The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1929-11-29

editors Note-Through a piece OF
good fortune The Herald has Sc
cured the publication rights to
this unique book. 1t consists OF
fifteen incidents and adventures
typical of those that fill the his
tory of the Royal Canadian Mount
ed Police. The stories are with
out sequence and each is complete
IN itself. This weeks installment
ss confined to Captain Proby's
preface and an explanatory intro
duction that forms a suitable back
ground for the tales that will fol-
dow. These stories Of adventure
in real life will not depend on
the sensational, highly colored
style so much in use on the screen
and in so-called western liter
%ature", but on plain and unadorn-
ed narration of what actually hap
pened. The rare value of these
stories lies in their truthfulness.
They are genuine, real. unexagge'-
ated, uncolored; qualities that r
scarce as gold nuggets in a sand
bank. They tell plainly what the
Canadian Mounted Police were,
what their job was, and how they
did it. After reading them the
thought will to many, how
fine it would be if the American
Northwest had an amply manned
body Of police, operated under the
old Canadian system, to weed out
without ceremony the mess OF
criminals and parasites now prey
ing upon u.s.
FORWARD
The Royal Canadian Mounted
Police, while heir to the prestige
of the old force and to a large ex-
tent still composed of veterans of
the former regime, is, in reality,
a different organization, recon
structed to meet changed condi-
tions. AS the successor to the i'm
mortal North West Mounted, the {
modernized system retains the 9
same principles and methods as !
Of old, but its scope has been linn r
ted by degrees until it no longer i
has the same broad capacity to a
;erve. The efficiency of the Mount q
I'd from 1874 to 1920, or there q
was primarily due to the 7
act that it dealt with every sit d
national or local. Il
The wave OF specialization that :
extended to every phase Of human s
sndeavoT as a wartime precaution +
washed the driftwood of tradition I,
the shores of history. The r.
,resent-day generation confines its r
.ttention to the enforcement of Ii
he federal laws, although there G,
re now and then instances Of the a,
loyal Canadian Mounted Police a
,eing requested to cooperate in C,
domestic troubles. But ie
.uch cases are becoming less fire. n
Iuent as the Provincial system "
,nlarges its field of activity and 81
Increase its effectiveness. Old tim II
rs %deprecate the presence of the in
youngsters" in the organization of So
oday. 1t is true that the force | al
new most intimately was compos- of
d of seasoned material, but show CT
le an institution of this age that "a
not witnessed the increased In
esponsibility Of youth! We of the an
emile generation are naturally re- IN
to accept those who are
Rowling us back from the foot. 70
ghts. Our pride will not acknow- ed
edge the passage Of the years or th
be fact that we ourselves were en-
nee regarded as upstairs. In pa
nat, however, we are not pecul- III
IT. 1t is maturity's bitterest pill. III
Therefore, if l have not avoided oh
contrasting the old with in
le new may my readers ascribe m,
lch unintentional p~artisanship to in.
loyalty that even Time cannot i'm
iminish.-W. c. P. M
" We
TWENTY YEARS IN THE bo