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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03
WHO'S TO BLAME FOR
POOR LAWS?
Great Falls Tribune)

AoA00k 0AAo
In theory, laws are the express
ed will Of the people. In reality,
laws too often are the indiffer-
ences of the people. And yet the
people who take no interest in
governmental affairs are usually
the ones to complain most bitter
ly about the laws. Perhaps 1t is
those individuals and interests
that make no complaint have seen
to it that the laws suit them.
And those who do make an organ
lied howl usually represent an
organized effort to gain some leg
islative end.
We refer to the people who pay
not the least attention to what
is going on in %lawmaking councils
and who have the attitude that
everything that is wrong is so
because of the laws. 1t is true that
much is desired in legislative re-
form. But the point is that under
our form of government the laws
are made by the representatives
we choose to make them. The peO-
pie make the laws.
The point is that if our laws are
unsatisfactory it is mainly be-
cause we as citizens have not
concerned ourselves to e that
the legal enactments which gov
ern us conform to our needs and
are actually the expression Of the
mass desire.
One common complaint is rela-
tive to pardOns and paroles.
Whenever some criminal is sent
enced to a long prison term,
someone is sure to say. "Oh well,
he'll be out in a few years." That
is the way 1t often works out,
but the reason 1t works out that
was is because we as citizens of
the commonwealth have made
that permit 1t to work out
that way.
The Tribune does not mention
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03
SERIOUS BUSINESS

Determined conflicts are being
carried on all over this country
and especially at the commercial
and political centers. The issues
are industrial parity, and law and
order.
Shall the manufacturing East
retain and tighten it's grip on
the politics of business to the
downfall of the agricultural West?
Which is stronger the power Of
the grain merchants or the gov
eminent?
Shall the dangerous, lawless,
underworld element and its "re-
spectacle" adherents rule Amer
lea?
The time is here when all clean,
courageous, law and equality low
ing citizens must stand for their
principles. Must speak their
minds and vote to place and
keep tried and proven officials
in positions of trust. 1t is of Wit
al Importance that the West hold
fast to what strength it has de-
veloped in the houses of Congress.
One phase of the tense situation
is illustrated in the Illuminating
editorial from the Minneapolis
Tribune Republican, spread on
this page.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

ately.
They seem to overlook the fact
that the farmers taxes have in
creased 5000, that the farmers
land no longer increases in sal
able value. They seem to overlook
the fact that in some localities
farm values have dropped $50
and even 500 below the level Of
farm values of twenty-five years
ago.
These facts and changed living
conditions, make it necessary that
the farmer of today must actually
dig out of the soil of the average
farm-approximately $1,000 per
year more than our fathers did
twenty-five years ago, in order to
show the same profit as our faith
ers did. They do not seem to re-
alize that the prices of things the
farmer has to buy have increas-
ed during the past several years
more than the prices of the pro-
ducts which he has to sell.
1t is to bring these prices to q
level that we must now devote
our efforts. We must make the
farm dollar the same size as the
city dollar. The first job is a
fair tariff law that is designed to
place agriculture on a basis of
equality with industry and give
the home market to the farmer
to the full extent of his ability
to supply it.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03
FOUR DAYS DELAY

oh, heck! What's the use?
Nothing is quite right. The scien.
tific bugs now tell us New Year
began last Saturday morning in
stead of Wednesday morning. And
it will be the same next year and
next. All because the late julius
Caesar had a few drinks or Cleo
patra on his mind, and made an
error of II minutes IA and 1-13
seconds. If Pope Gregory had not
spotted julius bobble in the err
sor column and corrected it, in
1852, the sports on Broadway
(and Front street, would by now
be waiting nearly a week longer
than necessary to uncork the New
Year noise.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03
Industry's Stake In The
Home Market Pledge
Editorial, The Minneapolis Tribune)

Industry's stake in the Republican party's ia
nous home market pledge" reproduced at the end
Of this editoriaD is as pronounced as agriculture's.
At present the American people pay about a
billion dollars a year to foreigners for agricultural
products which American agriculture could quite as
satisfactorily produce.
Through the home market pledge the Republi-
can party promised to exclude from American shores
this annual billion dollars worth of imported agri-
cultural products and so to turn that billion dollar
market over to the American farmer.
The exclusion was to be accomplished by a tar
if revision which would wall off that inflow of COM
petitive agricultural products.
This particular billion dollars of American mon
ey spent on agricultural products is now passing out
side the boundaries of continental United States and
travelling to the Argentine, Cuba, the PHILIPPINES, the
West Indies, the East Indies, Java, the Hawaiian
Islands, Germany, Holland, Porto Rico, and count
less other far places.
How much good to American industry is a bill
lion dollars of American money scattered over the
four corners of the globe?
Perhaps some small fraction of it may be re-
covered by the American automobile manufacturer
and the American movie corporation, but the bulk
Of it, obviously, is lost to American industry.
Consider now what would happen if that bill
lion dollars, instead of being disbursed abroad, were
among the American farmers living on the
of the United States.
The largest part if the sum would inevitably
linger but a short time in the hands of the American
1t would quickly be turned over to the
manufacturers in exchange for products
the manufacturers have to sell.
Thus that billion dollars might be lkened to
a football which the United States would toss to
agriculture, and which agriculture, in turn, would
to industry.
Logically, therefore, industry should be fight
as hard as agriculture to see the transfer of that
billion dollar market effected.
Yet here we are confronted by the paradox that
ndrstry is opposing the fulfillment of the home
market pledge instead of championing it. Here we
are confronted by the paradox that industry is MAX
ng extra and special efforts to escape the annual
billion dollars worth of sales freely offered it.
What causes industry to stand in its own light,
% range itself against its own interests, to block its
own advancement?
One need not hunt long to discover why.
The Individual American industry is well-organ-
Zed, but American industry as a whole is not.
1t so happens that the interests of the individ-
1al American industry are often Numerically OPP
posed to the interests of American industry as a
whole.
Or while a fulfillment Of the home market
in terms Of vegetable oils and fats might be
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The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03
IMAGINE OUR EMBARRASSMENT

if it had gotten past the proof
reader. Our limo operator, in a
society New Year item. set it: "a
delirius lunch was served" He
may have been right at that. But
it was not near as fatal to the So
ciety editor as when a printer, fol-
lowing poor copy, set a head line.
Recent Baths for Recent Births;
and then the make up man got
his gallies mixed and ran the
guest list at a swell reception
where the new arrivals belonged.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03
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Francis Carey is visiting with
home folks while an injured knee
is healing.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. J. Marshall and
son made a weekend visit at j..
A. Doane's
Forrest and Leroy Baker were
Poplar callers Saturday
Mrs. Irwin Bawden called on
DR.. Fulkerson Saturday with lit
tie Ralph Duncan who has been
quite sick. He is some better now.
Charles Nail Of Sunnyside sent
a load Of jack rabbits to Poplar
Saturday.
Leroy Baker and Monty Martin
visited over Sunday with the Good
boys.
Willie Bawden and family spent
Sunday at the Brade Nelson home
in Poplar.
Dinner guests at the C. H. Witt
home Sunday we're ]. N. Bawden.
wife and son Charles.
Victor Bawden spent a few days
the last of the week with his
uncle Pud.
Frank Nelson spent New Years
with the family at Poplar.
Fay Sullivan and family spent
New Years in Wolf Point.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Martin and
son Florn spent the fore part of
the week at their camp in Poplar.
It's nice to have warm weather
il winter, but those who have to
cross the river would just as soon
it would stay cold enough to
keep the river safe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen R. Nail were
Poplar visitors Tuesday.
D. d. Baker and his father c.
H., were in Wolf Point Monday.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03
THE AGRICULTURAL WEST
SHOULD REMEMBER

EXTRACT from an open letter
to the farmers of the Northwest
in the Minneapolis Tribune.)
We find it difficult to bring to
city people, to members of Con
gress, to politicians, to some If
our state senators and state rep
r~esentatives and even some Of
our farmer friends, a realization
that although GROSS farm income
in the Northwest has shown a de-
cided increase the farmers NET
PROFIT has not risen proportion
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

ITO ALL who have had
I troubles and worries
/ may the New Year be
/ bright!
+ To all who have partially
1 fulfilled their expectations
! may the New Year see them
I fulfilledl
] To all who are starting out
! on new ventures-ail success
/ in the New Yearl
!. To all who are looking for
: ward to q new start-may
the New Year aid them and
!. assist them!
To all who are dreaming
. wonderful dreams-may the
!. New Year see their dreams
: come true!
!. To all who wish happiness
and who does not wish hap
piness? = so this includes
. every one-a Happy, Happy,
Happy New Yearl- Mary
Graham Bonner.
20. 1929. Western Newspaper Union.)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03
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| By Sam CLARK

It has taken Satan a long time
to reach the climax of his handi-
work. Down in his dungeon, with
the fires of hell blazing meath a
great c%auldron, he recently mix
ed these ingredients: The heart
of a murderer, the gall of a thief,
the hide of a r~hinocerous, the
greed of a wolf, the slime of a
lizard. the breath of a gila mons
ter. the venom of a viper, the
scent of a buzzard and the scar.
ed conscience of a simonist. Then
he screwed on the cap and the
worm of the still proceeded to
distill and redistill the contents
until he secured the perfection
of a damnable extract. This he
breathed into the human form of
a being down in st. Louis, Mis-
souri,. Last week this person de-
sewed the jaws OF q
black and white fox terrier
dog together with a piece of
heavy wrapping Irvine, leaving
the dog in a blind alley back Of
one of the city's Ravens of mercy
--Mullanphy hospital-where it
starved to death. The re-
ward offered by a thoroughly
aroused public may result in cap
-ure of the fiend, who is either
The fellow we have described
above or Satan himself. And it
s our earnest prayer that the cul-
Drit will be apprehended and JUS
ice pronounced by someone
neaner than he who is guilty of
he most diabolical cruelty to a
iumb beast that it has ever been
our misfortune to hear of.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

any adyertlSement-]uSt a little
common sense reminder.
81 am very glad to see the gen
tlemen on the minority side of
the house (southern democrats)
so very solicitous about the con-
dition of the black people in Hal
ii. | would to God they were eq-
ually solicitious about the black
people of America. We in Amer
lea would like in some of the
states of this country to have the
right of self-determination also.
l am glad to see the gentlemen
on the minority side of the house
converted to the right way of
thinking for once in their lives,
because / appreciate the condition
of black Americans where they
are denied the right of self-deter-
mination in almost every state
south of the Mason and Dixon
line"
That is the substance of Con-
gresham (Colored) Oscar De-
Priests speech in the house of
representatives a few days ago
when the Haitian situation was
up for debate. Guess that was
"heaping it" hpon the heads Of
some of those fiery southerners
who have less respect for the fiji
teenth amendment than the aver
age b%ootlegger has for the eight
eenth.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

harmful to one Individual American industry, it
would be helpful to American industry as a whole.
Or while a fulfillment of the home market
pledge in terms of starch might be harmful to one
Individual American industry, it would be helpful
to American industry as a whole.
Hence this strange situation develops: When a
concrete issue is under fire, the one adversely af-
fected industry, that is to say the one unrepresenta-
tive industry, IS certain to speak for industry as a
whole.
Industry as a whole, being unorganized, is in
articulate.
It remains silent and Indifferent while the one
individual industry which is really fighting its best
interests volunteers to act as its spokesman.
In other words, industry as a whole is the vic
tim OF unrepresentative representatives.
Were industry organized as a solid unit, did it
have a supreme directorate let us say, this sort of
thing could never happen. The directorate would
all its power and weight and authority behind
every move intended to fulfill the home market
pledge made agriculture. The false credentials of
the individual, vocal, and unrepresentative industry
would be exposed.
Surely it is high time that industry as a whole
began to organize in its own defense.
A failure to redeem the home market pledge
will cheat industry out of an annual billion dollars
worth of sales quite as certainly as it will do the
same thing to agriculture. Agriculture's loss will
be industry's and industry's will be agriculture's;
The two are one and cOterminOus. Can not Amer1-
can industry as a whole see the damage it is likely
% suffer unless it finds some method of stamping
out this evil of unrepresentative representation?
The Republican Partys Promise to Agriculture
A protective tariff is as vital to American agriculture as it is
o american manufacturing. The Republican party believes that the
lone market, built up under the protective policy, belongs to the
american farmer and it pledges its support to legislation which will
1--WE this market to him to the full extent of his ability to supply it.
We favor adequate tariff protection to such of our agricultural
PRODUCTS as ire affected by foreign competition.
The Republican party pledges itself to the development and N
ctment Of measures which will place the agricultural interests of
America O a basis of economic equality with other industries to
its prosperity and success.
(Extract from the Republican platform.
adopted at Kansas City, June 1915, 1929
The Minneapolis Tribune believes these pledges
hould be honestly fulfilled. 1t believes they will be
f the farmers will continue to support unflinchingly
IS own leaders, those members Of Congress, those
business men, those farm journals, and The Mime
polls Tribune and other newspapers who have been
cooperating, in the campaign which has parity for
lgriculture" as its objective. Agriculture should
hun all offers of compromise. Time is not the most
important element in the situation. Results mean
than speed. If the farmers do not get what
hey want now, it will probably be ten years before
hey get another chance.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03
Religious Rejoicing

In China and Japan the first day
of the year has been an occasion
for religious rejoicing since time
fmmemorial.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

The jokesmiths persist in ring
ing in the old, at so much per
ring.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

Prison breaks, riots, mutiny and
what not! But worst of all, a IT.
year-old boy was stabbed to death
in a lineup of prisoners in Sing
Sing a short time ago-murdered
by a fellow-prisoner because he
was branded a "squealer'. All of
which is beside the question what
was a 17-year-o1d boy doing in
Sing Sing? Aren't the reform
schools bad enough?
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

International air hookups prom
Use to be a big and costly item
in filmdom's outlay for ballyhoo
in the year 1880. Saturday night,
December 2Sth, was the first at
tempt at interocean network. The
program by paramount,
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

Congressman LeGuardia says
that he did not spend anything
in his candidacy for mayor of
New York. And he got just what
he paid for.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

Again does Wilbur Glenn Vol.
iva insist that the world is flat
but he never gets near enough
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

According to press stories of
the week, gaunt hunger and mis-
cry stalks its annual appearance
on the White Earth reservation
the home of $500 Chippewa In
dians in Minnesota. Every year
for a decade conditions have been
growing worse for these wards
of the richest country in the
world, and this year the conditions
are so deplorable that news scouts
are 10th to write the truth. The
marines are in Haiti just now
commissioned to protect American
subjects. Why should not the
wards of Uncle Sam right here
at home receive protection? They
need protection at both ends
protection from the most ridicu-
lous red tape down at the Indian
Bureau at Washington and pro-
lection from cold and hunger on
the reservation. This isn't propa-
ganda, political or otherwise. 1t
is a cold4blooded fact that real
suffering and want r there and
the poor Indian is in a bad way.
The following editorial is clipp-
ed from an issue Of the Chicago
Current under date of September
10, 1SS4-just forty-five years
ago. There's something familiar
about it, Ell?
1.-THE st. Paul Dispatch de-
nounces the millers' pool now
operating so extensively in
the Northwest as the Mime
apolis Robbers Association
The Government owes some
duty to its n~ewly-settled nom
English-speaking emigrants
which it has not fulfilled.
There should be some method
Of protecting these innocent
wealth-earners from the greed
of any combination of wealth
grabbers. The pool, however,
it is gratifying to state, have
been forced to raise their
present outrageously low and
unjust bid of wheat to the ex-
tent of two cents a bushel. If
the farmers sell, they will
prove themselves either ig-
norant or foolish. 1t now
seems the dream of the mon
empower to control the GUN
try with only half the usual
volume of money"
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

with mikes" operating in Paris.
London, Chicago, New York and
Hollywood. cost only $4,000 for
the hook-up. This was heralded
as the aerial salute to the New
Year, and Paramount intends to
pull the in%ter-ocean ballyhoo ev-
cry three months. Thus do we
progress in this spendthrift age
with twenty thousand dollars
worth of hot air in a single hour.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

GU Olls
Congressman LeGuardia says
that he did not spend anything
in his candidacy for mayor of
New York. And he got just what
he paid for.
Here are some interesting fig
ures for the Farm Board to con-
jure with and for the farmers to
think about. The Department of
Agriculture has just issued its es-
innate of winter wheat seeded
for the 1880 crop. 1t is 43,68O,OO
acres as against 42,780,000 a year
ago-an increase of almost a mil
lion acres! If it is an average
winter the yield Is estimated at
900, 900, 900 bushels against $751;
100000 the past two seasons.
There's twenty-five million bush
els extra in sight for next year
with the surplus from the past
two years still undisposed of.
The farmers have increased their
acreage 90 per cent this season.
Well gamble that the Farm Board
will be yelling for help next.
On December oath the Federal
Government announced a tax re-
fund to the Middle States OIL Cor
poration of s2,564,290 on account
of over-assessment Of income tax
es for 1921 and 1922. Sufferin'
mackeral, what'ell they get for
'29!
A well-known Twin City state
agent of n of the Oldest estaD-
lished life insurance companies
made the statement last week
that the new business written by
his company will not OFFSET the
lapses in premium payments Tor
the year. Which means that a
lot of the boys caught short
used their premium money and
let the policy lapse. And the loan
applications on policies-oh, boy!
Well, anyway, the ticker couldn't
send the loan value of a policy
down and life insurance is just
as good as it ever was and you're
just margining the future happi-
ness of your loved ones when you
pay a premium. And this isn't
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

the edge so that he can be push
ed off.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

The Postofice department at
Washington reports that the send
ing of Christmas greeting cards
dropped off about one-third this
year over 1928. All fads fade.
While King George refused to
meet the Soviet representative,
His hobbs the Prince did it and
now Great Britain has announced
the re-establishment of diplomatic
posts in Russia in a bid for the
fast growing Russian trade. It's a
bear!
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

any advertisement-just a little
common sense reminder.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-01-03

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The Washington times., 1930-10-02
TRIPLE Staying.
JA|LS MAN

WILLIAMSON, w. Va. Oct. 2
dN.S0.-Williarn C. Adams. alias
w. T. Lowe, alleged confessed
slayer Of three women shot to
death here yesterday. today was
being held by State police on
three charges of murder.
The victims were Mrs. Flossie
Adams, %, estranged wife Of
Adams; Mrs. John Campbell, go,
her mother, and Mrs. Cynthia
Mcclure, 35, of johnson City,
Tenn, an aunt.
Adams is said to have told
police that he shot his wife yes
terday when she refused to speak
to him. He then turned on Mrs,
MCGUIRE and fired three times
as she attempted to flee, police
charge. adams then went to his
wife's home nearby and shot her
mother, police charge. ALI three
shootings took place within sight
Of the State police barracks.
Police captured Adams within
10 minutes after the shooting as
he fled into the hills.
The Washington times., 1930-10-02
BOSTON GREETS
LEG|0NNA|RES

BOSTON, Oct. 2 UN.So "A
four cornered race between Los
Angeles, Detroit, Portland, Ore.
and Mexico as the scene Of the
1881 American Legion convention
and steps to inject the prohihi-
ton question onto the floor OF
this years convention were the
outstanding developments today
as Legionnaires and invited
guests continued the trek into
Boston for the Twelfth Annual
Legion Conclave, which opens
Monday.
The possibility of bringing the
"wet-dry" issue on the conven-
ton floor 1oomed today follow
ing the announcement of Clement
A Norton, one of the delegates
at-large from Massachusetts,, that
he would submit resolution
placing the Legion on record as
Cooking with favor upon the
efforts of the So-called Wicker
sham committee pointing out
methods of better law enforce
ment." However. the Legion has
sidestepped all questions concern
ing the prohibition situation, on
the grounds that it was OF a
political nature.