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, 1921-08-11
OIL SHALE INDUSTRY
GETTING ATTENTION

WASHINGTON, Aug. L. The
future Of the oil-shale industry de-
ponds largely on the relative supply
and demand for petroleum products,
particularly in the Rocky Mountain
district. according to the United
States bureau Of mines. There is a
strong probability that in years to
come the production of petroleum
may so decrease and the demand so
increase that oil shales may be large
~ needed to supply the deficit Of
crude petroleum as a source of re-
fined products.
The oil shales Of this country con
tain enormous quantities Of oil, but
large amounts of money will have to
be invested before the oil-shale in
dustry becomes Of commercial i'm
portance. Estimates of the cost Of a
complete retorting plant, handling
, 1921-08-11
BISHOP THOMAS NEW
SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

The strength of the public school
system is that a very respectable de-
gree Of intellectual culture is granted
to every child in every state OF the
union who desires it, at public ex-
pense. The weakness Of the public
school system is that, by reason of
UNCONVENTIONAL je~alousies in the do
main Of religion. the teaching of re-
ligion is eliminated from public in
struction. with a consequent loss OF
morals. There have been several
plans devised to meet this need. But
most OF the methods suggested look
to the relating OF Sunday schools OF
the various churches In some close
, 1921-08-11
RECOVERY OF OIL
INDUSTRY CERTAIN

Writing in Wyoming Oil News,
one Of the best edited papers in the
country, Tolbert R. Ingram has the
following to say:
THE oil industry Is at present
very much in the position of the man
who has tumbled down a long flight
OF stairs only to find himself at the
bottom. slightly bruised and with his
clothes torn but no bones broken.
The moment he realizes he is at the
bottom he will take inventory Of his
bruises. pin up the patches in his
clothes and again start toward the
top. 1t was a painful fall. Perhaps
he went a little faster than he in
tended and his weight and speed
gave him a severe shock, but at the
bottom he was treasured when he
found that he was all there.
Fundamentally. the oil industry
is all right. 1t has received some
hard jolts and a good many bruises
while crude oil prices we're tumhling.
but there are to be no ohssouies. Oil
is as much a necessity for the
growth and development OF the
world as iron and steel. Shut off all
sources OF supplies for petroleum and
Its products and industry would come
to a standstill. The world must
have oil and under existing econom-
ic methods a supply car be obtained
only by allowing a profit for pro-
viding it. And this profit will be
sufficient to prove an incentive to
men TO seek oil. Profits may be cur
tailed and even taken away alto
gether for a brief period, but not
permanently.
THE important view point at this
time is to look at the future and not
at the past. Prices are now at the
bottom or so neal the bottom that
they can't go much farther. The
moment that Is realized the industry
will be like the man falling down
stairs. It will take an inventory OF
its bruises. close up the rent places
in its garments and start climbing
towards the top again. There ism,
much doubt about the future. The
man who plans accordingly is the
one who is going to achieve results,
and this applies to the other sides OF
the business. Oil stocks are seized,
uled for an upward movement. Just
how o o it will come is yet ap-
p%arented, but when 1t begins it will
be substantial and steady and those
who are awake to the wonderful OPP
%portunity will reap profits in pro-
portion to the investments which
they make"
, 1921-08-11

way with the public schoo! system.
Bishop Thomas in his new school
which he is launching in Laramie
this fall, is attempting. in some mea-
sure to satisfy this need AMI in a
ley way.
Mr.. Edward IvinSOn. a banker and
philanthropist OF Laramie. has come
to the Bishops rescue by giving his
beautiful home for the launching of
this educational experiment. 1t is
a noble gift and, with its grounds, Is
easily one of the handsomest in the
state.
The plan consists in the establish
ment OF a home in which the teach
ing Is confined to the domain OF re-
ligion, morals and Most of
the purely Intellectual subjects will
be cared for by the two schools of
the city. the university training
school and the Laramie high school.
Such subjects as are cultural and are
not taught in the high schools. will
be taught in the bishops school. For
instance, French. being a modern
language. cannot always be taught
satisfactorily In the class room. 1t
will be the language Of the school.
and thus some skill in it may be
hoped for. Dancing and music will
be taught in the school. and the love
Of nature will be cultivated under
the direction OF skilled masters.
The fundamental idea the school
consists in furnishing a home for
girls who will attend the high schools
of the city. but a home in which
there will be specific teaching as
we'll.
AS to the demand for such a
school, attention need only be called
to the fact that out Of the thirty
high schools OF the state. very few
are up to the north central standard.
Ranchmen living ome miles from
their district high school. must send
their children to a private school,
to some high school OF their own
choice, or to the high school in the
nearest town. The private school Ia
the answer for the rich. The public
school is the answer for the masses
OF the people.
II the ranchman would avail him
self of the public school system. and
he lives at a distance from the town
in which the distric high school is
located, he is compelled to do one of
two things-either send his child to
the high school in the district In
| which he lives. which may not be up
, 1921-08-11

Loco tons of Shale a day, are be
tween 100000 and $4,000 900.
II II the average shale treated
yielded 40 gallons of oil a ton 1T
would probably require at least L.
SOC such plants operating 365 days
a year to supply the volume OF crude
oil that was consumed in this coun-
try in 1920. and the shale mined
daily would amount to approximate
y one-half the Goa mined daily in
this country. However. 1t is hardly
TO be expected hat shale oil will be
called upon to replace petroleum
completely. for a great many years.
Although the Scotch industry has
been existent for more than SO years.
h amount OF shale oil produced in
Scotland during 1920 was less than
two days average production Of
crude oil in the United States during
the same year.
The oil-shale industry Is not strict
ly comparable to the petroleum in
dustry and calls for new training
and experience. After the oil has
been removed from the shale the
problems connected with its refining
are much more complex than are
those OF refining petroleum. Obtain
ing oil from shale is not comparable
to obtaining crude oil by drilling. In
drilling an oil we'll the element of
chance has to. be taken into consid-
Grafton, but there Is always the pos
sibility of a large immediate reward
on a relatively small investment.
After oil has been struck the cost
Of the transporting it to the refinery
is in most relatively small. as
there are systems OF pipelines
throughout the oil fields,
, 1921-08-11
FAREWELL"

The Republican is pleased to print
the following, composed by Charles
Collin. at present a resident OF
Rawlins. but who expects to leave
soon to take up Foreign Missionary
work.
"FNarewell"
Nesting here among the mountains.
For away from City's din
Is the little town Of Rawlins,
With some goodness and some sin.
When the golden sunbeams sparkle
On these everlasting hills.
Then's the time the sunsets splendor
Gives a hundred throbbing tariffs.
I have walked the streets of Rawlins
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08
HOW MANY TREES A DAY DOES THE
PUBLIC READ3.

The paper you are reading was once
tree. This newspaper is printed on
what is commonly called newsprint and it
is made from pulpwood.
The annual consumption is two mil
lion tons of newsprint a year, according
to the American Forestry Association, and
that means strip of paper as wide as the
regulation newspaper and about forty mil
lion miles long; half the distance Of the
sun. which is ninety-two million miles
away. The annual consumption would
make a tw0-fOot wide ribbon of news
paper around the world 1000 times. Some
trees!
More than one-third of our pulpwood
comes from across the Canadian border,
and Canada. profiting by our mistakes, Is
timber at rate more rapid than its
growth. That means primarily that our
annual importation of Canadian pulpwood.
has practically reached the maximum, and
for the other two-thirds at least we will
have to look after ourselves.
Paper Week" will be the week be
ginning October 81, with Thursday, Nov
ember 3. as the date of the meetings Of
the American association itself. The Ma
tional Paper Trade association has an
nounced October 81 as the date of the
meeting of the merchants and distributors,
while the balance of the week will be de-
voted to meeting of the affiliated associa-
tional Paper Trade association, and the
American Paper Pulp association, will be
held in Chicago.
Few Of us care much about the other
fellows business, but 1t 40 happens this
phase Of the forest products situation u
Of = piece with problem that touches our
whole economic life. for. without forest
products. business cannot 60 on. We sight
our end of It to show the tremendous con-
sumption Of trees going on every. day, to
say nothing Of loss by fires that sweep the
forest areas. The American Forestry A.
sociation is campaigning for forest policy
legislation. Every publisher in the coun-
try should be behind this campaign.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08
BLOOD WILL TELL IN AMERICA

Fifty-siX years ago at AppOmattOx
two great bodies of men. one clad in blue
and the other in tattered gray, decided to
stop fighting and live together in peace
thereafter.
Few, alas, of those men are left The
other day the boys" of the Grand Army
held their annual reunion at indianapolis.
Shortly, the surviving fighters of the Con-
federate army will meet at Chattanooga.
But it will not be long before these
handsful of glorious blues, and superb
grays will be compelled by circumstances
to discontinue their national gatherings.
Well, they all belonged, those boys.
to wonderful age in our history. They
made America. For one thing. their deeds
of steadfastness and valor in battle gave
notice to the whole world that this nation,
united, could not be trifled with. And
the moment it was learned that their
grandsOns were to join in the world war,
intelligent men everywhere-even in Ger
many-knew that that conflict was all
but over. over there.
The heroic blood of the men of 1861.
65 courses through the veins of millions
of goth Century Americans In the last
analysis, both the blue and the gray fought
for democracy. and they who fear that
the descendants of such men will permit
autocracy of any breed-whether ancient
Hohenzollernism or mongrel Lenin-TrOt-
Zkyism-to raise its head in. this land, are
faint-hearted Americans indeed.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08

that you must find time to read what he
had to say to you, misspelt words, bad
grammar and all.
The country is full of business men
who are making this and similar mistakes
in every letter they send through the mails.
And then wondering why so many Of their
letters are ineffective.
Letters are at best poor facility OF
communication in business matters. They
are cold bits of dead black and dead
white. They are from one who is thinking
along one line on certain subject-and
not putting down all his thoughts on it by
any means-to another who is probably
thinking along another line on the same
offensiveness to the mixture, the letter
might better have never been written.
No man should permit himself to
slight his letters in the smallest degree.
No really good business man does.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08
@ Editorial |.
Why Main Street.
Went Dark

A few short months ago the literary
world blazed with the praise of new
novel entitled "Main Street." The new
book purported to be masterpiece of
vivid and truthful tones of people and
scenes in the average country town. The
blazing aforesaid was done by other novel
lists, to whom was given the task Of review
ing the book and who. of course, expected
the author of main Street" to be as en-
thusiastic as they when he, in turn, wrote
reviews of their books.
A few short months have passed and
MAIN Street" has fallen. 1t blazed like
a rocket and went out like one. main
Street" did not visualize the average coun-
try town by long shot and the people who
were enveigled into buying it were dis
appointed.
Down east, certain would-be higi.-
brows are trying fearfully hard to lift pres
ent day American literature by its boot
straps. They pretend that every few
weeks a great novel is produced by some
American writer. We don't believe they
dupe themselves, but the solemn. nasty
truth is that they are duping the American
public.
Compare any DOok VI ASAS' A's" VI.
1921, with the works Of a Mark Twain, OF
a Howells, a Garland, Bret Harte or
Crawford, not to speak of the greater ones
of a generation before. and ones heart
sinks. The fiction of today is hardly on .
par with the fiction famous third OF
century ago in the dime and half dime
novels of our fathers. 1t is not bit too
much to say that no wild West story OF
recent issue can compare in interest, de-
scription, entertainment or even use OF the
English language with the writings OF Ed
ward w. Wheeler in the eighties. And all
of Wheeler's stories sold for cents copy.
Today your Grays and Spearmans and
Bowers and the rest demand 81 throw.
the price sinking to 81 when the same
book appears few weeks later In the
drug store windows.
There are epochs in art and liter
ature. Today's Is not one Of the great
epochs In American fiction.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08
DICTATED. BUT NOT READ"

Did you ever get . letter from some
body or other with the notation at the bot
tom Dictated. but not read!"
II you did, you probably remember
what you did with it-dumped It into the
waste paper basket.
You dumped it firstly. because II the
man who dictated the said letter didn't
have enough interest In what he wrote
about to read II over, why should you have
any interest In Il?
Secondly. you gave Il the backhand
flip because Il was an open insult 70 you.
He, the great man forsooth. didn't have
time or inclination to read what he him
self had to say to you. but arrogantly felt
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08

Mrs. H. q. withsrsll and chill.
dren, DR.. and Mrs. R. D. Taylor
Mr.. and Mrs. q. 8. Asay and fam
lily and Mr.. and Mrs. l. R. Smith
and family enjoyed . weinie roas,
1t the Alva Woodson ranch Tues
day evening.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08
$50 SACKS POTATOES
TO THE ACRE

J. r. Robinson. : miles north OF
Center. has .oout 20 acres Of pota-
toes which he claims will make $50
sacks per acre. He says that they
Will run 226 sacks Of markets and
s5 Of reed. Several people who
claim to know have seen the field
and are ~ optimistic ~ Mr.. Robin
son ~ to the amount Of yield per
acre.-Post- Dispatch.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08

Mrs Ed. Barlow of Antonito
spent last week with her aunt. Mrs..
w. ]. Clark. Mr.. Barlow came up
Saturday and early Sunday morn
Ing they left In their car for Colo
RADIO Springs and Denver where
they will visit for = short time.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08

Victor Nevitt returned to Fort
Collins Sunday night after having
spent several days here assisting the
bersaved Ed. Heilman family and
Visiting his parents.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08
PURE LARD
15c per ID
l0fb Pail $40 J
5fb Pail. ..76c
BUSCH Z NELSON.
New Imported Dolls 1t
FULLER DRUG co.

Mr. and Mrs. w. 8. French and
Mrs. Roy Hickman who have been
here for the past few weeks visit
ing with relatives and friends left
last week for Santa Fe, New Mexico.
After visiting there for short time
Mr.. and Mrs French will return to
their home In Long Beach. Califor-
mia.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08

Mrs. H. Manecks spent the weeA
visiting her daughter. Mrs. Paul
Harris and family.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08

Mrs. A. R. Pollock left Thurs
day evening for Denver to be gone
. few days on business.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08

The New Dolls have arrived.
FULLER DRUG CO.
Monte Vista journal and Monte Vista graphic-reporter., 1921-10-08

The Monte Vista Motor Car Co.
drove In a bunch OF Fords from
Denver Thursday-one coupe, two
runabouts and one touring. The
cars were all sold before arrival.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-01-13
TAKES WIFE a! PISTOL POINT
Artist surrenders Right to Woman
Who Had Been His Wife 10 Years.

Artist surrenders Right to Woman
Who Had Been His Wife 10 Years.
Madison, Wis.-Phi:ip Franzen, artist
and chief decorator at the University
Of Wisconsin, told how he sat opposite
man at his own dining-room table
and. at the point Of pistol, signed q
paper surrendering all his rights to
the woman who had been his wife for
10 years.
'She is not yours. She is mine.
have hunted her for II years in Aus.
tralia, Europe and America. 1 am
going to take here away. Sign this
paper" Such were the words the
man with the pistol used. Franzen
said.
On hearing the strange and stern
command, Franzen said he turned to
wife, Charlotte, and asked: SIS this
true? Do you still love him."
She nodded and moved to the side
Of the man with the pistol. Then
.Franzen picked up the pen and signed,
he said. A few minutes later the man,
still holding the pistol in his hand,
and the woman moved toward the
door and went out.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-01-13

Minot-A community band is being
organized.
Judson-Julius Guon has been COM
mfssioned postmaster.
Kenmare-Business men have or
ganized Booster club.
Bismarck state bar examination
will be held December %.
Beulah-The new Congregational
church has been dedicated.
Granville-N. A. Rollag is president
Of the new Community club.
Ainot-A Rochdale store Incorporate
ed for 100000 is being launched here.
Starkweather-The second annual
community Christmas was a decided
success.
Sterling-Backfiring Of truck ig.
nited fumes and burned the Standard
Oil station here.
Dunseith-The long-heralded motion
picture machine is at last in operation
in the state sanitarium here.
Maddock-Judge T. O. Gilbert, na.
tional president Of the Sons of Norway
lodge, lectured before the local body.
Observation-Disclosures and Greenfield
school districts near here, each will
get new school building ut cost Of
about $4,000.
Lisbon-The local post of the Ameri.
can Legion was one of the first in the
state to institute the use Of the new
Legion ritual.
University-Kappa Phi Beta, Beta
Chi and Phi Rho Chi 1re three nev
fraternities recently granted charters
at this institution.
Paulson-With. the discontinuance
of the postoffice here December IS
mail for this community is now goina
70 Kermit, Divide county.
Langdon-A 62-pound badger trap
ped near here by William Klemisct
dragged large fallen tree several
:ods before 1t was found and taken.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-01-13
MARRIED

Bert Thompson, one of Hazelton's
well-known young business men, and
Miss Hilda Hanson, of the local teach
ing staff, succeeded in giving this old
town quite a jolt when they slipped
off quietly to Linton and returned
Sunday night as Mr.. and Mrs. Bert
Thompson.
It was noon the next day before
the news became general as to what
hau been pulled off. The pupils in
Mrs. Thompson's room did not fine
cut that teacher was married until
noon Monday.
Both the bride and groom are pop.
ular Hazelton folks, the former hav.
ing only been here for three or fou1
months. She is continuing with hel
school work for the rest of the year.
The Record Joins their many friends
in wishing Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson
the best of success through the com.
ing years.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-01-13

elton. Among those who were at
Linton were G. A. Lenhart, Dave
Crimmi!Is, A. E. Tye, H. A. Arm
strong, Ben Klabunde, Jude Horst
meyer, Charlie Clark and Bert Yet
ter. Some of the gentlemen wanted
Mr.. Matthews retained, or T. E.
Lawler, Of Hampton, appointed in his
stead. Others said they were sat-
isfed with Matthews if he could
serve. Otherwise, they wanted a
man from the upper end of the dis
trict, and supported Frank Cough
nour, who vas finally chosen by a
vote Of three to two.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-01-13
Harding Is Still at Sea Regard
ing Selection Of His Off.
cial Advisors.
MUCH ADVICE IS GIVEN
Number Of Political Leaders Which
Are Mentioned for Appointments
10 Increasing Rather Than
Narrowing.

Marion, Ohio-Conclusiv informa-
ton about the cabinet preferences of
President-elect Harding still is lacking.
and as the days go by without definite
development, the number of those men
toned for appointment in speculation
here is increasing rather than mar
rowing.
Tive weeks ago there we're many in
dications that the announcement Of at
least two selections was imminent.
Those who had talked with Mr.. Hard
ing generall, were agreed that Charles
Evans Hughes Of New York was up
permost in his mind for secretary Of
state. and that Charles G. Dawes of
Chicago had the inside track for Sec
rotary of the treasury. There was
equal unanimity in the prediction that
these selections would be made and
possibly that of Henry Wallace of
Iowa 4or secretary of agriculture,
would be made known early in the
new year.
Harding Gets Much Advice.
Since then the cabinet question has
been under daily consideration by the
President-elect and he has heard the
advice of some of his ablest party
leaders, but without apparent results.
Claims of other aspirants have been
thrust on him by their friends, and
the interval also has given him an
opportunity to hear the inevitable
residue of protests against some of
the appointments he was popularity re-
ported to be considering.
AS a result, he has given recent Wis.,
itors the impression that his mind still
is open on every appointment. Some
of them even have gone away predict
ing that no selections would be an
nounced until just before March 4.
For the NEST part, however, the con-
viction prevails that two or three Of
the most important appointments will
be known in January.
Problem Of Fitting Pegs.
1t is understood for one thing, the
President-elect is finding it difficult
to settle on definite choices for some
/! of the cabinet places without at the
same time filling the whole slate.
The problem of fitting the cabinet
pegs into their proper holes is one
which he has found himself COM
PEELED to consider more or less as a
whole-rather than piecemeal, If he
is to be certain that the pattern comes
out right in the end.
AS one example of the shifting
aspect of the situation, there have
been persistent reports recently that
Harry M. Daugherty, the Harding pre-
convention manager, was giving SYM
pathetic ear to those of his friends
who believe he can give better ser.
vice to his chief as private citizen
than cabinet member. It is con-
coded by those close to Mr.. Harding
that Mr.. Daugherty can have a place
in the official circle If he wants it,
but whether he will accept is one Of
the several questions which interlace
to make the general prospect uncer-
tain.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-01-13
ARMSTRONG'S LEAVE FOR THE
SOUTH

Attorney and Mrs. H. A. Arm
strong left Tuesday night for Linton
on their way to southern points for
the rest of the winter. Mr.. A.
states that the plans for the trip are
rather hazy. They will go first to
Fort Scott, Kansas, to visit, and will
also probably visit relatives in Ohio.
They stayed over night at Linton and
took the Milwaukee south Wednes-
day.