Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1922-11-02

With this issue of the Belt Valley Times the new management
makes its initial bow. For twenty-sx years this paper has kept
the chronicle of the happenings of our community. Throughout
all those years it has kept faith with It's constituency and mas
stood for order. progress and good government. Each week its
it aside only to be brought forth for reference when the good peo-
Die of the Belt Valley have discussed the events of the day. We
know because we are one of those people and have criticised,
praised and condemned our weekly paper which, while often lg-
nored or .discredited, was still a source OF pride as we compared 1t
with other publications of like nature.
Two years spent in travelling around the state, IN when we
have visited nearly every city, village and rural community, has
impressed upon our mind two salient facts: first, that upon cam
parison with any section of this great state OF Montana, the nat
uraI resources. the quality of the soil and the frequency of rainfall
ojowing nictnres of weI-watered Ganatin or Yellowstone valleys.
From Monarch to Shepherds Butte, from Sand Coulee to Spion-
kop you will cross the finest agricultural section of the State OF
Montana. Its people harvest crops more years out OF ten than
those in any other section.
nearly thirty wears and that hardly a farm from the rolling foot
hills of the Little Belt to the breaks of the Missouri and from the
Highwood mountains to our neighbor towns on the west but that IS
peopled by friends and acquaIn ANITA and you know the reason
our Lares and Penates for a permanent stay.
the best enlzense Of the present day, uhtfaHfmeied by the
demands of party lines stand alone, ready and able to vote for that
measure which is best or for that candidate who appears best
fitted for public service, so the policy of this paper will be to stand
ready to cast its weight on that side which most closely approx
mates our ideal of what the public good demands.
We shall endeavor to further the interests of our ranchers
and stockmen, our mines and our neighboring villages as well as
those OF Belt because OF a very strong convection that the diverse
interests of the Belt Valley are fundamentally one and the success
in one line of industry viii mean betterment for the others.
In civic affairs we shall attempt to be progressive, at the same
time sane. In local matters we hope to represent that body OK
citizens who weigh matters of public import carefully and to whom
the wellbeing Of our community is paramount to private interest
or personal prejudice.
We reserve the right so often denied to public officials to
change our mind and our policy if upon fuller dehberation we find
we have erred in judgment.
We pledge our Influence in support of law, order and good
government. With an ancestry Of nearly three hundred years of
American citizenship we trust that our Americanism viii be I'M
questioned.
With this preliminary outline of policy we ask the continued
good will and support of the residents of this territory with con-
fidence that the result will be mutually beneficial, and that the
future will prove our optimism in matters pertaining to the Belt
Valley well founded. I