The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1929-09-06
The Week
By SAM'L HILL

Like PharOah's ChariOts
Walt TaylOr's Gone
We Knew Him When
Scriptures Not "All Wet"
Swapping Gang for Gang
The Cruelest Word
Usually the writing of this COL
umn is a pleasure whether the
reading of it is or not. There is
a feeling of release in turning 1t
out and many an inward chuckIe
when some bubble of pretense is
pricked with the right word. But
this time it is different. The
typewriter is like PharOah's char
lots when he pursued the Israel
ties 10 the Red Sea. You recall
that they "drave heavily?" Nor
| is there any lack of subject mat
ter. Indeed the notes and refer
ences are plentiful and offer what
at another time would be tempt
array for a free lance. But they
have. host their usual attraction
and provide no pleasurable antici-
patiOns for setting them on paper.
This sort of a let-dOwn often
affhcts writer's. 1t is one of the
plaques of their occupations.
Printers get lead poisoning. paint
ers get the collie, underground
workers get the bends and few are
the lines of work that have not
their peculiar i'll. 1t has been a
matter of speculation if what is
known as scholars disease" in
the middle ages was not some
such hiatus as this. 1t amounts
almost to that. The material is
at hand but the mental mill will
not grind.
In this instance it may be the
result of shock. Walter c. Taylor,
editor of the La MOurse Chronicle,
is dead and word of it came today.
Why should the death of an I.
V. A. editor cause any perturba-
ton? He was a good fellow, but
he was on the other side of the
political fence and the strength of
the enemy forces is reduced by a
good deal more than the ability
and power of one man. 1t does
not work that way. No wonder
the typewriter drives heavily and
T seems to have lost the joy Of life.
=
! He was just ''Walt" to the
writer of this column. That is,
he was a friend, an old and good
E friend and the world seems to be
! knocked sideways for the time be-
: ing with Walt out of the picture
There may be newspaper men anC
O Others who did. not like Walt
; That was only because they die
q not know him. That is the ad
: vantage and now the sorrow oil
this writer. owe knew hin
G whenr'
He used to lord it over tn,
:, writer because he came tlO DakO
y ia Territory two years before WI
did and make all sorts of pre-
, pOsterOus claims as to priOrit,
in pioneering. When It was point
. ed out to him that he was born il
!. Alexandria, Mimi, close to th'
4 promised land and that we had Il
i come nearly 5000 miles to ge
), there, and were less than tw,
> years behind him for all tina
! handicap, he became the pictur
:, of a iOcund mirth. Waits wa
known as a "quiet humOr' bu
his laughter was not in that elias
sificatiOn.
3 He was just at the prime O
life when the "Insurgent" move
# ment started in North Dakota
IS aimed at unseating Alexander Nc
70 kenzie from the political thrOn
r and removing the control of til
sr states politics somewhere neare
s the state than st. Paul. Walt du
n In and helped in a way that show
+ ed he knew how to fight. But
!. no hum, the efforts of those hal
IS dozen years only served TO NOV
II political control west as far a
# Fargo where it has since remain
d ed with the "Cass County gang.
m Some see little Improvement i
the situation and others are DOS
a. Itlvely certain that the old Nd
r kenZie machine was superior {
! the present arrangement. Their
o will have to be another Walt. Tay
i lOr and another bunch of insuI
:. gents to hitch it more toward
i the interior of the state. But DnI
IS over LATE Twicheli's dead BODY.
/ When the later movement arc
for a larger share for agricultu
v IN the affairs of state, Walt cOuI
/ not follow it. To fight as a re
: publican within the republican "a
S ty was pie for Walt, even wheI
n they called us 'Near Democrats
e and barred us from the politica
d pie counter for our sins. But Z
S follow DOwnley and the NOnpar
tIsan League with its tinge an,
fringe of Socialism was beyon
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