Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1929-03-07
POLITICS AND SMALL TOWN PREJUDlCES-

"Motto: If YOU wish to succeed in business,
keep out of politics and small town prejudices.
Believe it O not, the above quotation comes from a
publication which has, from It's very hrst issue, sPeclalizeo IN
these two commodities.
The quotation was published as a windup OF a public
scolding administered to a local store manager tor having
committed lese majesty against the local Make America
Communist publication.
The treason in question was giving the Herald prefer
ence when awarding the annual advertising contract.
The store manager, by the way, was not actuated by any
political preference nor by any small town prejudice when ne
awarded the contract. The socalled farmers paper has always
been favored heretofore. This year, however, the mailing
lists Of the two publications were compared and the Herald
was given preference.
We wonder if the offended publication will run a scream
er across its front page advising its readers to boycott the
store for being unfair to the farmers.
We do not think it will.
Yet such was the publications procedure a few years ago.
Every local business man that did not come across when the
paper levied tribute got his name on the front page hall OF
shame" for being unfair to the farmers. In addition, the
offending business man was subjected to a ~roughshod pan
ming that branded him as a crook, lbertine and halfbrother
to Judas lscariot.
A few years ago the Commercial Club was pictured as
an organization whose chief function was to tell the hay
seeds where to tie their horses. A couple of weeks ago the
same knockers pleaded for reorganization OF that body.
A few years ago the Sheridan Memorial Hospital and
everybody connected with it was the object of the publca-
ton most bitter attacks. Now the publication editorial staff
falls all over itself to laud the hospital to the skies. In spite of
the fact that the hospitals official personnel is practically the
same now as it was then.
A few months ago the matter of a new court house was
unthinkable, Oh, my yes! A few weeks ago the publication
printed a very commendabe exhortation in favor of a new
building.
Can a leopard change its spots?
Such a phenomena has not been recorded in history.
Then why this most remarkable about face?
The answer is simple enough. The managers of that
scandal sheet have had to eat humble pie of late. Like Uriah
Heep, they have become very, very umble." They fairly
grovel In their efforts to be nice to the men whom they have
slandered and besmirched and to say nice things about them
and their town.
No danger about the leopard changing its spots. Kitty
must have meat in order to live, hence it is willing to roll over,
stand on its head and lick the boots of those it once snarled at
in order to CLEAN the few slim pickings that remain.
1t S the same leopard though. Just let it get the upper
hand again and watch it snarl and spit.
Just at present the socalled farmers cure-aI is in a fair
~ contrlte spirit, dishing out business maxims to one of the
world 8 greatest chain store systems. Evidently it has learned
through harsh experince the truth of the advice it tenders so
freely: If you wish to succeed in business, keep out of poll
tics and small town prejudices."
A St. Louis court held the other day that in spite Of the
Darwin theory, a monkey is still a monkey and has no legal
status. This is quite a blow to the evolutionists
Buying a steak these days reverses the culinary :
1t IS the customer who is well done.
OF course the good old days were all RIGHT but GILL ve
prefer the modern balloon tire to the one which was made of
iron and sounded like you had dropped a dollar ver -.