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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
WHAT KIND or ANIMAL is THAT

A party of young men were on a
hunting trip in a backwoods district
They had stopped at the home OF q
mountaineer TO inquire for directions
and information about the game Of The
country. Only ONE members of the
household were found at home, but al
questions were answered freely. As the
party was about to move on, 4 young
theological student of their number
wide awake to matters of church al,
vancement. flung out this inquiry tc
the talkative housewife:
Can you tell us if there are IN,
presbyterians in this part of the
country"
Land sakes alive. mister, | ain
never heard of no such animule as dat
lo' might look out in de snoke-house
whar my husband has got a lot o hides
nailed on de wall an see il yo' fin
any o. dat kin'."-Everybody's Maya
zIne-
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
Would Be Monotonous
With No Problems
of Life to Solve

Do difficulties depress you or brace
YOU up? Really, if you will stop to
think of it. wouldn't life become mopot-
onous, colorless, deadening, were we
to cease to have to battle against OBJ
stacles and sweat and scheme to solve
hard problems? Wouldn't such a posi-
tion or condition be very much the
same as being retired? Frankly,
haven't you noticed that you are in
clined to slump, to become flabby. to
come lackadaisic, to become rather pur-
poseless when things move along ultra
smoothly for any length of time: eTo
the healthy man, difficulties should act
MS a tonic. They should spur US t.
greater exertion, They should strength,
en- our will power. They should steei
our purpose.
Difficulties. like work. are blessings
in disguise, and if we study this SUP.
iect through to the bottom, we woult
arrive at this conclusion:
Thank God for difficulties -Forbe,
Magazine.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31

der the direction of the Rod and Gun
club. Most of these Were taken to
creeks and rivers emptying irto the
Missouri, such as Belt. Highwood.
Hound and Box Elder creeks and the
Smith and Sun rivers. The fry were
about three-quarters of an inch in
length at the time they were planted.
Their future growth depends on the
swiftness of the water in which they
live and feed conditions. With favor
able conditions these fry will be six
inch fighting youngsters by next sum
mer and will afford much sport TO the
disciples of Walton.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31

listing conditions, will realize that
no system Of credit extension which
is not founded on sound economic
principles will be anything but an
injury to their permanent interest.
Easy money has been the misfor-
tune of many a man, and any ma
chinery which is not provided with
effective safeguards against poll
ticaI influence and unsafe credit
expansion will endanger the pros
perity of the thrifty and intelii-
gent farmer without permanently
saving the situation of the incom-
petent or unfortunate.
1t seems to be conceded that
there should be adjustment OF
II financing machinery so as bet
ter to meet modern conditions of
agriculture. Mr.. Meyer points out
that our financial system has ap-
parently been based on the expec-
tation that the farmer would sell
his crops as soon as they matured,
the middleman carrying them until
distributed through retailers or
manufacturers, but there should be
facilities for the orderly market
ing by the farmer in a more gradual
way over a longer period of time.
1t is therefore advisable to
amend existing banking laws and
regulations so as to meet this need
and to provide some proper add
tional machinery Of rural credits
But in doing this it is imperatively
in the interest of the farmer him
self as we'll as in that OF the gen
eral financial stability of the coun,
try that sound principles of finance
be followed and as little new ma
chinery as possible created.
Wildcat schemes promising easy
money from the public treasury
for any farmer who applies tor II
may seem alluring, but they would
mean misfortune to agriculture as
well as to the nation.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
To START BALL ROLLING

A clergyman, taking occasional duty
FOR a friend in a remote country parish.
was greatly scandalized on observing
the old verger, who had been collecting
the offertory. quietly abstract a fifty
cent piece before presenting the plate
at the altar rail.
After service he called the old man
into the vestry and told him with some
emotion that his crime had been dis
covered.
The verger looked puzzled for a
moment. Then a sudden light dawned
on him. ,
why. sir. you don't mean that old
half dollar of mine? Why. I've led off
with that for the last fifteen years.
Eyerybody's Magazine.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
LEGISLATURE NEEDS COURAGE.

Montana with its handful Of popu-
lation is supporting enough bureaus,
commissions and useless inspectors
and hangers-on to sink the great
state of New York with her millions of
people and great wealth. Montana
people are paying enough taxes to
nmintain efficient state government
and leave q large surplus. There is
not an industry in the state that is not
paving too much taxes and many
branches are paying double what they
should. The governors program OF
more taxes and more expenses should
be ditched and a real era of reform and
true economy in~ausurated. Whether
the legislature will have the "intes-
final stamina to put a real program
over remains to be seen.-FEathead
Monitor.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
HIS OWN FAULT.

He looked n sorry sight as he
Iimped into the insurance office.
Bandages were numerous. and he
walked with the aid of q crutch.
Il have called to make application
for to amount due on my accident
nolicT. he said. II fell down a long
flight Of stairs the other evening. sus-
timing damages that will disable me
for some time to come
The manager looked him over and
answered firmly:
young man. | have investigated
entitled TO anything. 1t could not be
your case, and find that you are not
called an accident, for you certainly
knew that the young lady's father was
AT ome."-Everybody's Magazine.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31

Smith river. Is miles; Belt creek, 100
miles; Hollywood creek. 60 miles; Teton
river, 100 miles; Hound creek, 100
miles: Tenderfoot. 10 miles; Rock
creek, 40 miles; Freeman creek, 10
miles; Clark creek, Is miles; Boston
coulee. 10 miles: North Fork of Sun
River. 800 miles; South Fork of Sun
River, 80 miles. These figures. includ-
ing various tributaries, makes a total
of 1895 miles.
In August of this year 100000
trout fry were distributed in fishing
streams tributary TO Great Falls, I'M
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
NOT KINDNESS.

What the farmers of the country
need is not an opportunity to borrow
money. on which they can not pay
the interest, but an opportunity to
sell their products at ii fair profit
instead OF at a loss. Encouraging a
farmer to increase his debts when he
can not pay the interest on what he
now owes. is no act of kindness.-Fer-
gus County Argus.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31

this city. This district will be largely
supplied by the local hatchery, though
some of fry will be shipped to north
ern and northeastern Montana.
Where Trout Fry Are Planted.
Among the streams in the imme-
date vicinity of Great Falls are: Mis-
souri, river, $50 miles of trout water;
Stickney creek. 30 miles: Sullivan
creek. u miles: Bird creek, 10 miles;
Dearborn creek. $50 miles: Sheep
creek, 30 miles; Hardy creek, 10 miles:
Smith river. 20 miles; Dry Fork of
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
DAVIS TURNS "BoLsHEvlK."

Now comes Chester Davis. Mon
tana's commissioner of agriculture. adj
vocating state elevators and ware
houses for storing grain. Mr.. Dixon
made his campaign for governor in OPP
position to this +~bolshevik" idea of
state-owned warehouses and to have
his commissioner break out on a free
love- platform must be embarrassing
to say the least.-Fiathead Monitor.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31

WHICH WAS RIGHT

A Los Angeles oil promoter who had
to leave on a trip east before the end
of suit brought by another company
gave orders to his lawyer to let him
know the result by telegraph. After
several days he received the following:
Right has ~triumphed.' NJ
He at once wired back: .
Appeal Immediately" --Everybody's
Magazine,
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31

H~insdale's new modern school build
ing has Just been completed at a cost
of $4,000. The building is designed
to accommodate both the grade and
high school work. The construction is
of hollow tile and dark brown race
brick. The exterior trimming IS OF
light face brick and stone. The build,
ing contains well arranged class and
recitation rooms, laboratory. domestic
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31

science department. a large gymnasium
and spectators balcony and a large
assembly and stage. Locker and shower
rooms are located convenient to the
gymnasium. The heating and ventllat-
ing are modern. George Il. Ellinger
of Havre was the architect. The gen
eral construction was by Fuglevand a.
Sundberg of Havre, and the heating
and plumbing was installed by Siegert
& Hanscom of Malta.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
WHEN DIXON CRACKS HIS WHIP

We hate to think of anything that
will lessen our Christmas joy but
somehow down in the bottom of our
hard heart we are beginning TO feel
sorry for the boys land four girls)
who will convene in regular session at
Helena on the first Monday in January.
-Whitefish Pilot.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
NOR STRONG ENOUGH YET

Mrs. Jones (convalescent. to doctort:
And now that I'm feeling a bit stronger
you'H have to send me your bill.
Doctor: oh, no, Mrs. Jones: you'll
have to be feeling very much stronger
before / do that.-Eyerybody's Maya
zine.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
LEGISLATORS PLEASE NOTE.

One highly important New Year res
olution that all legislators should
make. or reaffirm is not to lend their
aid TO the enactment of any more
measures increasing the burden of
taxatioD.-Butte Miner.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
n Il GGETS
-F From the
STATE PRESS
1T WORE WHISPERS, 1T WAS
so LONG COMING

Quite a few of the editors who are
writing about the return Of prosperity
are wondering if it came disguised
Sweetgrass Advocate.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
Chrysanthe1nu,ns
and Irish Confetti
"MONTANA'S BEST NEWS
G~ATAERER"

II is a pleasure TO note that the
Great Falls Tribune has recently
hooked a real live correspondent from
Notwithstanding Review.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
FORGET THERE'S NEWSPAPERS

Some men can not resist the tempta-
ton to talk shop ut a social gathering.
They don't believe in paying for their
advertising.-Coffee Creek Herald.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31
BEFORE AND r

The people who step on the gas
frequently have TO breathe 1t later, IN
the form of an anesthetlc at the hos
pital where they are being operated
upon for injuries.-Opheim observer.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-31

Black rust is q form of fungus close
" resembling broad mold.
Black stem rust destroys 100000
900 bushels of growing cereals in the
United States and Canada annually.
1t takes IT'S pounds of corr and sos
! pounds of alfalfa to make 100 gain in
| a three-year-old steer.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-03-24

is too much with us and we are too
much in the theatre. The theatre
must not be suffered to become our
daily and indispensable necessity. We
must not lose our powers of discrim-
ination, and therefore of control over
the theatre, which we support and
make possible. We must be the mas
ters of the theatre and not it's night
ly slaves. The moral censorship, the
duty of which rests upon all of us,
lies in very special way on the
few, the fashionable, the leisurely,
the well-circumstanced, the privileged,
who are the arbiters in matters of
taste.
The press can help most decisively,
it can tell the truth as it for the
most part tells the truth, in the cri-
tical reviews of the theatre. But,
instead of being terrorized by the
revolver of those theatrical produc-
ers who will not advertise unless they
are generously treated in the columns
of criticism the press ought to re-
fuse to publish advertisements Of
plays which it's reviewers have the
decency. to damn as indecent. The
theatre must be reformed from with
in and from without, from within by
those who should cherish it as high
trust, from without by us who would
rise to the level of that opportunity
which the drama at it's best and fin
est offers to men and women on either
side of the footlights.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-03-24
ERIKA MORINI TO PLAY WITH
SYMPHONY

Erika Morini, the phenomenal
young girl violinist who will play the
Vieutemps Concerto, with the SYM
phony orchestra this Friday evening,
comes to us heralded as the greatest
woman violinist in the world. The
writer who had the good fortune to
hear this remarkable artist in Duluth
several weeks ago, was astounded at
the fluent virility and technique that
gave darting and sonorous effects to
her major selections of her elaborate
program. Although barely eighteen
years of age she displayed musician
ship of the greatest violin virtuosi.
The most fastidious critics have haled
her a combination Of Heifetz, Kreis-
Ter and Elman, and she is truly de-
serving of the honors bestowed upon
her, for she is unquestionably the
greatest woman violinist that ever ap-
peared on the American stage. Miss
Morini is one of the fortunate
geniuses who have not been hampered
in the study Of her art. She was born
in Vienna of strictly Orthodox Jewish
parents, and her family, especially on
her fathers side, has been musical for
as far back as anyone can remember.
With such ancestry, it was natural
that Erika Morini should have been
given a chance when, at the age Of
four, she began to display marked
aptitude for the violin. Her father,
Oskar Morini, the head of a music
conservatory, gave her her first in
struction, but after only two years he
took her to Professor Sevcik, teacher
Of Kubelik and other great violinists.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-03-24
The Truth About the Theatre
By DR.. Stephen S. Wise

prising to learn, viewing the lasciv-
iousness of scenes and text alike that
"The Demi-Virgin" was subsidized by
those houses of prostitution to which
it appears directly and eagerly to
minister.
In November, 1921, I wrote to the
producer Of "The Demi-Virgin" earn
estly and respectfully beseeching him
to discontinue it's presentation, but no
reply was vouchsafed to me. Thus /
wrote:
November %, 1921.
A. H. Woods, Esq,
236 West 42nd St., City.
Dear Mr.. Woods:
l write to you because l am panied
to see that you have been brought to
court and are shortly to stand trial
for having produced an indecent play.
I have not seen ''The Demi-Virgin"
but I have been told by number of
persons that, whatever the technical
plea that may be offered on your be-
half, the play is indecent and un-
clean, and that it is unfit for pre-
sentation upon the stage.
write to you as one who believes
in the theatre, who believes in it's
power for good, and who has from
time to time enjoyed wholesome and
delightful plays that you have pre-
sented. My purpose in writing is
most earnestly to request you to do
the manly and fine thing,-namely, to
withdraw the play at once even
though it may be personally profit
able to keep it going.
1t is very serious matter to place
upon the stage such play as l am
told "The Demi- Virgin" is and which,
if the text has been quoted to me
right, contains suggestive and sala-
cious dialogue and even filthy situa-
tions. Surely you do not wish to be
a purveyor Of salacity. You do not
wish to have it charged against you
that you are bringing things that are
unclean to the minds Of the youth of
our city and country. It is true that
there may be people, there doubtless
are many,-who care for that sort of
thing, but because there are, that is
no reason why you should stoop to
the depth of purveying things unclean
for persons of depraved desires.
One more thing let me say to you
in all frankness and in all earnestness.
You are Jew as I am a Jew and a
Jewish teacher. You know very we'll
that the charge is made against some
Jews of the theatre that they have
brought low the stage, that they have
commercialized it and, as has been
said, even defled it. I do not believe
that this charge, generally speaking,
is true, for think that Jews, like nom
Jews, have done fine things and have
done vulgar things on the stage. But
as Jew and a Rabbi, I appeal to
you, as a fellow Jew, before the case
comes to trial, to withdraw the play
even though it may become possible
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-03-24

for you to secure it's continuance upon
the stage. We Jews, you and |, have
very great responsibilities. Our peo-
pie are judged by the acts of every
one of us. No Jew has the right to
think of himself alone in his public
acts, and as the owner of theatres and
the producer of plays you are in a
public position and have two-fold
public responsibility.
I appeal to you then as man and as
Jew to put away this play, and, what
is more, hereafter devote yourself to
the presentation of plays that shall
be free from uncleanness. You are
in very real sense a public SER
want. Will you not rise to the height
of the opportunity which | have no
doubt a regrettable inadvertance on
your part has brought about.
Sincerely yours,
Either the theatre will be reformed
from within, that is to say authors,
producers and players, and ourselves,
or it will be reformed from without,
despite all the evils which outward re-
vision or reformation will be bound to
entail. The theatre today is driving
QS luUO oCdCc COllCIOl Clu OCCtC SO1lCI VI
means censorship. Bad as it is, CEN
sorship will come as it ought to come
unless great and instant change
come over the spirit of them that
control the theatre and over us who
give it life and sustenance. Censor
ship would in many ways be undesir-
able, but if Demi-Virgin and Cross
ing the RubicOn cannot be kept out
Of Broadway theatres in any other
way then I, for one, shall welcome
censorship, and work for censorship,
and do what in me lies to make CEN
sorship inevitable. Censorship it is
true may do no more than drive dirty
and salacious plays under cover, or
under ground, (which is exactly what
ought to happen to them. Let them
be bravely repressed and driven into
the dark fostering corners of vice,
if they cannot be wholly suppressed.
Prohibition came in part, as it ought
to have come, because distillers and
brewers insisted upon the inviolable
rights of the saloon. The theatre will
fare as did the saloon if the same
policy of madness tempered by
malignity prevail in the councils of
the theatre.
But the fundamental responsibility
lies with us. The only availing and
constructive censorship is the CEN
sorship Of public taste, the public
mind and public ideals. We could
make this thing impossible if we
willed, so that no man would dare to
present an unclean play unless he
were sure of a market for it. An
admirable method of approval is sug-
gested and offered in the white list
of the Catholic Society dealing with
the question. There can be no CEN
sorship on our part while the world
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1922-03-24

do not wish to attack the stage,
the theatre, the players, not even the
stainless honor of a motion picture
star, but to deal with the theatre as
an acute moral problem which it is
become. The speaker is not bigoted
in enmity against but rather a friend
not wish to be confounded, with such
enemies of the theatre as see no good
therein. I am not concerned either
with unreasoning attacks on the stage
or on the defamers of the stage by
it's defenders. I believe that DIR.
Straton is an honest man though he
has not been wholly fair and reason
able in his attitude toward the prob
lem of the theatre.
The theatre is and will continue to
be. The theatre is more than a pas
time or a luxury. It is a highly i'm
portant national institution, which
may become either liability or asset.
If merely pastime, as is baseball, it
would be enormously important, for
the greatest number of the American
people are accessible to it. What
ever the present day status of the
theatre may be, this is no more to be
the last word of the drama than is
jazz music to replace Beethoven and
Bach, Schubert and Brahms.
Most unfair is it to deal with the
theatre as if it were in any real sense
a Jewish question. To call it that
is to obscure the real issue. Jews do
good things in the theatre and fair
things and bad things, but Jews can
never afford to do that which is evil.
If it must be said that the producer
of ''The Demi-Virgin" is Jew by
birth, why not mention that John
Golden, producer of three or four of
the finest, cleanest plays of a decade,
including 'Turn to the Right"
"Lightnin'," "Thank You," and 'The
First Year" is a Jew? Some of the
finest plays in the theatres of the
nation have been done by Alice and
Irene Lewisohn, founders of the
Neighborhood Playhouse, two high
minded and gifted young women who
have given themselves in the finest
spirit to the furtherance of the inter-
ests of the drama. In the Theatre
Guild not few Jews are active and
outstanding and the Guild has in
truth rendered the most distinguished
service to the theatre.
What are the facts about the thea
tire of New York today? In it there
are being presented many good,
wholesome, clean worthwhile plays,
some plays which are not uniformly
bad but spottily suggestive, such as
two of the Belasco productions, and
some plays that are vile beyond
words. "The Demi-Virgin" is not a
play at all. It is just theatrical
filth, gutter garbage of the foulest,
rankest kind. AS I sat through a
performance, thought of the de-
graduation Of a great art, that of the
theatre, the humiliation of a calling,
that of the players, and the deep
damning insult offered to people by
it's presentation. l would not have
the author and the producer tarred
and feathered, because jeven pitch
may be defiled. 1t would not be sur
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-01-05
PREPARE FOR
FATTY TRIAL

SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 5.--Attor.
neys for both prosecution and dc.
fens. IN the Roscoe Arbuckle trial
gathered In san Francisco today for
final conferences preparatory TO Ar.
buckles second trial. scheduled for
Monday.
There was some reason to believe
a delay OF one week would be accept.
able 10 both sides. but neither the de-
Tense nor prosecution would say
whether such a delay was to b.
asked.
Arbuckle IL scheduled 10 come 20
San Francisco Saturday from los
Angeles. where he has b~cn remain.
ing In scclusion since the jury al his
first trial disagreed on the question
Of his guilt or innocence OF charges
OF having taken the life OF Virginia
Rappa.