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Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1926-09-02
LAST UNIT OF PROJECTED
SCHOOL NEARLY COMPL ETED


The school board is constructing
ehiA summer the last amt OF those
buildings proiscted 10 take care Of
ths various activities Of the school.
Last year the Manual Training
building was constructed on the
school lots directly back Of the aud
ftOrium. This building. about 80 feet
BY 20 fest with bungalow roof. was
planned 30 accomodate Manual Train
ing classes and the Farm Shop work.
The blacksmithing was still done in
old shed which while being unsightIy
was also inconvenient and fire men,
ace.
There is under construction at the
present time, parallel to the Manual
Training building and of similar de-
sign, building designed to house the
blacksmith shop, furnish space for
the school car, and provide stalls for
twelve saddle horses which may be
ridden In by students Last year the
district paid six dollars a month stor-
age for the car and five dollars
month rent for a stable.
The new building is in the hands
of Mat Lesell and Gus johnson who
are working on it idle days and after
their shift at the mine. Ii will be
completed before the opening of
school.
The Wayne school has been re-
fiRished inside and out, the buildings
painted white with green trimming
which make an attractive appearance.
from the road. The fences have been
put in good repair and other improve
ments made. The Spring Creek
school will be opened this fall for the
accommodation of the children of John
Krebs. Miss Sophie Miller will be the
teacher.
During the last school year the
heating system in the auditorium
was changed and larger hot air pipes
and ventilators put in. After this
was done there was no trouble in
heating and ventilating the assembly
hall. This summer the boys shower
rom has been cemented, cleaned and
painted, all stairs have been repaired
doors and locks refitted, and all
painted.
A contract was let to the Mettlea
Sheet Metal Works recently to re- =
model heating system in the Custer
school; this is to include putting the {
in a gas and smoke-tight I
condition; installing hot-air flues not :
less than 1S by "a inches in every
room with cold air autlets fully as
large. In this job, more than a ton /
Of galvanized iron was used. The q
furnace pipes were wrecks and had n
to be entirely replaced. The readJust- t
ment of furnaces has necessitated the h
changing of the stairway leading =
from the main floor of this building s
to the basement.
1t is hoped, after these repairs a
have been completed, that the Custer v
school viii be safer and warmer than II
t has been for years. O.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1926-09-02
RRIDGE REPAIRED

Ths bridge within the city limits
and on the road connecting with the
Orr COules road has bean repaired.
This bridge was weakened at the
time Of the cloudburst and had be-
come almost impassihle.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1926-09-02
THE FARMING INDUSTRY
BY OTTo H. KAHN

For many years the farming in
dustry has not yielded adequate re-
turns. Many farmers are gravely
discontented and under an intense
sense Of grievance toward the exist
ing order Of things. Adversely, more
or less acute, has been the fate Of
great portion of the farming COM
munity, while general business has
been prosperous and wages have at
tanned unprecedented levels.
At best, the farmers calling is a
toilsome one, involving inevitable
hardships and deprivations. The
farming business is the largest in
the country. The basic and vital
necessity of the farming industry
needs no emphasis. The immense
social value of the farming class to
the State is beyond argument.
The farming stock provides a con-
tinuous and essential supply Of
human raw material toward the pre-
servation Of the vigor and the dis
tinctive characteristics of the Amer
ican race.
If there is one calling which has
higher claim than another upon the
helpful consideration Of the State IL
is that of the farmer. The farmers
problem is part Of our problem. The
farmers welfare is an ESSENTIAL part
Of our welfare.
II is harmful and menacing to the !
commonwealth that so numerous and
so valuable a portion Of the popu-
lation should feel dissatisfied and re-
sentful and be without prosperity. I
The situation lends itself peculiarly
10 the indictments and wiles Of the .
iemagogue and to the plausible
figments of the economic visionary.
Both justice and self-iBtefest de-
nand of the community at large that
very legitimate endeavor be put
'orth to the end that the farmers
grievances can be redressed. If that
'edress can only be accomplished by
Methods which, while practicable and {
warrantable and prom
sing to be effective, are novel and
,erhaps unpalatable to the estab=
ished ways of business, then the Less
important will have to yield to the
more important, i. e.. business con-
enience and customs to the rehabili- :
alton of the farming industry. t
Unless weIl-considered, sincere ard
arnest efforts are promptly put into '
peration by Congress. within the t
mits Of economic soundness and r
racticability. to accomplish the OBJ
sct in view, the danger looms ahead h
nat a large section Of the farming a
ote may succumb to the specious t
ersuasiveness and false promises Of il
le well meaning, self-deceived pur- 7
syor Of political and economic nos il
ums and delusions. often disprovpd L
1t ever resurging, or Of the cunning
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1926-09-02
HITS WET WHEAT

On Monday morning lightning
struck the wheat field of Arthur
SamueIson at Tiger Butte. 1t wholly
destroyed one, shock but the fact that
the rest Of the wheat was wet doubt
less saved a serious loss. 1t is re
ported that WaIfred Sheldon was also
busy that morning putting ont fires
started in his grain by the lightning.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1926-09-02
CORNER TRANSFERRED

Deeds from different parties 70 the
Meri<ls Coal Co. for undivided pOr-
lions Of the castnsr Hotel site were
filed this week. It ID rumored that
this lot has been sold to the COntin
entail Oil Co.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1926-09-02
SLIGHT HAIL DAMAGE

On Sunday night and Monday
morning the ranches Of LepIey, Rain
water and the J. 3. Long Company
were visited by hail. The hail in
spector gave Lepleya 33 percent loss
No information has been received
from the Rainwater loss and the J..
B. Long damage was considered too
trifling TO warrant q claim.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-11

mind OF a believer.
The Reverend Ware, having con-
ceived of the idea of writing a book
on Abraham, decides to go to Father
Forbes for counsel. Father Forbes Is
catholic priest whose vast erudition
has not clouded his mind to fact nor
dulled his dexterity as an ecclesiastic.
Modern research" he says to the
simple-souled Reverend Ware, quite
wipes (Abraham) out Of existence
as an individual. The word 'Abram'
is merely an eponym-it means 'ex-
allied father Practically all the
names in the Genesis chronologies
are what we call eponymous. Abram
Is not person at all; he is a tribe,
a sect, clan. In the same way,
Shem is not intended for man; it
is the name Of a great division of the
human race. Heber is simply the
throwing back into allegorical sub
stance, so to speak, OF the Hebrews:
Heth of the Hittites; Asshur Of
Assyria."
But this is something very new,
this theory, isn't it?" queried Theron.
The priest smiled and shook his
head. BLESS you, mol Ny dear
sir, there is nothing new. Epicurus
and Lucretius outlined the whole
Darwinian theory, more than two
thousand years ago. As for this
eponym thing, why Saint Augustine
called attention to it fifteen hun
bred years ago. In his DE Civitate
DEL he expressly says of these
genealogical names, 'gentes non
homfnes;' that is, peoples. not per-
soma 1t was as obvious to him
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-11

other upon spiritual Their points of
view are disparate and antagonistic.
Christian socialist movements are es
sentially saccharine and ineffective.
Jesus-radicals are always sentimental
lists. There has been so much re-
search done in the origins of religion,
and particularly in the beginnings of
christianity, that the appeal to Jesus
is infantile and idiotic. The very
historicity of Jesus Is not only ques-
toned, but with the discovery of every
new forgery and every new evidence
its reality grows weaker and more
dubious. At all events, even IL Jesus
did live, what he said is certainly un-
known aside from the myths of sim
ple-minded fishermen and madmen.
The gospels themselves, if one would
take from them an evidence and dis
entangle philosophy, have been so
well garbled and in essence so con-
fused and contradictory, that this ges-
ture, too, is rendered hopeless and i'm
potent.
Yet what christians know OF the
dubious origins Of their creed? What
christians know OF the slender, ever
alternating evidence upon which their
Christ depends! Bruno Bauer and
Feuerbach had begun the investiga-
ton many decades ago-George Eliot
even translated Feuerbach's roots of
Christianity" into English-but the
majority Of proletarians as well as
bourgeoisie are entirely unaware of
the nature of their work. OF course,
this investigation ia too technical TO
excite numerous readers. but its con.
illusions should surely be known Lit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-11
Religion in Literature

preacher as in Goldsmith's "vicar of
Wakefield" and Jane Austen's novels,
was treated with gentIeness and
praise. Only at occasional moments
did an anti-religious fiction ruffIe the
placidity of the literary horizon.
1t is because "the Damnation Of
Theron Ware" by Harold Frederic
is one of the first novels to attack
the religious myth that It is deserving
of serious consideration Modern re-
ligion is but a justification Of capt.
talist enterprise. Radicalism and re-
ligiosity are not compatible. The one
depends upon material factors and the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-11

erature that helps to disseminate them
is of social value.
In "The Damnation of Theron
Ware" the protagonist is a methodist
minister. devout, sincere soul, who
has consecrated his innocent and ig-
norant mind to the cause Of the
church His contact with Father
Forbes in the town OF octavius, to
which he had been isolated by the
methodist conference, brings him
some catastrophe revelations. At the
same time the author gives a picture
OF the ministry, and christian evidence
that would Mechanically disturb the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-11
By v. F. CaIverton

as much commonplace of knowE
edge-as it was to Ezekiel eight
hundred years before him"
Father Forbes reply is significant
It explains the tenacious affection Of
the church for ignorance.
why should everybody be sup
posed to know things7 What BUSH
ness is 1t of 'eVerybody's' 20 know
things2 The earth was just as
round in the days when people sup
posed 1t to be fat, as It Is now. So
the truth remains always the truth,
even tho you give a charter to tan
hundred thousand separate num-
skulls to examine 1t by the light OF
their private judgement, and report
that It Is as many different varie-
ties OF something else, But OF
course that whole question Of prt-
Yate judgment versus authority u
No-Man's-Land for US. We were
speaking Of eponyms."
Later on, after discussing the ghosts
of dead mems thoughts, the priest con-
tinues the original topic:
"The names Of these dead-and-
gone things are singularly pertina-
cious, though. They survive inden-
nitely. Take the modern name
Marmaduke, for example. It strikes
one as peculiarly modern, up-to-
date, doesn't it, Well, It Is the old
est name on earth-thousands OF
years older than Adam. 1t Is the
ancient Chaldean Meridug, or Nero
dach. He was the young god who
interceded continually between the
angry, omnipotent Ea, his father,
and the humble and unhappy Dam
kina, or Earth, who was his mother.
This is interesting from another
point OF view, because this Nero
dach or Marmaduke Is, so far az
we can see now, the original proto-
type Of our divine Intermediary
idea. daresay, tho that II we
could go back still other scores OF
centuries, we should md whole re-
cedina series OF types Of thls chrIsA-
myth Of ours"
The Reverend Wares reply Is a.
characteristic Of the religious mind as
the collection plate is Of the religious
service.
"All / have done Is to try TO pre-
serve an open mind, and to main
tain my faith that the more wo
know, the nearer we shall approach
the Throne"
The plot Of the novel is incense
quential. In revealing the weakness
and duplicity of the clergy, 1t merits
attention. Instead of extolling the
preacher, it exposes him. The expos
ure is not in the form of maliceful sa-
tire, but of simple dissection. The love
made fight of the right Reverend
Ware adds drama to his stupidity, but
not power to the novel. The novel u
not distinguished achievement 1t e
because in 1896, when 1t
it was part of that trend that
was slowly deviating from the bour-
geois literature that had preceded
Since it's appearance the preacher has
lost his position OF prominence and
power in fiction. Now it is only in the
trashy tosh OF Ralph Conner and Har-
old Bell Wright that the preacher re-
mains a hero and his profession an
honor. In the new literature it is the
vices instead Of the virtues Of the
that have been described
Harold Frederic's novel chalks the be-
ginning Of this new attitude.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-10
APPLE PIE
RECIPE

A NATIONAL apple week re-
"A minds thousands of people
that apple pie is their favorite
dessert. Notwithstanding the
insistence with which the apple
pastry has kept its place as the
most popular American dessert.
each year brings new, discoveries
of ways In which even apple pie
can keep up with the times.
There is for instance an. apple
pie in which grape juice and
apples for a delicious combina.
ton of which the secret Is hard
to discover. The pie is filling
baked between two crusts and
the filling is made after this.
Mix. together four tablespoon
fuls each OF cornstarchl and
sugar: over this pour half 4 cup
full Of boiling water and add one
cupful of concentrated grape
juice, and three tart cooking
dPEhOSS pal GU SOACu anu SA1OppCA,
Cook, stirring constantly, until
the apples begin to change color.
Add the juice of half lemon
and let cool slightly before pour.
ing into a pie plate lined with
pastry. Cover with pastry and
bake in a hot oven for thirty
minutes.
Dutch seamen are reported to
be agitated over the steady In.
crease in the number Of Chinese
in the Dutch mercantile marine.
It is estimated that at least 1000
Chinese are now so employed,
ship owners thus economizing on
wages. The Chinese are usually
shipped at Dutch East Indies
ports.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-10

fish, may well be limited to three
or four ounces once daily.
The more concentrated carbo-
hydrates are sugars, grains and
flours. 1t is best to eliminate
sweet cakes and pastry almost
entirely and to reduce bread. po-
tatoes and macaroni sufficiently,
when considered with the fats
used, to keep the weight at q de-
sirable point.
Fried foods, II properly fried,
that is without being saturated
with fats, may be taken. but
otherwise should be almost elimi.
mated.
The weight should be kept nor.
NAL on butter. cream, olive oil
and bacon-and meat-fat.
Excess of starches and sugars
exhausts the oxygen reserve and
causes incomplete reduction of
the proteins.
Also remember that the levu-
lose. the sticky element Of cane
sugar, otherwise called molasses.
is changed by the digestion into
glucose, thereby producing many
toxic substances which impair
not only the digestive processes
but assimilation in general.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-10
JAM FROM
PUMPKINS

DARTS. - The French don't
J. know the joys of pumpkin
pie, but are very fond OF pump.
kin jam.
Select nine oranges and peel
only six. leaving the rind on the
other three.
Weigh the same amount OF
peeled pumpkin and cut into thin
slices, as well as the oranges, re-
moving the seeds.
Put the fruit to nacerate with
the same weight Of sugar and let
stand until the next day. Cook
over a slow fire, stirring often.
Remove when it is Of liam" con-
sistency.
If desired, one may also add
one or two pears or an apple.
The jam will be just as good.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-10
By Beatrice Fairfax

An Authority on the Problems Of
Love and Marriage
DOUBTLESS the oId-fashioned
" girl had love problems to
meet in grandmother's time. al.
though there was not a Love
Lorn Column" in those days, so
ws haven't a record OF her
doubts and fears, her thrills and
heartbreaks. But in this day
and generation, life is indeed
most difficult and complicated for
girls who choose their own hus-
bands or remain unwed, and have
In general the ordering Of and
responsibility Tor their own
lives.
The jazz wildness Of so many
circles Of modern young folks
adds to the bewiIdering difficulty
OF the problem for a girl with
ideals who, like Claire, doesn't
wish to cheaper herself, yet quite
naturally wishes to make friends
and so give herself every chance
to forget one young man who
doesn't care.
"Dear Miss Fairfax" she
writes. "I feel so blue that
nothing seems to matter. I'm in
love with a young man who sees
me only as one of the young
girls in our crowd. I'm eighteen
and he's about twenty-three.
ct could go with many other
young men, but I'd rather be
miserable thinking about him
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-10
DO YOU KNOW
THAT

Two wooden rugs resembling
American dollar bills, made in
Greece, were seized by customs
officers when brought to this
country under the law forbidding
imitation of the national currency.
The Japanese have forbidden
the ancient Korean custom of
carving a design on the. neck of
a girl who has Tilted her lover.
To shoot a proJecticle to the
moon 1t would be necessary for it
to have a velocity of seven miles
a second. The average big gun
can give a speed of only about
one one-hundredth OF that rate.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-10

1t Is, OF course, possible to go
too far in the direction Of reduc.
ton OF food. The amount Of pro.
tein which one consumes chiefly
in the form OF meats can gener-
ally be reduced with advantage.
Perhaps the most common min.
eral deficiency IL that Of lime.
A pint OF milk with green and
coarse vegetables every day will
supply sufficient lime.
Each days dietary should in.
clude two articles Of fruit, two
belpings Of green leaves and
three helpings Of coarse vegeta-
bles, This will give sufficient
alkan and roughage.
Meat, including chicken and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-10

give up heavy meals for light
ones to decrease the strain on
his digestive organs, heart and
kidneys.
The stomach, pancreas, liver
and intestines are not providing
as much juice as they did.
Putrefaction and fermentation
are more likely to occur and are
less easy to counter.
Many instances are reported
of elderly men and women dying
shortly after heavy meal. which
was presumably the last straw.
But there are an equal number OF
men living to ripe old age
because they are careful In their
eating.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-10
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y Not BE Lastinq one for YOU Miss Fainar AUezs

done. dear. The trees and flow.
ers take their own time to bud
ana blossom. They cant be pried
open without utter sacrifice Of
their beautiful perfection. So
it is with friendship and love. You.
must patiently wait for the flower
Of friendship and love to bloom
IN your own life.
Keep CHEEKY courageous and
charming keep busy so as not to
brood and when the right time
comes, love Is nearly certain 70
find you out.
Possibly It viii be the love Of
the young man who is so dear 70
you now possibly. the love Of
one you have not yet met. You
cannot force the issue. You can
only wait patiently for the lovely
bloom OF life and love. and mean
time. enjoy the little joys and
pleasures each day brings, re-
solved to be ready for true lOva
and marriage when they come
All happiness and success to you,
dear!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-10

CLoAN,s haunting face danced
- before her. His voice,
petuIant. sneering. unnatural.
filled the room. Great waves Of
surging horror swept over her.
leaving her trembling. dumb.
With shaking fingers she tore
at the ring on her finger.S It
seemed lifetime before she got
It off. Another lifetime before
she hurled it, with all the
Whitney's distorted face.
There's the ring" she whis-
pered. / won't require the saddle
horse any longer. And since this,
apartment belongs to me. not you
GET oUT!"
It seemed hours before he
moved. Then his footsteps sound.
Cd, wavering, uncertain, on the
polished floor. She covered her
face with her hands. lest she
weaken and Hook. And if she
looked she knew she would call
him back.
She might just as well have
called him. It wouldn't have made
any difference. He came back
anyway.
81 can't leave,you like this" he
said. Ny God, Rosemary, We
can't break up this way-in A.
q scene, you know. I'm sorry. /
confess I've had too much. But
I'm thoroughly sober now, and
apologize. win you forgive me?"
Even then she tried to hold out.
She tried to be cool and polite.
as ne was being cool and polite.
But she couldn't. All she could
think of was this-she had sent
him away-and he wouldn't go.
Her arms stole around his neck.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-10

business or add to your social ac-
accomplishments. Study some for
eign language, or dancing. or
cooking. or playing the harp
whatever appeals to you a. most
worth while, and win enable you
to crowd the thought OF this one
young man out Of your thoughts.
There's nothing like keeping
busy to drive away the blues
and every other form Of ,discour.
agement.
As for bringing things to .
crisis Immediately, it can't be
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-11-10
NOU Continue

/ & ! ~
J. She said TREMENDOUSLY. "You do love.
me. Sloan?n
my dear" he said. my dear"
and caressed her gently.
You change so quickly" she
said tearfully. ''You were like
some stranger before. You-you
frightened me-you hurt me ter.
ribly
II was drunk" he said bluntly.
.Promise-S loan-promise you
won't do it any more. Please
promise. We can't go on that
way"
I'VE won'5t-"
You mean you will give it up?
You will-W0n't your"
A little hint of coldness crept
back into his voice. Rosemary,
for heavens sake-we've had one
scene. Now, don't go begging me
to sign the pledge
I'm not-but I can see 1t grow.
ing on you. It's getting you,
Sloan. You don't realize. You've
grown to depend on 1t, you aren't
happy without that miserable
flask. It does things to you
makes you unlike yourself. It
turns you into someone else
someone I'm afraid of-someone I
almost"
All right-you've said enough.
get the drift. You don't have to
embroider the theme
Her eyes were fun or tears. He
kissed her again. Now / must
so. Wen forget all about this
and go on as we were. I'll even
get UP at the crack Of dawn and
ride with you IL you like.
But ] don't think / had better
ride Queenie any more. That's
another thing I wanted to talk
about. Sloan. they-they think
I'm your wife at the stable