The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-08-27
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,orpu VALENTINO, the sheik
Fl pOLle -.reen displaced the name of
o. NV ,DT Ehot. president emeritus OF
lhas I'm the front page of the
HaI'',1ie now spapers last week. The
dah! ,bo made spinsters forget
nan ears and old women remem-
.ls. .Ls;r youth" seemed to be- better
I'm = 10 the american people than
A'-" sr Who presided for forty years
@, tbe country's greatest educa-
o1 institution. Both were takers
.o.I' .L.ir way and went on the old
. .;rIa mi. laid down by Barnum "that
o1b.ic like to be fooled and that
Us Ter IS "bOrn every minute"
s- The success of Valentino and
[-... H.. + IS evident that they arc born
L-- ~ fhan that now. But then
+. aonu.ation of the United States
y increased considerably since the
..-,5er of Bridgeport was in the
..-rs business and gave utterance
!. "a now famous truism.
p.tvepn Eliot and Valentino, the lat
- MAS bv far the better of the
va Eliot was a mercenary old
.-,sfifute who was always giving
,.,-assion to opinions that suited the
~. of Wall street. One time he
5.eared in opposing union labor that
II srab IS the highest type of Ameri-
an citizenship" He earned his sti-
and from the Carnegie fund by
lo,tinuaIly preaching the supremacy
Il the Anglo-SaXOn race, over Ger
~a1s. Scandinavians, lrl h, Italian
s.4 other races who made this cOun-
n great and was always boosting
i1go-American Alliances, WOrl d
Corrts. Leagues of Nations and such
sber contraptiOns conceived by the
Hopse of Morgan and the British
foreign office. After spending 90
Years on TINS earth he goes down to
n. grave without having rendered
sirgie service to the tOimng masses
Of the world, that would cause one
worker to shed a tear over his
grave.
COLONEL MARSTERS is quoted in
the article " Racusin, which we
publish by the courtesy of the New
York Herald Tribune, in another col
umn. The Colonel, after cOnfessing
that Montana is wet and getting wet
ter under his administration, states
that the reason things are SO bad is
because he has not enough men to do
effective work. We al remember
when Col. Marsters had a whole
platoon of men up here in Sheridan
county, not chasing bOOtleggers, but
trying to get something on" the
county officials. The colonel spent
.5t Of good government money al
that time also but now tells a New
York correspondent that he has not
enough mol or money to fight the
onward march of Demon Rum in the
big cities of the state. 0, "COnsis
t1cy Though Art a Mule, e,"-wheT
connected with the old horse trader
from Idaho.
lut uLLL-NA lNOEI E4N OE4N SuR
gests that the State and Fedora
prohibition officials should wear reC
uniforms so that motorists could di
tnguish them from highwaymen
The Independent made no sugges
tms as to the kind of appare
which should be worn by the BOrde
PatrOl-the force that Oscar Collin
Is connected with-as distinguished
from the immigration officers, VIII
wear an Give Tan suit. Whel
Stambaugh asked Oscar why he di
not wear a uniform to distinguisI
HIM from a hijacker, that worth
replied that there was none to fl
INN. Might we suggest to- Co
Sheridan that the color of the uni
form to be given to Oscar should b
Yellow. This color with cOntras
ittmgly with his flOrid cOmpleXiO
while harmOnizing with his pOlitics
principles. And if he had a littl
oOitle of Castor Oil on the Cap an
sleeves as an insignia no farme
would mistake him for anybody els
and try to run him down.