last year.
This also explains, say the grocers,
why the average family budget of
table expenses has not fallen in the
same proportion as the decline in
groceries.
Pork products have declined rs
per cent, although the price of hogs
at the stock yards in Chicago has de-
clined a considerably larger per cent.
The public has looked for a proper
tionate decline in retail prices, but
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-05-19
INSCRIPTION
RATES
THE RETAILER AND PRICES

Montana retailers cannot justly be
charged with the blame of continued
high costs that prevail in some lines
but are on the other hand entitled
to credit for making all the reduc-
ton possible under existing condi-
tions.
Many important facts concerning
the recession in living costs during
the past year are contained in a bull
letain issued by the Montana Devel-
opment association as a result of a
survey of retail prices and costs
throughout the state. Increased
cost of doing business, increased
freight rates, and reluctance on the
part of many manufacturers to low
er prices are given as the principle
reasons that prices on many commod-
tiles are still disproportionately high.
!. Farming machinery, according to
the bulletin, is higher than last year.
Although a reduction of from 10 to
Is per cent was announced by the
manufacturers, this reduction was
applied to the 1921 list which had
been advanced materially. Thus,
when the farmer comes to buy a
binder, he blames the retailer with
maintaining high prices arbitrarily
when he finds that the implement
costs him more than he paid in 1920.
"A binder which cost the retailer
$165 in 1920, was listed on the 1921
schedule at $191. A reduction of 10
or Is percent was then announced
by the manufacturer. This same
method was applied to practically the
entire line of farm machinery, in
Guiding gang plows, mowers and
tractor plows.
In the hardware and furniture line
recessions, although widely advertis-
ed by the manufacturer, have not
been sufficient to offset the advance
in freight rates.
Dry goods prices, however, have re-
'ceded 40 per cent from April, 1920.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-05-19

wholesale prices have not fallen suf.
iciently to permit this.
Wholesale prices in all lines have
dropped more than 80 per cent from
the peak, according to statistics is
sued by the United States bureau of
labor; the Federal reserve board sur
vey places this at SO per cent, while
Dun's index figure agrees with that
of the labor bureau.
Retail prices in Montana have fol-
lowed these recessions promptly, and
reductions in retail prices have been
in closer proportion to wholesale re-
auctions than conditions warrant.
Competition has forced upon mer-
chants of the state lower prices than
operating costs and advanced freight
rates seemingly would warrant.
The public is warned that a return
to 1914 prices is not to be expected
under present conditions and cites
the fact in support of this statement
that retail operating costs are now
more than twice as high as they
were in 1914. Rents are much high
er, wages and other expenses have
increased los per cent. Freight rates
have increased 101 per cent over the
1914 level, according to the findings
of the Federal Trade commission.
These increased expenses, the asso-
citation points out, the must
pay.
Competition is more keen at the
present time than it has been during
any period since 1914, declares the
association. Any merchant who ar
bitrarily held goods on his shelf for
peak prices would be promptly I'M
dersold by more enterprising COM
petitors, and his loss would be large.
The retailer has no alternative but
to take his losses promptly when
declined.
Montana housewives know what
the retail prices in Minneapolis and
Chicago are. In nationwide adver-
Montana merchants are not
isolated and they must compete with
merchants in all parts of the coun-
try.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-05-19

Let the fool build his world out of
mere food and drink and clothes
you fashion yours out OF marvellous
experiences; furnish and decorate it
with miracles.
Exercise your mind in the whole
some activity of wonder; train your
soul to reverent awe.
If you had stood with Moses on
the shore of the Red Sea, and had
seen it divide to let the children of
Israel pass over. you would have no
difficulty in recognizing that as a
miracle.
But every night when the sun
goes down, a man stands in a power
house in your city and throws a
switch, and instantly the city and
the country for miles around are
flooded with sunshine.
And you say to yourself casually:
"Oh, see the lights are on"
- . "a
Among the purely political devel-
opments of the week was President
Harding's modification of President
Wilson's order for the selection of
first, second and third class postmas-
tiers under the civil service require
ments. Instead of being required to
select the candidate standing highest,
the administration may under Presi-
dent Harding's order give the place
to anyone of the first three at the
head of the list. About $4,000 post
Offices are affected. Deserving Re-
publicans, who are present in Wash
ington in large numbers, seem to
have no doubt that out of the high
est three on the list the Postmaster
General will find n Republican.
- - ~ "a
Politically speaking, there is a gen.
eral disposition among Democratic
leaders to avoid carping and factious
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-05-19
SOME POOR BLIND FOLK HAVE
NEVER SEEN A MIRACLE
By Bruce Barton

Here is an important distinction
that many people overlook. God
made the world; but He does not
make your world.
He provides the raw materials, and
out of them every man selects what
he wants and builds an individual
world for himself.
The fool looks over the wealth of
material provided, and selects a few
plates of ham and eggs, a few pairs
of trousers, a few dollar bills-and is
satisfied.
The wise man builds his wof:l oft
of wonderful sunsets, and thrilling
experiences, and the song of the
stars, and and miracles.
Nothing wonderful ever happens
in the life of a fool.
A primrose by a rivers brim
A yellow primrose is to him,
And it is nothing more.
An electric light is simply an cleo
trio light; a telephone is only a tele-
phone-nothing unusual at all.
But the wise man never ceases to
wonder how a tiny speck of seed, APP
parently dead and buried, can pro
duce a beautiful yellow flower. He
never lifts a telephone receiver or
switches on an electric light without
, ooc+o;a foo1;ao &c ~
And to think what a miracle it is,
this Harvesting of electricity to the
service of man!
Who, unless his sense of awe had
grown blunt through constant famil-
iarity, would believe it?
The sun, the center of our universe,
goes down behind the western hori-
zon. l touch a button, and presto!
l have called it back-the room is
flooded anew with light.
The thunder hat men once called
the voice of God, rolls out its mighty
waves of sound, and the sound car
ries only a few score miles. But Il
puny speck upon the face of the
earth-I lift a little instrument; and
behold, my whisper is heard a thou
sand miles away.
Prometheus stole fire from the
gods and brought it down to earth.
For that crime the gods chained him
to a lonely rock and sen a huge bird
to feed upon his vitals. Each night
the wound healed, and each day it
was torn open again.
That was the punishment of the
man who dared to wrest away the
richest treasure of the gods.
But fre-the treasure of the gods
almost disappeared out of our
daily life; we scorn it.
Do we want heat? We press a but
ton: and 10, heat, invisible silent, all
pervasive, flows into our homes over
a copper wire.
Do we need power? We have but
to press another switch, and giants
come to us over the same slender
roadway. Clothed in invisible gar
ments, they cleanse our homes, wash
our clothes, crank our automobiles
do everything that once taxed the
strength of men and hurried women
into ~unlovely old age.
Don't let your life become a pro-
affair; don't let familiarity with
the marvels about you breed thought
l~essness and contempt.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-05-19

criticism of the Harding administra-
ton and only to oppose such meas
ures and policies as are clearly an
tagonistic to the welfare of the
country. The general inclination is
to give the administration a fair
show, and then to hold it to strict
accountability on its record.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-05-19

1t may be that the girls cover their
ears SO they won't hear so much of
what is being said about what they
don't cover up.-Sioux City Journal.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-05-19

Wooden eyebrows are the latest.
The will match up remarkably well
with the wooden heads that wear
acknowledgement Telegram.