The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-04-23
Uncommon Editorials From the State Press

critics. l am rather young, but have
been about a bit, and have some ac-
quaintanceship among newspaper PEG
pie. / hang my head and admit that
most of them that l know personally
have on good and sufficient occasion,
in my presence, given utterance to
oaths that would put an oriental to
shame.
Travelling from the newspaper folk
I ponder over other persons that 1
have met or heard talk on widely sep
arated spots. If you sit IN any smok-
ing compartment of any Pullman pal
ace car shooting across the face OF
America; if you lounge in any COM
Portable chair in a given card room
or hotel lounge; if you talk politics
with your neighbor over the back
yard fence; if, in short, you come in
to intercourse with men, it's a cinch,
and I'll wager twenty to one that
you shall be auditor to as bad or
worse choice of language than was
offered the reader in the March issue
of The Frontier.
There has been much talk about
such persons as Cox being in a posi-
ton to stamp impressions upon i'm
mature minds of the young men and
women of our universities. To such
twaddle, after having attended some
OF them scattered over the face of
the United States, I must answer
"blah." l know far too much about
what is contained in the average uni
versity students Uranium to fall for
such balderdash.
ct is sad to note that it has come
to pass that one or more men should
be condemned fer using epithets in
print that a large majority of man
kind have the bad taste to have cling
ing to the ends of their tongues dur
ing most of their waking hours.
as = There has long been
a standing joke about what dry read
ing the Congressional Record is. If
people only knew the flavor of some
OF Its juicy contents / predict that il
would soon Outstrip in popularity ev-
en- Captain Billy's Whizbang, Married
Stories, True Story and others of that
matter that infest modern newstands.
Looking a little further, l am
LCANCA " HuCSLlOlt bllG CLuQlLlCdl OF
these shocked people who are calling
on man and heaven to send forth
woe unto these Missoula people. Have
these shocked ones never perused
those thumb-marked pages of the H.
brarys volumes of Shakespeare
Say, Venus and Adonis? Is it pos
slble that they are unacquainted with
the tlme-honOred pages of Balzac? Is
De Maupassant meaningless to them ?
Can it be they are unfamiliar with
the Bible; that they have not digest.
ed the anecdotes to be found without
df1culty IN Kings or in Leviticus
Have they never heard OF The Lady
CT the Camelias? Are those accented
BITS OF literature such as MADAME
Bovary, The House of Aureus. Salt
Moon Calf, The Red Lily, ANYTHING 81
Rabelais, and others too muItitudin.
Gus to mention unheard of? To com,
more close to the minds of those VIII,
would purge our communities of sucl
IKE 1t Is necessary to call their at
2 tentlon 20 drivel such as The Shaik
: The Green Hat, aforementioned Thre,
;. Weeks, etc., with which they doubt
less are more familiar. It might b,
we'll Tor them to investigate into tn,
mysteries of The Way of a Man b,
, none other than that great warrior
: minister of the gospel, and genera
Teformer of other peoples morals
J Thomas Dixon.
CO II ,,,;ol4 l
( suggested that nothing of itself 4
bad; but that thinking makes it bad
For that portion of our populac,
e which will not or is unable to copi
{ tate, they are so bad that nothin,
else can compare.
t Thus we find those who condemn
Mr.. Cox and his associates to fall in
= TO three classifieatiens: Those VIII,
t are malicious and endeavor to spread
|, eagle a man because they disagree
: with his conclusions: those who ar
f hypocritical and live the same sor
S OF lie which they condemn-and the,
h are legion; and those who are misIa
= put viii discover their error and rec
q tify it. y