The Elk Mountain pilot., 1922-06-29


THE Cement Trust wants you to vote the ssoooooo
bond issue. How much Cement Trust stock do own?
LATE dispatches announce the pardon by the Presi-
dent of Vincent ST. john well known in Colorado, who
in prison under the espionage law. This will give
some of our labor haters fresh Crouch
THE news that VIM Rockefeller younger brother of
John D. Rockefeller, died pneumonia last week the
of 81 years chiefly from the fact that it
freshes the public the fact that his brother
cannot last forever.
THOSE Colorado papers that having much
satisfaction the candidacy for the Senate of Mrs
Oleson in Minnesota should how they endorse
her. She is the democratic candidate, OF but is
also the Nonpartisan League candidate. This might
her of editorial support in Colorado we
imagine but probably detract from her chances
in Minnesota.
THE cartoon which appears first page is new
feature added efforts thoroughly promote
progressive ideas Outlines good cartoon speaks more
forciby than column editorial, and Ex-Congressman
Baers work is easily the best to be had on the urgent
topics of the day We feel that do not have to call
attention them reading They will appear
regularly hereafter in all our publications
1T is not hard to understand why the coroners jury
placed the blame of the Illinois horror the mine
and mine guards. One of the guards testified
that the first shots fired by the Superintendent Nc
Dowell who with high powered rife shot two union
miners who visible distant hillside Evidently
he mental twin of Pat Hamfat, who brags
that if given any plausible he will kill all the
union leaders in Colorado.
THE horror, of killing some mine guards and miners
in Illinois, to nearly give the less esteemed
Post of imjams but the burning to death of
and children at Ludlow and the threat of Pat Ham
bone the Ranger commander to exterminate Union
leaders does to affect them much Makes huge
difference whether the killed aborer employer
The killings would not be half way if the had
been ten times what it was.
THE Senate has confirmed the appointment of G. c.
Pond Register and Receiver of the Montrose Land
Office. This removes VIM. Baird who has vtiated more
land titles in his effort reward his friends and punish
his enemies, than any who held that any
other position. He may devote his entire attention
to campaigning for Merle Vincent against Taylor. The
will be good those who bust
with the Montrose Office
THE chief effort of the Hague conference is to be
Redistribution of the Russian government It will hard
ywfn Those Russians have ideal and to
it ont They have already endured about all the prvaon
that be forced upon them and likely to yield
the coercion of people who unable help them
materially if they submitted to the chains rendered The
Russian that the Kaiser may be
the German throne. This perhaps explains why the
tvity to put him back
WE sometimes wonder if those who seek the reason
for the bad effect of the movies the decadence of the
church. the degenerang influence of the dance and other
primarily innocent forms of amusement, give any
consideration the fact that all these evils from
their commerciazation. The Church power
full and soulsasfyng when it free from conn
cial tant Amusement of every sort becomes degraded
in just that degree that it is commercalized The
formers might give study to this idea Possibly
they will find it Illuminating.
THE gifted man bears his gifts into the world not
for his benefit but for the people whom he is
placed; for the gifts not his he himself is gift to
the community That is the way Life gives gifts the
people; it wraps them in men, and sends them forth.
II then the bearer puroins the gifts for his and
turns his ability into for overordshp
and exploitation of those who need him. he is traitor
to the Universe Every kind of ability superiority is
obligation Here the solution of all racial national
class and individual problems Service is the badge of
the great There is without it-Henry Ford
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