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Apparently recognizing that Fascism
minus its ruthless relentless quality
would long since have fallen, Primo
has elected a forceful course. Never
theless, it is impossible for the OBJ
server to escape the feeling that the
course Is counter to many Of the inner
most feelings of the man.
Program and Plans Outlined.
However that may be, the dictator
of Spain has his program and his plans:
With emphatic clearness ne outlined
them to me as follows: First OF al
We shall prepare project 1or new
constitution. We shall prepare, second,
law of public order; third, project
Of electoral reform; fourth, a law OF
associations, and fifth, We shall pre-
pare laws and regulations for the press.
I do not want a Parliament as weak
and ineffective as some OF those else
where In Europe"
Here, then, are the chief items of
Primo's immediate task and 1t IN
no sense the task of soldier. 1t Is
statesman's task and diplomats as
well, for If it is one day to be sub
nitted to the Spanish people by refer
endum. all of these reforms must be
calculated to win the support OF
ma iority or dozen dIIerenU paTtleS
and shades Of public opinion. Rivera
announced to the Herald Tribune his
intention of completing all this work
within 80 months and then resigning
in favor of "a younger government and
younger leaders" Thirty months, II
anything, is challengingly brief period
in which to rebuild SPANS Constitution
and laws from the ground up. Yet
upon these very projects, as Primo well
realizes, hinges the ultimate success or
failure of the Rivera regime.
This is why people in Spain state
frankly that Primo's dictatorship is
now in its most difficult phase and
that the demands upon him are de-
mands requiring well rounded man
Of unusual dimensions. These obser-
vations are perfectly Just. But they
should be linked with another. This
second observation is that the premier's
problem is dual one. Not only is he
confronted with the crucial tests of
his dictatorship-with its true histori-
cal values still hanging in the balance
but he is faced more than ever be-
fore, with the problem of maintaining
his regime while these tasks are being
done. There are two pertinent ques-
tions in Spain today:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-08
POWER Of RIVERA
IS SEEN DECLINING
Supreme Tests to Be Met,
With Politics Develop
ing Enemies.
BY LELAND STOWE,
snecial CORRESPONDENT. of me Star.

ENeClai
MADRID, February 27-There is not
a dictator in Europe who hasn't discov-
cred that his first problems were his
simplest ones. 1t is much easier to
become a dictator than to remain one
over a period of years. AS one shreWo
political observer remarked to me here
EVERY dictator starts very near 70 the
peak of his power. After that he's
faced more and more with the job OF
keeping his regime at that high level.
Naturally, no dictator can do that Tor
any great length of time"
So 1t has been with Primo de Rivera.
When he came to power his first ana
greatest problems we're military ones
suppression of disorder, efficiency, uni
fication and Capitalization. The new
dictator had been a soldier all his life.
To accomplish these first necessities ne
had only to be the general which he
was by training and profession. 1t was
simply a case of sound military or
ganization, and Primo de Rivera In
September, 1923, did Spain great serv-
ice by restoring law and order ana
respect for government. While this
task lasted he was completely in his
element. King Alfonso XIII was we'll
justified for his faith in the dictator.
Pressing Problems Solved.
But as the Rivera regime has rounded
out one year and then another these
originally important questions have
been largely solved and have slipped
into the background. Primo de Rivera s
problems are now almost negligibly
military. In fact, his only military dif-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-08

There Is Sanchez Guerra, who rose from
a modest electoral agent in small
Spanish village to become the recog-
nized leader of the Conservative party
more than eight years ago. Guerra is a
man of great personality. He is austere
and honest. Despite his wealth he
lives in utmost simplicity, and he has
devoted and trustworthy followers:
Likewise there is Don Aware Fig
ueroa, the Count de Ronanones. He Is
known as the richest man in Spain
Highly educated, tall, dignified, white
mustached, the Count de Romanones
gives an immediate impression of in
telligence, ability and force. He en-
Joys the friendship and confidence of
famous statesmen in almost every coun-
try of Europe, and he has an equally
strong following and influence at home.
The Count de Romanones, from the
beginning of the dictatorship, has un-
compromisingly opposed Primo de
Rivera, and there are few men in Spain
who have as fearlessly let this fact be
known.
In Barcelona lives another of primo's
outspoken enemies, Don Francisco de A.
Cambo. He, too, is one of SPANS
wealthiest citizens; former minister
of public works, and the chief of the
Catalan party. If his influence is not
as general as that of either Sanchez
Guerra or the Count de Romanones,
nevertheless Don Francisco has the
merit of heading an extremely close
knit organization which is relentlessly
opposed to the dictatorship.
Difficulties Grow Greater.
Accordingly, 1t is evident that Gen.
de Rivera has aligned against him
numerous powerful elements whose
leaders are outstanding. They will
one day throw everything into the bal
ance to unseat the dictatorship and
achieve what they envisage as NOR
NAL regime" in Spain. AS a result
Primos difficulties today are greater
than they have ever been in the past.
His opposition is becoming more per-
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ficulty is that of preserving the support
of the army-and that, for Primo. Is a
vital matter. Yet it is not national
question. The national problems in
Spain today are matters for statesmen
much more than for soldiers. They are
questions Of governmental reform,
legal reform, drafting of new con-
stitution. They are likewise questions
of economic and industrial develop
ment. of tariff revision, of reinforcing
and maintaining balanced budgets and
of a return to the gold standard.
Giving full credit for the unques-
toned patriotism of the dictator and
recognizing his intention to inaugu-
rate governmental reforms, one finds
intelligent Spaniards everywhere ask
solve these complicated economic and
political problems?" Naturally there Is
a difference of opinion in the answers
to this question. But there is una
nin1ity that Primo now faces the SUI
preme tests of his regime. The final
values of his dictatorship will be de-
termined largely by the manner in
which he treats them.
Needs Well Trained Aides.
It must be almost as generally adj
mltted that the premlerS paSb expert
ence has scarcely qualified him for the
role he is now called on to play. He is
not, nor does he claim to be an eco
nomic or financial eXpert-and hardly
any more of legal expert. Therefore.
Primo has need of well trained aides
and experienced advisers. 1t is evil
dent that he will need all of them and
men of integrity, for the dictator more
and more is finding himself in strange
fields. There is always the danger of
getting beyond his depth
Faced with the same problem Mus
solini-an indefatigable worker and in
disputably a widely-read man-has at
tempted to solve 1t by constantly in
creasing Capitalization: by assuming an
astonishing share of work and respon-
sibility himself. AS yet Rivera has not
attempted to follow a course in which
only one man in million could sue
coed. He has commenced to adept the
restrictions and iron hand of Fascism
but he has hesitated to ape the god
head Of Fascism. Perhaps wisely so,
for there Is not in Primo de Rivera the
defiant Napoleonic complex which radi-
ates In every posture and every phrase
of II Duce. Yet the Spanish dictator
ship now stands at the parting OF the
WAYS. 1t must go one way or the other.
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Is Gen. de Rivera capable of salts
factorily solving the governments null
tiple pressing problems?
Is Gen. de Rivera strong enough to
hold on while the attempt to solve them
Is being made?
Primo's Decline Foreseen.
And by the force of circumstances,
the second of these questions at pres
ent should rightly be placed before the
first Although people here freely adj
NIT Primo may remain in power an
other six months or a year. there are
very few who would as freely gamble
that he will hold on for another two
years or even three. There are many,
In fact, who say: IF Primo is wise he
Will hurry his reforms as much as pos
slble and he will step down before the
feeling against him becomes too wide
spread and too unified"
With equal force they say that for
Primo to think of remaining in power
another five years (as he intimated
IN his fifth anniversary speech last
September) would be folly. This con-
clusion, I should Judge from the
premler's attitude during our inter-
view not long ago, he himself has also
reached whether or not he entertained
them before the incidents at Claudad
Real and Valencia.
At this juncture 1t Is pertinent to
consider what forces Rivera has with
him and what forces he has against
him. The opposition to the dictator
ship falls, roughly, into four divisions.
/. The artillery, chiefly the officers, In
group Of the army comprising some
$4,000 to $4,000 men.
2. The Conservative party, led by ex-
Premier Sanchez Guarra, who is now
under arrest. A very strong and well
organized group throughout Spain.
3. The Republican party, whose chief
is Alexander Lerroux This group now
claims to have considerable support, OPP
posing both Primo and the monarchy,
but it is not compact and its strength
is questionable.
4. The Liberal party, which is split
In several factions. The rich and in
fiuential Count de Romanones, several
times premier and cabinet minister,
heads one division of Liberals Another
division Is led by the Marquis Alhuce-
mas. Nevertheless, the Liberals are
loosely knit and indefinite as to policy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-08
Two Lieutenants Resign.

The President has accepted the resig-
nations of First Lieuts. Harold LeR.
Stewart and Warren L. Written of the
Army Medical Corps. Lieut.. Stewart is
from Pennsylvania and is stationed at
the Army Medical School. this city.
Lieut.. Written is from New York and is
at Edgewood Arsenal, Md.
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sistent and more compact. His sup
port may be as strong as it has been
In the past, but it Is open to question.
Beyond this there are two decisive
factors. The control of the Spanish
army and the support of the King. If
Rivera loses control of the army, almost
certainly he is lost. And the words
which the Count de Romanones spoke
to me in the study of his home in the
Paseo del Castellana have ring to
them of sound basis In fact. He said:
LAS long as the King supports the
dictator, he Is safe. But at that mo-
ment when King Alfonso refuses to
support him further the dictatorship
Is doomed"
ICnnvrfrht 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-08
MITCHELL WILL APPEAR
IN POCKET VETO CASE.
Attorney. General to Argue Govern
ment's Side Of Indian Bill
Litigation Monday.

Attorney General Mitchell will appear
in the Supreme Court Monday to argue
the Governments side Of the pocket
veto case. upon the outcome of which
will determine whether the pocket veto
of the Muscle Shoals bill by President
Coolidge was legal.
The case to be argued concerns the
pocket veto of an Indian bill. but the
decision on the case will affect 100 sim
liar vetoes which have been given bills
between sessions of Congress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-08
Can't. Zelif Is Retired,

Capt Irwin w. Zeliff, United States
Cavalry, at Fort Meade, S. OAK, has
been placed on the Army retired list on
account of disability incident to the
service. He is from New Jersey and en-
tered the Regular Army as a second
lieutenant, Coast Artillery, in october.
1917
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-08
tCopyright, 1927

The fourth article in this series tells
hoU late Queen Mother harmed King
Alfonso OF peril in dictatorship and
Win appear tomorrow.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27
THE Jun FAIR

Roosevelt county's first fair, under county support and on county
owned grounds, is now under way. The weather n the opening day
Thursday, when this is written, is far from favorable to large at
tendance but Friday and Saturday may bring sunshine. Even ii
those days should bring a continuation of the steady rain 1t would
be the finest kind of bad luck that could happen. We cannot claim
like California, that this is unusual weather. 1t is strictly normal and
regular. 1t is a pretty safe bet that the last ten days of September
will include a period of rough weather of some sort. The unusual
weather occurred in July and August, this year.
Fairs n a n ancient institution and the natural manner for
agricultural regions, large and small to display the products of
their soil, and their skill And for the people to meet together, get
acquainted, discuss. compare, and enjoy themselves during a few
free and easy days. Centuries ago the peoples of country and vii
lage held fairs to display and market their products and join in
lively sports.
Because of so many other diversions and means of entertain
ment, and amusement it is much more of a problem than in for
mer years to make fairs, either state IT county, successful from the
stand pont of finances and entertainment. But some states and
counties succeed in attaining success and establishing permanent
institutions of great value. Roosevelt county can do s o too. Success
depends partly o the management but chiefly on the public. There
is a vast amount of work and grief and disappointment connected
with starting and building up a fair But it should never be doubted
that a genuinely good fair is worth it all A good fair brings pride
and inspiration to our own people, and is an advertisement that
draws and holds new people.
The big reason why it is so difficult to make fairs financially
successful is that the spectacular attractions expected by the pub
lie cost more money than they are worth. 1t should be unnecessary
to hire a Touring circus " stage an earth quake to draw to a
fair people who are sincerely interested in their state, their county
and their farms and homes. Perhaps in Roosevelt county the local
sports and contests can be revived and revamped to partly fill
the amusement program.
Let us hope that the Roosevelt County Fair will be a success
from the first one. Made St by the three essentials united effort
interest and patronage.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27
AN OPPORTUNITY
Oewistown Democrat-News)

IewistoWn Democrat-NeWs)
While representatives from the
wheatgrowing states at Washing
ton are quarreling over various
schedules in the pending tariff bill,
they are saying and doing very
little about a very much more i'm
portant matter, that pertaining to
what appears to amount to a con-
spiracy to rob wheat farmers of
the country of tens of millions of
dollars.
While President Hoover is
spending much time in prepare
ton for his conference with Pre-
mier Ramsey Macdonald on the
limitation of naval ornaments, a
subject which is still in a stage
of mere academic discussion, he is
singularly unwilling to speak the
dozen words Dr. less which would
instantly do what the congress
must have expected to be done
and what the country had the
right TO look forward to following
the enactment of recent farm leg
isIation-give our producers Of
wheat something at least approach
ny tbe actual value of that staple
1nder the conditions which now
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27
driving principles to be trusted
with a car in crowded streets.

driving principles to be trusted
with a car in crowded streets.
Almost any day the newspapers
carry stories Of crashes that are
directly the result Of ignoring the
primary rule of city driving-at
an intersection, when two cars
meet, the car on the right has the
right of way. Surely a simple
enough rule, but one that is flag
rantly disregarded through care
l~essness or ignorance.
A drivers license law, it seems
to us, is one way to remedy this
situation. Restrict driving to per-
sons at least over 16 and require
a written examination along with
the road test. Many states have
an examination blank on which
appears a sketch Of a street corner
in which two cars IRE about to
meet, one machine coming out of
the intersection. The candidate
who cannot mark instantly the a
which has the right Of way is re-
Follows a series of ques-
lions on proper speeds, lights and
other items of~neglect of which
causes accidents.
A drivers license law will not
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY'S
PROMISES TO AG-
RICUITURE

A protective tariff is as vital
to American agriculture as it is
to American manufacturing. The
Republican party believes that the
home market, built up under the
protective policy, belongs to the
American farmer, and it pledges its
support of legislation which will
give this market to him to the full
extent of his ability to supply it.
We favor adequate tariff protec-
ton to such of our agricultural
products as are affected by for
eign competition.
The Republican party pledges it.
self to the development and enact
ment of measures which will place
the agricultural interests of Amer
lea on a basis of economic equal
ity with other industries to insure
its prosperity and C
Extracts from the Republican
platform, adopted at Kansas City,
June 1915, 1928.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27

In the face of the shortage Of
more than seven hundred million
bushels and a domestic shortage
of more than one hundred mill
lion bushels, our farmers r be-
ing compelled to market their
grain at a lower price than they
received last year. Let President
Hoover suggest to his farm board
that it proceed at once to purch-
ase one hundred million bushels
of wheat and the effect would be
instantaneous. At least fifty cents
per bushel would at once be ad-
ded to the present price and it is
probable that the farm board
would not be compelled actually
to buy a single bushel.
The people who are now hold
ing down the price would be rout-
ed and at least a quarter of a bill
lion dollars would go into the
pockets of wheat producers which
will certainly find its way into
the pockets of spectators and
others when the price is stimulat-
ed, as it seems certain to be after
the bulk of the grain has passed
out of the control of the farmers.
If the western members of con
gress would begin to agitate this
question, and do it now before it
is too late, we believe that they
would really accomplish more for
the welfare of a class of people
sadly in need of aid than they ever
hope to do by fussing around over
tariff rates.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27
A WAY TO

Does anyone doubt that if the
courts, high and low; and the pros
ecutors and police of the land of
all titles, ranks and degrees, were
possessed of deep, sincere and de-
termined desire to clean up the
country. enforce the law, reduce
taxes, protect the youth of the
land, and bring about order, de-
cency and respect for the United
States constitution, that the dis
tillers and wholesalers of moon
shine, the bootleg joints, beer
gardens, and dope peddlers and
the c~onfederates of the whole out
fit, would last more than thirty
days. outside the bars?
If through some miracle such a
happy condition came about these
courts, officials and patriotic cit
liens would say, what we want
and what we will have is justice,
law observance and a country fit
to live in. To hell with technical
tiles, even If they T productive
of fat fees. No guilty person shall
escape"
Executives and prosecutors
would stand back Of the police, the
courts would stand back of the
executives and prosecutors. The
higher courts would sustain the
lower courts. And what higher
authority is there, pray tell US,
than the highest courts Of u
country? When we get right down
to bed rock the courts ARE the
law.
Here's hoping the tariff can be
made flexible enough to reach all
the way from the "infant indust-
ries" of the East to the invalid
induotriag Of thp West
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be a cure-all, a panacea that will
automatically do away with &C
cidents, but by issuing a card
following a test, 1t is sure that the
driver has at least an elementary
knowledge of safe driving rules
He a then be held strictly TO
account for violations, with no
chance to plead ignorance
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27
MOTOR ACCIDENT
PREVENTION

phillips County News)
To anyone who follows the fight
being waged by Great Falls to en-
force its new traffic ordinance it
must become increasingly evident
that a vast majority Of drivers
are too ignorant of fundamental
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27
Rural Teachers, Roosevelt Co., 1929-3O

Name
Lucy Wittine
Gertrude Wittine
Adelaide Wigtil
Mrs. Annie Gregory
Evelyn Nahum
Bright Odden
Edith Ferguson
Osta V. Madsen
Leonard Nelson
Evelyn Baker
Mrs. Harriet Carver
Mrs. Marie Cooper
Mary O'Byrne
Lucy A. Mckee
Alice Mcclure
Agnes Kelly
Theresa Daub
Sylvia Potter
Pauline Seip
Anna Miller
Bernadetta Kelly
Mary Council
Martha NJ. Mueller
Mrs. Sara Fleming
Marie Grimsrud
Catherine Johnston
Mrs, Besse Honey
Erwin Larsen
Christine Some
Doris NJ. Foote
Olga Swanson
Sophie Anderson
Besse Stout
Fora Kemp
Myrtle Nelson
Sabyna Carroll
Charlotte Hanson
Lulu Mathews
Esther Van Allen
Martha Dell
Beatrice Hardland
Marie Lyslo
Mrs. L. E. Gorton
Mildred Dahlin
Helen Walker
Kathleen Powers
Sadie McManigal
Lillian Open
Fannie Rosenberg
Joyce King
Martha Opheim
Pearl Dickinson
Edna Lundgren
Walter Paulson
Mary Agnes Walker
Clara Perlowski
Anna Rygg
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27
up darned poor husbands.
Enforcement

When small towns are wet the
police are compelled to get busy
the rain softens the bumps on
the streets and the road razors
can be operated.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27

Let's see, your son has attained
his majority, has he not?
Yes, replied the family bread
winner, but it amt n of those
working majorities they tell about.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27
TEACHER LIST TOWN AND RURAL
SCHOOLS OF ROOSEVELT COUNTY

County Superintendent Inglehart has compiled the following com
plete list of the 1877 instructors and school heads O employed
in the town and rural schools of Roosevelt county.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27
,Vite EN- In ANYWAY

Our special grievance against
dietitians is that they have not
found any vitamins in ham and
eggs.-Toledo Blade.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27

One "SIice" of Nature, Etc.
Nothing so humanizes a great
man as the publication of his golf
score.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27
DANGEROUS Curves

An exchange thinks the only
trouble with the female form oil
vine is that it is too divinabie.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27
H U COURSE

A chemist has succeeded In
splitting a hydrogen atom, says a
scientific item. Fine. Now let MIN
tackle a cottonwood knot.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27

Many people believe that oppo-
sites should mate. That must De
the reason so many h~eiresses pick
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-09-27

They don't broadcast the big
fights blow by blow. the dow
ing is nearly all done IN sport
pages before hand.